discharged by 85. No indenture of apprenticeship or service made in pur- Apprenticeship suance of this chapter shall bind the minor after the death of his death of master. master, but the apprenticeship or service shall be thenceforth G. S. 111, § 21. discharged, and the minor may be bound out anew. 86. All the foregoing provisions shall apply as well to mis- Mistresses. tresses as to masters. Ibid. § 22. right. Ibid. § 23. 7 Mass. 147. 8 Johns. 328. duties, in whom 87. Nothing contained in the preceding sections shall affect Common-law the father's right at common law to assign or contract for the services of his children during their minority. 3B. & A. 586. 1 Ashm. 267. 1 Mason, 78. 88. Everything prescribed in preceding sections to be done Powers and by the selectmen of a town, shall and may be done by the mayor invested in and aldermen of a city; and everything prescribed to be done cities. by the overseers of the poor of a town, shall and may be done by the overseers of the poor of a city, or the directors of the house of industry, or such other officers as have charge of the poor therein. G. S. 111, § 24. SETTLEMENT OF PAUPERS. how acquired. 89. Legal settlements may be acquired in any city or town, Settlements, so as to oblige such place to relieve and support the persons G. S. 69, § 1. acquiring the same in case they are poor and stand in need of relief, in the manner following, and not otherwise, namely: women. First. A married woman shall follow and have the settle- By married ment of her husband, if he has any within the state; otherwise 9 Mass. 201. her own at the time of marriage, if she then had any, shall not 12 Mass. 353. be lost or suspended by the marriage. 1 Pick. 506. children. Second. Legitimate children shall follow and have the settle- By legitimate ment of their father if he has any within the state, until they 18 Pick. 264. gain a settlement of their own; but if he has none, they shall 8 Cush. 528. in like manner follow and have the settlement of their mother, if she has any. children. Third. Illegitimate children shall follow and have the settle- By illegitimate ment of their mother, at the time of their birth, if she then has 13 Mass. 381. any within the state; but neither legitimate nor illegitimate 8 Cush. 75. children shall gain a settlement by birth in the place where they may be born, if neither of their parents then has a settlement therein. By living on freehold estate. 14 Mass. 381. 2 Pick. 29. 3 Met. 165. 5 Met. 350. 13 Met. 192. 4 Cush. 172. 8 Cush. 525. 1 Gray, 619. By being assessed. 11 Mass. 327. 15 Mass.160, 253. 22 Pick, 385. 24 Pick. 166. 3 Met. 428. 4 Met. 178. 5 Met. 350. 4 Cush. 557. 11 Cush. 292. 2 Gray, 482. 4 Gray, 283. 4 Allen, 574. year in town offices. 12 Mass. 262. 1 Pick. 129. Fourth. Any person of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of this or any other of the United States, and having an estate of inheritance or freehold in any place within the state, and living on the same three years successively, shall thereby gain a settlement in such place. Fifth. Any person of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of this or any other of the United States, and having an estate, the principal of which shall be set at two hundred dollars. or the income at twelve dollars in the valuation of estates made by assessors, and being assessed for the same, to state, county, city, or town taxes, for five years successively in the place where he dwells and has his home, shall thereby gain a settlement therein. Sixth. Any person being chosen and actually serving one By serving one whole year in the office of clerk, treasurer, selectman, overseer of the poor, assessor, constable, or collector of taxes, in any place shall thereby gain a settlement therein. For this purpose a year shall be considered as including the time between the choice of such officers at one annual meeting and the choice at the next annual meeting, whether more or less than a calendar year. Settlement acquired by ministers. 4 Cush. 553. By persons admitted inhabitants by vote. Seventh. Every settled ordained minister of the gospel shall be deemed to have acquired a legal settlement in the place wherein he is or may be settled as a minister. Eighth. Any person admitted an inhabitant by any place at a legal meeting, held under a warrant containing an article for that purpose, shall thereby acquire a legal settlement therein. Ninth. Any citizen of this or any other of the United States, unincorporated dwelling and having his home in any unincorporated place at the time it is incorporated into a town, shall thereby acquire a legal settlement therein. By incorpora tion of an place. 6 Met. 484. Where to be upon division tion of town. 6 Met. 484. Tenth. Upon the division of a city or town, every person or incorpora- having a legal settlement therein, but being absent at the time of such division and not having acquired a legal settlement elsewhere, shall have his legal settlement in that place wherein his last dwelling-place or home happens to fall upon such division; and when a new city or town is incorporated, composed of a 4 Cush. 185. 4 Mass. 278, 452, 676. 16 Pick. 197. 