charged by following: Section 15. The fees for surveying and marking Fees to be shall be paid by the purchaser, as follows:- For ash, bass- surveyor genwood, birch, beech, cherry, chestnut, cottonwood, elm, gumwood, hackberry, hickory, magnolia, mahogany, maple, oak, poplar, sycamore, tupelo, walnut, willow, butternut, pecan, locust, buckeye, hardwood strips in bundles, hardwood floors in bundles, fifty cents for every thousand feet, board measure; for hardwood floors to open and hardwood strips to open, seventy-five cents for every thousand feet; for car lots of all Western pine, fifty cents for every thousand feet; for flooring, North Carolina and yellow pine six inches and under for straight lots, sheathing and bark strips, forty-five cents for every thousand feet; for North Carolina pine, North Carolina and yellow pine roofers, cypress, spruce, fir, hemlock, and all Eastern pine, forty cents for every thousand feet; for all cargo lots thirty cents for every thousand feet with the exception of North Carolina pine sheathing to open, yellow pine sheathing to open, yellow pine floors to open and hard wood, fifty cents for every thousand feet; for bark strips, forty cents for every thousand feet; for yellow pine sheathing in bundles, North Carolina pine sheathing in bundles, yellow pine floors in bundles, North Carolina pine floors in bundles, and spruce boards, thirty-five cents for every thousand feet. One half of the fees paid by the purchaser as aforesaid shall be allowed and paid to him by the seller. If the surveyor general Certain excess receives in fees in any year more than twenty-five hundred into state treasdollars and his necessary expenses for office rent, the heating and lighting thereof, clerical assistance, telephone service, postage, stationery and transportation in the performance of his duties, he shall pay the excess over said amount and expenses into the treasury of the commonwealth. SECTION 2. Section four of said chapter sixty, as amended R. L. 60, § 4. by section one of chapter four hundred and seventy-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and two, is hereby further amended by striking out the word "ten", in the fourth line, and substituting the word:- twelve, so as to read as follows:-Section 4. He shall keep a record of all lumber Surveyor gensurveyed by himself or his deputies and of the amount of fees to keep certain received by each deputy, and as often as once in each month records, etc. he shall be entitled to twelve per cent of such fees. Such record shall be at all times open to inspection by the members of the city councils of cities and by the selectmen of towns within said district. Grades and kinds of lumber which are Grades, etc., recognized in trade and not defined in this chapter may, not defined, ury. etc., amended. eral of lumber of lumber how established, etc. Fees therefor. upon application therefor in writing to the surveyor general, Chap. 96 AN ACT RELATIVE TO REPORTS AND RECORDS OF VENEREAL Certain records of venereal diseases not public, except, etc. Certain records of venereal diseases to be destroyed. Penalty. DISEASES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Hospital, dispensary, laboratory and morbidity reports and records pertaining to gonorrhoea or syphilis shall not be public records, and the contents thereof shall not be divulged by any person having charge of or access to the same except upon proper judicial order or to a person whose official duties, in the opinion of the commissioner of health, entitle him to receive information contained therein. SECTION 2. Laboratory, dispensary and morbidity reports and records of cases of gonorrhoea or syphilis, other than the permanent records of hospitals and institutions, shall be destroyed at the expiration of five years from the year in which they were made. SECTION 3. Violation of any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars for a first offence, and not more than one hundred dollars for any subsequent offence. Approved March 26, 1918. Chap. 97 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE JURISDICTION OF CERTAIN TRIAL 1917, 326 (G), JUSTICES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section eleven of chapter three hundred and twenty-six of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: - but any trial justice may interchange services with and act for any other trial justice in his county when it is necessary or Jurisdiction of expedient so to do, so as to read as follows: Section 11. Trial justices now residing in any town named in section ten, shall, until the expiration of the term of office for which they certain trial justices. were respectively commissioned, continue to act as such in their respective towns under the provisions of this act, but any trial justice may interchange services with and act for Interchange any other trial justice in his county when it is necessary or mitted. expedient so to do. Approved March 26, 1918. services per AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE USE AS EVIDENCE OF COPIES FROM Chap. 98 THE RECORDS, BOOKS AND ACCOUNTS OF TRUST COMPANIES AND NATIONAL BANKS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: bank and trust Copies from the records, books and accounts of a trust Use of copies of company or national bank doing business within the common- company wealth, shall be competent evidence in all cases, equally with evidence. the originals thereof, if there be annexed to such copies an affidavit, taken before a clerk of a court of record or notary public, under the seal of such court or notary, stating that the affiant is the officer having charge of the original records, books and accounts, and that the copy is correct and is full, so far as it relates to the subject-matter therein mentioned. Approved March 26, 1918. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE POWERS OF CERTAIN SPECIAL Chap. 99 POLICE OFFICERS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: so as to amended. tain officers SECTION 1. Section seventy-nine of chapter two hundred R. L. 212, § 79, and twelve of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "officer", in the tenth line, the words: or special police officer appointed by the governor at the request of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals under chapter three hundred and eightyfour of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, read as follows:- Section 79. If complaint is made to a Powers of cercourt or magistrate authorized to issue warrants in criminal under search cases that the complainant believes and has reasonable cause warrant. to believe that preparations are being made for an exhibition of the fighting of birds, dogs or other animals, or that such exhibition is in progress, or that birds, dogs or other animals are kept or trained for fighting at any place or in any building or tenement, such court or magistrate, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause for such belief, shall issue a search warrant authorizing any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or police R. L. 212, 80, amended. Powers of certain officers to enter premises without a warrant. officer or special police officer appointed by the governor at the request of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals under chapter three hundred and eighty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, to search such place, building or tenement at any hour of the day or night and take possession of all such birds, dogs or other animals there found and arrest all persons there present at any such exhibition or where preparations for such exhibition are being made, or where birds, dogs or other animals are kept or trained for fighting. SECTION 2. Section eighty of said chapter two hundred and twelve is hereby amended by inserting after the word "process", in the first line, the words: - or special police officer appointed by the governor at the request of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals under chapter three hundred and eighty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, so as to read as follows:Section 80. Any officer authorized to serve criminal process or special police officer appointed by the governor at the request of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals under chapter three hundred and eightyfour of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, may, without a warrant, enter any place, building or tenement in which there is an exhibition of the fighting of birds, dogs or other animals, or in which preparations are being made for such an exhibition, and arrest all persons there present and take possession of and remove from the place of seizure the birds, dogs or other animals engaged in fighting, or there found and intended to be used or engaged in fighting, or kept or trained for fighting and hold the same in custody subject to the order of court as hereinafter provided. Approved March 26, 1918. Chap.100 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF CERTAIN INMATES Certain inmates of reformatory be removed to industrial school for FROM THE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN TO THE INDUSTRIAL Be it enacted, etc., as follows: With the consent of the trustees of the Massachusetts for women may training schools, the director of prisons may remove to the industrial school for girls any girl under the age of seventeen years who has been sentenced to the reformatory for women. Any person so transferred shall be accompanied by all mittimuses and processes in the case, by a copy of the medical girls. report and by the facts covering the history and conduct of the person and the home circumstances of such person, so far as they can be ascertained. Approved March 26, 1918. AN ACT AUTHORIZING LOANS ON MATURED SHARES IN CO- Chap.101 OPERATIVE BANKS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Part IV, § 25, Section twenty-five of Part IV of chapter six hundred and 1912, 623, twenty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve is amended. hereby amended by striking out the word "ninety-five", in the second line, and substituting the word: - ninety, and by adding at the end thereof the following: - Loans may be made upon matured shares to an amount not exceeding ninety per cent of their face value, as represented by the certificate. And for every such loan a note shall be given accompanied by a transfer of the certificate as collateral for the loan, so as to read as follows: Section 25. Loans Co-operative may be made upon unpledged shares to an amount not on matured exceeding ninety per cent of their withdrawal value at the shares time of the loan, and for every such loan a note shall be given, accompanied by a transfer and pledge of the shares borrowed upon. Loans may be made upon matured shares to an amount not exceeding ninety per cent of their face value, as represented by the certificate. And for every such loan a note shall be given accompanied by a transfer of the certificate as collateral for the loan. Approved March 26, 1918. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE SUM THAT MAY BE EXPENDED BY Be it enacted, etc., as follows: banks, loans authorized. Chap.102 § 3, etc., SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one hundred and 1916, 132 (G), thirty-two of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and six- amended. teen, as amended by section one of chapter one hundred and twenty of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby further amended by striking out the word "forty", in the third line, and substituting the word:fifty, so as to read as follows:- Section 3. The expense Reconstruction incurred under this act shall not exceed the sum of two hun- Bridge, amount dred and fifty thousand dollars, and the said commissioners increased. are hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the county of Essex |