AND

RESOLVES

PASSED BY THE

General Court of Massachusetts,

IN THE YEAR

1918.

PUBLISHED BY THE

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

BOSTON:

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,

32 DERNE STREET.

1918.

201

SPECIAL ACTS AND RESOLVES

OF

MASSACHUSETTS

SPECIAL ACTS.

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PAY FOR SOLDIERS Chap. 1

AND SAILORS FROM THIS COMMONWEALTH IN THE VOLUN

TEER SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

soldiers' and

SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and fifty thousand Appropriation, dollars is hereby appropriated to be paid out of the treasury sailors' pay in of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue for the present war. pay of soldiers and sailors as provided in section one of chapter two hundred and eleven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated or raised for this purpose.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved January 4, 1918.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF WELLESLEY TO PAY
THE COST OF INSURING THE LIVES OF ITS RESIDENTS IN
WAR SERVICE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap. 2

ing of residents

SECTION 1. The town of Wellesley is hereby authorized Town of Wellesley may to expend a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars for pay for insurthe payment of premiums and charges on life and other in war service. kinds of insurance taken by residents of said town in the military and naval service of the United States under the provisions of federal law.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 7, 1918.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF WHITMAN TO REFUND Chap. 3

CERTAIN INDEBTEDNESS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Whitman may

SECTION 1. The town of Whitman, for the purpose of Town of refunding twenty-five thousand dollars of indebtedness repre- refund certain

indebtedness.