innholders and druggists, and by such licensed common
victuallers as are not also licensed to sell intoxicating
liquors and who are authorized to keep open their places
of business on the Lord's day, nor the letting of horses
and carriages or of yachts and boats, nor the running of
steam ferry boats on established routes, nor the running
of street railway cars, nor the preparation, printing and
publication of newspapers, nor the sale and delivery of
newspapers, nor the wholesale or retail sale and delivery
of milk, nor the transportation of milk, nor the making
of butter and cheese, nor the keeping open of public bath
houses, nor the making or selling by bakers or their em-
ployees, before ten o'clock in the morning and between
the hours of four o'clock and half past six o'clock in the
evening, of bread or other food usually dealt in by them,
nor the carrying on of the business of bootblacks before
eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 22, 1902.

Chap.415 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF MELROSE TO MAKE AN ADDI

Melrose Water Loan, Act of 1902.

Certain provisions of law to apply.

TIONAL WATER LOAN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The city of Melrose, for the purpose of extending and improving its system of water works, may issue bonds, notes or scrip to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in addition to the amount which it is now authorized to issue. Such bonds, notes or scrip shall bear on their face the words, Melrose Water Loan, Act of 1902; shall be payable at the expiration of a period not exceeding thirty years from the date of issue; shall bear a uniform date of issue; shall bear interest payable semi-annually at a rate not exceeding four per cent per annum, and shall be signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the mayor of the city. Said city may sell such securities at public or private sale, but none of said bonds, notes or scrip shall be issued or sold except in compliance with a vote of two thirds of the board of aldermen of the city.

SECTION 2. The provisions of section twelve of chapter twenty-seven of the Revised Laws, in so far as they relate to interest and to the establishment of sinking funds for debts payable at a period exceeding ten years,

shall apply to debts created under the authority of this
act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 22, 1902.

AN ACT ΤΟ ESTABLISH THE DISTRICT COURT OF

WORCESTER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

WESTERN Chap.416

of western

established.

SECTION 1. The towns of Spencer, Brookfield, North District court Brookfield, West Brookfield and Warren, in the county Worcester of Worcester, shall constitute a judicial district under the jurisdiction of a court to be called the district court of western Worcester.

may be held.

SECTION 2. Said court shall be held in the village When court of East Brookfield, in the town of Brookfield, and may adjourn from there to any other place within the district whenever the public convenience may seem to the justice. presiding therein to render such adjournment expedient. SECTION 3. There shall be one justice, two special Justices, clerk, justices and a clerk of said court. The justice shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, and the clerk an annual salary of six hundred dollars, to be paid by the county of Worcester. All the provisions of law applicable to district courts shall apply to said

court.

etc.

court.

SECTION 4. Sittings of said court for criminal business Sittings of shall be held at East Brookfield daily, except on Sundays and legal holidays. Sittings of said court for the transaction of civil business shall be held at East Brookfield as required by law, and on such other days as may be fixed by rule of the court.

SECTION 5. The first session of the court shall be held First session. on the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred and two; but nothing in this act shall affect any suit or other proceeding begun prior to that day.

effect.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage, When to take so far as relates to appointing and qualifying the justices and clerk of said court, and shall take full effect on the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred and two. Approved May 22, 1902.

Chap.417 AN ACT RELATIVE TO AUTOPSIES IN STATE INSANE HOSPITALS AND

R. L. 77 amended.

Autopsies in

state insane

hospitals and asylums.

ASYLUMS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter seventy-seven of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by adding a new section after section four, as follows:- Section 5. Where the cause

of death cannot otherwise be determined the chief medical
officer of the institutions named in section one shall have
power to cause autopsies to be made upon bodies un-
claimed by relatives or friends, before surrendering the
same to such persons and in such manner as are specified
in sections one and two of this act.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 22, 1902.

Chap.418 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PETER BENT BRIGHAM HOSPITAL TO

May hold real and personal estate.

