of use of, motor vehicles designed to operate on land, their fittings and contents, whether such vehicles are being operated or not and wherever the same may be, resulting from accident, except loss or damage by fire or while being transported in any conveyance by land or water, or collision, and to make insurance upon the health of individuals. Approved March 27, 1918. AN ACT TO PREVENT THE DESTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS AND Chap.116 BRIDGES BY HEAVY VEHICLES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Part 5, § 39, amended. heavy vehicles and bridges, SECTION 1. Section thirty-nine of Part 5 of chapter three 1917, 344 (G), hundred and forty-four of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby amended by striking out the words "for any considerable depth", in the fourteenth line, by inserting after the word "the", in the same line, the words: - cities and, — and by striking out the words "unless such highway or bridge is paved with brick, block, sheet asphalt, concrete pavement or surface", in the twenty-second and twenty-third lines, so as to read as follows:- Section Operation of 39. No traction engine, trailer, motor vehicle, draft wagon, over highways cart or other vehicle shall be operated upon or over a highway regulated. or bridge in any city or town in this commonwealth, nor shall any object be moved over or upon any such highway or bridge, upon wheels, rollers or otherwise, in excess of a total weight of fourteen tons, including vehicle, object or contrivance and load, without first obtaining the permit mentioned in section forty-one of Part 5 of this act from the authority or authorities therein mentioned; nor shall any vehicle be operated or contrivance moved upon or over said highways or bridges which has any flange, ribs, clamps or other object attached to its wheels or made a part thereof, which will injure, cut into or destroy the surface of the highway or bridge; and in the cities and towns of the commonwealth outside of the metropolitan parks or sewerage districts no such engine, vehicle, object or contrivance for moving heavy loads shall be operated or moved upon or over any such highway or bridge the weight of which resting upon the surface of said highway or bridge exceeds eight hundred pounds upon any inch in width of the tire, roller, wheel or other object, without first obtaining said permit. The owner, driver, operator or Liability for mover of any such engine, vehicle, object or contrivance over said highway or bridge shall, unless relieved from liability damages, etc. 1917, 344 (G), Part 5, § 40, amended. heavy vehicles regulated. by said permit, be responsible for all damages which said highway or bridge may sustain as a result of said action on his part, and the amount thereof may be recovered in an action of tort by the authority or authorities in charge of the maintenance or care of said highway or bridge; or by the authorities of the town, the Massachusetts highway commission, or the county commissioners, whichever has charge of the highway or bridge which is injured. SECTION 2. Said Part 5 is hereby amended by striking out section forty and substituting the following:-Section 40. Speed of certain No traction engine, with or without trailers, and no motor truck carrying a weight in excess of four tons, including the vehicle, shall be operated upon any highway or bridge in this commonwealth at a speed greater than fifteen miles an hour; and no vehicle carrying a weight in excess of four tons, including the vehicle, shall be operated upon any such highway or bridge at a speed greater than four miles an hour when such vehicle is equipped with iron, steel or other metallic tires, nor greater than twelve miles an hour when the vehicle is equipped with tires of rubber or other similar substance. 1917, 344 (G), Part 5, § 41, amended. Permits for moving of SECTION 3. Section forty-one of said Part 5 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "the", in the fourth line, the words: cities or, and by inserting after the word "any", where it occurs the second time in the ninth line, the words: city or, so as to read as follows:Section 41. The Massachusetts highway commission, county heavy vehicles. commissioners, superintendents of streets, selectmen, or road authorities having charge of the repair and maintenance of any highway or bridge in any of the cities or towns in this commonwealth are hereby authorized upon proper application in writing, to grant permits for the moving of heavy vehicles, loads, objects or structures in excess of a total weight of fourteen tons, over said highways or bridges, and for operating or moving over any highway or bridge in any city or town in the commonwealth outside of the metropolitan parks or sewerage districts, any engine, vehicle, object or contrivance, the weight of which resting upon the surface of said highway or bridge exceeds eight hundred pounds upon any inch in width of tire, roller, wheel, or other object, which permits when duly granted shall authorize such movement. permits may be general or may limit the time and the particular roads and bridges which may be used, and may contain any special conditions or provisions which in the opinion of the authorities granting the same are necessary for the pro Conditions, etc., in permits. tection of said highways or bridges from injury. The au- AN ACT TO MAKE UNIFORM PHYSICIANS' CERTIFICATES OF EXEMPTION FROM VACCINATION. