Soliciting, etc., in certain public buildings from public em ployees, etc., prohibited. Penalty. Procedure for removal from office upon conviction of violation of laws, etc. SECTION 2. No person shall in any building or in any room of any building occupied for state, county or municipal purposes demand or solicit any payment or gift of money or other thing of value from any person holding office or employment in the service of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town therein, for the purposes set forth in section one. SECTION 3. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a corrupt practice, and shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars. SECTION 4. If a person holding an elective office in the service of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town therein, except membership in the general court, is corrupt practice convicted of violating, in the course of his campaign for such office, any provision of this act, proceedings may be brought against him under the provisions of chapter seven hundred and eighty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen, and acts in amendment thereof, relating to corrupt practices, for a forfeiture of the office to which he was elected, and any officer or employee holding an appointive office who is convicted of violating any provision of this act may be summarily removed by the appointing authority without a hearing. Approved April 12, 1918. Chap. 147 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN Hours of employment of women and minors as elevator operators regulated. AND MINORS AS OPERATORS OF ELEVATORS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: The provisions of section forty-eight of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, and of any amendments thereof, and of any law hereafter enacted restricting the hours of women and minors laboring in factories, or workshops, or in mercantile, manufacturing or mechanical establishments shall, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, apply to women and minors operating elevators in any of the aforesaid establishments, or in any building occupied in whole or in part by any such establishment, or in any office building. Approved April 12, 1918. GENERAL ACTS, 1918. CHAPS. 148, 149, 150. 119 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR ADJOURNMENT TO BROCKTON OF Chap. 148 CRIMINAL SITTINGS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: criminal superior court, SECTION 1. There shall be held at Brockton, in the Adjourned county of Plymouth, an adjourned sitting of each criminal sittings of term of the superior court for that county, for the hearing county of and disposition of such criminal cases on the trial list as Plymouth, have arisen within the judicial district of the police court of Brockton. Brockton or within the towns of Whitman, Abington and Rockland, where the defendants are not in confinement awaiting trial. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 13, 1918. to AN ACT TO PROHIBIT EMPLOYERS FROM RECEIVING GRA- Chap. 149 TUITIES GIVEN TO EMPLOYEES FOR THE CHECKING OF CLOTHING. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: given to check SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or Gratuities corporation directly or indirectly to accept or receive any clothing for gratuity given to an employee of such person, firm or corporation, for the checking of clothing. bidden. SECTION 2. Violation of this act shall be punished by a Penalty. fine of not less than fifty dollars for each offence. (The foregoing was laid before the governor on the ninth day of April, 1918, 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.) AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TAXATION AS INCOME OF CERTAIN Chap. 150 INTEREST RECEIPTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: receipts SECTION 1. Interest received by persons loaning money Certain interest as a business upon the pawn or pledge of tangible personal taxable as property shall be taxed under the provisions of paragraph income. (b) of section five of chapter two hundred and sixty-nine of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen, and not under the provisions of section two of said chapter. Applicable to income received in 1917. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage and shall apply also to taxes levied in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen on account of income received in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen. Approved April 18, 1918. Chap. 151 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PREPARATION OF THE TABLE OF 1914, 449, § 1, amended. General and special laws, the general court each year to be published in separate volumes. CHANGES IN THE GENERAL LAWS AND INDICES THEREOF. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter four hundred and forty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 1. The secretary of the commonetc., passed by wealth shall, at the close of each session of the general court, collate and cause to be printed in one volume the constitution of the commonwealth, all the general acts passed, any amendments to the constitution agreed to by the general court, the aggregate vote, both affirmative and negative, on every act or resolve or part of an act or resolve referred to the people in accordance with article forty-two of the amendments to the constitution, a list of the officers of the civil government of the commonwealth, a table of changes in the general laws and an index. He shall further, at the close of each session of the general court, collate and cause to be printed in a separate volume all the special acts and the resolves passed at that session. The general acts shall be divided into chapters to be numbered in a regular series without regard to the numbering of the special acts; the special acts shall be arranged in chapters without regard to the general acts. The joint committee