certain land to

land, shall so far as is practicable, be done by prisoners transferred thereto as hereinafter provided. If the land is Description of taken by right of eminent domain, said commissioners shall be recorded, etc. file in the registry of deeds of the district in which the land is situated a plan and description thereof sufficiently specific for identification, whereupon the title thereto shall vest in the county in fee: provided, that no land, right or interest Proviso. therein, which has been registered under the provisions of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Laws, shall be deemed to have been taken until a description thereof has been filed in accordance with the provisions of section eighty-nine of said chapter. If said commissioners cannot agree with the owner of land thus taken as to his compensation, he shall have the remedy now provided in the case of land taken for highways. At any time after said land has been reclaimed, cultivated and improved, the same may be sold if the county commissioners determine that it is for the best interest of the county.

buildings

etc.

SECTION 2. Said commissioners may erect on said land Temporary such temporary buildings of inexpensive construction as may be erected, they shall consider necessary for the proper housing of prisoners, and for other purposes, in no case, however, costing over three thousand dollars. If the land which has been reclaimed, cultivated and improved, as aforesaid, shall be sold, the proceeds of the sale shall be placed in the treasury of the county and shall be used, so far as is possible, for the payment of loans made as hereinafter provided. Any surplus thereof shall be used for general county purposes. No building used for housing the prisoners shall be Approval of constructed until the director of prisons has approved the plans therefor. The commissioners may appoint, and at any time remove, a superintendent for said farm and such assistants as, in their opinion, are needed for its proper management.

plans, etc.

may be used.

SECTION 3. On the request of said commissioners, the Prison labor sheriff of the county shall remove to said farm such prisoners, held on sentence in the jail or house of correction of the county, as, in his opinion, can advantageously be employed thereon in carrying out the purposes and provisions of this act and when so removed they shall be so employed, but shall be at all times in the custody of the sheriff and his officers. On the order of said commissioners, the sheriff shall return any prisoner to the jail or house of correction from which he was taken.

SECTION 4. To meet the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, the county commissioners are hereby authorized to borrow from time to time, upon the credit of the county, such sums as may be needed, and to issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, County of Industrial Farm Loan, Act of 1917, and shall be payable by such annual payments, beginning not more than one year after the dates thereof, as will extinguish each loan within

years from its date. The amount of such annual payment of any loan in any year shall not be less than the amount of the principal of the loan payable in any subsequent year. Each issue of bonds or notes shall constitute a separate loan. The said bonds or notes shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall be signed by the treasurer of the county and countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners. The county may sell the said securities at public or private sale, upon such terms and conditions as the county commissioners may deem proper, but not for less than their par value, and the proceeds shall be used only for the purposes above specified.

SECTION 5. The county commissioners, at the time of authorizing each loan, shall provide for the payment thereof in accordance with the provisions of section four, and a sum sufficient to pay the interest as it accrues and to make such payments on the principal as may be required under said provisions, shall be levied annually thereafter, as a part of the county tax of the county in the same manner as other county taxes, until the debt incurred by said loan or loans is extinguished. Approved May 16, 1917.

Chap.259 AN ACT DEFINING PASTEURIZED MILK AND REGULATING

Pasteurized milk, term defined.

THE SALE THEREOF.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Pasteurized milk is hereby defined to be natural cow's milk not more than seventy-two hours old when pasteurized, subjected for a period of not less than thirty minutes, to a temperature of not less than one hundred and forty degrees nor more than one hundred and forty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and immediately thereafter cooled therefrom to a temperature of fifty degrees Fahrenheit or lower.

milk as

prohibited.

SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful to sell, exchange or Sale of other deliver, or to advertise, represent, or describe, or to offer pasteurized, or expose for sale or to have in possession with intent to sell, as pasteurized milk, milk not pasteurized in conformity with the provisions of this act.

