CHAPTER 199.

OF THE FEES OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.

SECTION 6. The travel of officers summoning witnesses in criminal cases, under twenty miles, is raised from four to ten cents a mile each way. Over twenty it was four cents a mile one way up to fifty miles; over that one cent. It now is made five cents a mile each way in either case. The distance is computed from the most distant place of service to the place of But when the officer has not actually travelled the distance, the court may reduce the amount.

return.

St. 1882, c. 215.

CHAPTER 202.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON.

SECTION 29. (G. S., c. 160, § 28.) Commonwealth vs. Philpot, 130 Mass. 59.

CHAPTER 203.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY.

Making false statements of the distance one intends to travel when hiring a horse, or of the distance actually travelled, or refusing to pay for the same, is made a crime.

St. 1882, c. 236.

Setting fire to any material which causes the destruction of growing or standing wood is punished.

St. 1882, c. 163.

SECTION 1. (G. S., c. 161, § 1.) Commonwealth vs. Makely, 131 Mass.

421.

SECTION 12. (G. S., c. 161, § 12.) Commonwealth vs. Moore, 130 Mass. 45.

SECTION 40. (G. S., c. 161, § 38.) Commonwealth vs. Cooper, 130 Mass. 285.

SECTION 72. (G. S., c. 161, § 64.) Hathaway vs. Fall River National

CHAPTER 207.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, AND GOOD ORDER. SECTION 2. (G. S., c. 165, § 2.) Commonwealth vs. Whittaker, 131 Mass. 224.

SECTION 26. (St. 1880, c. 221, § 2; St. 1881, c. 276.) Commonwealth vs. Harrington, 130 Mass. 35.

CHAPTER 208.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH.

The making or selling any drug or article of food which is adulterated is punished. Adulteration is defined. Such compounds as the state board of health approve are exempt, if so marked. Provision is made for analyzing samples.

St. 1882, c. 263.

CHAPTER 212.

OF SEARCH WARRANTS, REWARDS, ARRESTS, EXAMINATION, COMMITMENT, BAIL, AND PROBATION.

Children under twelve, not accused of offences punishable by imprisonment for life, nor truants, are not to be arrested till they neglect to appear on summons, nor to be committed on default of bail, nor on sentence.

St. 1882, c. 127.

SECTION 68, which allows a person to deposit money instead of furnishing sureties in criminal cases, is modified so that he may recognize and deposit the money with any officer authorized to take his recognizance, instead of being restricted to the magistrate or clerk of the court ordering it.

St. 1882, c. 134.

SECTION 78. Two additional probation officers may be appointed in Boston. The requirement that the officers be appointed in May is struck

out.

St. 1882, c. 125.

CHAPTER 214.

OF TRIALS AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE JUDGMENT.

SECTION 25. (St. 1864, c. 250, § 2.) Commonwealth vs. Donahoe, 130 Mass. 280.

CHAPTER 215.

OF JUDGMENT AND EXECUTION.

Convicts punishable by imprisonment in the house of correction may be sent to jail instead, and those undergoing sentence may be removed from one to the other.

St. 1882, c. 241.

SECTION 18, which forbids any child under ten years of age from being sentenced to a jail or house of correction, except for non-payment of fine or costs, is changed so that no child under twelve can be imprisoned at all, except on charges involving imprisonment for life or for truancy, but must be committed to the custody of the state board of health.

St. 1882, c. 127.

CHAPTER 218.

OF FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE AND PARDONS.

SECTION 14. Where the condition of a pardon is broken, and the convict is remanded to serve out his sentence, if he is then serving another sentence his time is to begin from the expiration of that.

St. 1882 c. 197.

CHAPTER 219.

OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF PRISONS..

The commissioners may transfer prisoners, except for capital crimes, to hospitals for surgical treatment. The time of their sentence runs while there. St. 1882, c. 207.

SECTION 4. They may remove prisoners from jails to houses of correction, and vice versa, as provided in this section.

St. 1882, c. 241.

SECTION 34. The heads of police and others making arrests are required to make monthly reports.

St. 1882, c 226, § 2.

SECTIONS 34, 35. The blanks for the returns of criminal business made by clerks of courts and other officers under these sections, are furnished by the commissioners of prisons, who prescribe the form.

St. 1882, c. 226.

SECTION 36, prescribing the form, is repealed.

CHAPTER 220.

OF JAILS AND HOUSES OF CORRECTION.

SECTION 2. The sheriff may remove prisoners at his discretion between jails and houses of correction.

St. 1882, c. 241, § 2.

SECTION 49. Clerical error corrected.

St. 1882, c. 6, § 4.

SECTION 50. Escapes from officers who have taken the prisoner out to perform labor on any public land, are made escapes from prison, and punished.

St. 1882, c. 198.

CHAPTER 221.

OF THE STATE PRISON, AND THE REFORMATORY PRISON FOR WOMEN. SECTION 6. The number of officers at the state prison is changed; the turnkeys reduced from eleven to four; the watchmen increased from ten to twenty-three; the assistant watchmen not to exceed twenty-three instead of fifteen, and no additional watchmen.

St. 1882, c. 203, § 1.

SECTION 8. The commissioners are deprived of their share in the removal of officers by the warden.

St. 1882, c, 203, § 2.

SECTION 11. The compensation of all officers except the warden, chaplain, and physician, is fixed by the warden, subject to the approval of the commissioners, but not to exceed the maximum stated.

St. 1882, c. 203, §§ 3, 4.

SECTION 43. The purchase of a burial-place at the reformatory prison at Sherborn is provided for.

St. 1882, c. 213.

CHAPTER 222.

SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING PENAL AND OTHER PUBLIC INSTI

TUTIONS.

SECTION 17. In case of poor convicts confined three months for nonpayment of fine or costs, if there is no police or district court in the county, the jailer shall report to a trial justice, who has authority to hear the matter, and discharge him.

St. 1882, c. 201.