Payment of loan. an amount not exceeding eight per cent of the total cost of said structure and of any land used therefor. SECTION 3. In order to provide for the payment of the securities issued under authority hereof, the city shall provide a sinking fund in the manner specified in section twelve of chapter twenty-seven of the Revised Laws, or shall, at the time of making said loan, provide for the payment thereof in such annual payments as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed by this act; and thereafter, without further action by the city, the amount required for such payments shall annually be assessed by the assessors of the city in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until the debt is extinguished. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.356 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE APPORTIONMENT OF SEWER As R. L. 49, § 15, etc., amended. Apportionment of sewer assessments, etc. SESSMENTS AND THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST THEREON. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section fifteen of chapter forty-nine of the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby further amended by striking out the last sentence and inserting in place thereof the following: The first year the assessors shall add one of said parts to the annual tax on the land, with interest on the principal sum from the date of apportionment; and thereafter, so long as any of the said parts remains unpaid, they shall add each year one of the said parts to the annual tax, with interest on the unpaid balance of the principal sum from the date of the last annual assessment, so as to read as follows: Section 15. If in a city or town which accepts the provisions of this section or the corresponding provisions of any act hereafter passed, or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the owner of land therein, within thirty days after notice of a sewer assessment thereon, or of any charges made for entering or using any public sewer, notifies in writing the assessors to apportion the same, they shall apportion it into such number of equal parts, not exceeding ten, as the owner shall in said notice request. Said board may also in its discretion, at any time before proceedings for the enforcement of the collection, apportion said assessment into such number of equal parts, not exceeding ten, as the owner shall in said notice request. The first year the assessors shall add one of said parts to the annual tax on the land, with interest on the principal sum from the date of apportionment; and thereafter, so long as any of the said parts remains unpaid, they shall add each year one of the said parts to the annual tax, with interest on the unpaid balance of the principal sum from the date of the last annual assessment. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 3, 1908. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF PITTSFIELD TO INCUR Chap.357 ADDITIONAL INDEBTEDNESS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ITS WATER WORKS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Bonds, Act of SECTION 1. The city of Pittsfield, for the purposes City of Pittsmentioned in chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the field Water acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two and acts 1908. in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, and in chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven, may issue from time to time bonds, notes or scrip to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized by law to be issued by said city for water works purposes. Such bonds, notes or scrip shall bear on their face the words, City of Pittsfield Water Bonds, Act of 1908; shall be payable at the expiration of periods not exceeding thirty years from the date of issue; shall bear interest, payable semi-annually, at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum; and shall be signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the mayor of said city. Said city may sell such securities at public or private sale, or pledge the same for money borrowed for the purposes of this act, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper: provided, that such securities shall not be sold for Proviso. less than the par value thereof. Said city may authorize temporary loans to be made by its mayor and treasurer in anticipation of the bonds hereby authorized. loan. SECTION 2. Said city shall, at the time of authorizing Payment of said loan, provide for the payment thereof in such annual proportionate payments, beginning not more than five years. after the first issue of such bonds, notes or scrip, as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed by this SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.358 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE REPORTING OF THE DECISIONS R. L. 165, § 63, amended. Preparation of reports. OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section sixty-three of chapter one hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "court", in the first line, the words: unless excused therefrom by the chief justice, -and by striking out all after the word "reports ", in the eighth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: He shall furnish for publication not less than seventy decisions in each calendar month between the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eight, and the first day of November, nineteen hundred and eight, if there are sufficient unpublished decisions therefor, and thereafter not less than fifty decisions in each calendar month if there are sufficient unpublished decisions therefor; provided that after the year nineteen hundred and eight, the reports of all decisions argued and determined before the first day of September in each year shall be published within ninety days thereafter, so as to read as follows:- Section 63. He shall attend the law sittings of the court, unless excused therefrom by the chief justice, make true reports of decisions upon all questions of law which are argued by counsel, and shall prepare them for publication with suitable head notes, tables of cases and indexes, furnish them to the publisher, and superintend the correction, proof reading and publication thereof. He shall in his discre tion report the several cases more or less at large according to their relative importance, so as not unnecessarily to increase the size or number of the volumes of reports. He shall furnish for publication not less than seventy decisions in each calendar month between the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eight, and the first day of November, nineteen hundred and eight, if there are sufficient unpublished decisions therefor, and thereafter not less than fifty decisions in each calendar month if there are sufficient unpublished decisions therefor; provided that after the year nineteen hundred and eight, the reports of all decisions argued and determined before the first day of September in each year shall be published within ninety days thereafter. 66 amended. SECTION 2. Section sixty-seven of said chapter one R. L. 165, § 67, hundred and sixty-five is hereby amended by striking out the words not more than two thousand dollars", in the second and third lines, and inserting in place thereof the words: for the year nineteen hundred and eight not more than six thousand dollars, and thereafter not more than forty-five hundred dollars, so as to read as follows: Section 67. The reporter shall receive from the com- Compensation. monwealth an annual salary of four thousand dollars, and shall be allowed for the year nineteen hundred and eight not more than six thousand dollars, and thereafter not more than forty-five hundred dollars a year for clerk hire and for the incidental expenses of his office which shall be paid by the commonwealth. Such amounts shall be in full compensation for his services and for clerk hire and incidental expenses. All fees received by him for copies of opinions, rescripts and other papers shall be paid by him quarterly to the treasurer and receiver general with a detailed statement thereof. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE BOARD OF WATER COMMISSION Chap.359 ERS OF THE CITY OF HOLYOKE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: collected and SECTION 1. The treasurer of the board of water com- Money to be missioners of the city of Holyoke shall collect all moneys paid on cerdue the city for water charges and water rents and shall mayor, etc. tificate of Payrolls, etc.. to be approved. Contracts. Commissioners of sinking fund Holyoke water bonds, etc. pay out the same upon the certificate or written order of the mayor and city auditor. SECTION 2. All payrolls, bills or demands against the board of water commissioners shall, before payment by the treasurer of the board, be duly approved by the board. Such approval shall be attested by the signature of at least two members of the board, and shall then be presented to the city auditor for examination and certification by him in the manner provided by chapter four hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. The accounts of the water department shall be examined quarterly by the city auditor, and report of such examination shall be made by him to the mayor and board of aldermen. SECTION 3. All contracts made by the board, when the amount involved is five hundred dollars or more, shall be in writing and no such contract shall be deemed to have been made or executed until the approval of the mayor is affixed thereto. SECTION 4. The water commissioners, together with for payment of the mayor, shall be commissioners of the sinking fund for the payment of the Holyoke water bonds, and shall have the custody and control of the sinking fund heretofore in the custody and control of the water commissioners of the city of Holyoke, as trustees thereof for the payment of the Holyoke water bonds. Said commissioners of the sinking fund for the payment of the Holyoke water bonds shall exercise all the rights and powers, and shall perform all the duties and obligations of the present board of water commissioners as trustees of the sinking fund for the payment of the Holyoke water bonds, with full power, as such trustees, to enforce all obligations by mortgage or otherwise hitherto entered into with said board of water commissioners or their predecessors in office. All mortgages, notes and securities given to said commissioners of the sinking fund for the payment of Holyoke water bonds for loans made by them of the money and funds of the water department shall be made to them and their successors in office as trustees of the sinking fund for the payment of the Holyoke water bonds. 1901, 319, § 2, amended. SECTION 5. Chapter three hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and one is hereby amended by striking out section two and inserting in place |
