AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE Chap. 10 COUNTY OF HAMPDEN TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL LAND IN THE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: county com purchase addi school. SECTION 1. The county commissioners of the county of Hampden Hampden are hereby authorized to purchase additional land missioners may in the town of Agawam adjacent to the Hampden county tional land for training school for the uses and purposes of said school, at a county training cost not exceeding five thousand dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance, Submission to prior to December thirty-first in the current year, by the county comcounty commissioners of said county. Approved February 7, 1925. missioners. AN ACT RELATIVE TO FILING FEES FOR PETITIONS FOR RE-EX- Chap. 11 AMINATION FOR ADMISSION AS ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section thirty-seven of chapter two hundred and twenty-one G. L. 221, of the General Laws, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and ninety of the acts of nineteen hundred and twentyone, is hereby further amended by striking out, in the fifteenth line, the word "ten" and inserting in place thereof the word:fifteen, so as to read as follows: Section 37. A citizen of Citizens may petition for the United States, whether man or woman, may, if over twenty- examination for admission as one, file a petition in the supreme judicial or superior court to an attorney be examined for admission as an attorney at law, and, if found at law, etc. qualified, to be admitted as such; whereupon, unless the court otherwise orders, the petition shall be referred to the board of bar examiners to ascertain his acquirements and qualifications. If the board reports that the petitioner is of good moral character and of sufficient acquirements and qualifications, and recommends his admission, he shall be admitted unless the court otherwise determines, and thereafter may practice in all the courts of the commonwealth. The petitioner shall pay to Filing fees. the clerk of the court in which his petition is filed a fee of fifteen dollars upon the entry thereof, and a further fee of fifteen dollars upon the entry of any subsequent petition. Such fees shall be paid over to the commonwealth. Approved February 7, 1925. AN ACT PERMITTING CERTAIN TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTORS WHO Chap. 12 ARE MEMBERS OF THE STATE RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION TO preamble. Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to Emergency defeat its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience. G. L. 32, § 2, par. (4), amended. State retirement associa of members. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Paragraph (4) of section two of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Any member who is a teacher or principal in a state school or college where classes are graded or conducted by a school year or term, or who is an instructor of the blind, on attaining the age of seventy, shall be retired from the service at the end of the school year or term in which said age is attained, but any such member attaining that age in July, August or September shall then be retired, so as to read as follows:-(4) Any member who reaches the age of tion, retirement sixty and has been in the continuous service of the commonwealth for a period of fifteen years immediately preceding may retire or be retired by the board upon recommendation of the head of the department in which he is employed, or, in case of members appointed by the governor, upon recommendation of the governor and council, and any member who reaches the age of seventy must so retire. Any member who is a teacher or principal in a state school or college where classes are graded or conducted by a school year or term, or who is an instructor of the blind, on attaining the age of seventy, shall be retired from the service at the end of the school year or term in which said age is attained, but any such member attaining that age in July, August or September shall then be retired. Retirement of certain teachers, etc., at end of school year in which age seventy is attained. Approved February 9, 1925. Chap. 13 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF RANDOLPH TO BORROW Town of for school purposes. Randolph School Loan, MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of restoring or rebuilding the borrow money Stetson high school building and of constructing an addition thereto, such addition to increase the floor space of said building, the town of Randolph may borrow from time to time, within a period of five years from the passage of this act, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, fifty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Randolph School Loan, Act of 1925. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from their dates, but no issue shall be authorized under this act unless a sum equal to an amount not less than ten per cent of such authorized issue is voted for the same purpose to be raised by the tax levy of the year when authorized. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in excess of the statutory limit, but shall, except as provided herein, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the proviso inserted in section seven of said chapter by chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO EXPENDITURES BY THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER Chap. 14 FOR MUNICIPAL ADVERTISING PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Gloucester may SECTION 1. The city of Gloucester may annually appropri- City of ate a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars for the purpose appropriate of advertising the advantages of the city, with special reference money for municipal to its facilities for summer vacation, recreation and seashore advertising purposes; provided, however, that as to each such appropriation Proviso. a sum equal to the amount thereof shall previously have been raised by public subscription and paid into the city treasury purposes. to be expended for the aforesaid advertising purpose. The Expenditures, money so appropriated by the city and so raised by subscription etc. shall be expended under the direction of the mayor and municipal council. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance Submission to by vote of the municipal council of said city, subject to the municipal provisions of its charter. Approved February 9, 1925. council, etc. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF BRIDGEWATER TO SUPPLY Chap. 15 ITSELF AND ITS INHABITANTS WITH WATER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Bridgewater inhabitants SECTION 1. The town of Bridgewater may supply itself and Town of its inhabitants with water for the extinguishment of fires and may supply for domestic and other purposes; may establish fountains and itself and its hydrants, relocate or discontinue the same, and may regulate with water, etc. the use of such water and fix and collect rates to be paid for the use of the same, and may maintain a water supply system for the aforesaid purposes, subject to all general laws now or hereafter in force relating to municipal water supply systems, except as otherwise provided herein. franchises, etc., pany. SECTION 2. For the purposes aforesaid said town, by a May purchase committee thereto duly authorized, may purchase the fran- of Bridgewaters chises, corporate property and all the rights and privileges of Water Comthe Bridgewaters Water Company, for a sum not exceeding one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars. If the said company has incurred indebtedness, the amount of such indebtedness outstanding at the time of such purchase may be assumed by said town, and the purchase price shall be reduced accordingly; but nothing in this act shall render said town liable for any indebtedness or other liability of said company, unless it has been specifically assumed as one of the terms of said purchase. SECTION 3. For the purposes aforesaid, said town, acting May take, etc., through its board of water commissioners hereinafter provided waters, etc. for, may also take by eminent domain under chapter seventynine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold, the waters of any pond, brook, stream or spring or of any ground water sources by means of driven or other wells or filter galleries, within the town of Bridgewater, not already Make take certain lands, etc. May erect structures, lay pipes, etc. Restrictions as to construction, etc., within railroad locations. Damages, recovery, etc. Proviso. May issue bonds, etc. Town of Payment of loan, etc. used for public water supply, subject to the approval of the department of public health; and for the said purposes, through its said board of water commissioners, may take by eminent domain under said chapter seventy-nine, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold, all lands, rights of way, and other easements necessary for collecting, storing, holding, purifying and preserving such water and conveying the same. Said town may erect on the lands acquired and held under this act proper dams, buildings, fixtures and other structures, and may make excavations, procure and operate machinery and provide such other means and appliances and do such other things as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of complete and effective water works; and for that purpose may construct and lay conduits, pipes and other works, over and under any lands, water courses, railroads, railways, and public or private ways, and along such ways, in such manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same; and for the purposes of constructing, maintaining and repairing conduits, pipes and other works, and for all other proper purposes under this act may enter upon and dig up any such lands and ways, in such manner as to cause the least hindrance to public travel thereon. The said town shall not enter upon, construct or lay any pipes, conduits or other works within the location of any railroad corporation, except at such time and in such manner as it may agree upon with such railroad corporation, or, in case of failure so to agree, as may be approved by the department of public utilities. SECTION 4. Any person injured in his property by any action of said town or of its board of water commissioners under this act may recover damages from said town under said chapter seventy-nine: provided that the right to damages for the taking of any water or water right or for any injury thereto shall not vest until the water is actually withdrawn or diverted by said town under authority of this act. SECTION 5. Said town may, for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses incurred or to be incurred under this act, issue from time to time bonds or notes to an amount not exceeding, in the aggregate, five hundred thousand dollars, which shall bear on their face the words, Town of Bridgewater Water Loan, Act of 1925. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be payable in not more than thirty years from their dates; and the first of the annual payments on account of any such loan shall be made not later than one year after the date of the bonds or notes issued therefor. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall be in addition to that authorized by the general laws, but shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws. Said town shall, at the time of authorizing said loan or loans, provide for the payment thereof in accordance with the provisions of this section; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, a sum which, with the income derived from the water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual expense of operating the water works, and the interest as it accrues on the bonds or notes issued as aforesaid, and to make such payments on the principal as may be required under this act, shall without further vote be assessed by the assessors of the town annually thereafter in the same manner as other taxes, until the debt incurred by the said loan or loans is extinguished. commissioners, SECTION 6. Said town shall, after its acceptance of this act, Board of water at the same or a subsequent meeting, elect by ballot three per- election, terms, sons to constitute a board of water commissioners, one of etc. whom shall hold office until the expiration of three years, one until the expiration of two years, and one until the expiration of one year, from the annual town meeting of nineteen hundred and twenty-five; and, at each annual town meeting held thereafter, one such commissioner shall be elected by ballot for the term of three years. All the authority granted to the town Authority, etc. by this act, except section five, and except as otherwise specially provided for, shall be vested in said board of water commissioners; but said board shall be subject in all respects to such instructions, rules and regulations as said town may impose filled. by its vote. A majority of said commissioners shall constitute Quorum. a quorum for the transaction of business. Any vacancy occur- Vacancies, how ring in said board may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by the town at any meeting thereafter. Any such vacancy may be filled temporarily by a majority vote of the selectmen, and the person so appointed shall hold office until the town fills the vacancy in the manner specified herein. SECTION 7. The land and other property taken or acquired To manage, under this act shall be managed, improved and controlled by the board of water commissioners in such manner as they shall deem for the best interest of the town. Said board shall fix To fix water just and equitable prices and rates for the use of water, and rates, etc. shall prescribe the time and manner of payment. The income etc., property. of the water works shall be applied to defraying all operating expenses, interest charges and payments on the principal as they accrue upon any bonds or notes issued under authority of this act. If there should be a net surplus remaining after Net surplus, how applied. providing for the aforesaid charges, it shall be used for such new construction as said board may determine upon; and in case a surplus should remain after payment for such new construction the water rates shall be reduced proportionately. No money shall be expended in any new construction by said board except from a surplus as aforesaid unless the town appropriates the money therefor. Said board shall annually, and Annual report. as often as the town may require, render a report of the condition of the works under its charge, and an account of its receipts and expenditures. polluting water, etc. SECTION 8. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts, pollutes Penalty for or diverts any of the waters taken or held under this act, or injures any structure, work or other property owned, held or used by said town under the authority and for the purposes of this act, shall forfeit and pay to said town three times the amount of damages assessed therefor, to be recovered in an action of tort; and upon conviction of any one of the above wilful or wanton acts shall be punished by fine of not more |