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tenement and

in Lawrence

and New Bed

ford regulated.

so as to read as follows: Section 1. The board of Occupation of health in the city of Lawrence, and in the city of New Bed- lodging houses ford, may by a vote limit the number of occupants in any tenement or lodging house, or in any part or parts of the same, and shall in such case cause a notice stating such number to be posted conspicuously in such building and served upon the owner, agent or person having charge thereof. If the number is exceeded, the board may order the premises vacated, and they shall not again be occupied until said board shall so permit, upon being satisfied that the vote will be complied with. Said board may make such further regulations as to overcrowding, ventilation and occupation of such houses and the cellars thereof, not inconsistent with other laws, as it may deem proper.

amended.

SECTION 2. Section two of said chapter two hundred and 1913, 212, § 2, twelve is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Lawrence", in the second and third lines, the words: or in the city of New Bedford,

so as to read as follows:

posted.

Section 2. Every owner or agent, or person having charge, Name of owner, of a tenement or lodging house in the city of Lawrence, or in etc., to be the city of New Bedford, shall leave his address with the board of health, and shall have legibly posted on the wall or in the entry of such tenement or lodging house the name and address of such owner and of the agent or person having charge of the same; and service upon parties whose address Service, etc. is out of the city, of any papers or notices required by this act, or any act relating to the preservation of health, or by any proceedings to enforce any provision of any such act, shall be sufficient if made by sending a copy of such paper or notice through the mail to the address of the person so designated as owner, agent, or person having charge of such tenement or lodging house; and service on parties whose address is in the city may be made by leaving the copy at such address.

amended.

to have free

SECTION 3. Section three of said chapter two hundred 1913, 212, § 3, and twelve is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Lawrence", in the second line, the words: or in the city of New Bedford, so as to read as follows:- Section 3. Certain officers Every officer of the board of health in the city of Lawrence, or in the city of New Bedford, and every officer upon whom any duty or authority is imposed or conferred, may have free access to every part of any lodging or tenement house, in the proper execution of the duties of his office.

Approved March 29, 1915.

access, etc.

[1912, 725.]

Chap.235 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR COMPLETING THE RAIL

Time extended.

Location declared valid, etc.

May use certain land of commonwealth.

ROAD OF THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD CORPORA-
TION AND TO CONFIRM AND MODIFY ITS LOCATIONS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The time within which the Southern New England Railroad Corporation may complete and open its railroad for use is hereby extended to the third day of August, in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen.

SECTION 2. The location of the railroad of the Southern New England Railroad Corporation, filed with the commissioners of the county of Hampden on the twelfth day of June in the year nineteen hundred and twelve, and with the commissioners of the county of Worcester on the thirteenth day of June in the same year, is hereby declared to be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if the same had been filed with the commissioners of each of said counties before chapter seven hundred and twenty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve took effect.

SECTION 3. The Southern New England Railroad Corporation, with the consent of the trustees of the Monson state hospital, and upon such terms as the governor and council may approve, may construct and maintain its railroad upon and over a parcel of land forty feet in width, owned by the commonwealth, situated in the town of Monson and used in connection with the Monson state hospital. Said parcel of land contains one and six one hundredths acres, more or less, and is bounded upon its northwesterly side by the thread of the Quaboag river, upon its southwesterly side by the northeasterly side line of the location of the New London Northern railroad, upon its southeasterly side by land of Josephine F. Baker, and upon its northeasterly side by other land of the commonwealth.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 29, 1915.

Chap.236 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SALARIES AND EX

Appropriations, gas and electric light commissioners.

PENSES OF THE BOARD OF GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COM-
MISSIONERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the Gas and Electric Light Com

missioners' Fund, except as otherwise provided herein, for the salaries and expenses of the gas and electric light commissioners, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to wit:

For the salaries of the commissioners, fourteen thousand Commissioners. dollars.

For clerical assistance, a sum not exceeding seventy-five Clerical hundred dollars.

assistance.

