ment and shall receive from the county such salary as the court, with the approval of the county commissioners, shall fix. The justice of each police, district and municipal court not included in the said classes, excepting the municipal court of the city of Boston and the central district court of Worcester, may appoint such an officer who shall serve without compensation. Salaried probation officers appointed as herein provided shall have, and, by direction of the court, unpaid officers may have, in cases of such children and of juvenile offenders, the power and authority of probation officers. But no such officer shall be appointed until the commission on probation, established by chapter four hundred and sixty-five of the acts of the present year, shall certify that his appointment is necessary. probation pointment, etc. SECTION 2. The justice of every police, district and Deputy municipal court, excepting the municipal court of the city officers, apof Boston, may appoint one or more deputy probation officers without compensation. They shall assist probation officers for wayward and delinquent children in such ways as the court shall direct. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 66 AN ACT TO DEFINE THE TERM STATE OFFICIALS IN Chap.638 CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN DUTIES OF THE AUDITOR OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: officials" SECTION 1. The term 66 state officials", as used in chap- Term "state ter one hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of the year defined. nineteen hundred and seven, shall be construed as applying only to those officials whose accounts.the controller of county accounts is not by law required to examine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.639 Industrial SECTION 1. The governor, with the advice and consent Trustees of of the council, shall, during the month of June of the School for current year, appoint a board of seven trustees, two of pointment, etc. Boys, ap May erect and repair buildings, make contracts, etc. whom shall be women, in whom and in their successors shall be vested the government and management of a school for the industrial training and for the instruction and reformatory treatment of boys committed thereto. Said institution shall be known as the Industrial School for Boys. The terms of office of the trustees shall begin on the first day of July following their appointment. Of the trustees first appointed under this act two shall hold office for two years, two for three years, two for four years and one for five years, or until their successors are appointed; and the governor shall appoint annually thereafter, in the month of June, successors of the trustees whose terms are about to expire, and such successors shall hold office for five years from the first day of July next ensuing. Said board shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking, holding and investing in trust for the commonwealth any grant or devise of land, or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property made for the use of said school. Said trustees are hereby authorized to purchase, in behalf of the commonwealth, real estate, with such personal prop erty as may be upon the same, as a site for said school. SECTION 2. With the approval of the state board of charity the trustees may erect new buildings, and may employ agents, alter and repair buildings upon the property purchased. They may also equip and furnish buildings so erected, altered or repaired. Said trustees shall have authority to make all contracts and employ all agents necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. Their reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties under the first. two sections of this act shall be paid from the appropriation for carrying out the provisions hereof. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the first two sections of this act the trustees of said school may expend a sum not exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars, but no expendi ture shall be made under said sections except for the purchase of a site for said school and for plans, until said state board shall certify that in its opinion the cost of purchasing land and buildings, as aforesaid, of altering and repairing buildings upon the land purchased, of erecting and making ready for occupancy any new building or buildings under the provisions of this section, and of furnishing and equipping any building erected, altered or re paired as aforesaid, will not exceed eighty-five thousand dollars, and the total expenditures made and liabilities incurred under the provisions of said sections shall not exceed that amount. ings are occupancу issue proc SECTION 3. When the buildings are ready for occu- When buildpancy the trustees shall notify the governor, who shall ready for thereupon issue his proclamation establishing said school; governor to and thereafter, if it shall appear to any police, district or lamation. municipal court or trial justice that any boy not less than Commitments. fifteen years of age who has been adjudged to be a delinquent child, or any boy not less than fifteen nor more than eighteen years of age who has been convicted of any offence punishable by imprisonment other than imprisonment for life, is a suitable subject for said school, and that his welfare and the good of society require that he should be sent thereto for industrial training, for instruction and for reformatory treatment, the court may issue a warrant of commitment to said school. So far as they are applicable, except as herein otherwise provided, all provisions of law in relation to commitments to the Lyman school for boys shall extend to commitments to said industrial school. A boy committed to said school as aforesaid may be held therein until he attains the age of twenty-one years, and the custody of such boy shall be in said trustees until that age is attained, excepting during such time as he shall be absent from said school in the Massachusetts reformatory. Said trustees may release from said school upon Inmates may probation any inmate thereof, and may recall him from upon probaprobation. They may employ such agents as may be re- tion, etc. quired for the care of such probationers. be released certain insti tutions may be transferred, SECTION 4. Upon the request of the trustees of the Inmates of Lyman school for boys, the trustees of said industrial school may transfer to it any inmate of said Lyman school, bec and may transfer any inmate of said industrial school to said Lyman school with the consent of its trustees. The trustees for children of the city of Boston may transfer to said industrial school any boy committed to the Suffolk school for boys after the passage of this act. Upon application of the trustees, the prison commissioners may remove to the Massachusetts reformatory any inmate of said industrial school, and upon a further application may return him to said school. A boy so removed to said re Trustees to establish rules, regulations, etc. Superintendent. Powers and duties, etc., of trustees and state board of charity. Certain provisions of law to apply. Prison and formatory shall be subject to all laws relating to the other inmates thereof until he is returned to said school. With the consent of the trustees, the prison commissioners may remove to said industrial school any boy under the age of seventeen years who is sentenced to the Massachusetts reformatory. When a boy is removed or returned under this act, all mittimuses, processes and other official papers, or copies thereof, by which he is held, shall be removed or returned with him; and he may be held in the institution to which he is removed or returned until the expiration of the term for which he was originally committed. After the establishment of said industrial school, no boy who is more than fifteen years of age shall be committed to the Suffolk school for boys. SECTION 5. The trustees shall have general charge of said school and of all its interests. They shall, from time to time, establish rules, regulations and by-laws for its government, for the direction of its officers and the instruction and discipline of its inmates; and they shall see that its affairs are conducted according to law and to said rules, regulations and by-laws. They shall appoint a superintendent who shall be the executive officer of the school and, subject to the approval of the governor and council, they shall fix his compensation. SECTION 6. Said trustees and the state board of charity shall have the same rights and powers, be charged with the same duties and be subject to the same responsibilities. in regard to said industrial school and to the officers and inmates thereof as by law are given to or imposed upon said board and upon the trustees of the Lyman and industrial schools in regard to the Lyman school for boys and its officers and inmates. Sections six, seven and nine of chapter eighty-six of the Revised Laws shall apply to the superintendent of said school; and all other laws in relation to the duties, powers and obligations of officers of said Lyman school, so far as they may be applicable, shall extend to officers of the said industrial school. SECTION 7. For the purpose of meeting the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, the treasurer and receiver general is hereby authorized, with the ap proval of the governor and council, to issue scrip or certificates of indebtedness to an amount not exceeding eighty five thousand dollars, for terms not exceeding thirty years. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE BRIDGE OVER THE MERRIMAC RIVER BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEWBURYPORT AND DEER etc. Chap.640 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: over the SECTION 1. Subject to the provisions of chapter ninety- Chain bridge six of the Revised Laws and of all amendments thereof, Merrimac the county commissioners of the county of Essex are hereby river may be authorized and directed to repair or reconstruct, with suit- reconstructed. able approaches, the chain bridge in its present form, over |