The General Court, which was chosen November 4, 1924, assembled on Wednesday, the sixth day of January, 1926, for its second annual session. His Excellency ALVAN T. FULLER and His Honor FRANK G. ALLEN continued to serve as Governor and Lieutenant Governor, respectively, for the political year of 1926. ACTS. AN ACT VALIDATING THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN THE CITY Chap. 1 OF CHICOPEE IN THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. The city election of the city of Chicopee held City election in Chicopee on Tuesday, the first day of December, nineteen hundred in year 1925 and twenty-five and all acts and proceedings of said city and validated. of its boards and officers and all acts of any other persons, in so far as said election, acts or proceedings may be illegal or invalid by reason of the fact that said election was held on the first Tuesday of December instead of on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of December, are hereby made legal and valid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT PLACING THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS Chap. OF THE TOWN OF WATERTOWN UNDER THE CIVIL SERVICE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Watertown SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter thirty-one of the Inspector of General Laws, and the rules and regulations made there-buildings of under, shall hereafter apply to the inspector of buildings of placed under the town of Watertown. civil service laws. SECTION 2. This act shall be submitted for acceptance Submission to the voters of said town at its next annual town election to voters, etc. in the form of the following question which shall be placed upon the official ballot to be used for the election of town officers: "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled 'An Act placing the office of the inspector of buildings of the town of Watertown under the civil service laws', be accepted?" If a majority of the votes in answer to said question are in the affirmative then this act shall thereupon take full effect; but for the purpose of such submission it shall take Approved January 26, 1926. effect upon its passage. 2 Chap. 3 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF THE STATE G. L. 200, § 1, amended. State treasurer as party in proceedings to settle estates of absentees. TREASURER IN PROCEEDINGS TO SETTLE THE ESTATES OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section one of chapter two hundred of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: The state treasurer shall be made a party to every such petition and shall be given due notice of all subsequent proceedings under this chapter. Approved January 27, 1926. Chap. 4 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR Nominations of candidates for town offices to be filled at annual town meeting of Grafton to be held in 1926 validated. TOWN OFFICES TO BE FILLED AT THE ANNUAL TOWN MEET- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. All nominations of candidates for town offices to be filled at the annual town meeting of the town of Grafton in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six made by nomination papers which have been filed with and accepted by the town clerk of said town in conformity with section ten of chapter fifty-three of the General Laws, as amended by chapter three hundred and eighty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, if and in so far as such nominations may be invalid by reason of having been submitted to the registrars for the purpose of having the signatures thereon certified, in accordance with the provisions of section seven of said chapter fifty-three, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and fourteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, instead of in accordance with the provisions of said section, as finally amended by chapter one hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, are hereby made valid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 5 AN ACT TO REQUIRE FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES TO G. L. 175, § 23A. etc., amended. NOTIFY THE COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE OF ANY CHANGE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section twenty-three A of chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws, inserted by section two of chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, as amended by section two of chapter two hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of said year, is hereby further amended by striking out the last paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following: insurance missioner of name, location capital stock capital, etc. Every foreign company shall forthwith notify the commis- Foreign sioner in writing as aforesaid of any change of its corporate companies to name, of the location of its home or principal office or of notify comthe amount of its paid-up capital stock or guaranty or de- changes in posit capital, and of any amendments to its charter or name o articles of incorporation relative to the classes of business it amount of may transact and, in case of a foreign company described in or guaranty section one hundred and fifty-five, of any change of its or deposit resident manager in the United States, or of the trustees, if any, appointed under section one hundred and fifty-six, or of the location of his or their principal office. Every foreign Filing of company shall, within thirty days after the filing of any such certified notice, or within such further time as the commissioner may setting forth changes, etc. allow, file with him duly certified documents executed and authenticated in a manner satisfactory to the commissioner setting forth any such change or amendment, other than a change of the location of its office or that of its resident manager or trustees. Approved January 28, 1926. documents AN ACT CHANGING THE NAME OF THE NORMAL ART SCHOOL Chap. 6 TO MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF ART. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section one of chapter seventy-three of the General Laws G. L. 73, § 1, is hereby amended by striking out, in the fourth line, the amended. words "normal art school" and inserting in place thereof the words: Massachusetts school of art, so as to read as follows: Section 1. The department of education, in this State normal chapter called the department, shall have general manage- schools. ment of the state normal schools at Barnstable, Bridgewater, Fitchburg, Framingham, Lowell, North Adams, Salem, Westfield and Worcester, and the Massachusetts school of Name of norart at Boston, wherever said schools may be hereafter located, changed to and of any other state normal schools hereafter established, Massachusetts and of boarding houses connected therewith, and may direct the expenditure of money appropriated for their maintenance. Approved January 28, 1926. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF FITCHBURG TO BORROW Be it enacted, etc., as follows: mal art school school of art. Chap. 7 borrow money ing, etc., Burbank SECTION 1. For the purpose of constructing additions to City of Fitchthe Burbank hospital, a public hospital in the city of Fitchburg may burg, and originally equipping and furnishing the said addi- for constructtions, said city may borrow from time to time, within a additions to period of five years from the passage of this act, such sums hospital. as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, one hundred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, which shall bear on their face the words, Bur- Burbank bank Hospital Loan, Act of 1926. Each authorized issue Hospital Loan, Act of 1926. shall constitute a separate loan, and such loans shall be SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 8 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TENURE OF OFFICE OF THE city Tenure of office of city clerk and assistant city clerk of Everett. Proviso. Vacancies. Submission to city council, ctc. Proviso. CLERK AND ASSISTANT CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city clerk and the assistant city clerk of the city of Everett, and their successors in office, shall hold office continuously during good behavior unless incapacitated by physical or mental disability from performing the duties of their respective offices; provided, that the city council may, subject to the provisions of law governing the removal of civil service employees, remove any incumbent of either of said offices. Any vacancy in the office of city clerk or assistant city clerk in said city shall be filled by election by the city council voting by ballot. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by vote of the city council of said city, subject to the provisions of its charter; provided, that such acceptance occurs during the current year. Approved February 1, 1926. Chap. 9 AN ACT PLACING THE OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE Danvers fire department, office of chief engineer placed under civil service laws. To apply to chief of fire department in case, etc. FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE TOWN OF DANVERS AND, UNDER Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, and the rules and regulations made thereunder, shall hereafter apply to the office of the chief engineer of the fire department of the town of Danvers, but the present incumbent shall continue to hold office without examination or reappointment. SECTION 2. The words "chief engineer of the fire department of the town of Danvers" shall be deemed to include the chief of the fire department of said town in case sections forty-two to forty-four, inclusive, of chapter forty-eight of the General Laws become effective in said town by accept |