Town laws amended, 1918, 257 §§ 149-156,* 291.

Accountant, provision for, 1916, 252. Advisory or finance committee, provision for, 1910, 130 § 1. Agricultural demonstration work, 1914, 707 § 9; 1918, 273 § 5. Art commission, 1911, 452. Band concerts, 1904, 152; 1908, 240. Betterment assessments, 1918, 257 § 219.* Bills, approval of, 1913, 469. Blasting operations, bonds for, 1911, 325; 1914, 155. Blind, reports concerning, by and to overseers of poor, 1916, 160. Boats and bathing suits, renting of, for use on great ponds, 1910, 400. Bounty, for wild cat, lynx, etc., 1903, 417; 1913, 573. (See 1912, 110.) Buildings, construction and use of, 1912, 334; 1913, 655; 1917, 156; 1918, 135, 257 § 150;* tenement houses, 1912, 635; 1913, 441, 614. Burial grounds, neglected, 1902, 389; 1915, 156. Charitable purposes, temporary licenses to sell for, 1916, 188. Civil service laws, and removal, suspension, etc., of employees, see chapter 19. Clerk, town, prohibited from charging fee for minors' certificates, 1914, 316; to give bond, 1918, 291 §§ 10, 21. Cold storage, inspection of, 1910, 640; 1912, 652. Compensation to employees for injuries, 1911, 751; 1912, 571, 666, 684; 1913, 807; 1914, 636; 1915, 123, 132, 236, 244, 275, Sp. Acts 270, 314; 1916, 307. Continuation and vocational schools, training teachers for, 1914, 174. (See 1914, 391.) Contingent and reserve funds, 1912, 347; 1913, 645. Contracts for use of municipal property, 1918, 223. Damages, assessment of, for public acts, 1917, 257 & 187.* Deer, damages by, 1903, 407; 1905, 419; 1908, 377; 1909, 396; 1912, 438. Dental dispensaries for children, 1914, 667. Eminent domain and land takings, 1902, 521 § 1; 1904, 317, 443; 1905, 266, 390; 1913, 68, 148, 401; 1914, 33; 1915, 263; 1918, 257 § 187.* Financial year of towns, 1913, 692. Fire department, promotion for call men in, 1913, 487 § 1; 1914, 138; 1916, 119; hours of labor in, 1904, 315; 1909, 514 § 44. (See 1909, 514 § 42; 1911, 494; 1913, 822.) Fire prevention in metropolitan district, 1914, 795; 1916, 138. Fish weirs, nets, traps, licensing of, 1913, 523; 1917, 54; 1918, 27. Food and necessaries, providing of, by cities and towns under constitutional amendment, 1918, 205. Forest fires, cost of apparatus to fight, repayment to towns, 1910, 398; 1914, 262. Forest and sprout land, protection from fire, 1908, 209; slash or brush, disposal of, 1914, 101. Grand Army posts, 1913, 62. Gymnasiums and public baths, 1908, 392. (See 1915, 25.) Harbors, improvement of, 1909, 481 § 3. Highways and bridges, jurisdiction over, 1917, 344 §§ 35-38. Homesteads for workmen, 1911, 607; 1912, 714; 1913, 494 § 3, 595; 1914, 283 §2; 1915, 129; 1917, 310; 1918, 204. Horses, disabled, 1908, 133. Hospitals, isolation, for dangerous diseases, 1911, 613 (see 1906, 365; 1909, 391); tuberculosis hospitals and dispensaries, 1911, 576, 597; 1912, 687; 1914, 408; 1916, 57, 197, 286; 1917, 103, 251, 290; 1918, 80, 163, 187; free beds in, 1915, 44. Hotels and lodging houses, licensing, inspection and regulation of, 1918, 259. Industrial schools, 1911, 471 § 4. (See 1906, 505; 1908, 572; 1909, 457, 540; 1912, 106; 1915, 266.) Insect pests, suppression of elm leaf beetle, gypsy and brown tail moths, 1902, 57; 1905, 381; 1906,

In effect Feb. 1, 1919.

