property or the doing of other injury under the authority of this act; but no such application shall be made after the expiration of one year. SECTION 9. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 13, 1892. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF MALDEN TO INCUR A DEBT Chap.155 FOR PARK PURPOSES BEYOND THE LIMIT FIXED BY LAW. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: bonds, etc., not SECTION 1. For the purpose of paying for lands here- May issue tofore acquired or which may hereafter be acquired by the exceeding city of Malden for public parks, and for defraying the cost $100,000. and expenses of constructing said parks, said city may by votes passed from time to time in the manner provided by section seven of chapter twenty-nine of the Public Statutes, authorize the issue of negotiable bonds or certificates of indebtedness to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, payable in not exceeding fifty years from their date and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding four per cent. per annum, to be denominated on the face thereof, Public Park Loan. sold, and cost may be paid SECTION 2. When authorized by said city as hereinbe- Bonds may be fore provided, and on the request of the board of park and expenses commissioners approved by the mayor, said bonds or cer- from proceeds. tificates, to the amount requested, may be issued or sold and the proceeds thereof retained in the treasury of said city, and the cost and expenses incurred for the purposes aforesaid may be paid therefrom, subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, authorizing and regulating such expenditures. reckoned in de indebtedness. SECTION 3. The debt and loan authorized by this act Debt not to be shall not be reckoned in determining the authorized limit termining au of indebtedness of said city under the provisions of section thorized limit of four of chapter twenty-nine of the Public Statutes, as amended by section two of chapter three hundred and twelve of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five. may assess real SECTION 4. The board of park commissioners may Commissioners assess upon any real estate which, in the opinion of said estate for betterboard, receives any benefit or advantage from the laying ments. out of a public park or parks, beyond the general advantages therefrom to all real estate in said city, one half the 1 Sinking fund to be established, etc. Subject to acceptance by a majority vote. When to take effect. amount of betterments accruing to said real estate by the laying out of said public park or parks. Said real estate subject to such assessment may include the remainder of the land of which a part is taken for said public park or parks, and real estate which does not abut upon the park, from the laying out of which the betterments accrue, or upon a street or way bounded upon such park. Said board in assessing such betterments and determining the amount thereof shall have the same authority that is conferred by chapter fifty-one of the Public Statutes upon boards of city or town officials, authorized to lay out streets or ways, to assess betterments, and the provisions of the first eight sections of said chapter shall apply to such assessments by said board of park commissioners in respect to the location and laying out of parks. SECTION 5. The city shall, on issuing any of said bonds or certificates of indebtedness, establish a sinking fund and apportion thereto from year to year an amount sufficient with its accumulations to extinguish the debt at maturity. In such apportionment to said sinking fund, one two hundredth part of the amount of bonds or certificates of indebtedness issued shall be set apart for said sinking fund in each of the first ten years; one one hundred and fiftieth part in each of the second ten years; one one hundredth part in each of the third ten years; one seventy-fifth part in each of the fourth ten years; and the remainder shall be equally divided in the last ten years. Such sinking fund and its accumulations shall be used for no other purpose than the payment and redemption of such debt. Any premium realized in the sale of said bonds or certificates of indebtedness shall be applied to the payment of the interest on said loan as it accrues. SECTION 6. This act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Malden for acceptance at the next annual municipal election held therein, and the affirmative votes of a majority of the voters present and voting thereon shall be required for its acceptance. SECTION 7. So much of this act as authorizes the submission of the question of its acceptance to the voters of said city shall take effect upon its passage, but it shall not further take effect unless accepted by the voters of said city as herein provided. Approved April 13, 1892. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOSTON AND REVERE ELECTRIC STREET Chap.156 RAILWAY COMPANY TO CONSTRUCT TRACKS UPON LOCATIONS GRANTED BY THE SELECTMEN OF WINTHROP. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: May construct cations granted tracks upon lo by the selectmen of Win throp, etc. