AN ACT INCREASING THE AMOUNT ALLOWED FOR THE TRAVEL- Chap. 62 LING EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL COURT. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Each etc., amended. Additional amount for penses of mem Section eight of chapter three of the Revised Laws, as R. L. 3, § 8, amended by section one of chapter six hundred and seventysix of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "two", in the third and again in the eighth lines, the words: - and one half, - Section 8. so as to read as follows: member of the general court shall receive one thousand travelling exdollars for the regular annual session for which he is elected, bers of general and two and one half dollars for every mile of ordinary travelling distance from his place of abode to the place of the sitting of the general court. The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each receive double the compensation of other members, and two and one half dollars for every mile of ordinary travelling distance as aforesaid. Approved March 11, 1918. court. AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE FURNISHING OF INTOXICATING Chap. 63 LIQUORS TO OR BY INMATES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: intoxicating inmates of prohibited, Whoever gives, sells or delivers any spirituous or intoxicat- Furnishing of ing liquor to any patient or inmate of any public institution, liquors to or by or to any patient or inmate under the control of any such in- public stitution, except under the direction of a physician authorized institutions so to do, and whoever has in his possession within the pre- except, etc. cincts of any such institution any such liquor with intent to consume the same or to convey, give, sell or deliver the same to any patient or inmate thereof, except under direction as aforesaid, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty Penalty. dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months. Approved March 11, 1918. AN ACT PROVIDING FURTHER CAUSE FOR THE REVOCATION Chap. 64 OF INNHOLDERS' AND COMMON VICTUALLERS' LICENSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. Section nine of chapter one hundred and two of the Revised R. L. 102, § 9, Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: If a licensee at any time conducts his licensed Additional cause for innholders' or common victuallers' licenses. business in an improper manner, the licensing board, after notice to the licensee, and reasonable opportunity for a hearing, may upon satisfactory proof thereof declare his license forfeited, so as to read as follows:- Section 9. If, in the revocation of opinion of the licensing board, a licensee as an innholder or a common victualler ceases to be engaged in the business he is licensed to pursue, or fails to maintain upon his premises the implements and facilities required by this chapter, it shall immediately revoke his license. If a licensee at any time conducts his licensed business in an improper manner, the licensing board, after notice to the licensee, and reasonable opportunity for a hearing, may upon satisfactory proof thereof declare his license forfeited. Approved March 11, 1918. Chap. 65 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF LOCAL WEIGH Cities and towns may ap measurers and surveyors of commodities. ERS, MEASURERS AND SURVEYORS OF COMMODITIES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The mayor of a city, subject to confirmation point weighers, by the board of aldermen or body exercising similar powers, and the selectmen of a town, on the written request of any person, firm or corporation engaged in buying, selling or transporting goods or commodities which require weighing, surveying or measuring, shall appoint suitable persons to act as weighers, measurers or surveyors of such goods or commodities, who shall be sworn before entering upon their duties and shall serve for terms of one year unless sooner removed. The said officers may be removed at any time by the appointing authority. At least one such weigher, measurer or surveyor, appointed in any city or town, shall not be engaged in the business of buying, selling or transporting the goods or commodities weighed, measured or surveyed by him, but no person shall be ineligible for appointment because of sex or because of residence elsewhere than in the city or town where he is appointed, notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in any general or special act or city charter. Eligibility. Records to be kept. SECTION 2. All persons appointed under this act shall keep accurate records, in the form prescribed by the commissioner of weights and measures, of all weighings, measurements or surveys made by them, which shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by said commissioner, his inspectors and by the local sealer of weights and measures. SECTION 3. If a person appointed weigher, measurer or Penalty. surveyor under this act shall wilfully misrepresent the weight, quantity or measurements of any goods weighed, measured or surveyed by him, he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence. SECTION 4. This act shall not affect the provisions of Not to affect law providing for the appointment of weighers, measurers of certain or surveyors of particular commodities. Approved March 11, 1918. appointment weighers, etc. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION Chap. 66 FOR TRAVEL TO THE DOORKEEPERS AND ASSISTANT DOOR- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter six of the General 1917, 6 (G), § 1, Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby amended by inserting after the word "The", where it occurs the first time in the first line, the words: - doorkeepers, assistant doorkeepers and, — by inserting after the word "dollars", in the second line, the words: and fifty cents, and by striking out the word "seventeen", in the seventh line, and inserting in place thereof the word: - eighteen, so as to read as follows:- Section 1. The doorkeepers, assistant Additional doorkeepers and messengers of the general court shall receive travelling extwo dollars and fifty cents for every mile of ordinary travel- penses of doorling distance from their places of abode to the place of the general court. sitting of the general court computed on the same basis upon which mileage is paid to members of the general court, to be so allowed from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eighteen. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE SAVINGS BANKS AND SAVINGS DE PARTMENTS OF TRUST COMPANIES TO INVEST IN FARM Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amount for keepers, etc., of Chap. 67 etc., authorized SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for savings banks and Savings banks, savings departments of trust companies in this common- to invest in wealth to invest in farm loan bonds lawfully issued by federal bonds. farm loan Chap. 68 Trustees may change investments of certain trust property, unless, etc. Receipt of trustee suffi to person making payment, etc. land banks incorporated under the provisions of the act of SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO TRUSTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. When any personal property is subject to a trust contained in any will or other written instrument already or hereafter executed, the trustee or trustees shall have power, unless there is some provision therein to the contrary or unless it would be inconsistent with the purposes of the trust, to change the investment of such property from time to time and for that purpose to make sales and transfers thereof. SECTION 2. The receipt of any trustee, or of any one or cient discharge more of several trustees, for any money, securities, or other personal property or effects payable, transferable, or deliverable to him or them under any trust or power, created before or after the passage of this act, shall be a sufficient discharge therefor to the person paying, transferring, or delivering the same, and no such person shall be bound to see to the application thereof. Corporations not charged with execution of trust to which shares, etc., may be subject. Guardian may exercise powers person. SECTION 3. A company or corporation, public or private, or quasi corporation, or the managers of any trust shall not be bound to see to the execution of any trust, express, implied, or constructive, to which any of its shares, bonds, or securities are subject, or to ascertain or inquire whether the trust authorizes a transfer thereof by the holder, but the provisions of this section shall not be a protection against liability for knowingly participating in a breach of trust. SECTION 4. When a power is vested in an insane person vested in insane for his own benefit, or his consent is required for the exercise of any power where the power of consent is in the nature of a beneficial interest in such person, his guardian may, by order of the probate court, made after notice to such persons, if any, as the court shall deem proper, exercise the power or give the consent in such manner as shall be authorized or directed by the order. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 16, 1918. AN ACT RELATIVE TO DIVIDENDS PAID BY INSURANCE STOCK Chap. 69 COMPANIES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. dividends by regulated. SECTION 1. Section forty-one of chapter five hundred and 1907, 576, § 41, seventy-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and seven is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "after", in the fifteenth line, to and including the word "and", where it first occurs in the eighteenth line, so as to read as follows:-Section 41. No stock company shall make a Payments of dividend, either in cash or stock certificates, except from insurance stock its actual net surplus computed as required by law in its companies annual statement; nor shall any such company which has ceased to do new business of insurance divide any portion of its assets, except surplus, to its stockholders until it shall have performed or cancelled its policy obligations. Any such company may declare and pay, annually or semi-annually, from its surplus, cash dividends to its stockholders of not more than ten per cent of its capital stock in a year; and if the dividends in any year are less than ten per cent, the difference may be made up in any subsequent year or years from surplus accumulations; but any such company may pay such dividend as the directors may consider prudent out of any surplus that shall remain after deducting from the assets all securities and book accounts on which no part of the principal or interest has been paid within the last year and for which foreclosure or suit has not been commenced for collection, or which after judgment obtained thereon shall have remained more than two years unsatisfied and on which interest shall not have been paid, and also deducting all interest due and unpaid on any property of the company. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 16, 1918. |