selectmen shall preside, and in receiving said ballots the check list shall be used, in the same manner as it is used at elections of national, state and county officers.

Approved March 19, 1902.

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH THE CITY OF BROCK- Chap.194

TON MAY INCREASE ITS WATER SUPPLY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter three hundred Time extended. and fifty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, authorizing the city of Brockton to take an additional water supply, are hereby extended for the period of three years from the tenth day of May in the year nineteen hundred and two.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1902.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL
ARCANUM TO ADMIT TO MEMBERSHIP PERSONS BETWEEN THE
AGES OF EIGHTEEN AND TWENTY-ONE YEARS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.195

may admit cer

SECTION 1. The Supreme Council of the Royal Ar- Royal Arcanum canum, in addition to its existing powers, may admit as tain persons to members and issue benefit certificates to persons between membership. the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 19, 1902.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO REPORTS FROM PROBATION OFFICERS OF THE

SUPERIOR COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

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cers of superior court to make reports.

SECTION 1. The probation officers of the superior Probation off. court shall make to the board of prison commissioners such reports as said commissioners shall require. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 19, 1902.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HADLEY WATER COMPANY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.197

Company in

SECTION 1. John J. Kirkpatrick, Daniel O'Connell, Hadley Water Junior, and John J. Sullivan, their associates and suc- corporated.

May take certain water, lands, etc.

Proviso.

Description of lands, etc., to be recorded.

May acquire other sources of

etc.

cessors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Hadley Water Company, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the town of Hadley with water for the extinguishment of fires and for domestic, manufacturing and other purposes.

SECTION 2. Said corporation, for the purposes aforesaid, may lease, take or acquire by purchase or otherwise, as provided in the following section, the water of Hart's brook, so-called, or any of its tributaries, together with such adjacent lands as may be necessary for the preservation of the purity of the water, and for the location of a standpipe; also the rights of way and easements necessary for holding and preserving said water and for conveying the same across private lands, if necessary for the purposes aforesaid; also any water necessary for supplying that part of said town called North Hadley, and such adjacent lands as may be necessary for the preservation of the purity of the water, or for the location of a standpipe, and rights of way and easements necessary for holding and preserving said water and conveying the same across private lands, if necessary for the purposes aforesaid: provided, that no source of water supply shall be taken under this act for domestic purposes without the advice and approval of the state board of health.

SECTION 3. Said corporation shall within sixty days after taking any lands, rights of way, water rights, water sources or easements as aforesaid, other than by purchase, cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds for Hampshire county a description and map thereof sufficiently accurate for identification, with a statement signed by the president and treasurer of the corporation of the purpose for which the same were taken. The recording shall operate as a taking of the real estate and rights and easements therein described.

SECTION 4. Said corporation may also by lease or water supply, purchase acquire for its purposes other sources of water supply, and other lands and water power for the purpose of operating pumping stations.

Capital stock,

etc.

SECTION 5. Said corporation may for the purposes aforesaid hold real estate not exceeding in value twenty thousand dollars. The whole capital stock of said corporation shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. If necessary for the purposes of said corporation an increase

of capital stock may be authorized by the commissioner of corporations, in the manner provided in section thirty of chapter one hundred and nine of the Revised Laws.

filed before

It may issue bonds and secure the same by mortgage on May issue mortits franchise and other property; the total amount of gage bonds, etc. such bonds not to exceed its capital stock actually paid in. Such bonds shall be issued only in such amounts as may from time to time upon investigation by the commissioner of corporations be deemed by him to be reasonably requisite for the purposes for which such corporation is established. A certificate setting forth the decision of Certificate to be the commissioner shall be filed in the office of the secre- bonds are issued, etc. tary of the Commonwealth before the bonds are issued, and the proceeds shall be applied to such purposes as are specified in the decision of the commissioner. SECTION 6. Said corporation may locate its water Location of pipe in or under any public way in said Hadley. The selectmen may determine where the main line of the water pipe shall be located in any way. Construction and repairs shall be so carried on as not to prevent the convenient passing of vehicles.

water pipe.

SECTION 7. Any person sustaining damage by reason Damages. of any taking of property or other act done under authority of this act may have the damage assessed in the manner provided in chapter forty-eight of the Revised Laws.