268; 1907, 475, 521; 1908, 591; 1910, 150; 1911, 474; 1913, 585, 600, 605; 1914, 404; 1915, 80, 124, 171. (See 1909, 263; 1911, 242; 1912, 112.) Insurance funds, municipal building, 1905, 191; 1907, 576 § 102. Intoxicating liquors, transportation of, 1906, 421 § 2; 1911, 423. Junk collectors, regulation and licensing of, 1902, 187; 1918, 291 §§ 18-20. Laborers and mechanics, hours of, 1911, 474; 1916, 240; vacations of, 1914, 217; citizens' preference, 1914, 600; 1918, 257 § 94.* Landing places, common, 1908, 606. Laws, town, codification and amendment of, 1914, Res. 86; 1918, 191, Res. 47. Letters, official, filing of, 1913, 702. Libraries, public, 1914, 373; lending and procuring books of, 1914, 118. Lobsters, 1909, 605; 1917, 312; 1918, 212. Low lands, improvement of, 1918, 289. Lunch wagons, 1908, 360. Markets, public, 1915, 119; 1916, 79. Masonry construction, inspectors of, 1914, 540. Milk, production, inspection and sale of, 1909, 405, 443; 1914, 744; 1916, 134, 151, 228; 1917, 112, 256; 1918, 170. (See 1911, 278; 1915, 109; 1917, 259.) Monuments to soldiers and sailors, revolutionary, 1903, 116. (See 1910, 90.) Motor trucks of cities and towns, fees for registration of, 1916, 52. Motor vehicles, regulation of, 1909, 534 § 17; 1913, 803; 1914, 190; 1916, 293; carrying passengers for hire, licensing of, 1916, 293; 1918, 226. Municipal indebtedness. (See chapter 27.) Neglected children, conveyance of, 1914, 272. Nurses, 1911, 72. Old home week, appropriations, 1902, 109; 1907, 311. Pensions and retirements, 1907, 186; 1908, 498; 1910, 619; 1911, 338; 1912, 503; 1913, 671, 697; 1915, 47; 1918, 257 §§ 126-136;* pledge, mortgage, sale or assignment of, forbidden, 1916, 75; pensioners forbidden to receive pay for public service, 1916, 88; 1918, 257 § 135.* Petroleum, inspection of, 1911, 204. Pickerel, 1905, 417. (See 1912, 110; 1913, 573.) Pipes and conduits, laying of, for conveyance of water, 1903, 459 (see 1913, 422); for heating and power, 1909, 103 § 1. Planning boards, 1913, 494; 1914, 283; 1915, 165 (see 1911, 607); 1913, 595, 655 § 14. Playgrounds, 1908, 513; 1910, 508; 1912, 223; 1915, 25; 1918, 124. Plumbing, supervision of, 1909, 536; 1910, 597; 1912, 518, 635 § 34; 1913, 786 § 32. Police, women as special, 1914, 510; 1918, 168. Poor department, publishing names of persons aided by, forbidden, 1910, 412. (See 1912, 231.) Practical arts for women, evening classes in, 1912, 106; 1915, 266. Premiums on municipal bonds, 1910, 379. Public service corporations, authority to appropriate money to conduct proceeds relative to certain acts of, 1916, 23. Railroads, agreements with, relative to maintenance of surfaces and approaches of bridges, 1914, 200. Records, keeping of, 1917, 19. Reimbursement of taxes lost on public institutions, 1910, 607; 1911, 478; 1914, 648. Remnant act, so-called, repealed 1918, 257 § 203.* Resignation of town officers, 1918, 291 § 32. Rifle range, 1908, 256. Sanitary stations, 1911, 596. School children, free meals for, 1913, 575; conveyances for, 1914, 272. School fund, distribution of, 1918, 186. Seamen, destitute shipwrecked, transportation of, 1918, 291 § 17. Sewerage, treatment and purification, 1909, 433. Shell fish, 1904, 282; 1909, 469; 1913, 549; 1914, 597; 1916, 35. Signs, awnings and other projections in ways, 1915, 176. Sinking funds, investment of, 1915, 231; registration of bonds in, 1909, 136 § 1; 1912, 377; 1916, 152; 1917, 116. Snow and ice, removal of, 1902, 205. Soldiers and sailors, provision

In effect Feb. 1, 1919.

for, 1917, 179; 1918, 108, 183, 233; payment of difference in compensation, 1917, 254; graves of, 1914, 122. Street railways, may contract with, for electric light, 1902, 449; 1906, 218; 1914, 742 § 109 (see 1906, 463 III § 60; 1915, 191); may authorize land takings by, 1903, 476 § 1; may repair streets and bridges disturbed by street railway construction, 1916, 302; licensing of, as common carriers, 1903, 202; 1904, 441; 1906, 463 III § 41; 1907, 402; 1918, 226, 238; may regulate street railway companies operating motor vehicles, 1918, 226; may acquire franchises and property of street railway companies, 1918, 280 § 9; entitled to notice of certain petitions of street railway companies, 1918, 144. Superintendent of schools, reimbursement of small towns, 1918, 109. Survey, Boards of, 1907, 191; 1918, 135, 257150.* Temporary appointments, to fill places of town officers in military service, 1918, 185. Trust funds, boards of commissioners of, 1915, 282. War emergency appropriations, 1917, 264. Water supply, protection of sources, 1908, 499; unlawful use of water, 1914, 284; water meters, injuring and testing, 1914, 284, 397. Ways, contributions toward state highways, 1904, 125; maintenance of, with neighboring city or town, 1907, 196. Weighers, measurers and surveyors, local, 1918, 65. Weights and measures, sealers and deputy sealers of, 1914, 452. Wild and forest land, taxation of (see chapter 12).