19 Pick. 426. part of one or more incorporated places, every person legally 2 Allen, 75. settled in the places of which such new city or town is so composed, and who actually dwells and has his home within the bounds of such new city or town at the time of its incorporation, shall thereby acquire a legal settlement in such new place ; provided, that no person residing in that part of a place which upon such division shall be incorporated into a new city or town, having then no legal settlement therein, shall acquire any by force of such incorporation only; nor shall such incorporation prevent his acquiring a settlement therein, within the time and by the means by which he would have gained it there if no such division had been made. apprenticeship Eleventh. A minor who serves an apprenticeship to a lawful By serving trade for the space of four years in any place, and actually sets four years, &c. up such trade therein within one year after the expiration of said term, being then twenty-one years old, and continues there to carry on the same for five years, shall thereby gain a settlement in such place; but being hired as a journeyman shall not be considered as setting up a trade. and paying taxes. 5 Mass. 430. Twelfth. Any person of the age of twenty-one years, being By residence a citizen of this or any other of the United States, who resides in any place within this state for ten years together, and pays 10 Mass. 394. all state, county, city, or town taxes, duly assessed on his poll or estate for any five years within said time, shall thereby gain a settlement in such place. 2 Pick. 535. 10 Met. 115. 3 Met. 428. 12 Met. 35. 4 Cush. 190, 557. persons who settlements. 90. No person who had begun to acquire a settlement by Provisions for the laws in force at and before the time' when the preceding have begun to section took effect, in any of the ways in which any time is pre- acquire scribed for a residence, or for the continuance or succession of G. S. 69, § 2. any other act, shall be prevented or delayed by the provisions of the preceding section; but he shall acquire a settlement by a continuance or succession of the same residence or other act in the same time and manner as if the former laws had continued in force. 91. Every legal settlement shall continue till it is lost or Settlement to 1 June 1, 1860, when the General Statutes began to be in force. &c. continue until, defeated by acquiring a new one within this state, and upon acquiring such new settlement all former settlements shall be defeated and lost. G. §. 69, § 3. 11 Mass. 441. 6 Cush. 61. Pawnbrokers to be licensed. G. S. 88, § 28. Form of license, &c. Ibid. § 29. Penalty for car- 1. The mayor and aldermen or selectmen of any city or town, which has adopted by-laws therefor, may license suitable persons to carry on the business of pawnbrokers, within their respective cities and towns. 2. The license shall designate the place where the business is to be carried on, contain such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed by such by-laws, and continue in force one year unless sooner revoked. 3. Whoever not being licensed carries on such business, or is concerned therein within such city or town, or being licensed carries on such business, or is concerned therein in any other place or manner than that designated in his license, or after notice to him that his license is revoked, shall pay a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence. be licensed. SECTION 1. No person shall carry on the business of a pawn- Pawnbrokers to broker in this city unless he is duly licensed therefor by the Aug. 12, 1862. board of aldermen. record of his Ibid. SECT. 2. Every person carrying on said business shall keep He shall keep a a book, in which he shall record, at the time of receiving any transactions. article as a pawn, a description of the article so received, the name, age, and residence of the person from whom, and the day and hour when, he so received it; and that book shall at all times be open to the inspection of the mayor or either of the aldermen, or of any person by the board of aldermen authorized to make such examination. receive any &c. SECT. 3. No pawnbroker shall, directly or indirectly, re- shall not ceive any article in pawn of any minor or apprentice, knowing article in pawn or having reason to believe him to be such. All articles taken from minors, or held by any pawnbroker shall be exhibited to the mayor, or Shall exhibit either of the aldermen, or to any person authorized by the board Ibid. of aldermen to make such examination, whenever a demand shall be made by either of them for such exhibition. all articles. designate place Ibid. SECT. 4. All licenses granted under this ordinance shall License shall designate the place where the person licensed may carry on his of business, &c. business; and he shall not engage in or carry on his business under his license in any other place than the one so designated and all the provisions of this ordinance shall be incorporated into every license which shall be granted under it. Ibid. SECT. 5. Any person offending against either of the pro- Penalty. visions of this ordinance shall forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence." 1 An ordinance concerning pawnbrokers, passed August 12, 1862. 2 An ordinance relating to pawnbrokers, passed June 18, 1856, was repealed. |