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.117 etc., amended. certificates of Section six of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as R. L. 44, § 6, amended by chapter three hundred and seventy-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and six, and by chapter two hundred and fifteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby further amended by striking out the words "granted for cause stated therein, signed by a regular practising physician that he is not a fit subject for vaccination", in the fourth and fifth lines, and substituting the following: - the same as the physician's certificate required by the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-nine of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws, as amended by section two of chapter one hundred and ninety and by section ten of chapter five hundred and forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and two, so as to read as follows:- Section 6. A child who Physicians' has not been vaccinated shall not be admitted to a public exemption from school except upon presentation of a certificate the same as made uniform. the physician's certificate required by the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-nine of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws, as amended by section two of chapter one hundred and ninety and by section ten of chapter five hundred and forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and two. A child who is a member of a household in which a person is ill with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, or any other infectious or contagious disease, or of a household exposed to such contagion from another household as aforesaid, shall not attend any public school during such illness until the teacher of the school has been furnished with a certificate from the board of health of the city or town, or from the attending physician of such person, stating that danger of conveying such disease by such child has passed. Approved March 27, 1918. vaccination Chap.118 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE COMPENSATION OF CERTAIN LEGIS Legislative employees, temporary salary increases made permanent. LATIVE EMPLOYEES OF THE GENERAL COURT. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: The provisions of chapter three hundred and twenty-three of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen authorizing a temporary increase in the compensation of certain employees of the commonwealth shall, as to all legislative employees of the general court appointed by the sergeant-atarms, including such employees temporarily so appointed, be permanent. Approved March 27, 1918. Chap.119 AN ACT RELATIVE TO INACCURACIES IN CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION UNDER THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT. 1911, 751, Part II, etc., amended. Certain inaccuracies in claims of injured employees not to Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Part II of chapter seven hundred and fifty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by the addition of a new section, numbered twenty-three, by section five of chapter five hundred and seventy-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "board", in the eighth line of said section twenty-three, the following new sentence: A claim for compensation shall not be held invalid or insufficient by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place, cause or nature of the injury, unless it is shown that it was the intention to mislead and that the association was in fact misled thereby, so as to read as follows: -Section 23. The claim for compensation shall be in writing and shall state the time, place, cause and nature of the injury; it shall be signed by affect validity. the person injured or by a person in his behalf, or, in the event of his death, by his legal representative or by a person in his behalf, or by a person to whom payments may be due under this act or by a person in his behalf, and shall be filed with the industrial accident board. A claim for compensation shall not be held invalid or insufficient by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place, cause or nature of the injury, unless it is shown that it was the intention to mislead and that the association was in fact misled thereby. The failure to make a claim within the period prescribed by section fifteen shall not be a bar to the maintenance of proceedings under this act if it is found that it was occasioned by mistake or other reasonable cause. Approved March 27, 1918. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TAXATION OF MONEY DEPOSITED Chap.120 IN BANKS OUTSIDE THE COMMONWEALTH. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: § 2, etc., savings banks SECTION 1. Section two of chapter two hundred and 1916, 269 (G), sixty-nine of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and six- amended. teen, as amended by chapter seven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby further amended by striking out the paragraph entitled "First", of subdivision (a) of said section two, and substituting the following:First: Deposits in any savings bank chartered by this com- Deposits in monwealth or in the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance in certain states Company, 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 bank situated in the state of New Hampshire, so long as the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen of that state remain in force, and deposits in any bank in any other state which exempts from taxation to its inhabitants similar deposits, and interest and dividends thereon, owned by such inhabitants in banks in this commonwealth. taxes assessed SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage, To apply to and shall apply to all taxes assessed in this commonwealth in 1918. in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Approved March 28, 1918. AN ACT TO PLACE THE HOSPITAL COTTAGES FOR CHILDREN Chap. 121 UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE COMMISSION ON MENTAL DISEASES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Cottages for sion on mental SECTION 1. The commission on mental diseases shall have Hospital general supervision of the Hospital Cottages for Children at Children placed Baldwinsville and may, with the approval, in each case, of under commisthe trustees and superintendent of the said institution, diseases. place and keep therein such children as the commission may select. Children so placed shall be maintained at such expense to the commonwealth as shall be determined by said commission and said trustees. The commission shall have |