GENERAL ACTS. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TREASURER AND RECEIVER Chap. 1 GENERAL TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE SENATE Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in ments to mem urer and SECTION 1. The treasurer and receiver general is hereby Advance payauthorized and directed to make advances during the months bers of general of January and February to members of the senate and court by treashouse of representatives on account of compensation due receiver for services and travelling expenses in accordance with existing laws at the rate of expenditure authorized by appropriations for the preceding year. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. general. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE RATE OF INTEREST ON CERTAIN Chap. 2 SECURITIES TO BE ISSUED DURING THE CURRENT YEAR. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: on certain year by treas receiver SECTION 1. Such securities as may be issued during the Interest rate current year under the provisions of section six of chapter securities issued three hundred of the General Acts of nineteen hundred during current and fifteen, as amended by chapter two hundred and twenty urer and of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, of general. chapters two hundred and twenty-one of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen, three hundred and twentyfour, three hundred and thirty-one and three hundred and sixteen of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the purpose of meeting the expenditures therein authorized, shall bear such rate of interest as the treasurer and receiver general, with the approval of the governor and SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 3 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE INTEREST ON BONDS ISSUED FOR 1917, 287 (G), § 1, amended. Rate of interest on bonds for power transmission line between THE CONSTRUCTION OF A POWER TRANSMISSION LINE BE- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and eighty-seven of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby amended by striking out the words "Act of 1917", in the tenth and eleventh lines, and adding at the end thereof the words: - except that the rate of interest to be paid thereon shall be such as the treasurer and receiver general, with the approval of the governor and council, may determine, so as to read as follows: Section 1. To enable the metropolitan water and sewerage board to construct a line for the transmission of electricity between the power station at the Wachusett dam in Clinton Wachusett and and the power station at the Sudbury dam in Southborough, Sudbury dams. under authority of chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, the treasurer and receiver general shall issue from time to time, upon the request of said board, bonds in the name and behalf of the commonwealth, designated on the face thereof, Metropolitan Water Loan, to an amount not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, to be taken from the unexpended balance of forty-six thousand dollars authorized by chapter six hundred and ninety-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve; and the provisions of chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and of acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, shall, so far as they may be applicable, apply to the indebtedness and proceedings authorized by this act, except that the rate of interest to be paid thereon shall be such as the treasurer and receiver general, with the approval of the governor and council, may determine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 7, 1918. AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE SECOND ASSISTANT REGISTER Chap. OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY FOR THE COUNTY OF ESSEX Be it enacted, etc., as follows: be second assistant register of SECTION 1. The second assistant register of probate and Woman may insolvency for the county of Essex may be a woman. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. probate, Essex Approved February 7, 1918. county. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE INTEREST ON BONDS ISSUED FOR Chap. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WATER MAIN IN THE EAST Be it enacted, etc., as follows: To act, § 2, amended. interest on Rate of bonds for East Boston. water main in SECTION 1. Section two of chapter three hundred and 1917, 322 (G), twenty-two of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby amended by striking out the words "Act of 1917", in the sixth line, and adding at the end thereof the words:- except that the rate of interest to be paid thereon shall be such as the treasurer and receiver general, with the approval of the governor and council, may determine, so as to read as follows:- Section 2. meet the expenses incurred under the provisions of this the treasurer and receiver general shall issue from time to time, upon the request of said board, bonds in the name and behalf of the commonwealth and under its seal, designated on the face thereof Metropolitan Water Loan, to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, to be taken from the unexpended balance of the amount authorized by chapter six hundred and ninety-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve, and the provisions of chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the indebtedness and proceedings authorized by this act, except that the rate of interest to be paid thereon shall be such as the treasurer and receiver general, with the approval of the governor and council, may determine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 4 5 Chap. 6 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE INTEREST ON BONDS ISSUED FOR 1917, 285 (G), §1, amended. Rate of interest on bonds for completing in town of Wellesley. COMPLETING THE EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH METROPOL- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and eighty-five of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words: except that the rate of interest to be paid thereon shall be such as the treasurer and receiver general, with the approval of the governor and council, may determine, so as to read as follows: Section 1. The treasurer and receiver general, in order to provide for the sewer extension completion of the extension of the high-level sewer authorized by chapter three hundred and forty-three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall, with the approval of the governor and council, issue from time to time scrip or certificates of indebtedness in the name and behalf of the commonwealth and under its seal, to an amount not exceeding three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the amount authorized by said chapter; and the provisions of said chapter and of chapter four hundred and twenty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of all acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto shall, so far as they may be applicable, apply to the indebtedness and proceedings authorized by this act, except that the rate of interest to be paid thereon shall be such as the treasurer and receiver general, with the approval of the governor and council, may determine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 7 AN ACT TO EXEMPT FROM TAXATION THE INCOME FROM 1916, 269 (G), 82, par. First, subdivision (a), amended. DEPOSITS IN MUTUAL SAVINGS BANKS IN OTHER STATES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The paragraph entitled "First" of subdivision (a) of section two of chapter two hundred and sixtynine of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: -and deposits in any mutual savings bank, without a paid-in capital stock, situated in any state which exempts from taxation to its inhabitants similar deposits and dividends thereon, owned by such inhabitants in savings banks deposits in ings banks in exempt from in this commonwealth, so as to read as follows:- First: Income from Deposits in any savings bank chartered by this common- mutual savwealth or in the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Com- other states pany, or such of the deposits in the savings department taxation. of any trust company so chartered as do not exceed in amount the limits imposed upon deposits in savings banks by section forty-six of chapter five hundred and ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, and deposits in any mutual savings bank, without a paid-in capital stock, situated in any state which exempts from taxation to its inhabitants similar deposits and dividends thereon, owned by such inhabitants in savings banks in this commonwealth. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 8, 1918. AN ACT TO DISCONTINUE THE NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION OF Chap. THE GENERAL LAWS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of chapter nine of the Revised Repeal. Laws is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 11, 1918. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE INSPECTION OF GAS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 8 Chap. 9 amended. SECTION 1. Section one hundred and eighty-one of chap- 1914, 742, § 181, ter seven hundred and forty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby amended by striking out the second, third and last sentences thereof, and the words "to give less light than sixteen standard English candles, or", in the twenty-first line, so as to read as follows:-Section 181. The gas of every company which Inspection supplies more than fifty consumers shall be inspected at least twice a year and as much oftener as the board may determine. The board may, from time to time, for the purpose of establishing a new standard of purity for gas, after a public hearing, determine how many grains of sulphur and ammonia per hundred cubic feet of gas may be per of gas. |