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Messengers and extra clerks.

Incidental,

etc., expenses.

Postage on documents, etc.

Preservation of records, etc.

Registration books, etc.

Regimental histories.

Preservation of certain town records.

Pamphlet editions of acts,

etc.

Cumulative index.

Blue book.

Publication of laws, etc.

Reports of decisions, etc.

Purchase of paper.

Public documents.

Primary elections.

For messengers and additional clerical assistance, a sum not exceeding thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, a sum not exceeding fifty-five hundred dollars.

For postage and expressage on documents, and for printing and mailing copies of bills and resolves to certain state, city and town officials, a sum not exceeding fifty-five hundred dollars.

For arrangement and preservation of state records and papers, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

For registration books and blanks, indexing returns and editing registration report, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars.

For the purchase of histories of regiments, batteries and other military organizations of the Massachusetts volunteers who served in the civil war, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

For the preservation of town records of births, marriages and deaths previous to the year eighteen hundred and fifty, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars.

PRINTING LAWS, ETC.

For printing the pamphlet edition of the acts and resolves of the present year, a sum not exceeding seventy-five hundred dollars.

For printing a cumulative index of the acts and resolves, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

For printing and binding the blue book edition of the acts and resolves of the present year, twelve thousand dollars.

For the newspaper publication of the general laws and of information intended for the public, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

For the reports of decisions of the supreme judicial court, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars.

For the purchase of paper used in the execution of the contract for the state printing, a sum not exceeding fiftyfive thousand dollars.

For printing and binding public documents, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.

PRINTING MATTERS RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

For expenses in connection with primary elections, a sum not exceeding thirty-six thousand dollars.

For printing and distributing ballots, a sum not exceeding Ballots. eight thousand dollars.

town officers.

For blanks for town officers, election laws and blanks and Blanks for instructions on all matters relating to elections, and for the expense of advertising the state ticket, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.

apparatus.

For the purchase of apparatus to be used at polling places Purchase of in the canvass and count of votes, a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

For furnishing cities and towns with ballot boxes and for Ballot boxes, repairs to the same, a sum not exceeding one thousand

dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 11, 1915.

etc.

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF Chap. 46

CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE DEATH OF FIREMEN KILLED OR
INJURED IN THE DISCHARGE OF THEIR DUTIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

claims on

account of

death of certain

firemen.

SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby Payment of appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth, as authorized by section seventy-seven of chapter thirty-two of the Revised Laws, for the payment of such claims as may arise in consequence of the death of firemen belonging to the regularly organized fire department of a city or town, or of members in active service of any incorporated protective department, or of any person doing fire duty at the request of or by order of the authorities of a town which has no organized fire department, or of any person performing the duties of fireman in such town, who are killed or who die from injuries received in the discharge of their duties at fires, during the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifteen. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 11, 1915.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SALARIES AND Chap. 47

EXPENSES OF THE LAND COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

tions, land

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appro- Appropriapriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth court. from the ordinary revenue, for the land court, for the fiscal

Judge, salary.

Associate judge.

Recorder.

Clerical

assistance.

Court officer.

Sheriffs' fees,

etc.

year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to wit:

For the salary of the judge of the court, eight thousand dollars.

For the salary of the associate judge of the court, eight thousand dollars.

For the salary of the recorder of the court, forty-five hundred dollars.

For clerical assistance in the office of the court, a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For the salary of the court officer for the sessions of the court, seventeen hundred dollars.

For sheriffs' fees, advertising, surveying, examination of titles and sundry incidental expenses, a sum not exceeding twenty-eight thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 11, 1915.

[1907, 268; 1908, 43; 1914, 513.]

Chap. 48 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION OF PUBLIC WORKS IN

Commission

on public

works for the town of Marion established. Offices abolished.

1

Powers, etc.