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter fifty-one of the acts 1889, 51, § 1; 363 of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended amended. by chapter three hundred and sixty-three of the acts of the same year, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "necessary", in the fourth line of said section, the words: - in the town of Winthrop, upon the locations which have been or may be granted by the selectmen of the town of Winthrop, also, so as to read as follows:- Section 1. The Boston and Revere Electric Street Railway Company is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate a railway with single or double tracks, in such manner as may be convenient and necessary, in the town of Winthrop, upon the locations which have been or may be granted by the selectmen of the town of Winthrop, also from the northerly terminus of Walley street at Orient Heights in the city of Boston, to a connection with Ocean avenue near Crescent Beach in the town of Revere, and crossing Winthrop avenue near Beachmont in said town. of Revere, upon and over the private way known as Washburn avenue, laid out nearly parallel with and about one hundred feet westerly from the westerly line of the location of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad : provided, said company shall procure the consent of the Proviso. owners of the land included within the limits of said private way so to do. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE DIVISION NUMBER NINETEEN, ANCIENT Chap.157 ORDER OF HIBERNIANS, OF NORTHBRIDGE, TO HOLD REAL AND Be it enacted, etc., as follows: and personal same. Division Number Nineteen, Ancient Order of Hibernians, May hold real of the town of Northbridge, incorporated under the lawS estate and of the Commonwealth, is hereby authorized to hold real mortgage the and personal estate to an amount not exceeding twentyfive thousand dollars, and mortgage the same to secure indebtedness to be incurred in the erection of a building to be used in part for a hall or place of meeting for said. corporation. Approved April 13, 1892. Chap.158 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF READING additional water loan. ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: ΤΟ MAKE AN May make an SECTION 1. The town of Reading, for the purposes. mentioned in section six of chapter four hundred and five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, may issue bonds, notes or scrip, to be denominated on the face thereof, Reading Water Loan, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized by law to be issued by said town for the same purposes; said bonds, notes or scrip to be issued upon the same terms and conditions and with the same powers as are provided in said act for the issue of the Whole amount Reading water loan by said town: provided, that the whole amount of such bonds, notes or scrip issued by said town, together with those heretofore authorized to be issued by said town for the same purposes, shall not in any event exceed the amount of two hundred thousand dollars. of bonds, etc., not to exceed $200,000. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.159 AN ACT AUTHORIZING CERTAIN BOARDS AND P. S. 17, § 8, amended. COMMISSIONS ΤΟ CONSULT AND ADVISE WITH THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON QUESTIONS OF LAW RELATING TO THEIR OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section eight of chapter seventeen of the Public Statutes is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "commissioner", in the second line thereof, and inserting in place thereof the following words :- the board of harbor and land commissioners, the board of lunacy and charity, the board of health, the civil service commissioners, the commissioner of corporations, the commissioner of foreign mortgage corporations, the gas and electric light commissioners, or by the commissioners of savings banks, consult and advise with them respectively on questions of law relating to their official business, so as to read as follows: Section 8. He shall, when required by the secretary, treasurer, adjutant general, auditor, insurance officers, boards, commissioner, the board of harbor and land commissioners, the board of lunacy and charity, the board of health, the civil service commissioners, the commissioner of corporations, the commissioner of foreign mortgage The attorneygeneral to con sult and advise with certain etc., on ques tions of law re lating to their official business. corporations, the gas and electric light commissioners, or AN ACT GIVING TRIAL JUSTICES JURISDICTION OF CASES DRUNKENNESS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: OF Chap.160 trial justices, Trial justices shall, in their respective counties, have Jurisdiction of jurisdiction, concurrent with the superior court, of all 1891, 427. cases arising under chapter four hundred and twentyseven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninetyone, and may impose the penalties therein provided for the offence of drunkenness. Approved April 13, 1892. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF ABINGTON TO ISSUE BONDS Chap.161 FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEETING A PORTION OF ITS WATER DEBT AS THE SAME MATURES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: bonds, etc., for tiring water SECTION 1. For the purpose of retiring a portion of May issue its water bonds becoming due each year, from the year purpose eighteen hundred and ninety-three to the year nineteen bonds. hundred and sixteen, inclusive, the town of Abington may issue from time to time in any or all of said years, bonds, notes or scrip to an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year. Such bonds, notes or scrip shall be issued under the terms and conditions specified in sections five and six of chapter two hundred and six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eightyfive, and shall be used exclusively for the purpose of retiring water bonds of said town which are now outstanding. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 13, 1892. AN ACT TO RATIFY THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE WEST CONGREGA- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap. 162 ratified. SECTION 1. The proceedings of the West Congrega- Proceedings tional Society of Warren and the election of its officers, so far as the same appears upon the records of said society, are hereby ratified and declared valid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. |