date thereof as will extinguish each loan within five years from its date. The amount of such annual payment in any one year shall not be less than the amount of the principal of the loan payable in any subsequent year. The notes shall be signed by the county treasurer and countersigned by the county commissioners. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan. Assessments All sums necessary to meet interest payments on said notes and upon towns payments on account of principal as the same mature shall be stituting hosassessed upon the twenty-six towns and one city of said county constituting the hospital district, in accordance with section eighty-three of chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws. and city con pital district. mitted to SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance To be subby the county commissioners of the county of Plymouth; pro- Plymouth vided, that such acceptance occurs prior to December thirty- county comfirst in the current year. Approved March 14, 1924. AN ACT CHANGING THE AGE limit for APPLICANTS FOR REGIS TRATION AS DENTAL HYGIENISTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: missioners. Proviso. Chap. 103 as dental age limit for Section fifty-one of chapter one hundred and twelve of the G. L. 112, § 51, General Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the first amended. line, the word "twenty" and inserting in place thereof the word: -nineteen, so as to read as follows:- Section 51. Registration Any person of good moral character nineteen years old or over, hygienists, who is a graduate of a training school for dental hygienists re- applicants, etc. quiring a course of not less than one academic year and approved by the board, or who is a graduate of a training school for nurses and has received three months' clinical training in dental hygiene in any such training school for dental hygienists, may, upon the payment of ten dollars, be examined by the board in the subjects considered essential by it for a dental hygienist, and, if his examination is satisfactory, shall be registered as a dental hygienist and given a certificate allowing him to practice dental hygiene, which shall mean the cleaning of teeth under the direction of any registered dentist of the commonwealth, subject to such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the board. An applicant failing to pass a satisfactory examination shall be entitled to one re-examination at any meeting of the board, free of charge, but for each subsequent examination he shall pay ten dollars. Approved March 14, 1924. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE SHAD FISHERY Chap.104 IN PALMER RIVER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Between the first day of March in each year and the first day of July next succeeding, no person, either as principal or agent, shall catch or take any shad in Palmer river, or set, operate or superintend, therein, any device intended for the purpose of catching fish, except hook and line, after sunset on Saturday until sunrise on Wednesday in each week and no Protection of shad fishery in Palmer river. Penalties, etc. As affecting existing permanent dams. Authority of director of division of fisheries and game. Effective date, etc. person shall at any time erect or continue in said river any weir, dam, hanging net, or other obstruction so as to prevent the free passage of fish. SECTION 2. Every person who violates any provision of section one shall for the first offence be fined five dollars and for every subsequent offence shall be fined twenty-five dollars and, in addition to the penalties herein provided, shall forfeit all the apparatus used by him in violation of the provisions of this act. The possession of each and every fish taken in violation of the provisions of section one or the continuance for every twentyfour hours of any device erected or maintained contrary to the provisions thereof shall constitute a separate offence. SECTION 3. The foregoing provisions shall not be construed to mean that any existing permanent dam shall be removed if a suitable fishway for the passage of fish over such dam is maintained. SECTION 4. The director of the division of fisheries and game shall have concurrent authority with the boards of selectmen of the towns bordering on said river for the enforcement of this act. SECTION 5. This act shall be effective on and after March first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five for a period of five years from said date. Any provision of existing law inconsistent with this act shall be inoperative while this act is in effect. Approved March 14, 1924. Chap.105 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE REGISTRATION OF ALEXANDER R. Registration of Alexander R. Prudent as PRUDENT AS A CHIROPODIST. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: The board of registration in medicine is hereby authorized to register Alexander R. Prudent of Boston as a chiropodist, a chiropodist. without examination, upon satisfactory proof that he had been engaged in the practice of chiropody in this commonwealth for a period of more than five years prior to the passage of chapter two hundred and two of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, and without proof of further compliance with chapter one hundred and twelve of the General Laws; and thereupon he shall have and enjoy the same rights and privileges as if registered as a chiropodist as provided by said chapter one hundred and twelve. Approved March 14, 1924. Chap. 106 AN ACT RELATIVE TO VOTING BY WOMEN WHOSE NAMES HAVE G. L. 51, § 2, amended. Voting by women whose names have been changed. BEEN CHANGED BY MARRIAGE OR COURT DECREE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chapter fifty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section two and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 2. If the name of a female who is duly registered as a voter is changed by marriage or by decree of court, her right to vote in her former name shall continue until April first next following. Approved March 14, 1924. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE COLLECTION OF WATER RATES BY Chap. 107 WATER DISTRICTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section forty-two A of chapter forty of the General Laws, in- G. L. 40, § 42A, serted by chapter three hundred and ninety-one of the acts of etc., amended. nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "town" in the first and ninth lines, in each instance, the words: - or water district, and by inserting after the word "town" in the third and tenth lines, in each instance, the words: - or district, by striking out in the tenth line the word "or" and inserting in place thereof a comma and by adding at the end thereof the following: - The five following sections shall also apply to a water district which has accepted sections forty-two A to forty-two F, inclusive, and whose clerk has so filed the certificate of acceptance, and wherever in said sections the word "town" and the phrase "board or officer in charge of the water department" or "board or officer having control of the water department" appear, they shall also mean and include such water district and its water commissioners, respectively, so