1918, 291 § 1. (See 1908, 499.)

SECT. 13 extended, 1907, 232 § 1. SECT. 14 amended, 1902, 544 § 6; SECT. 15 repealed in part, 1915, 145 §§ 7, 13. Amended, 1918, 291 § 2, Par. 4, see 1914, 272. Par. 5, see 1904, 125; 1907, 196. Par. 11, see 1916, 314. Par. 12 amended, 1913, 62. Par. 13 amended, 1903, 116; 1910, 90. (See 1914, 122.) Par. 15, see 1903, 483. See also, 1908, 290, 392, 498; 1914, 118, 677, 707 § 9; 1916, 309.

SECT. 16 repealed and superseded, 1915, 145 § 13. 381; 1906, 268; 1907, 521; 1908, 591; 1909, 444; 124, 171.)

SECT. 18 amended, 1908, 91; 1915, 164.

SECT. 22 amended, 1909, 289. (See 1908, 452.) SECT. 23 amended, 1918, 291 § 3. 1902, 205. Par. 7, see 1903, 383 § 3. (See 1914, 284, 397.)

(See 1902, 57; 1905, 1914, 404; 1915, 80,

Par. 1, see 1910, 565 § 2. Par. 4, see
Par. 8, see 1903, 459; 1909, 103 § 1.

SECT. 24. See 1903, 473 § 14; 1905, 366 § 1; 1914, 182.

SECT. 26 revised. By-laws to be approved by attorney-general and published three times, 1904, 344 § 1; 1910, 130 § 2. (See 1904, 344 § 2; 1905, 144.)

SECT. 27. Repeal and substitute, 1907, 117; 1908, 142.

SECT. 28. See 1911, 136.

SECT. 29 revised, 1918, 291 § 4. See 1910, 412, 598.

SECT. 31 et seq. Towns and cities may authorize laying of pipes and conduits for conveyance of water, 1903, 459. (See 1913, 422.) And for

heating and power, 1909, 103 § 1.
SECT. 32. See 1912, 377.
SECT. 35 extended, 1902, 361.

In effect Feb. 1, 1919.

SECT. 37. See 1905, 266; 1914, 33.

SECT. 39 revised, 1918, 291 § 5. Affected, 1910, 405.

SECT. 44. See 1909, 371 § 6; 1910, 598; 1913, 727; 1914, 55; 1915, 85, 285; 1916, 62 § 2; 1917, 49, 159.

SECT. 45 revised,

1918, 291 § 6.

SECT. 45 et seq. See 1904, 317, 443; 1905, 266, 390; 1915, 263.
SECT. 46 repealed with proviso, 1918, 291 § 7.*

SECT. 47 amended, 1918, 291 § 8.

SECT. 49. See 1905, 266; 1914, 33; 1915, 263.

SECT. 52. See 1906, 463 III §§ 64-66; 1911, 442, 481; 1914, 742 § 127. SECTS. 53, 54. See 1914, 742 § 127.

SECT. 55 amended, 1918, 291 § 9. (See 1911, 339; 1914, 742 § 127.) SECT. 57. Repeal and substitute, 1909, 514 §§ 22, 145. (See 1904, 349.) SECT. 59 et seq. Town clerks to give bond, 1918, 291 §§ 10, 21. See 1904, 364; 1905, 317 § 2; 1906, 277; 1908, 209 § 3, 306, 402 § 2, 484 §§ 2, 4; 1911, 325 § 1, 614, 727 § 22; 1912, 391; 1916, 252; 1917, 55 § 3, 185 § 2. SECT. 62 revised, 1918, 291 § 11.

SECT. 65 affected, 1907, 191 § 1, 560 § 371, 579 § 1.

SECT. 68. See 1907, 560 § 371, 579.

SECT. 69 amended, 1909, 517 § 3. (See 1908, 550.)

SECT. 71. See 1914, 272; 1916, 160 § 1.

SECT. 72 et seq. See 1904, 458 § 3; 1910, 379, 624 §§ 2, 5; 1912, 377, 387; 1915, 282 § 2; 1916, 269 § 26, 293.

Acts relative to form of notes for money borrowed, 1910, 616; 1912, 45, 49; 1915, 84. (See 1912, 377; 1913, 416, 677.)