Chap.419

Adams Trust Company incorporated.

HOLD REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital is hereby authorized to hold, for the purposes for which it was incorporated, real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding five million dollars in value, including the amount that it is already authorized by law to hold.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 22, 1902.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ADAMS TRUST COMPANY.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Thomas A. Watson, Edward H. R. Revere, William S. Townsend, James F. Bigelow, Thomas Sanders, A. Le Baron Russell and John Dearborn, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation under the name of Adams Trust Company, with authority to establish and maintain a safe deposit, loan and trust company in the city of Boston; with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws now or hereafter in force relating to such corporations.

SECTION 2.

This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 22, 1902.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PROPRIETORS OF THE CHURCH IN Chap.420

BRATTLE SQUARE TO TRANSFER CERTAIN PROPERTY TO THE
BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. William P. Fowler and John Capen, as they are deacons and trustees of the Proprietors of the Church in Brattle Square, or their successors in said office or offices, are hereby authorized to transfer any real or personal property which they may hold as such deacons and trustees in trust, either on general or special trusts, to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in the city of Boston. And said last named corporation shall hold said property or the proceeds of any sales thereof in trust, for the general purposes of said last named corporation.

mittee may

SECTION 2. Thomas Van Ness of Brookline, Ernest Standing comJackson, Paul R. Frothingham, George G. Powers, Wil- transfer propliam P. Fowler, Courtenay Guild and Frederick O. erty, etc. North, all of Boston, as they are the standing committee of the Proprietors of the Church in Brattle Square, otherwise known as the parish committee of the Proprietors of the Church in Brattle Square, or their successors in said office, are hereby authorized to transfer any real or personal property which they now hold in trust, either on general or special trusts, as such parish committee, or as such standing committee of said corporation, to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in the city of Boston. And said last named corporation shall hold said property or the proceeds of any sales thereof in trust, for the general purposes of said last named corporation.

SECTION 3. William P. Fowler, as he is the treasurer Treasurer may of the Proprietors of the Church in Brattle Square, or his transfer prop successor in said office, is hereby authorized to transfer any real or personal property which he now holds in trust, either on general or special trusts, as such treasurer, to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in the city of Boston. And said last named corporation shall hold said property or the proceeds of any sales thereof in trust, for the general purposes of said last named corporation.

SECTION 4. The Proprietors of the Church in Brattle The Proprietors Square are hereby authorized to release and transfer all of the Church the interest of the corporation in the property designated Square may re

in Brattle

lease, etc., in

property, etc.

How powers shall be exercised.

terest in certain in the foregoing sections to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in the city of Boston, upon the trusts aforesaid. SECTION 5. The powers herein granted shall be exercised only in conformity with the decree of a court of equity.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 27, 1902.

Chap.421 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BEVERLY TO INCUR INDEBT

Beverly School Loan, Act of 1902.

Payment of loan.

EDNESS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The city of Beverly, for the purpose of acquiring land, erecting and furnishing new buildings, and making additions to the existing buildings, all for school purposes, is hereby authorized to issue from time to time notes, bonds or scrip, to an amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, to be denominated on the face thereof, Beverly School Loan, Act of 1902, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding four per cent per annum, payable semi-annually.

SECTION 2. Such notes, bonds or scrip shall be payable within such periods, not exceeding twenty years from their dates of issue, as the city council shall from time to time determine, and, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-seven of the Revised Laws and of acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto; and they shall not be reckoned in determining the legal limit of indebtedness of the said city.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 27, 1902.

Chap.422 AN ACT RELATIVE TO INDEXES IN THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS FOR

R. L. 22, § 31, amended.

THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section thirty-one of chapter twenty-two of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word Suffolk", in the first line, the word:- all,— and by inserting after the word "registers", in the second line, the words: with or without the consent of the county commissioners, so as to read as follows:Index commis. Section 31. In the county of Suffolk all the powers and

sioners in