Reinsurance.

Proviso.

Limit to

amount of

insurance in a single risk.

Section 20. No company authorized to transact the busi-
ness of insurance in this Commonwealth shall directly or
indirectly contract for or effect any reinsurance of any
risk or part thereof taken by it on property in this Com-
monwealth with any company not authorized to transact
such business of insurance in this Commonwealth: pro-
vided, however, that if it shall be found impossible to
obtain in the companies authorized to transact business in
this Commonwealth a sufficient amount of insurance to
cover any single risk, reinsurance of policies upon such
risk may be permitted in companies not so authorized;
and whenever any such reinsurance shall be transacted the
company effecting the same shall make a sworn report
thereof to the insurance commissioner at the time of filing
its annual statement, and at such other times as he may
request, and such reinsurance shall not reduce the reserve
which would otherwise be required on account of the
original policy, or reduce the taxes which would other-
wise be chargeable, or increase the amount it is authorized
to have at risk in any town or fire insurance district. And
no company shall insure in a single hazard a larger sum
than one tenth of its net assets: provided, however, that a
mutual boiler insurance company of this Commonwealth
may insure in a single risk an amount not exceeding one
fourth of its net assets.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 9, 1892.

Chap. 48 AN ACT RELATING

Appointment of

assistant assessors.

Vacancies.

ΤΟ ASSIS TANT ASSESSORS IN THE CITY OF
BROCKTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. In the month of February in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and in that month annually thereafter, the mayor of the city of Brockton shall, subject to confirmation by the board of aldermen, upon recommendation by the board of assessors, appoint one resident from each ward of said city to be an assistant assessor for the term of one year from the first day of March next ensuing. In case any vacancy shall exist or occur in the office of assistant assessor after the first day of March in any year, the mayor shall in like manner appoint a resident from the ward in which such vacancy occurs, for the unexpired term. It shall be the duty of the persons so appointed to furnish the assessors with all

necessary information relative to persons and property taxable in their respective wards, and they shall be sworn to a faithful performance of their duty. Their compensa- Compensation. tion shall be fixed by concurrent vote of the city council.

assessors now

The persons now holding the office of assistant assessors Assistant
shall continue in office until the appointment of their suc- in office.
cessors, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three,
and any vacancy occurring in their number shall be filled
in the manner provided for in this section.

SECTION 2. Section eighteen of chapter one hundred Repeal.
and ninety-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, and all acts inconsistent herewith, are
hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 10, 1892.

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE OLD MEN'S HOME IN THE
CITY OF WORCESTER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap. 49

SECTION 1. The name of the Old Men's Home in the Name changed. city of Worcester is hereby changed to the Home for Aged Men in Worcester.

vest in Home

SECTION 2. All devises, bequests, conveyances and Devises, etc., to gifts heretofore or hereafter made to said corporation, for Aged Men by either of said names, shall vest in the Home for Aged Men in Worcester

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 10, 1892.

in Worcester.

AN ACT TO EXEMPT CERTAIN ENGLISH BLOODHOUNDS FROM THE
PROVISIONS OF THE ACT PROHIBITING THE KEEPING of BLOOD-
HOUNDS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap. 50

sions of law not

SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and forty of the Certain provi acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six shall not to apply to the apply to any dogs of the species commonly known as the English blood. English bloodhound, of pure blood, whose pedigree is 1886, 340. recorded or would be entitled to record in the English bloodhound herd book.

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

Approved March 10, 1892.

hound.

Chap. 51 AN ACT RELATING TO THE USE OF CHECK-LISTS IN TOWN MEETINGS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Check-lists for use in certain

SECTION 1. At any town meeting held between the town meetings. day of the annual town meeting and the day of the annual state election next succeeding, the list of voters prepared for the annual town meeting shall be used, subject to the changes and erasures provided for by law.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 10, 1892.

Chap. 52 AN ACT RELATING TO THE SALARY OF THE LATE NICHOLAS A.

May pay salary
to widow of

Nicholas A.
Apollonio.

APOLLONIO, CITY REGISTRAR OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The city of Boston is authorized to pay to the widow of Nicholas A. Apollonio late city registrar of said city, the amount of salary to which he would have been entitled had he lived and continued to hold his office until the first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 10, 1892.

