Chap.276 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TAKING OF LAND IN THE CITY When land, etc.. is taken for municipal purposes, the title to pass to the city. Proviso. Damages. OF WORCESTER FOR MUNICIPAL PURPOSES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. When land, or an easement therein, is taken by the city of Worcester for municipal purposes as authorized by law, the title or interest in the same shall pass to the city on the date or dates when the plan or plans of the same, signed by the mayor or city engineer, are filed in the Worcester district registry of deeds for the county of Worcester: provided, that the title shall not pass unless the said plan or plans are filed within two years after the date on which the decree of taking is approved by the mayor. SECTION 2. Compensation for damages for land so taken shall be determined upon petition in the manner provided by law, but interest upon such compensation shall be payable from the date of the filing of the plan or plans of such taking, as above provided. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.277 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF PITTSFIELD TO RE Permanent Improvement Loan, Act of 1908. FUND CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS INDEBTEDNESS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of refunding an outstanding note amounting to fifteen thousand dollars, which was issued by the city of Pittsfield on account of debts incurred in building the ward two engine house, and for the purpose of refunding other outstanding notes which were issued by said city on account of debts incurred in paving Cottage row, constructing the Mill street bridge, constructing the Hancock road bridge, in purchasing the Merriam farm land, Nickerson and Dunham land and the Methodist church park land, amounting in the aggregate to fiftyseven thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars, said city is hereby authorized to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding seventy-two thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. Such bonds shall bear on the face thereof the words, Permanent Improvement Loan, Act of 1908; fiftyseven thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars thereof shall be payable at the expiration of periods not exceeding ten years from their date of issue and fifteen thousand dollars thereof shall be payable at the expiration of periods not exceeding twenty years from their date of issue; shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually; and shall be signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the mayor of the city. Said city may sell such bonds at not less than par at public or private sale, or may use the same for the payment of the above named notes and indebtedness. loans. SECTION 2. The city may authorize temporary loans Temporary to be made by its mayor and treasurer in anticipation of the bonds hereby authorized. loan. SECTION 3. Said city instead of establishing a sinking Payment of fund shall by its city council vote to provide that the said bonds shall be payable in such annual amounts as will in the aggregate extinguish the same within the time prescribed in this act. The amount required for such annual payments and for interest on said bonds shall without further vote be assessed under the provisions of section thirtyseven of chapter twelve of the Revised Laws, until said debt is extinguished. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE STREET RAILWAY COMPANIES TO Chap.278 TRANSPORT MILK AND CREAM. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. All street railway companies within the commonwealth are hereby authorized to transport milk and cream over and upon their respective lines of railway and from and to any point thereon, subject only to the supervision of and to such regulations as may be imposed by the board of railroad commissioners, any restrictions upon the right of said companies to transport milk and cream heretofore imposed under any existing laws or charters to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT, MAINTE- Street railway transport milk companies to and cream. Chap.279 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter forty-seven of the Revised Laws R. L. 47, § 17, is hereby amended by striking out section seventeen and amended. in certain towns. Repair of ways inserting in place thereof the following: - Section 17. The commission shall allot for and expend in such towns the valuation of which does not exceed one million dollars, and in such amounts, as it determines, five per cent of the amount appropriated each year for the construction of state highways, to be used in constructing and repairing ways in such towns; and it shall not be a condition precedent that such towns shall make any appropriation or contribution in excess of the usual annual appropriations for highway purposes to become eligible for an expenditure under this section. Said commission may also allot for and expend in such towns for like purposes, in addition to any expenditures herein before provided for, a further amount of five per cent of said amount appropriated, if such towns appropriate or contribute, to be expended under the provisions of this section, an amount equal to the amount allotted by the commission. Said commission may also allot and expend a further amount of not more than five per cent of said amount appropriated