hundred and eleven, and under the authority of and subject to the provisions of said act and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto. [Acts, 1913, c. 337, § 1.]

923. Schoolhouse commissioners may cause land to be taken. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the board of schoolhouse commissioners of the city of Boston may cause to be taken for the city, in the same manner in which land is taken for schoolhouses, land in that city not exceeding fifty acres, approved by the school committee of the city, and shall build and furnish such buildings as are approved by the school committee: provided, that land having a building thereon may be purchased at such price as the school committee, the schoolhouse commissioners and the mayor may determine. [Acts, 1913, c. 337, § 2.]

IN GENERAL.

924. Grants of money authorized by congress for support of agricultural colleges. The commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby assents to the purpose of the advance of money authorized by the act of congress, entitled "An Act to provide for co-operative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of an act of congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States department of agriculture", said act being number ninety-five of the sixty-third congress, and approved on May 8, 1914. [Acts, 1914, c. 721, § 1.]

925. Acceptance of grants of money. The commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby accepts the annual grant of moneys made by the United States as set forth and defined in said act of congress, and the treasurer and receiver general is hereby designated to receive the same annually, to be applied by him under and for the purposes of said act; and the Massachusetts Agricultural College is hereby authorized to receive said grants of money. [Acts, 1914, c. 721, § 2.]

926. Governor to give notice. The governor is hereby authorized and instructed to give due notice hereof to the government of the United States. [Acts, 1914, c. 721, § 3.]

THE FRANKLIN FOUNDATION.

927. The Franklin foundation incorporated. - George A. Hibbard, Charles W. Duane, Alexander K. Maclennan, Charles E. Park, Richard Olney, William Endicott, Nathan Matthews, Charles T. Gallagher, James J. Storrow, Frank K. Foster and two other persons to be appointed by the supreme judicial court for the county of Suffolk, being the present board of managers of the gift of one thousand pounds sterling and its accumulations to the town of Boston under the codicil to the will of Benjamin Franklin, and their successors in office, are hereby made a corporation by the name of The Franklin Foundation; and they and their successors in office shall continue a body corporate for the purposes hereinafter set forth, with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, not inconsistent with the terms of said codicil, which are conferred and prescribed by all general laws now or hereafter in force relating to such corporations. The members of said corporation shall be the mayor of the city of Boston for the time being, the ministers for the time being of the oldest Episcopalian, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches in Boston, and eight other virtuous and benevolent citizens of the class designated in said codicil as defined by the decree of the supreme judicial court for

Suffolk county entered March 16, 1904, in the suit entitled City of Boston by Patrick A. Collins, Mayor, and George U. Crocker, City Treasurer, complainants, against James H. Doyle and others, respondents, being numbered 799 on the docket of said court. . . . [Acts, 1908, c. 569, § 1.]

928. Vacancy. If, at any time, any vacancy occurs through death, resignation, inability or unfitness to act, or for other cause, in the class of eight virtuous and benevolent citizens of Boston, it shall be the duty of said corporation to apply by petition to said court to fill such vacancy; and in such case the appointee or appointees of said court shall become members of said corporation. Any of said eight members may be removed by said court for any cause for which any members of the present board of managers of said gift might be removed. [Acts, 1908, c. 569, § 1.]

929. To be a department of the city of Boston. Said corporation shall be deemed a board or department of the city of Boston, and shall on behalf of the said city have the sole care, custody, management, and control of the industrial school established by the present board of managers of Franklin's gift, and known as the Franklin Union, as an independent industrial school; shall appoint and fix the compensation of such instructors, officers, and subordinates as it may think necessary for the proper management and operation of the institution, and may remove the same; and shall expend in accordance with the purposes thereof any money heretofore or hereafter paid or contributed to the city or to the corporation hereby established for the maintenance of the said institution, and the income of any fund heretofore or hereafter given to the city or to the corporation hereby established, for the benefit of the said institution, such expenditures to be made by said corporation in conformity with the will, deed of gift, or other legally expressed purpose of the donor, so far as the same may legally be done; and shall have control and charge of the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by said city for the maintenance of the institution. [Acts, 1908, c. 569, § 2.]

