Chap.156 AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MAINTAINING AND South metropolitan sewerage system, maintenance. OPERATING THE SOUTH METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE SYSTEM. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. A sum not exceeding one hundred seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of the South Metropolitan Sewerage System Maintenance Fund, for the cost of maintenance and operation of the south metropolitan sewerage system, comprising a part of Boston, the cities of Newton and Waltham, and towns of Brookline, Watertown, Dedham and Milton, 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 March 10, 1915. Chap.157 AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MAINTAINING AND North metropolitan sewerage system, maintenance. OPERATING THE NORTH METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE SYSTEM. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. A sum not exceeding one hundred eighty-five thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of the North Metropolitan Sewerage System Maintenance Fund, for the maintenance and operation of a system of sewage disposal for the cities included in what is known as the north metropolitan sewerage system, 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. Chap.158 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS Massachusetts Maintenance and current expenses. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 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 Massachusetts Agricultural College, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to wit: For the maintenance and current expenses, payable in equal quarterly instalments, the sum of three hundred and three thousand dollars. For travelling and other necessary expenses of the trustees, Travelling a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars. expenses, etc. For printing and binding the reports of the trustees, a sum Printing not exceeding three thousand dollars. and binding reports. For the inspection of commercial feed stuffs, six thousand Inspection of dollars. commercial feed stuffs. prosecutions. To meet the cost of prosecutions in regulating the use of Cost of utensils for testing the composition or value of milk and cream, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MAINTAINING AND Chap.159 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: water system, SECTION 1. A sum not exceeding four hundred sixty Metropolitan thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars is hereby appro- maintenance. priated, to be paid out of the Metropolitan Water Maintenance Fund, for the maintenance and operation of the metropolitan water system for the cities and towns in what is known as the metropolitan water district, 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. [1892, 324; 1899, 327; 1903, 345; 1904, 141; 1906, 156, 252; 1910, 315; 1914, 516.] AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE LAYING OUT, REPAIRING AND DISCONTINUING OF WAYS IN THE CITY OF MEDFORD. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap. 160 etc., of ways SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and forty-five of the 1903, 345, acts of the year nineteen hundred and three is hereby amended amended. by striking out section twenty-one and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 21. The board of aldermen, Laying out, with the approval of the mayor, shall have authority to in the city. order the laying out, altering, relocating, discontinuing and of Medford. making specific repairs in all streets, ways and highways in the said city, and to assess all damages therefor. Any person aggrieved by any proceeding under this section shall have all the rights and privileges now allowed by law in like cases in respect to appeals from the decisions of selectmen, and nothing in this section shall be construed to exclude the SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 161 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO PAY A SUM City of Boston may pay a sum of money to Annie B. Connor. To be submitted to city council, etc. OF MONEY TO THE WIDOW OF DANIEL CONNOR. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to pay a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars, to Annie B. Connor, widow of Daniel Connor. The said Daniel Connor, while in the discharge of his duties as a veterinary nurse in the employ of the city, received injuries which resulted in his death. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city council of the city, with the approval of the Approved March 10, 1915. mayor. Chap. 162 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF PAXTON TO APPRO Town of Paxton may appropriate money for celebrating anniversary, etc. PRIATE MONEY FOR CELEBRATING ITS ONE HUNDRED AND Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of celebrating its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and for publishing an account thereof, the town of Paxton may appropriate a sum of money not exceeding five hundred dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1913, 658.] Chap. 163 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR ESTABLISHING THE 1913, 658, § 6, amended. BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF BARN- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter six hundred and fifty-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by striking out section six and inserting in place Barnstable Fire thereof the following: Section 6. This act shall take effect for establishing upon its acceptance by a majority vote of the legal voters of said district present and voting at a meeting called for district, time extended. that purpose in accordance with the provisions of section SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (The foregoing was laid before the governor on the fourth day of March, 1915, 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.) [1878, 124; 1881, 37; 1882, 187; 1884, 17; 1886, 115, 118; 1890, 40; 1892, 64; 1894, 42; 1897, 101; 1899, 356; 1901, 207; 1902, 194, 461; 1904, 197; 1906, 80; 1907, 568; 1908, 131, 588; 1909, 76; 1910, 138; 1911, 40, 41; 1913, 171.] AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BROCKTON TO MAKE AN ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap. 164 SECTION 1. The city of Brockton, for the purposes Brockton named in chapter one hundred and twenty-four of the acts Act of 1915. of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, may issue, from time to time, bonds or notes to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized by law to be issued by said city for water works purposes; and the same shall not be reckoned in determining the statutory limit of indebtedness of the said city. Such bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words, Brockton Water Loan, Act of 1915; shall be payable at the expiration of periods not exceeding thirty years from their dates of issue, shall bear interest, payable semi-annually at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum; and shall be signed by the treasurer of the city and countersigned by the mayor. The city may sell the said securities at public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper, but they shall not be sold for less than their par value, and no part of the proceeds shall be used in payment of running expenses. of loan. SECTION 2. The city shall, at the time of authorizing said Payment loan, provide for the payment thereof in such annual payments, beginning not more than one year after the date of each respective issue of bonds or notes as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed by this act, and the amount of any annual payment shall not be less than the amount of Payment of loan. the principal payable in any subsequent year. And when a vote to the foregoing effect has been passed a sum which, with the income derived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual expense of operating its water works and the interest as it accrues on the bonds or notes issued as aforesaid by said city, and to make such payments on the principal as may be required under the provisions of this act, shall, without further vote, be assessed by the assessors of the city annually thereafter, in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until the debt incurred by said loan is extinguished. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 165 AN ACT TO CONFIRM THE LOCATIONS GRANTED BY THE TOWN Locations granted by the Attleborough for lines or wires, etc., confirmed. OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH FOR LINES OR WIRES FOR THE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. All lines or wires for the transmission of town of North electricity for lighting, heat or power heretofore acquired or constructed by the town of North Attleborough upon, along, over and under the public ways and places of said town, and the poles, piers, abutments, conduits and other fixtures necessary to sustain or protect the wires of said lines and now in actual use, are hereby made lawful notwithstanding the lack of any valid locations therefor or any informality in the proceedings relative to their location and erection. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 11, 1915. Chap. 166 The Sturgis Library, incorporated. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE STURGIS LIBRARY. SECTION 1. Anne M. Lothrop, William Sturgis Bigelow and Amy Lothrop Coolidge, trustees under an indenture of trust of William Sturgis, and holding property, real and personal, under such said indenture for the purpose of maintaining a free public library in the town of Barnstable, and their successors in said trust, are hereby made a corporation under the name of The Sturgis Library, with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws now or hereafter in force applicable to such corporations. |