each year for the construction of state highways in towns the valuation of which exceeds one million dollars, in such amounts as it determines, if such towns appropriate or contribute, to be expended under the provisions of this section, an amount, in addition to the average annual appropriations for repairs of highways in such towns for the preceding five years, exclusive of appropriations or contributions. under this section, equal to the amount allotted by said. commission. No town the valuation of which is less than one million dollars, and which makes no appropriation or contribution under the provisions of this section, shall receive in any one year more than forty per cent of its average annual appropriations for highway purposes for the preceding five years: provided, however, that said commission may allot in any year a sum not exceeding four hundred dollars to any such town, the said average annual appropriation of which does not exceed one thousand dollars. Such allotments and expenditures shall be made only upon the petition of the selectmen of the towns and the provisions of section twelve shall apply thereto, but a way constructed or repaired under the provisions of this section shall not thereby become a state highway. After a highway has been improved by said commission under the provisions of this section it may from time to time expend Proviso. such sums as it may deem necessary for the maintenance SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FRAUDULENT USE OF NAMES, Chap.280 TITLES OR COMMON DESIGNATIONS OF FRATERNITIES, SOCIETIES AND UNIONS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: fraudulent use SECTION 1. Whoever, wilfully, by color or aid of any Penalty for false token or writing, or other false pretense or false of names, etc. statement, verbal or written, or without authority of the grand or supreme governing lodge, council, union or other governing body hereinafter mentioned, obtains the signature of any person to any written application, or obtains any money or property for any alleged or pretended degree, or for any alleged or pretended membership in any fraternity, association, society, order, organization or union having a grand or supreme governing lodge, council, union or other governing body in this commonwealth, or in any subordinate lodge or body thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. certain publi cation, etc. SECTION 2. Whoever, in a newspaper or other publica- Penalty for tion, or in any written or printed letter, notice, matter or device, without authority of the grand or supreme governing lodge, council, union or other governing body hereinafter mentioned, fraudulently uses or aids in any way in the use of the name, title or common designation of any fraternity, association, society, order, organization or union which has a grand or supreme governing lodge, council, union or other governing body, having priority in such use in this commonwealth, or any name, title or designation so nearly resembling the same as to be calculated or likely to deceive; and whoever, without such authority, fraudulently publishes, sells, circulates or distributes any written or printed letter, notice, matter or device, in any way solicit ing members for such fraternity, association, society, order, organization or union, or for any alleged or pretended fraternity, association, society, order, organization or union, using any such name, title, designation, or near resemblance thereto; and whoever therein or thereby in any way, without such authority, fraudulently offers to sell, confer, communicate or give information where, of whom or by what means any degree or work, in whole or in part, of such fraternity, association, society, order, organization or union, or of any alleged or pretended fraternity, association, society, order, organization or union using any such name, title or designation or near resemblance thereto, can or may be obtained, conferred or communicated, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved March 25, 1908. Chap.281 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF HOPEDALE TO CON The town of Hopedale may connect its main drains, etc., with the sewerage system of the town of Milford, etc. Proviso. Rental. NECT CERTAIN OF ITS MAIN DRAINS AND COMMON SEWERS Be it enacted, etc., as follows: The SECTION 1. The town of Hopedale may connect certain of its main drains and common sewers with the sewerage system of the town of Milford, and thereafter the town of Milford shall receive and dispose of the sewage entering its said system through such drains and common sewers: provided, that an agreement to this effect shall be made by the two towns, acting through the boards or officers having charge of the sewers in the said towns. agreement shall state the terms and conditions upon which the said connection is to be made, and shall be recorded by the town clerks in the records of their respective towns. The agreement shall provide for the payment by the town of Hopedale to the town of Milford of a stated sum at the time when the connection is made, and also for a yearly rental beginning with the year in which the connection is made. Such rental may be based upon the number of entrances made to said common drains and sewers. The agreement shall also state the terms, conditions and regulations in accordance with which such entrances may be made within the town of Hopedale. |