930. To have custody of the Franklin gift. Said corporation shall also have the custody, management, and control of that part of Franklin's gift which is now accumulating for the second hundred years under the terms of said codicil; but the legal title thereof shall continue to be in the city of Boston. [Acts, 1908, c. 569, § 3.1

931. Title to property to remain in the city of Boston. The legal title to the property now constituting said Franklin Union, and to that part of said gift which the present managers of the same have appropriated and set apart to be laid out in the establishment of said Franklin Union, and the legal title to any fund or other property already given to the city of Boston for the establishment, maintenance, or benefit of said Franklin Union, shall remain in the city of Boston; but the corporation hereby established shall have authority hereafter to hold the legal title to and apply any real or personal estate hereafter given, granted, bequeathed, or devised to and accepted by it for the maintenance, extension, or otherwise for the benefit of said Franklin Union, and shall have authority to invest and reinvest such real and personal estate in securities in which funds of savings banks of this commonwealth may by law be invested, and to sell such securities and invest and reinvest the proceeds of such sale or sales. . . . [Acts, 1908, c. 569, § 4.]

932. Investment of surplus funds. . . . If after the completion, equipment, and furnishing of said Franklin Union, any surplus remains over of that part

of Franklin's gift now available to be laid out under the terms of said codicil, said corporation may invest the same and apply the income thereof toward the maintenance of said Franklin Union, the legal title to said surplus to remain in the city of Boston. [Acts, 1908, c. 569, § 4.]

MISCELLANEOUS.

933. Industrial training for the blind. The [Massachusetts commission for the blind] shall be authorized to prepare and maintain a register of the blind in Massachusetts, which shall describe their condition, cause of blindness and capacity for education and industrial training. The [director of the bureau of statistics] is hereby directed to aid the commission by furnishing it from time to time, upon its request, with the names, addresses and such other facts concerning the blind as may be recorded by the enumerators in taking any decennial census. [Acts, 1906, c. 385, § 2.]

934. Establishing schools for industrial training of the blind. The commission may, with the approval of the governor and council, establish, equip and maintain one or more schools for industrial training, and workshops for the employment of blind persons, may pay to employees suitable wages, and may devise means for the sale and distribution of the products of such schools and workshops. [Acts, 1906, c. 385, § 4.]

935. Evening classes in practical arts for women. Any city or town may, through its school committee, or other board of trustees for vocational education, establish and maintain separate evening classes in household and other practical arts. Such classes shall be known as practical art classes, shall be open to all women over seventeen years of age who are employed in any capacity during the day, and may be established and maintained as approved state-aided practical art classes under the provisions of, and subject to all the conditions, not inconsistent with this act, of Acts, 1911, c. 471. [Acts, 1912, c. 106.]

936. Independent household arts school may be maintained. The trustees of the independent agricultural school of the county of Essex may establish, equip and maintain, with the approval of the board of education and in accordance with the provisions of Acts, 1911, c. 471 not inconsistent with this act, an independent household arts school. [Acts, 1914, c. 719, § 1.]

937. Trustees to prepare estimate of cost of vocational schools. The said trustees shall prepare annually, on or before the fifteenth day of December, an estimate of the amounts required to establish, equip and maintain the vocational agricultural school and also the said vocational household arts school for the ensuing year, and said amounts, if approved by the board of education, shall be included in the estimate required by R. L., c. 21, § 27, as amended; and if the said amounts or any part thereof shall be authorized by the general court, the county of Essex shall raise by taxation the sum authorized and the sum so raised shall be paid to the said trustees, for the purposes designated by the treasurer of the county upon their requisition: provided, however, that all receipts from miscellaneous sources designated in said c. 471, such as tuition" of non-resident pupils from places outside the county, "sale of products", and "work of pupils", shall be applied by said trustees toward reduction of the net expense to the county and state of the maintenance of the said school. [Acts, 1914, c. 719, § 2.]

