place to which he has moved, if it is within the officer's jurisdiction and can be ascertained by inquiry at such place or later residence; but if the officer cannot make personal service, and cannot ascertain the residence of the person complained of, the copy of the summons shall be left at such person's last residence, if any, known to the officer within his jurisdiction; and the officer shall return the summons to the registrars or election commissioners before the day named for appearance, with the certificate of his doings indorsed thereon. [Approved March 29, 1916.

[CHAP. 82.]

AN ACT TO EXEMPT CERTAIN ILLITERATE MARRIED WOMEN FROM COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AT EVENING SCHOOLS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter four hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by inserting after the word "age", in the second line, the words:- except married women, so as to read as follows: Section 1. Every illiterate minor between sixteen and twenty-one years of age, except married women, shall attend some public evening school in the city or town in which he resides for the whole time during which the public evening schools are in session: provided, that such city or town maintains a public evening school. Attendance at a publie day school, or at a private school approved for the purpose by the school committee, shall exempt such minor from attending a public evening school. This act shall not affect any existing laws regarding the compulsory school attendance of illiterate minors or their employment, but shall be in addition to such laws.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

(The foregoing was laid before the governor on the twenty-third day of March, 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. 83.]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR RETURNS OF PROPERTY OF FOREIGN CORPORATIONS SITUATED WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH AND SUBJECT TO LOCAL TAXATION THEREIN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section fifty-four of Part III of chapter four hundred and ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by chapter one hundred and sixty-seven of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended by striking out all after the word "report", in the nineteenth line, and inserting in place thereof the following: - Every foreign corporation which has property within the commonwealth subject to taxation under the laws thereof, shall annually, between the first and tenth days of April, beginning in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, prepare and file in the office of the

tax commissioner a return, in such form and with such detail as the tax commissioner may prescribe, signed and sworn to by its treasurer, showing all its property, real and personal subject to local taxation within the commonwealth on the first day of April and the location and value thereof, -so as to read as follows:- Section 54. Every foreign corporation shall annually, within thirty days after the date fixed for its annual meeting, or within thirty days after the final adjournment of said meeting, but not more than three months after the date so fixed for said meeting, prepare and file in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, upon payment of the fee provided in section ninety-one of chapter four hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and three, a certificate signed and sworn to by its president, treasurer, and by a majority of its board of directors, showing the amount of its authorized capital stock, and its assets and liabilities as of a date not more than ninety days prior to said annual meeting, in such form as is required of domestic business corporations under the provisions of section forty-five of said chapter, and the change or changes, if any, in the other particulars included in the certificate required by section sixty of said chapter, made since the filing of said certificate or of the last annual report. Every foreign corporation which has property within the commonwealth subject to taxation under the laws thereof, shall annually, between the first and tenth days of April, beginning in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, prepare and file in the office of the tax commissioner a return, in such form and with such detail as the tax commissioner may prescribe, signed and sworn to by its treasurer, showing all its property, real and personal subject to local taxation within the commonwealth on the first day of April and the location and value thereof.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 30, 1916.

[CHAP. 84.]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SITTINGS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF BRISTOL AT ATTLEBORO FOR PURPOSES OF NATURALIZATION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Any sitting of the superior court held at New Bedford for the county of Bristol may adjourn and sit at Attleboro for purposes of naturalization.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 31, 1916.

[CHAP. 85.]

AN ACT TO DEFINE FURTHER THE TERM "DRUG BUSINESS."

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter seven hundred and five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by inserting after the word "sale", in the second line, the words: or the keeping or

exposing for sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals and poisons, except as otherwise provided in section twenty-three of chapter seventy-six of the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, also the sale or the keeping or exposing for sale, so as to read as follows: Section 1. The term "drug business" as used in this act shall mean the sale, or the keeping or exposing for sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals and poisons, except as otherwise provided in section twenty-three of chapter seventy-six of the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, also the sale or the keeping or exposing for sale of opium, morphine, heroin, codeine, or other narcotics, or any salt or compound thereof, or any preparation containing the same, or cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, or any synthetic substitute therefor, or any salt or compound thereof, or any preparation containing the same, and the said term shall also mean the compounding and dispensing of physicians' prescriptions.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 31, 1916.

[CHAP. 86.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO ALLOWANCES TO HEADQUARTERS OF ORGANIZATIONS

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

OF THE MILITIA.

