divisional and institutional head immediately following the of foregoing secpassage of this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 8, 1926. tion, etc. AN ACT AUTHORIZING A REFERENDUM IN THE TOWN OF Chap. 80 WAKEFIELD ON THE QUESTION OF PURCHASING GAS FOR ITS INHABITANTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: town of Wake SECTION 1. If the town of Wakefield so votes at any Referendum in annual or special town meeting, there shall be taken at an field on quesadjournment of such meeting a vote, by precinct voting, ing gas for its intion of purchason the following question which shall be printed on the habitants. official ballot to be used at said adjournment: 'Shall the municipal light board of the town of Wakefield be authorized to contract on behalf of the town for the purchase of gas for the use of its inhabitants?" Any con- Approval of tract made in pursuance of authority so granted shall be subject to the approval of the department of public utilities. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 8, 1926. contract, etc. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON TO REVOKE Chap. 81 ITS ACCEPTANCE OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF LAW APPLI- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Arlington may certain pro applicable to towns. SECTION 1. There may be submitted at any town Town of meeting in the town of Arlington, called for the purpose, revoke its the question of the revocation of its acceptance of chapter acceptance of six hundred and thirty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred visions of law and twelve, being an act relative to tenement houses in tenement towns, and if a majority of the town meeting members of houses in said town voting thereon vote in favor of such revocation, then the provisions of chapter one hundred and forty-five of the General Laws shall not apply in said town, notwithstanding the fact that the warrant for such town meeting may have been served before the passage of this act. Noth- Acceptance ing herein contained shall prevent said town from again revocation. accepting the provisions of said chapter one hundred and forty-five after the revocation of its acceptance thereof. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 8, 1926. again after AN ACT PROVIDING FOR COMMISSIONERS OF TRUST FUNDS Chap. 82 IN THE TOWN OF READING. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The selectmen of the town of Reading may Commissioners appoint three persons who, together with the town treasurer in town of of trust funds Reading, appointment, powers, etc. Certain lawa to apply. Terms of office. Chairman. Submission to voters, etc. and the chairman of the board of selectmen ex officiis, shall act as commissioners of trust funds in said town and shall have the management of all trust funds given or bequeathed for the benefit of the town or its inhabitants, unless the donor in making the gift or bequest shall otherwise provide. Sections forty-six and forty-seven of chapter fortyone of the General Laws shall apply to said commissioners and to the funds and securities of such trust funds and to the custody thereof, except that the commissioners shall exercise full control as to the investment and reinvestment of said funds and securities. SECTION 2. The initial three appointees as said commissioners shall serve for two, four and six years, respectively, from the date of the annual meeting of said town next following their appointment, as the selectmen shall designate, and until their successors have qualified. As the term of each appointed commissioner expires, his successor shall be chosen for a term of six years and until his successor has qualified. The selectmen, whenever an appointment is made, may designate the chairman of said commissioners, and shall have authority to fill all vacancies. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by vote of a majority of the registered voters of said town present and voting at an annual or special town meeting. Approved March 8, 1926. Chap. 83 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WOBURN TO BORROW City of for sewerage MONEY FOR SEWERAGE PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of sewer construction, the borrow money city of Woburn 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, three hundred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes Woburn Sewer therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Woburn Loan, Act of 1926. Sewer Loan, Act of 1926. Each authorized issue shall SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF ORANGE TO BORROW Chap. 84 MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Orange may purposes. Loan, Act SECTION 1. For the purpose of constructing a new high Town of school building or additions to school buildings where such borrow money additions increase the floor space, and for the purpose of for school originally equipping and furnishing said building or additions, the town of Orange 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, forty thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Orange Orange School School Loan, Act of 1926. Each authorized issue shall con- of 1926. stitute 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 thirtyeight of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 9, 1926. AN ACT RELATIVE TO ANNUAL PAYMENTS TO THE CITY OF HOLYOKE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap. 85 water com SECTION 