AND RESOLVES PASSED BY THE General Court of Massachusetts, IN THE YEAR 1918. PUBLISHED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 32 DERNE STREET. 1918. SPECIAL ACTS. AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PAY FOR SOLDIERS Chap. 1 AND SAILORS FROM THIS COMMONWEALTH IN THE VOLUN TEER SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: soldiers' and SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and fifty thousand Appropriation, dollars is hereby appropriated to be paid out of the treasury sailors' pay in of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue for the present war. pay of soldiers and sailors as provided in section one of chapter two hundred and eleven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated or raised for this purpose. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF WELLESLEY TO PAY Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap. 2 ing of residents SECTION 1. The town of Wellesley is hereby authorized Town of Wellesley may to expend a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars for pay for insurthe payment of premiums and charges on life and other in war service. kinds of insurance taken by residents of said town in the military and naval service of the United States under the provisions of federal law. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF WHITMAN TO REFUND Chap. 3 CERTAIN INDEBTEDNESS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Whitman may SECTION 1. The town of Whitman, for the purpose of Town of refunding twenty-five thousand dollars of indebtedness repre- refund certain indebtedness. |