as to read as follows:- Section Unpaid water 42A. If the rates and charges due to a city or town or water upon real esdistrict which accepts this and the five following sections by tate, etc., in vote of its city council or of the voters in town or district meet- towns and ing for supplying water to any real estate at the request of the owner or tenant, including interest and costs thereon, as established by local regulations, ordinances or by-laws, are not paid within sixty days after their due date, the same shall be a lien upon such real estate in the manner hereinafter provided. This Certificate of and the five following sections shall not take effect in a city or statute, filing, town or water district accepting the same as aforesaid until the etc. city, town or district clerk files in the proper registry of deeds a certificate that said sections have been so accepted. Each register of deeds shall record such certificate in a book to be kept for the purpose, which shall be placed in an accessible location rates to be lien certain cities, water districts. acceptance of ply to certain in the registry. The five following sections shall also apply to Sections to apa water district which has accepted sections forty-two A to water districts, forty-two F, inclusive, and whose clerk has so filed the certificate etc. of acceptance, and wherever in said sections the word "town' and the phrase "board or officer in charge of the water department" or "board or officer having control of the water department" appear, they shall also mean and include such water district and its water commissioners, respectively. Approved March 14, 1924. AN ACT FOR THE ASSESSING AND RECOVERY OF CERTAIN COSTS Chap. 108 IN CIVIL ACTIONS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. SECTION 1. Chapter two hundred and sixty-one of the Gen- G. L. 261, § 23, eral Laws is hereby amended by striking out section twenty Costs in civil actions. Items of costs in supreme judicial court and superior court. G. L. 261,25, amended. Expenses of printing briefs. G. L. 261, § 26, amended. Items of costs in district courts. three and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 23. There shall be allowed, in a civil action in the supreme judicial court or in the superior court, in addition to other disbursements allowed by law, the following costs: For the entry fee, three dollars. For the declaration, fifty cents. For an attorney's fee, if an issue in law or fact is joined, two dollars and fifty cents; if not, one dollar and twenty-five cents. For a term fee, five dollars for each sitting while the action is pending, not exceeding three sittings, except by an order of the court. If an action or question of law therein is carried to the full court, two additional term fees may be allowed. If the defendant is defaulted without having appeared, only one term fee shall be allowed. For travel, such sum as the court may allow. If the defendant was arrested on mesne process, and the plaintiff shall recover more than twenty dollars, exclusive of costs, the plaintiff shall have taxed in his costs against the defendant the costs paid by the plaintiff upon and after the arrest and all lawful charges paid by him for the defendant's support in jail. If the defendant was arrested on mesne process and final judgment is rendered in his favor, he shall have taxed in his costs against the plaintiff all costs paid by the defendant on account of the arrest. SECTION 2. Said chapter two hundred and sixty-one is hereby further amended by striking out section twenty-five and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 25. The prevailing party shall be allowed such sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, for expenses actually incurred in printing the briefs which may be required for the argument of the case at the law sitting of the supreme judicial court, but the court in which the costs are taxed may allow a larger sum in its discretion. SECTION 3. Said chapter two hundred and sixty-one is hereby further amended by striking out section twenty-six and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 26. There shall be allowed, in a civil action in a district court, except actions by the trustee process, in addition to other disbursements allowed by law, the following costs: To the plaintiff or complainant, For a writ and declaration, petition or complaint, one dollar. For an attorney's fee, if there is an appearance for the defendant, two dollars and fifty cents; if not, one dollar and twenty-five cents. For a term fee, three dollars, if there is an appearance for the defendant; and if not, one dollar. For travel, such sum as the court may allow. For attendance, such sum as the court may allow. If the defendant was arrested on mesne process, and the plaintiff shall recover more than twenty dollars, exclusive of costs, the costs paid by him upon and after the arrest and lawful charges paid by him for the defendant's support in jail. To the defendant, For travel, such sum as the court may allow. For an attorney's fee, two dollars and fifty cents. If the defendant was arrested on mesne process and final judgment is rendered in his favor, he shall have taxed in his costs against the plaintiff all costs paid by the defendant on account of the arrest. SECTION 4. Said chapter two hundred and sixty-one is G. L. 261, § 27, hereby further amended by striking out section twenty-seven amended. and inserting in place thereof the following: - Section 27. There Items of costs shall be allowed, in an action by the trustee process in a district in actions by court, in addition to other disbursements allowed by law, the in district following costs: For a writ and declaration, one dollar. For an attorney's fee, one dollar and fifty cents. For a term fee, if there is an appearance, one dollar; and if not, seventy-five cents. For travel and attendance, such sum as the court may allow. To the defendant, For an attorney's fee, one dollar and fifty cents. For travel and attendance, such sum as the court may allow. For an attorney's fee, fifty cents. For an answer in writing, twenty-five cents. For travel and attendance, such sum as the court may allow. For an answer to interrogatories, such sum as the court may allow. trustee process courts. SECTION 5. Section twenty-eight of said chapter two hun- G. L. 261, § 28, dred and sixty-one is hereby repealed. repealed. section after curred for graphs and cer SECTION 6. Said chapter two hundred and sixty-one is G. L. 261, new hereby further amended by inserting after section twenty-five $25. the following new section: Section 25A. Unless the court Expenses inshall otherwise determine, the prevailing party shall be allowed plans, drawa sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for expenses actually ings, photoincurred for plans, drawings, photographs and certified copies of tified copies, public and court records, necessary and used at the trial. Except by order of court, no such allowance shall be made unless an affidavit by the prevailing party or his attorney of record is filed with the clerk before final judgment, setting out fully such expenditures, and that said plans, drawings, photographs and copies were actually used at the trial. Approved March 14, 1924. etc. |