Forfeiture, when gas is found to be below the standard of purity, etc.

Rules and regulations to

of gas, etc.,

mitted, but not more than thirty grains of sulphur per hundred cubic feet and no sulphureted hydrogen shall be allowed. If the gas of any gas company or of any city or town supplying gas is found on three consecutive inspections, or on three inspections made within a period of thirty consecutive days, upon such averaging of inspections as the board may prescribe to be below the standard of purity fixed under this act, unless such defect is in the opinion of the board due to unavoidable cause or accident, such company, city or town shall be liable to a forfeiture of one hundred dollars, which may be recovered by an information in equity brought in the supreme judicial court by the attorney-general, at the relation of the board, and when so recovered shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth.

SECTION 2. The board of gas and electric light commisgovern quality sioners may from time to time, after notice and a public hearing, establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law, governing the quality of the gas supplied by persons, firms and corporations, public or private, which are subject to the provisions of said chapter seven hundred and fortytwo. Such rules and regulations shall be enforced in the manner provided in section one hundred and forty-two of said chapter.

1914, 742, § 182, amended.

Unit of measure for sale

of gas.

SECTION 3. Said chapter seven hundred and forty-two is hereby further amended by striking out section one hundred and eighty-two and inserting in place thereof the following:Section 182. The unit of measure for the sale of gas by meter shall be the cubic foot, containing sixty-two and two thousand nine hundred and ninety-three ten thousandths -pounds avoirdupois weight of air-free distilled water at sixty degrees Fahrenheit when weighed in dry air at the same temperature and at a barometric pressure of thirty inches of mercury.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 11, 1918.

Chap. 10 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE EXPENSES OF THE EXECUTIVE

Executive department expenses.

DEPARTMENT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be paid annually from the treasury of the commonwealth such sum as the general court may appropriate for whatever expenses of the executive department the governor may find necessary.

SECTION 2. Section eight of chapter four of the Revised Repeal.

Laws is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 11, 1918.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE SAVINGS BANKS TO MAKE PAYMENTS Chap. 11

AT BRANCH OFFICES ON ACCOUNT OF DEPOSITS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

etc., amended.

may make branch offices.

Section thirty-six of chapter five hundred and ninety of 1908, 590, § 36, the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, as amended by chapter two hundred and eleven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven is hereby further amended by striking out the words ", for the receipt of deposits only", in the tenth line, so as to read as follows: Section 36. Savings banks Such corporation shall carry on its usual business at its payments at banking house only, and a deposit shall not be received or payment on account of deposits be made by the corporation or by a person on its account in any other place than at its banking house, which shall be in the city or town in which the corporation is established; except that the corporation may, with the written permission of and under regulations approved by the commissioner, maintain and establish one or more branch offices or depots in the city or town in which its banking house is located, or in towns not more than fifteen miles distant therefrom in which there is no savings. bank at the time when such permission is given: provided, Proviso. however, that, in order to encourage saving among the children in the schools of this commonwealth, the corporation may, with the written consent of and under regulations approved by the commissioner and, in the case of public schools, by the commissioner and the school committee in the city or town in which the school is situated arrange for the collection of savings from the school children by the principal or teachers of such schools or by collectors. All moneys so collected shall be entered on an individual deposit card furnished by the corporation, but the total collections received by the corporation from any one principal or teacher may be entered in the name of such principal or teacher as trustee. When, however, the amount deposited by any one pupil and credited on the deposit card equals the minimum amount upon which interest is allowed the corporation shall issue a pass book to such pupil and thereafter, when the amount deposited by the pupil and credited on the deposit

card equals the sum of one dollar, it shall be transferred to the deposit book by the corporation. The principal, teacher or person authorized by the corporation to make collections from the school children shall be deemed to be the agent of the corporation and the corporation shall be liable to the pupil for all deposits made with such principal, teacher or other person and entered upon the deposit card, the same as if the deposit were made by the pupil directly with the Annual meet corporation. The annual meeting, and meetings of the trustees or board of investment of such corporation, may be held at any place in the city or town in which its banking house is located. Approved February 11, 1918.

ings, etc., where held.

Chap. 12 AN ACT TO DISCONTINUE THE INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN

Incorporation

of state banks, 80-called, discontinued.

BANKS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

On and after the passage of this act no bank shall be incorporated under the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the Revised Laws and amendments thereof. Said provisions, however, shall continue in full force and effect as to banks already incorporated thereunder.