SECT. 74 amended, 1904, 277 § 1. Police officer or treasurer may prosecute for fines, etc., 1904, 277 § 2.

SECT. 75. See 1908, 99; 1909, 490 II §§ 32, 85.

SECTS. 76-78. Provision for special collector, 1910, 272; 1916, 131 § 2. . For reimbursing towns for loss of taxes on land used for public institutions, 1910, 607; 1911, 478; 1914, 648.

SECT. 77 amended, 1916, 131 § 1.

SECT. 79. Certain trust accounts to be audited, 1904, 322. (See 1906, 296; 1912, 377, 387.) Provision for town accountants, 1910, 624; 1911, 207; 1916, 252. (See 1912, 387; 1913, 669.)

SECTS. 81-83 repealed, 1917, 344, Part 8, § 1. Act to authorize establishment of board of survey, 1907, 191. (See 1907, 560 § 364; 1908, 552; 1911, 222; 1916, 190, 302 §§ 1, 2; 1917, 185 § 1.)

SECT. 85 repealed, 1917, 344, Part 8, § 1. (See 1917, 34.)

SECT. 85 et seq. See 1916, 302 §§ 1, 2.

SECT. 86 repealed, 1917, 344, Part 8, § 1.

SECT. 87. Inspectors of milk, 1909, 405; 1910, 114, 457; 1914, 744. (See 1911, 278.) Fish and game wardens, 1912, 465.

SECT. 91 et seq. See 1912, 372, 482; 1914, 126.

In effect Feb. 1, 1919.

SECT. 94. Policemen and firemen may be pensioned, 1904, 327; 1918, 257 §§ 97-99.* (See 1911, 137; 1916, 75, 88.) And their widows, 1907, 186. (See 1909, 453; 1913, 545, 671, 681; 1916, 75, 88.) Provision for license to carry loaded pistol, 1906, 172 § 1; 1908, 350; 1911, 548. Vacations for policemen, 1908, 476; 1911, 210, 625. (See 1909, 346 § 2.) Appointment of women as special police officers authorized, 1914, 510; 1918, 168.

SECT. 95. See 1909, 490 II § 13, 512.

SECT. 97 repealed, 1918, 291 § 12.

SECT. 99. See 1909, 514 § 37.

SECT. 100. See 1908, 464, 594; 1911, 339.
SECT. 101 repealed, 1918, 257 § 149.*

See chapter 25. "Chapter twenty-five and all other laws relative to towns shall apply to cities so far as consistent with the general or special laws relative thereto." R. L. 26 § 2.

Bill, approval of, 1913, 520; 1918, 23. Boston, relative to administration of, 1909, 486; 1910, 414; 1912, 550; 1918, Sp. Acts 37, 93, 94; to extend authority of, to obtain information on municipal affairs, 1914, 274. City Charters, revision of, simplified, 1915, 267; 1916, 68, 99; 1917, 162; 1918, 257 § 157.* Contracts, open to public inspection, 1907, 343; 1909, 201. Fire department, days off for members, 1915, 97. Firemen, retirement and pensions, 1913, 671, 697; 1918, 257 §§ 97,* 98.* Indebtedness. See chapter 27. Memorials of Spanish-American war soldiers, 1902, 286. Police, retirement of, 1918, 257 §§ 99,* 100.* Purchasing departments in cities, 1916, 223. Survey, boards of, 1916, 190.

SECT. 7. Overseers of the poor to be elected for three years in certain cities, 1902, 444. (See 1914, 272.)

SECTS. 7, 8. See act relative to term of office of municipal auditors, 1905, 373. And of police officers, 1906, 210; 1907, 272.

SECT. 9. See 1915, 138.

SECT. 15. See 1906, 277 § 2; 1913, 408.

SECT. 18. See 1910, 640; 1912, 652.

SECT. 19. See 1906, 210; 1907, 272; 1908, 476.

SECT. 21 amended, 1910, 261. Cities (except Boston) may provide annuities for widows and minor children of police officers who die from injuries received in discharge of duty, 1902, 437. (See 1903, 312, 428; 1909, 188, 453; 1913, 545, 657, 671, 681.) Vacations for policemen, 1908, 476; 1911, 210, 625. Pensions for policemen and firemen, 1904, 327; 1913, 697, 800; 1916, 218; 1918, 257 §§ 97-100.* (See 1913, 545, 657, 671, 681, 770; 1915, 97.)

SECT. 22. See 1907, 577; 1909, 514 §§ 52, 145.

SECT. 26 superseded, 1914, 198 § 3. (See 1909, 289, 440 § 2.)

SECT. 28 amended, 1915, 2. (See 1903, 457; 1904, 371; 1905, 391, 465 § 112; 1913, 62.)

In effect Feb. 1, 1919.