For the salary of the present gas inspector, twenty-eight Gas inspector. hundred dollars.

For the salary of the present first assistant inspector, First assistant eighteen hundred dollars.

inspector.

For the salary of a second assistant inspector, eighteen Second assisthundred dollars.

ant inspector.

books, etc.

For statistics, books, stationery, and for other necessary Statistics, expenses, a sum not exceeding forty-two hundred dollars. For compensation of deputies, travelling expenses, ap- Compensation paratus, office rent and other incidental expenses, a sum not exceeding ninety-five hundred dollars.

of deputies, etc.

For rent of offices, a sum not exceeding forty-six hundred Rent of offices. and seventy-seven dollars.

binding.

For printing and binding the annual report, a sum not Printing and exceeding twenty-nine hundred dollars.

For the inspection of electric meters, a sum not exceeding Inspection of one thousand dollars.

electric meters.

assistants.

For salaries and expenses of expert assistants, as authorized Expert by chapter six hundred and thirty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, a sum not exceeding sixtyfive hundred dollars.

smoke nuisance.

For expenses in connection with the abatement of the Abatement of smoke nuisance, a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars, the same to be assessed upon the cities and towns of the district named in section one of chapter six hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 29, 1915.

[1894, 351; 1911, 182.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE SALARY OF THE CLERK OF THE

BOARD OF POLICE FOR THE CITY OF FALL RIVER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.237

clerk of the

SECTION 1. The salary of the clerk of the board of Salary of the police for the city of Fall River shall be an amount not ex- Fall River

board of police ceeding fifteen hundred dollars a year, to be so allowed from the first day of January in the current year.

established.

Disposition of fees.

Repeal.

To be submitted to city council.

SECTION 2. All fees received by said clerk under the provisions of section ten of chapter one hundred of the Revised Laws and any other law now or hereafter in force shall be paid to said city.

SECTION 3. Section one of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven is hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city council of the city of Fall River.

Approved March 30, 1915.

[Accepted June 9, 1915.]

[1874, 74.]

Chap.238 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE

1874, 74, § 2, amended.

May hold additional estate, etc.

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE TO HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND
PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section two of chapter seventy-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four is hereby amended by striking out the words "one hundred", in the third line, and inserting in place thereof the words: - two hundred and fifty, and by striking out the words "of the value of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars", in the fourth and fifth lines, and inserting in place thereof the words: — in any amount, SO as to read as follows: Section 2. Said corporation may have and hold by purchase, grant, gift or otherwise, real estate not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in value, and personal estate in any amount. Approved March 30, 1915.

Chap.239 AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE

Massachusetts reformatory, maintenance.

OF THE MASSACHUSETTS REFORMATORY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. A sum not exceeding two hundred fifty-six thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the maintenance of the Massachusetts reformatory, for 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 30, 1915.

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE
OF THE PRISON CAMP AND HOSPITAL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.240

and hospital,

SECTION 1. A sum not exceeding sixty-one thousand seven Prison camp hundred and forty dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid maintenance. out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for salaries and expenses at the prison camp and hospital, for 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 30, 1915.

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE Chap.241

OF THE STATE INFIRMARY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

maintenance.

SECTION 1. A sum not exceeding four hundred ninety- State infirmary, three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the maintenance of the state infirmary, for 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 30, 1915.

[1913, 380.]

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE BAKER'S CORNER FIRE DISTRICT

IN THE TOWN OF SEEKONK.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

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Chap.242

amended.

Fire District in

SECTION 1. Section eight of chapter three hundred and 1913, 380, § 8, eighty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by striking out the word "two", in the sixteenth and nineteenth lines, and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the word:-four, so as to read as follows:- Section 8. The first meeting of Baker's Corner said district shall be called on petition of ten or more Seekonk, first legal voters therein, by a warrant from the selectmen of the town of Seekonk, or from a justice of the peace, directed to one of the petitioners, requiring him to give notice of the meeting by posting copies of the warrant in two or more public places in the district seven days at

meeting, etc.

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