Chap. 53 AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMITMENT OF LUNATICS AND DIPSO

Commitment,

etc., of lunatics and dipsomaniacs.

Repeal.

MANIACS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. A person applying for the commitment or for the admission of a lunatic to a state lunatic hospital under the provisions of chapter eighty-seven of the Public Statutes, or for such commitment of a dipsomaniac under the provisions of chapter three hundred and thirtynine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred eighty-five, or for the commitment of a dipsomaniac under the provisions of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred eighty-nine, shall first give notice in writing to the overseers of the poor of the place where the lunatic or dipsomaniac resides, except that in the city of Boston such notice shall be given to the commissioners of public institutions, of his intention to make such application; and satisfactory evidence that such notice has been given shall be produced to the justice in cases of commitment.

SECTION 2. Section fourteen of chapter eighty-seven of the Public Statutes is hereby repealed.

Approved March 10, 1892.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE SALARY OF THE LATE CHARLES H. INGALLS,
COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap. 54

Charles H.

and daughter.

SECTION 1. The county of Berkshire is hereby author- Salary of ized to pay to the widow and daughter of Charles H. Ingalls may be Ingalls late county commissioner of the county of Berk- paid to widow shire, the amount of salary to which he would have been entitled had he lived and continued to hold his office until the thirty-first day of December in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 10, 1892.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH DAMS MAY BE
ERECTED ACROSS NAVIGABLE STREAMS AND OUTLETS OF GREAT
PONDS FOR FLOWING CRANBERRY LANDS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap. 55

Section forty-eight of chapter one hundred and ninety P. S. 190, § 48, of the Public Statutes is hereby amended by inserting amended. after the word “appropriated”, in the first line thereof, the words or which he desires to appropriate, - by striking out the word "a", in the third line thereof, and inserting in place thereof the word: -any, - by striking out the words "not navigable", in the third line thereof, and by adding at the end of the section the words: provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the erection or maintenance of a dam across any navigable stream, or across the outlet of any great pond, without a license obtained therefor from the board of harbor and land commissioners, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of chapter nineteen of the Public Statutes and of chapter three hundred and eighteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as to read as follows: Section 48. Any owner or lessee Erection of of land appropriated, or which he desires to appropriate, streams, etc., to the cultivation and growth of the cranberry may erect for flowing and maintain a dam upon and across any stream for the purpose of flowing and irrigating said land, upon the terms and conditions and subject to the regulations contained in this chapter, so far as the same are properly applicable in such cases: provided, however, that nothing Proviso. herein contained shall authorize the erection or mainte

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dams across

cranberry lands.

nance of a dam across any navigable stream, or across the outlet of any great pond, without a license obtained therefor from the board of harbor and land commissioners, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of chapter nineteen of the Public Statutes and of chapter three hundred and eighteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Approved March 10, 1892.

Chap. 56 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE FIRE DISTRICT NUMBER ONE OF ATTLE

May take land, water rights,

its water sup

ply.

BOROUGH TO INCREASE ITS WATER SUPPLY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Fire District Number One of Attleborough etc., to increase is hereby authorized to take, by purchase or otherwise, and hold the waters of the Seven Mile river in the town of Attleborough, or the waters of any springs, wells or other ground water sources on the watershed of said river, or the waters of any other streams, springs, watershed or water sources at any point within said town, and the water rights connected with any of said sources, and all lands, rights of way and easements necessary for holding and preserving such water and for carrying the same to any part of said town of Attleborough; and said district may have, in relation to such new sources of water supply and the holding, preserving and conveyance of the water taken therefrom, all the powers, rights and privileges now possessed in relation to, or in connection with, To file in regis. its present source of water supply. Within sixty days from the taking of any land as aforesaid the district shall file in the registry of deeds for the county and district in which such land lies, a description thereof sufficiently accurate for identification, together with a statement of the purposes for which the same is taken.

try of deeds a

description of lands, etc., taken.

Liability for damages.

SECTION 2. Said district shall be liable to pay all damages that shall be sustained by any person or corporation by reason of the proceedings of the district under this act; and any such person or corporation who shall be unable to agree with said district upon the amount of such damages, may have them assessed in the manner prescribed in section eight of chapter two hundred and seventy-one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three. But no application for the assessment of damages shall be made for the taking of any water or water right, or for any injury thereto, until the water is actually withdrawn or diverted by the district.