938. Manual training. — Every city and town containing 20,000 inhabitants

or more shall maintain the teaching of manual training as part of both its elementary and its high school system. [R. L., c. 42, § 9.]

939. School for instruction in designing silverware and jewelry. Resolved, That the board of education is hereby directed to investigate the advisability, practicability and cost of establishing and maintaining in the [cities] of Taunton or Attleborough a state school for technical instruction, and especially for instruction in the designing, modeling and manufacture of silverware and jewelry. The board shall report to the next general court, not later than the tenth day of January, and shall accompany its report with a draft of any legislation which it may recommend. [Res., 1912, c. 16.]

940. Reduced fares for school pupils on street railways. The rates of fare charged by street or elevated railway companies [except the Boston Elevated Ry. Co., Acts, 1900, c. 197, § 4, R. L., c. 112, § 1, and Acts, 1906, c. 463, Pt. III, § 2] for the transportation of pupils of the public day schools or public evening schools or industrial day or evening schools organized under the provisions of Acts, 1906, c. 505 and acts in amendment thereof or private schools between a given point, from or to which it is necessary for them to ride in travelling to or from the schoolhouses in which they attend school and their homes, whether such schoolhouses are located in the city or town in which the pupils reside or in another city or town, shall not exceed one half the regular fare charged by such street or elevated railway company for the transportation of other passengers between said points, and tickets for the transportation of pupils as aforesaid, good during the days or evenings on which said. schools are in session, shall be sold by said companies in lots of ten each. A railway company which violates the provisions of this section shall forfeit wenty-five dollars for each offence. [R. L., c. 112, § 72, as last am. by Acts, 1910, c. 567.]

INCORPORATION OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.

941. Labor unions may be incorporated. - Corporations may be formed in the manner provided in [R. L., c. 125] for the purpose of improving the condition of any employees in any one or more trades or employments, either relative to their employment or to the promotion of education, temperance, morality or social intercourse among them, or for the purpose of paying benefits to sick or unemployed members, or to persons dependent upon deceased members or otherwise. [R. L., c. 125, § 13.]

942. Organizations must conform to certain conditions. The commissioner of corporations shall not indorse his approval upon the certificate of organization of any such corporation, unless he is satisfied that the purpose of the association is lawful, that its by-laws contain no provision contrary to law and that they conform to the requirements of the following two sections. [R. L., c. 125, § 14.] 943. By-laws of incorporated labor organizations. The by-laws shall contain clear and distinct provisions relative to the election, admission and expulsion of members; the titles, duties, powers and tenure of the officers of the corporation and their election and removal; the number of members required for a quorum; the call for special meetings; the adoption, amendment and repeal of by-laws; the purposes to which the funds of the corporation may be applied and for which assessments may be laid upon the members; the conditions upon which a member or persons dependent upon a deceased member shall be entitled to benefits, if any are to be given by the corporation; the imposition of fines and forfeitures, if any; the deposit, investment and custody of the funds of the corporation; the periodical audit of the accounts of the treasurer; and the method of voting on shares of stock, if any are issued by the corporation. A by-law shall not be repealed or amended, or an additional by-law adopted, unless notice of such proposed action shall have been given at a previous meeting; and such repeal, amendment or adoption shall not take effect until it has been approved by the commissioner of corporations as conformable to the requirements of law. [R. L., c. 125, § 15.]

944. Expulsion of members of incorporated labor organizations. No member of such corporation shall be expelled by vote of less than a majority of all the members thereof, nor by vote of less than three-quarters of the members present and voting upon such expulsion. Every member of such corporation and every person who has an interest in its funds shall be entitled to examine its books and records. [R. L., c. 125, § 16.]

TRADE UNION LABELS, INSIGNIA, ETC.

945. Adoption and recording of labels. A person may adopt a label, not previously owned or adopted by any other person, and file such label for record, by depositing two copies or facsimiles thereof in the office of the secretary of the com