SECTION 1. Chapter six hundred and four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, as amended in section one hundred and seventyseven by chapter four hundred and eighty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby further amended by striking out said section one hundred and seventy-seven and inserting in place thereof the following:-Section 177. There shall annually be allowed and paid for postage, printing, stationery, and office incidentals: to each brigade headquarters, seventy-five dollars; to each regimental headquarters, three hundred dollars; to headquarters of the naval battalion, two hundred dollars; to headquarters of battalions of field artillery and squadrons of cavalry, fifty dollars; to first corps of cadets, one hundred dollars, and to each company, fifteen dollars. There shall annually be allowed and paid to each headquarters, department, corps and company the sum of two dollars for each enlisted man, excepting bandsmen not mustered, attached thereto or enrolled therein, not exceeding the maximum enlisted strength allowed by law, the amount so paid to be expended in the repair and alteration of uniforms, or in defraying the incidental military expenses of the several organizations. There shall annually be allowed and paid to each regimental, separate battalion, squadron, corps and each naval battalion headquarters, and each company, for the services of a company armorer or armorer for regimental, separate battalion, squadron, corps and naval battalion headquarters, who shall devote all necessary attention to the care of the arms, equipments, uniforms and quarters of the headquarters or company, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 31, 1916.

[CHAP. 87.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO REGISTRATION OF VOTERS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section forty-six of chapter eight hundred and thirty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, as amended by section six of chapter ninety-one of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "commissioners", in the thirteenth, twenty-second and forty-second lines, the words: or assistant registrars, so as to read as follows: Section 46. Every male applicant for registration, except in Boston, whose name has not been transmitted to the registrars as provided in section sixteen shall present a tax bill or notice from the collector of taxes, or a certificate from the assessors showing that he was assessed as a resident of the city or town on the preceding first day of April, or a certificate that he became a resident therein at least six months preceding the election at which he claims the right to vote, and the same shall be prima facie evidence of his residence. In Boston, if a male person, twenty years of age or upward, resident in said city on the first day of April, was not assessed, he shall in person present a statement in writing under oath to the election commissioners, or assistant registrars, at their principal office, who are hereby authorized to administer oaths for this purpose, that he was on the first day of April a resident of said city, giving his name, age, occupation and residence on the first day of April in the current year, and his residence on the first day of April in the preceding year. A male person, twenty years of age or upward, who becomes a resident of said city after the first day of April shall in person present a statement in writing under oath to the election commissioners, or assistant registrars, at their principal office, who are hereby authorized to administer oaths for this purpose, that he became a resident of said city at least six months immediately preceding the election at which he claims the right to vote, giving his name, age, occupation and residence, and the date when he so became a resident and his residence on the first day of April in the current year. The board of election commissioners shall forthwith transmit a copy of such statement to the police commissioner who shall detail an officer to verify the statement of the applicant as to residence, and shall report to the election commissioners within five days the result of the investigation of such officer. If the statement of the applicant as to residence is found to be true, the election commissioners shall place the name of the applicant on the voting list; otherwise the election commissioners shall forthwith notify the applicant to appear before them, and, if not satisfied that his statement is true, shall not place his name upon the voting list: provided, however, that no application for registration under the provisions of this section shall be received by the election commissioners, or assistant registrars, later than the thirtieth day preceding a state or municipal election. In Boston the board of election commissioners shall furnish to the assessors a true and correct list of all applicants, male or female, for registration who are found to have resided in Boston on the first day of April, and the board of assessors shall assess such male persons for a poll tax.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 31, 1916.

[CHAP. 88.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO SERVICES RENDERED BY PENSIONERS OR ANNUITANTS TO MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter six hundred and fifty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by inserting after the word "county", in the second line, the words: - excepting teachers who are now receiving annuities not exceeding the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars per annum, so as to read as follows: Section 1. No person who now or hereafter receives a pension or an annuity from any city or town or any county, excepting teachers who are now receiving annuities not exceeding the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars per annum, shall be paid for any service, except service as a juror, rendered by him to said city, town or county after the date of the first payment of such pension or annuity. [Approved March 31, 1916.

[CHAP. 89.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO DECISIONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION IN REGARD TO STRIKES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section five of chapter three hundred and forty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby amended by striking out the last sentence, and inserting in place thereof the following: - Upon the application of the employer, this question shall be determined by said. board, but only after a full hearing at which all persons involved shall be entitled to be heard and be represented by counsel. The board shall give at least three days' notice of the hearing to the strikers and employees by publication in at least three daily newspapers published in the commonwealth, so as to read as follows:- Section 5. The provisions of this act shall cease to be operative when the state board of conciliation and arbitration shall determine that the business of the employer, in respect to which the strike or other labor trouble occurred, is being carried on in the normal and usual manner and to the normal and usual extent. Upon the application of the employer, this question shall be determined by said board, but only after a full hearing at which all persons involved shall be entitled to be heard and be represented by counsel. The board shall give at least three days' notice of the hearing to the strikers and employees by publication in at least three daily newspapers published in the commonwealth. [Approved March 31, 1916.

[CHAP. 90.]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR COMPENSATING INJURED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE INCAPACITATED FOR MORE THAN TEN DAYS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Part II of chapter seven hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and acts in amendment thereof,