on rules of the general court shall annually appoint a skilled person to prepare said table and index, and may establish his compensation. Joint Committee on rules to appoint person to prepare table of changes, etc. 1912, 185, § 1, amended. Joint committee on rules to pre pare cumu SECTION 2. Chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 1. The joint committee on rules of the general court is hereby directed to prepare and print lative index to from time to time during the session of the general court a cumulative index to all acts and resolves enacted, and to any proposed amendments to the constitution agreed upon, up to the date of publication. The secretary of the commonwealth shall deliver by mail or otherwise one copy to each member of the general court and one copy to each of acts and re solves. Delivery by secretary of the common wealth. the persons mentioned in the second paragraph of section one of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and eight, as amended by chapter sixtyone of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, and to such other persons as he may select. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (The foregoing was laid before the governor on the twelfth day of April, 1918, 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.) AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR EMERGENCY CONNECTIONS BE- Chap. 152 TWEEN GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANIES AS A MEANS OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: and electric missioners may companies. SECTION 1. During the continuance of the present war Board of gas and ninety days thereafter, upon the petition in writing of a light comgas or electric company, or of a municipal light board, order certain which is aggrieved by the refusal of a gas or electric com- extensions of mains, etc., by pany whose mains or lines are in the same or an adjoining gas and electric city or town to supply such petitioning company or municipal light board with gas or electricity, the board of gas and electric light commissioners may, after notice to such other gas or electric company and a public hearing, if in its judgment the public welfare will be promoted thereby, issue an order requiring such other gas or electric company to make such extensions of its mains or lines within the limits of any city or town in which it is lawfully distributing its product as may be necessary to connect such mains or lines with those of the petitioner, and thereafter to supply the petitioner with gas or electricity upon such terms and for such period or periods, not however extending more than eighteen months after the end of said war, as the board may deem just and reasonable; and in connection therewith said board may make such further orders regulating the operation or requiring the shutting down of the generating plant, if any, of the petitioner, as the public exigency may require. systems may SECTION 2. During the continuance of the present war Connection of and ninety days thereafter, upon the petition in writing of gas and electric two or more gas or electric companies desiring to connect be authorized. their systems so that gas or electricity can be interchanged, the board of gas and electric light commissioners may, after notice and a public hearing, if in its judgment the public Certain gas and electric companies, etc., welfare will be promoted thereby, issue an order authorizing such gas or electric companies to make the necessary extensions and connections subject to the provisions of this act and of any other law now or hereafter in force and not inconsistent herewith. SECTION 3. During the continuance of the present war and ninety days thereafter said board may, upon its own motion, after notice to the parties interested and a public electricity, etc. hearing, if in its judgment the public welfare will be pro may supply each other with gas or Board may au- moted thereby, issue an order directing and requiring two gas companies or two electric companies or a gas or electric company and a city or town owning a municipal lighting plant, whose mains or lines, as the case may be, are in the same or adjoining cities or towns, to make such extensions of their mains or lines within the limits of any city or town in which they are lawfully distributing their product as may be necessary to connect their respective mains or lines, and thereafter to supply each other with gas or electricity upon such terms and for such period or periods, not however extending more than eighteen months after the end of said war, as the board may deem just and reasonable; and in connection therewith the said board may make such further orders regulating the operating or requiring the shutting down of the generating plants, if any, of the parties interested, as the public exigency may require. SECTION 4. The board may, in connection with any order issued under the three preceding sections relative to the construction of a line for the transmission of electricity, determine that said line is necessary for one or more of the purposes set forth in section one hundred and twenty-eight of chapter seven hundred and forty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by chapter one hundred and forty-one of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, and will serve the public convenience, and is consistent with the public interest; and may, after the proceedings therein prescribed and subject to its provisions, authorize the companies, or either of them, or the mayor and aldermen of a city or municipal light board of a town, if one of the parties be a municipality, to take such lands or such rights of way or other easements therein as may be necessary for the construction and use of said line, notwithstanding that said companies or said cities or towns have not first acquired rights in the public ways or lanes of the cities or towns through which said line will pass, or over |