SECTION 8. Said corporation may distribute water Distribution of through the town of Hadley, may regulate the use of water, etc. such water and fix and collect the rates to be paid therefor, and may make such contracts with the said town or with any fire district that may hereafter be established therein, or with any individual or corporation, to supply water for the extinguishment of fires, or for any other purposes, as may be agreed upon with said town or with such fire district, individual or corporation; and said corporation may establish public fountains and hydrants and relocate and discontinue the same.

SECTION 9. Said corporation shall, if it installs a water supply system under this act, supply all persons desirous of taking water who reside in those parts of Hadley known as the Bay road, from the house of Dwight Morton and Edward Morton to West street in Hadley; West street, Middle street and East street and the connecting streets; and shall furnish a continuous water

Certain persons with water, etc.

to be supplied

System to be completed within three years, etc.

Town may take franchise, property, etc.

supply along the main highway to North Hadley and to the Sunderland line, with a supply to other streets in the village of North Hadley where the residents desire to take the water.

SECTION 10. The system shall be completed within three years after the passage of this act, and the town of Hadley may enforce the provision for the furnishing of a complete system by any suitable proceedings.

SECTION 11. The town of Hadley shall have the right at any time to take, by purchase or by exercise of the right of eminent domain, the franchise, property and all the rights and privileges of said corporation on payment of the actual cost thereof; and, unless the dividends earned and declared by said company on its stock shall be equal to or in excess of five per cent per annum, there shall be added to the first cost such sum as shall make the net return to the stockholders five per cent per annum on the investment. If said town shall so take said property it may, as part payment of the amount to be paid for said taking, assume any indebtedness of said corporation incurred in the construction or improvement of the property by lawful issue of bonds secured by mortgage. Said corporation shall furnish to the town of Hadley, under oath, an itemized statement of the cost of the water supply system authorized under this act, together with a copy of all contracts made in providing and constructing said water supply system and any extension thereof, and shall furnish to said town annually an itemized statement, under oath, of its receipts and expendinished annually, tures and of the dividends paid on its stock, which shall be submitted by the selectmen to the citizens of the town at each annual town meeting. The authority to purchase or take the franchise and property of said corporation shall be exercised by said town only after the town has voted to purchase or take the same by a two thirds vote of the voters of the town present and voting thereon at a meeting legally called for that purpose. And the taking, if by exercise of the right of eminent domain, shall be by filing in the registry of deeds for Hampshire county a declaration of such taking, which shall include a certified copy of the article in the warrant under which the town acted and of the vote of the town thereon showing that it was passed by a two thirds vote as herein required. SECTION 12. This act shall take effect upon its accept

Statement of receipts and expenditures, etc., to be fur

etc.

When to take effect.

ance by a two thirds vote of the voters of the town voting
thereon by ballot at a special town meeting legally called
for the purpose. If then voted upon and not accepted,
it may be resubmitted at subsequent town meetings
legally called for the purpose: provided, that it shall not
be voted upon by the town more than twice in any one
year.
Approved March 19, 1902.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF LOWELL TO PENSION A FORMER
POLICE OFFICER OF THE CITY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

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may pay an sion to Thomas

SECTION 1. The city of Lowell is hereby authorized City of Lowell to pay to Thomas Ingalls, formerly a member of the annual penpolice department of that city, who was honorably dis- Ingalls. charged on the thirty-first day of July in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the same annual pension which he would be entitled to receive had he retired from service after the acceptance by the city of the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1902.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF NEWTON TO PAY A SUM OF Chap.199

MONEY TO ABBIE F. HUMPHREY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

H.

SECTION 1. The city of Newton is hereby authorized
to pay to Abbie F. Humphrey, widow of Francis
Humphrey late assistant chief of the fire department of
that city, the remainder of the salary to which he would
have been entitled had he lived and continued to hold his
office until the first day of January in the year nineteen
hundred and two.
SECTION 2.

This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1902.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF NEWTON TO PAY A SUM OF Chap.200

MONEY TO MARY A. FOLEY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

may pay a sum widow of John

SECTION 1. The city of Newton is hereby authorized City of Newton to pay to Mary A. Foley, widow of John Foley late a of money to laborer in the employment of that city, the wages to Foley.