SECTION 3. Any violation of this act shall be punished Penalty. by a fine of not less than ten dollars for a first offence, and

of not more than one hundred dollars for any subsequent

offence.

effect.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect on the first day of Time of taking January in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Approved May 16, 1917.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PREFERENCE OF CITIZENS FOR Chap.260

EMPLOYMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC WORKS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

etc., amended.

be given

commonwealth

of public

Section twenty-one of chapter five hundred and fourteen 1909, 514, § 21, of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by section one of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "mechanics", in the second line, the word: - teamsters, and by inserting after the word "mechanics", in the ninth line, the words: - and teamsters, - so as to read as follows: Section 21. In the employment of mechanics, teamsters and Preference to laborers in the construction of public. works by the com- citizens of monwealth, or by a county, city or town, or by persons con- in construction tracting therewith, preference shall be given to citizens of works. the commonwealth, and, if they cannot be obtained in sufficient numbers, then to citizens of the United States; and every contract for such works shall contain a provision to this effect. The wages for a day's work paid to mechanics and teamsters employed in such construction of public works shall be not less than the customary and prevailing rate of wages for a day's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality, city or town where such public works are constructed. Any contractor who knowingly and Penalty. wilfully violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each offence. Approved May 16, 1917.

Chap.261 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF JOHN W. LOCKE AS

Salary of John W. Locke, deputy tax commissioner, established.

DEPUTY TAX COMMISSIONER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The salary of John W. Locke, deputy tax commissioner, shall be four thousand dollars a year.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (The foregoing was laid before the governor on the tenth day of May, 1917, and after five days it had "the force of a law", as prescribed by the constitution, as it was not returned by him with his objections thereto within that time.)

Chap.262 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARIES OF THE JUSTICES OF

Salaries of justices of the Boston

municipal court established.

To be submitted to

city council, etc.

THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The salary of the chief justice of the municipal court of the city of Boston shall be six thousand five hundred dollars a year, and the salary of each of the associate justices shall be six thousand dollars a year.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city council of the city of Boston, with the approval of the mayor.

(The foregoing was laid before the governor on the tenth day of May, 1917, and after five days it had "the force of a law", as prescribed by the constitution, as it was not returned by him with his objections thereto within that time.)

Chap.263 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR INVESTIGATION AND SUPPRESSION

State nursery inspector to

suppress white pine blister

rust.

OF THE WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The state nursery inspector, acting under investigate and the direction of the state board of agriculture, is hereby authorized to expend a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for the investigation and suppression of the white pine blister rust, and any unexpended balance of this sum remaining at the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen may be expended in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.

1912, 507, etc., amended.

SECTION 2. Chapter five hundred and seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by

infected trees.

section two of chapter one hundred and sixty-one of the
General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen and
by section five of chapter ninety-one of the General Acts
of the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby further
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new
sections to be numbered nineteen and twenty: - Section 19. May destroy
In case the nursery inspector, either personally or through
his deputies, shall find plants known as ribes or five-leaved
pines infected with the disease known as the white pine
blister rust, or shall find ribes or pines so situated that in
his opinion they are likely to become infected with this
disease, he may, either personally or through his deputies,
forthwith destroy or cause to be destroyed such ribes or
five-leaved pines. Section 20. In carrying out his duties Co-operation
hereunder relative to the control of the white pine blister
rust, the state nursery inspector shall, so far as practicable,
co-operate with the state forester and with the local tree
wardens, moth superintendents, city foresters and forest
wardens.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 17, 1917.

of duties.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CITIES AND TOWNS TO MAKE Chap.264

CERTAIN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS IN TIME OF WAR.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

towns may

emergency

in time of war.

SECTION 1. Cities and towns are hereby authorized, Cities and during the continuance of the existing state of war between make certain the United States and any foreign country, to appropriate appropriations such sums of money as they may deem necessary to conserve health and to protect persons and property; to establish, maintain, and equip training fields; to purchase military equipment and supplies; and for the purpose of conserving the food supply, to do such things as they may deem necessary to assist in the raising and distribution of food products. The expenditure of all money appropriated under authority of this act shall, in cities, be under the direction of the mayor and city council or commission, and in towns, of the selectmen, or of committees appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council or commission in cities, and by the selectmen in towns. A report in detail of all such expenditures shall be made and included in the annual report of the proper financial officers of the city or town.