Approved February 12, 1918.

Chap. 13 AN ACT TO PERMIT THE DRAGGING FOR FLOUNDERS BY THE

1904, 118, § 1, amended.

Dragging for flounders in

permitted.

BEAM OR OTTER TRAWL IN PLEASANT BAY IN THE TOWN
OF ORLEANS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

or

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and eighteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and four is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:dragging for flounders by the beam trawl or otter trawl, the minimum mesh to be three inches, so as to read as follows: Section 1. No purse or sweep seines, set nets or Pleasant Bay gill nets, for the taking of fish shall be set, drawn, used or maintained in the waters of Pleasant bay or its tributaries in the town of Orleans; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to forbid or make unlawful the maintaining of traps, pounds or weirs under licenses granted in accordance with section one hundred and sixteen of chapter ninety-one of the Revised Laws, or dragging for flounders by the beam trawl or otter trawl, the minimum mesh to be three inches. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 14, 1918.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A DISCOUNT ON ADVANCE PAYMENTS OF Chap. 14

INHERITANCE TAXES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

etc., amended.

SECTION 1. Section four of chapter five hundred and 1907, 563, § 4, sixty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and seven, codified as section four of Part IV of chapter four hundred and ninety of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by section two of chapter five hundred and twentyseven of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, by section one of chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen, and by section two of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: If a tax imposed by the provisions of this act is paid prior to the date upon which it is due, it shall be discounted at the rate of four per cent a year.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 14, 1918.

Discount on ments of in

advance pay

heritance taxes.

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH CERTAIN Chap. 15

CHIROPODISTS MAY APPLY FOR REGISTRATION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

§ 5, par. (1),

for registration

Paragraph (1) of section five of chapter two hundred and 1917, 202 (G), two of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen amended. is hereby amended by striking out the words "October, nineteen hundred and seventeen", in the sixth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: May, nineteen hundred and eighteen, so as to read as follows: - Section 5. Time extended Registration under this act shall be granted as follows: of certain (1) Any chiropodist who shall furnish the board with satis- chiropodists. factory proof that he is twenty-one years of age or over, and of good moral character, who shall make application for registration on or before the first day of May, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and who proves to the satisfaction of the said board that he has been engaged in the practice of chiropody in this commonwealth for a period of two years or more next prior to the passage of this act, shall, upon the payment of a fee of ten dollars, be registered without examination, and shall receive a certificate as a chiropodist registered under this clause, signed by the chairman and secretary of the board. Approved February 14, 1918.

Chap. 16 AN ACT TO DISCONTINUE THE PURCHASE OF CERTAIN TOWN

Repeal.

Time of

taking effect.

RECORDS ANTEDATING THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND
FIFTY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter four hundred and seventy of the acts of nineteen hundred and two is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on December

first of the current year. Approved February 14, 1918.

Chap. 17 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE COLOR OF LIGHTS REQUIRED ON

1909, 534, § 7, etc., amended.

on motor vehicles.

MOTOR VEHICLES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section seven of chapter five hundred and thirty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by section three of chapter sixteen of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "lights", in the twenty-third line, the words: or lights of yellow or amber tint, and by inserting after the word "light", in the twenty-fourth line, the words: or light of yellow or amber tint, so as to Brakes required read as follows:- Section 7. Every motor vehicle of more than ten horse power operated in or on any way shall be provided with at least two brakes, powerful in action and separated from each other, of which one brake shall act directly on the driving wheels or on parts of the mechanism which are firmly connected with said wheels. Each of the two brakes shall suffice alone to stop the motor vehicle within a proper distance. One of the two brakes shall be so arranged as to be operated with the feet: provided, however, that on automobiles not exceeding ten horse power one brake shall be deemed to be sufficient. Every motor cycle shall be provided with at least one brake. Every motor vehicle so operated shall be provided with a muffler or other suitable contrivance to prevent unnecessary noise and with a suitable bell, horn or other means of signalling, and with suitable lamps; and automobiles shall be provided with a lock, a ratchet brake which can be set, a key or other contrivance to prevent such vehicle from being set in motion by unauthorized persons, or otherwise, contrary to the will of the owner or person in charge thereof. Every automobile motor vehicles. operated during the period from one half an hour after sunset to one half an hour before sunrise shall display at

Proviso.

Color of lights

required on