Chap.492 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE NUMBER OF PERSONS TO BE CHOSEN AS 1902, 225, amended. Political com mittees may make rules and regulations, etc. MEMBERS OF STATE, WARD AND TOWN COMMITTEES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter two hundred and twenty-five of SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.493 AN ACT RELATIVE TO EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY DUTY OF MEMBERS R. L. 16 amended. and men of militia to be made, etc. OF MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chapter sixteen of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by striking out section one hundred and eighty and inRolls of officers serting in place thereof the following section: Section 180. Rolls of the volunteer militia, showing the names of all general, field, staff and non-commissioned staff officers, and the names of all company officers and enlisted men in the service, shall be made on the first day of January in each year. Those for companies shall be prepared by the respective company commanders, and all others by direction of the commanding officers of the several organizations. A sworn copy of such rolls, or of so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be furnished by the command issuing false ing officers of companies and of such other organizations, on or before the tenth day of January in each year, to the registrars of voters in any city except Boston, and in Boston to the election commissioners, or to the selectmen of any town in which such companies or organizations or any members thereof are located, for use in ascertaining exemptions from jury duty. The issue by an officer of Penalty for the volunteer militia of a false certificate, or the issue certificates, etc. of a certificate to any person not entitled to receive the same, for the purpose of securing exemption from jury duty, shall be punished in such manner as the commander-in-chief may direct. The clerk of the Ancient Clerk of and Honorable Artillery Company shall furnish annually, Honorable as provided herein, to the election commissioners of the pany to furnish city of Boston, and to the registrars of voters of any other erretto city, or to the selectmen of any town, sworn rolls of all and towns. active members belonging to the company resident in such city or town. No member of the company otherwise liable for jury duty shall be exempt if the sworn roll herein required has not been made and furnished as aforesaid. Approved June 19, 1902. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL COM- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Ancient and Artillery Com sworn rolls certain cities Chap.494 commissioners tion of uniform United States, etc. SECTION 1. The governor shall, with the advice of the Additional council, appoint within thirty days after the passage of for the promothis act, two persons, one representing the interests of ity of legisla the working classes, and one representing the interests tion in the of manufacturers, as additional members of the commis- appointment, sion appointed under the provisions of chapter four hundred and five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one and of chapter three hundred and eleven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three and of chapter two hundred and thirty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. The said commissioners shall examine the subjects and promote the objects specified in said acts, and shall also endeavor to promote uniformity of legislation making eight hours a legal day's labor throughout the United States. etc. SECTION 2. The additional members appointed under Term of office, the provisions of this act shall hold office for the time specified in said act of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and shall be subject to the provisions of all acts relating to said commissioners. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved June 19, 1902. Chap.495 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE TO State nursery inspector, ap APPOINT A STATE NURSERY INSPECTOR AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The state board of agriculture shall anpointment, etc. nually appoint some person qualified by scientific training and practical experience, to be state nursery inspector, and he shall be responsible to the board for the performance of his duties as prescribed in this act. The said inspector may appoint such number of deputies, not exceeding three, as he may deem necessary or expedient. May appoint deputies. Nurseries, etc., to be inspected. Measures to be taken to sup press pests, etc. Penalty for sale of nursery stock without certificate of inspection. Certain owners of nurseries, etc., exempt from provisions of sections 2 and 3. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the state nursery inspector, either personally or through his deputies, to inspect at least once each year all nurseries or places in the state where nursery stock is grown, sold or offered for sale, and if no dangerous insect or fungous pests are found therein a certificate to that effect shall be given. If such pests are found therein the owner of the stock shall take such measures to suppress the same as the state nursery inspector shall prescribe, and no certificate shall be given until the said inspector has satisfied himself by subsequent inspections that all such pests have been suppressed. SECTION 3. Any owners of nurseries or of places in the state where nursery stock is grown, sold or offered for sale, who do not hold an unexpired certificate of inspection after the first annual inspection made after the passage of this act, who shall sell or otherwise dispose of nursery stock in the state, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. SECTION 4. Any owners of nurseries or of places in the state where nursery stock is grown, sold or offered for sale, who shall fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas all stock which they sell, using at least two tenths of a gram of potassic cyanide to every cubic foot of space contained in the box, house or other place wherein this fumigation is performed, which place shall be gas tight, and who shall expose the said stock to the fumes of this gas of the strength aforesaid for at least forty minutes, or who shall treat the stock which they sell by some other method approved by the state nursery inspector, and who shall make affidavit before a justice of the peace that all stock sold by them has thus been fumigated or treated, and who shall attach a copy of such affidavit to each package, box or car of stock sold, shall be exempt from the provisions of sections two and three of this act. shipped into of inspection, SECTION 5. All nursery stock shipped into this state Nursery stock from any other state, country or province shall bear on this state to each box or package a certificate that the contents of said bear certificate box or package have been inspected by a duly authorized etc. inspecting officer, and that said contents appear to be free from all dangerous insects or diseases. In case nursery stock is brought within the state without such a certificate the consignee shall return it to the consignor at the expense of the latter, or shall call the state nursery inspector to inspect the same: provided, however, that any package Proviso. or box bearing a certificate of fumigation which meets the requirements specified in section four of this act may be accepted as though bearing a proper certificate of inspection. duties of inspector, etc. SECTION 6. The state nursery inspector shall deter- Powers and mine the season for inspecting nurseries and the forms of certificates to be given, but in no case shall he issue a certificate which shall continue in force after the first day of July next following the date of inspection. He or any of his deputies shall at all times have the right to enter any public or private grounds in the performance of any duty required by this act. He and each of his Compensation, deputies shall receive five dollars for each day's service required of them under this act, and the travelling and other expenses necessarily incurred in the said service. etc. SECTION 7. A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars Certain sum may be expended by the state board of agriculture in and carrying out the provisions of this act. Approved June 19, 1902. expended. Chap.496 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE CORPORATE POWERS OF THE STONY BROOK City of Boston may pay a sum widow of Frederick P. VALLEY STREET RAILWAY COMPANY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The Stony Brook Valley Street Railway This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO PAY A SUM OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized of money to the to pay to the widow of Frederick P. Ingalls, late an officer in attendance upon the sessions of the municipal court of the city of Boston for criminal business, a sum of money not exceeding one half of the annual salary of said Frederick P. Ingalls: provided, that the said sum shall not exceed the amount to which he would have been entitled if he had lived and continued to serve as such employee until the first day of January next succeeding the day of his death. Proviso. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.498 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE DEERFIELD, WHATELY AND HAT Deerfield, Railway Company incorpo. rated. FIELD STREET RAILWAY COMPANY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. James Mitchell, William S. Mitchell, Hatfield Street James F. Phelps, Eugene F. DeNormandie, Charles E. Dennison and Edwin L. Emerson, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of Deerfield, Whately and Hatfield Street Railway Company, with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all |