Loss of legal settlement. eleven is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: But the settlement existing on August twelfth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, of soldiers and their dependents eligible to receive military aid and soldiers' relief under existing laws shall continue in force while said soldiers or dependents are actually residing in the commonwealth until a new settlement is gained in another city or town in the manner heretofore prescribed; and any settlement of such soldier or dependent heretofore lost under the provisions of this section is hereby revived, so as to read as follows: Section 4. A person who, after the passage of this act, is absent for five consecutive years from the city or town in which he had a settlement shall thereby lose his settlement. But the time during which a person shall have been an inmate of any public hospital, public sanatorium, almshouse, jail, prison, or other public institution, within the commonwealth, or of a soldiers' or sailors' home whether within or without the commonwealth, shall not be counted in computing the time either for acquiring or for losing a settlement, except as provided in section two. But the soldier certain settlement existing on August twelfth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, of soldiers and their dependents eligible to receive military aid and soldiers' relief under existing laws shall continue in force while said soldiers or dependents are actually residing in the commonwealth until a new settlement is gained in another city or town in the manner heretofore prescribed; and any settlement of such soldier or dependent heretofore lost under the provisions of this section is hereby revived. Legal settlement of their depend ents revived. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. NOTE. The general court of 1916 was convened in extra session by proclamation of the governor with advice of council, on Tuesday, the twelfth day of September, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon and passed eight General Acts, one Special Act and three Resolves. The general court was prorogued on Thursday, the fourteenth day of September, at 7.32 o'clock P.M., the extra session having occupied three days. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, BOSTON, September 15, 1916. I certify the printed General Acts passed at the extra session of the present year to be true copies of the originals on file in this office. ALBERT P. LANGTRY, Secretary of the Commonwealth. |