1. The board of water commissioners of the Annual paycity of Holyoke is hereby authorized and directed to pay ments to city over to the treasurer of said city in each year, on or before its board of November first, an amount equal to ten per cent of the total missioners. revenue received by said board from water charges and water rents during the preceding financial year of said board, which amount shall be paid in lieu of taxes and other sums required to be paid by said board to said city by any prior acts. etc., repealed. SECTION 2. Section two of chapter three hundred and 1901, 319, § 2, nineteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and one, as amended by section five of chapter three hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 9, 1926. Chap. 86 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF EVERETT TO BORROW City of borrow money Loan, Act of 1926. MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of constructing an addition to the present junior high school building, including the cost of original equipment and furnishings for such addition where it increases the floor space of such building or for the reconstruction and remodelling of said junior high school building, the city of Everett may from time to time, within five years from the passage of this act, borrow such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, one hundred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, Everett School which shall bear on their face the words, Everett School Loan, Act of 1926. 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, 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. Chap. 87 AN ACT REPEALING THE ACT INCORPORATING THE PASQUE 1867, 200, repealed. When part of act to take effect. ISLAND CORPORATION AND REGULATING THE TAKING OF FISH Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter two hundred of the acts of eighteen. hundred and sixty-seven is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. So much of this act as repeals section two of said chapter two hundred shall take effect upon its pasApproved March 9, 1926. sage. Chap. 88 AN ACT EXTENDING THE CLOSE SEASON ON HARES AND G. L. 131, § 46, etc., amended. RABBITS IN DUKES COUNTY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section forty-six of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twentyone, by section two of chapter one hundred and seventeen and by chapter one hundred and sixty, both of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and by chapter one hundred and seventy-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and on hares twenty-five, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "Nantucket" in the third and fourth lines the words: or Dukes, and by inserting after the word "inclusive" in the eighth line the words:-, or, in Dukes county, except between November fifteenth and February fifteenth, both dates inclusive, so as to read as follows: Section 46. No person, except as provided in sections forty- Close season six A, forty-nine, fifty-three and eighty-two to eighty-eight, and rabbits. inclusive, shall, in any county other than Nantucket or Dukes county, hunt, take, kill or have in possession a hare or rabbit except between October twentieth and February fifteenth, both dates inclusive, or, in Nantucket county, In Nantucket except between October twentieth and the last day of Feb- county. ruary, both dates inclusive, or, in Dukes county, except In Dukes between November fifteenth and February fifteenth, both county. dates inclusive, or during the open season take or kill more Restrictions as than two northern varying, hares, otherwise known as during open to taking, etc.. Canada hares, snow-shoe rabbits or white rabbits, or more season, etc. than five rabbits in any one day, or have in possession more than two of the said hares or five rabbits taken or killed in any one day; nor shall any person at any time buy, sell, offer for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale a hare or rabbit taken or killed in this commonwealth, but during the open season in this commonwealth hares or rabbits lawfully taken without the commonwealth may be sold; provided, that the sale thereof is lawful in the state Proviso. or country in which they were taken. This section shall not Not applicable apply to European hares in the county of Berkshire which hares in Berkmay be taken or killed at any time. Approved March 9, 1926. to European shire county. AN ACT RELATIVE TO RECOVERY OF COSTS OF PREMIUMS Chap. 89 FOR BONDS TO DISSOLVE ATTACHMENTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section one hundred and twenty-two of chapter two G. L. 223, § 122, hundred and twenty-three of the General Laws is hereby amended. amended by adding at the end thereof the following: and the premium or premiums paid for the bond dissolving such attachment, if it be a surety company bond, so as dissolution of to read as follows: - Section 122. If the attachment is Defendant's dissolved and the defendant prevails, his costs shall include costs upon the fees of the magistrate and the premium or premiums attachments. paid for the bond dissolving such attachment, if it be a surety company bond. Approved March 9, 1926. AN ACT RELATIVE TO NOTICE IN CERTAIN LAND COURT PRO Chap. 90 CEEDINGS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section ninety-seven of chapter one hundred G. L. 185, § 97, and eighty-five of the General Laws is hereby amended by amended. |