AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FIRST UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY Chap.346 OF MIDDLETON. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: versalist So ton may sell, SECTION 1. The First Universalist Society of Middle- The First Uniton is hereby authorized to sell and convey its real estate ciety of Middlesituated on Boston street in Middleton, and to deposit the etc., certain net proceeds of the sale, in the name of the said society, real estate. in a savings bank located in the county of Essex. The said proceeds shall be used for religious purposes only. officers con SECTION 2. The officers elected by said society at a Election of meeting held on the seventeenth day of October, nineteen firmed, etc. hundred and seven, are hereby confirmed as the duly elected officers of the society, and they may by vote designate some person or persons to sign in the name of the society all deeds or other instruments necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REMOVING OR PLACING UNDER GROUND CERTAIN WIRES AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.347 etc., to be SECTION 1. In the month of January in the year nine- Certain wires, teen hundred and ten, and in the month of January in placed undereach year thereafter to and including the year nineteen ground, etc. hundred and nineteen, the commissioner of wires in the city of Boston shall prescribe, and give public notice. thereof as required in section two of chapter four hundred and fifty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, not more than two miles of streets, avenues or highways or parts thereof in said city outside of the sections of the city already prescribed under the authority of said chapter four hundred and fifty-four, and of chapter two hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, within which parts of streets, avenues or highways all wires, cables and conductors, except feed and return wires of street railways placed or carried in or upon subways, tunnels or elevated structures, and except such other wires as are also excepted Location of new poles, etc. Rules and regulations. Purpose of act. in said chapter four hundred and fifty-four, shall, during that calendar year be removed or placed underground, and said commissioner of wires shall cause the owners or users of such wires, cables and conductors to remove or place them underground, and also to remove any poles or structures in such prescribed parts of said streets, avenues or highways used to support such wires, cables or conductors, except posts used exclusively for the support of fire alarm and police signal boxes, and such poles or posts as are also excepted in said chapter four hundred and fifty-four, and except when in the judgment of said commissioner it is impracticable or inexpedient to remove such wires, cables, conductors, poles or structures. SECTION 2. Wherever compliance with the order or grant of the said commissioner under authority of this act or of prior acts has deprived or shall deprive the owners or users of wires, cables, conductors, poles or structures of necessary facilities for the distribution of their service from said prescribed streets to users in the vicinity of such streets, it shall be the duty of said commissioner, and he shall have the exclusive authority to give to the company owning or using such wires a writing specifying where such poles may be located in such streets in the vicinity of said prescribed streets as may in his judgment be necessary for the distribution of said service. Such writing shall also specify the kind of poles, the height at which and the places where the wires may be run, and shall be given only after a hearing before the commissioner in the same manner and after similar notice to abutters as are prescribed in chapter two hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and three. SECTION 3. The commissioner of wires is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations relating to the installation of overhead and underground wires, cables, conductors and appliances as may be reasonably necessary for the purposes of safety. SECTION 4. It is the purpose of this act to cause the removal of certain wires, cables, conductors and poles or structures from twenty miles of streets in addition to the streets prescribed under authority of said chapters, and all the terms, conditions, provisions, requirements, powers, restrictions and exemptions of the said acts not inconsistent herewith are hereby extended to and made a part of this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CLERK OF THE SECOND DIS TRICT COURT OF EASTERN MIDDLESEX TO EMPLOY TEM- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.348 amended. ance to clerk, SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and ninety-five of the 1906, 195, § 1, acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the following:-Section 1. The clerk of the sec- Clerical assistond district court of eastern Middlesex may annually ex- second district pend a sum not exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars court of for clerical assistance in his office, which shall be paid by Middlesex. the county treasurer upon a bill approved by the court. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 3, 1908. eastern AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF THE COUNTY Chap.349 OF HAMPDEN TO EMPLOY CLERICAL ASSISTANCE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: ance to treas SECTION 1. The treasurer of the county of Hampden Clerical assistshall annually be allowed from the treasury of the county urer, county for clerical assistance such sum, not exceeding six hun- of Hampden. dred dollars, as may be approved by the county commis sioners of said county. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE ΤΟ THE CARRYING WEAPONS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: OF CONCEALED Chap.350 amended. SECTION 1. Section two of chapter one hundred and 1906, 172, § 2, seventy-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby amended by striking out the word "ten ", in the seventh line, and inserting in place thereof the word: - twenty-five, so as to read as follows: Whoever, except as provided by the laws of this common- cealed weapon Section 2. Penalty for carrying con without permission. Weapon, etc., to be confiscated. wealth, carries on his person a loaded pistol or revolver, without authority or permission as provided in section one of this act, or whoever carries any stiletto, dagger, dirkknife, slung-shot or metallic knuckles, shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 2. Whenever any person is convicted of carrying a pistol, revolver or other weapon or article contrary to the provisions of section two of said chapter one hundred and seventy-two, the weapon or article so carried by him shall be confiscated to the use of the commonwealth. Approved April 3, 1908. Chap.351 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE COPYIST OF Salary of copyist, second district court of Bristol. THE SECOND DISTRICT COURT OF BRISTOL. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The annual salary of the copyist of the second district court of Bristol shall be eight hundred dollars, to be so allowed from the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and eight. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.352 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL CLERICAL ASSISTANCE Clerical assistance, treasurer of Worcester county. FOR THE TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The treasurer of the county of Worcester shall annually be allowed for clerical assistance such sum, not exceeding one thousand dollars, as may be approved by the county commissioners of said county. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 3, 1908. Chap.353 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE COMPENSATION OF TRAVERSE Traverse jurors, compensation, etc. JURORS EMPANELLED TO TRY CASES OF MURDER IN THE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Traverse jurors empanelled to try cases of murder in the first degree shall receive as compensation five dollars for each day's service, and eight cents a mile for travel from and to their homes at the beginning and end of the trial, and the amount of the expenses necessarily incurred by them for transportation by railroad or stage from their homes to the court and return, in excess of the said allowance for travel. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 3, 1908. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE POSTS OF THE GRAND ARMY OF Chap.354 THE REPUBLIC TO PARADE WITH MUSIC ON MEMORIAL SUNDAY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: G. A. R. may music on me SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any post of the Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic to parade with music on the parade with day designated by the national encampment of the grand morial Sunday. army as memorial Sunday next preceding memorial day, for the special purpose of attending divine service on that day: provided, however, that the music shall be suspended in passing within two hundred feet of any place of public worship in which services are being held. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Proviso. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR INCREASED ACCOMMODATION FOR Chap.355 THE POLICE COURT OF LYNN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: commodation court of SECTION 1. For the purpose of purchasing land and Additional acconstructing thereon an annex to its police station build- for the police ing for the accommodation of the police court of Lynn Lynn, etc. and of such other courts as may at any time sit there, the city of Lynn may incur indebtedness to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars beyond the limit of indebtedness fixed by law, and may from time to time issue bonds, notes or scrip therefor, payable at periods not exceeding twenty years from the dates of issue, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum. SECTION 2. Upon the completion of the said structure, Rental. the county commissioners of the county of Essex shall cause the police court of Lynn to occupy the premises, and shall pay to the city of Lynn as an annual rental therefor |