THE TOWN OF MARION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The board of sewer commissioners, the water commissioners, the office of surveyor of highways, the road commissioners and the board of health in the town of Marion are hereby abolished and all the powers vested in said boards and surveyor, or any of them, shall be transferred to and vested in a commission to be known as the commission of public works. Said commission shall consist of three members, who shall be elected at the next annual meeting of the town after the acceptance of this act, as hereinafter provided, by the qualified voters of the town by ballot as follows: - One to hold office for one year, one for two years and one for three years, each successive election thereafter to be for the term of three years.

SECTION 2. Said commission shall have and exercise all the powers of every nature and be subject to the liabilities. and duties vested in and imposed upon the sewer commissioners, water commissioners, surveyor of highways, road commissioners and board of health of the town of Marion under any general or special laws now or hereafter in force,

or by contract or grant from any municipal corporation, person or private corporation, or by virtue of any order or by-law of the town.

subordinates,

etc.

SECTION 3. The commission shall have authority to May appoint appoint such superintendents and subordinate officers as it shall deem necessary, and to establish their terms of office. The commission shall, subject to alteration by the town, have authority to fix the compensation of said superintendents and subordinate officers, and shall also have authority to employ and discharge such laborers and other employees as, in its opinion, may be necessary to carry out the work devolving upon the commission.

pending

SECTION 4. This act shall not affect any pending suit, Not to affect or any existing contract or obligation, and all duties and litigation. obligations now payable or owing to the board of sewer commissioners or to the water commissioners shall be payable or owed to said commission of public works.

constitute a department.

SECTION 5. Said commission shall constitute a depart- Shall ment of the town of Marion within the meaning of the town orders and by-laws. The members of the commission shall receive such compensation for their services as the town shall determine.

submitted to

annual town

SECTION 6. This act shall be submitted to the voters of Act to be the town of Marion at the annual town meeting in the voters at the present year, or, if this act shall not be passed in season for meeting. the vote to be taken at said meeting, it shall be submitted to the voters of said town at a special town meeting called for the purpose; and, if accepted by a majority of the legal Time of taking voters present and voting thereon, it shall take effect as above provided.

Approved February 12, 1915.

[Accepted March 1, 1915.]

effect.

[1824, 133; 1906, 113; 1913, 129.]

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE FIRST RELIGIOUS Chap. 49

SOCIETY IN ROXBURY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

changed.

SECTION 1. The name of the First Religious Society in Name
Roxbury, incorporated by an act approved February twenty-
sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby changed
to First Church in Roxbury.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 15, 1915.

Chap. 50 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE POLICE COMMISSIONER OF THE

Police commissioner of Malden to pension Thomas F. Dunn.

To be submitted to the city council.

Chap. 51

Metropolitan park commission may

construct, etc., Black's creek.

a bridge over

CITY OF MALDEN TO PENSION THOMAS F. DUNN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The police commissioner of the city of Malden is hereby authorized to retire upon a pension of six hundred dollars a year Thomas F. Dunn, who has performed faithful service in the police department of said city for over fifteen years and who has now become physically unfit for useful service therein.

SECTION 2. This act shall be submitted to the city council of the city of Malden and shall take effect upon its acceptance by a majority vote of the members present and voting in each branch, and upon approval by the mayor. Approved February 15, 1915.

[Accepted April 20, 1915.]

[1912, 699.]

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE METROPOLITAN PARK COMMIS-
SION TO CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN A BRIDGE OVER BLACK'S
CREEK IN QUINCY FOR THE EXTENSION OF FURNACE BROOK
PARKWAY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The metropolitan park commission is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a bridge without a draw over Black's creek, so-called, in the city of Quincy, as a part of Furnace Brook parkway, and to provide for the construction and maintenance of said parkway from Quincy Shore reservation to Hancock street in said city, as authorized by chapter six hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 15, 1915.

Chap. 52 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SALARIES AND

Appropriations, civil service commission.

EXPENSES OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the civil service commission, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to wit:

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