A city or town in which any such public domain is situated, may erect thereon any building for public instruction or recreation, provided that such use thereof is not, in the judgment of the board of agriculture, inconsistent with the purposes expressed in section one. St. 1882,, c. 255, § 5.

No land shall be taken or purchased, no building shall be erected on any such domain, and no expenditures shall be authorized or made, or liability be incurred under this act, by any city or town until an appropriation sufficient to cover the estimated expense thereof shall, in a town, have been made by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters of such town present and voting in a legal town meeting called for the purpose, or in a city by a vote of two-thirds of each branch of the city council of such city; such expenditures shall in no case exceed the appropriations made therefor, and all contracts made for expenditures beyond the amount of such appropriations shall be void; and all expenditures under this act shall be subject to the laws of this Commonwealth limiting municipal indebtedness. St. 1882, c. 255, § 6.

For the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, any town or the city council of any city may issue from time to time, and to an amount not exceeding the sum actually expended for the taking or purchase of lands for such public domain,

bonds or certificates of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof the "Public Domain Loan," and to bear interest at such rates and to be payable at such times as such town or city council may determine; and for the redemption of such loan, such town or city council shall establish a sinking-fund, sufficient, with the accumulating interest, to provide for the payment of such loan at maturity. All amounts received on account of such public domain shall be paid into such sinking-fund until such fund shall amount to a sum sufficient, with its accumulations, to pay at maturity the 'bonds for the security of which the fund was established. St. 1882, c. 255, § 7.

Guideposts. Every town shall, in the manner provided in this chapter, erect and maintain guideposts on the highways and other ways within the town, at such places as are necessary or convenient for the direction of travellers, and shall erect and maintain such guideposts at such forks or intersections of such highways and other ways as lead to adjoining towns or cities. Pub. Sts., c. 53, § 1; St. 1887, c. 162.

The selectmen or road commissioners of each town shall submit to the inhabitants at every annual meeting a report of all the places in which guideposts are erected and maintained within the town, and of all places at which in their opinion they ought to be erected and maintained. For each neglect or refusal to

make such report they shall severally forfeit ten dollars. Pub. Sts., c. 53, § 2.

Upon the report of the selectmen or road commissioners the town shall determine the several places at which guideposts shall be erected and maintained, which shall be recorded in the town records. A town which neglects or refuses to determine such places, and to cause a record thereof to be made, shall forfeit five dollars for every month during which it neglects or refuses so to do; and in such case, upon any trial for not erecting or maintaining guideposts reported to be necessary or convenient by the selectmen or road commissioners, the town shall be estopped from alleging that such guideposts were not necessary or convenient. Pub. Sts., c. 53, § 3.

At each of the places determined by the town there shall be erected a substantial post of not less than eight feet in height, near the upper end of which shall be placed a board or boards, and upon each board shall be plainly and legibly painted, or otherwise marked, the name of the next town or place to which each of such roads leads, and of such other town or place of note as the selectmen or road commissioners may think proper, together with the distance or number of miles to the same; and also the figure of a hand, with the forefinger thereof pointing towards the town or places to which said roads lead; but the inhabitants of a town may, at their an

nual meeting, agree upon some suitable substitute for such guideposts. Pub. Sts., c. 53, § 4.

Every town which neglects or refuses to erect and maintain such guideposts, or some suitable substitutes therefor, shall forfeit annually five dollars for every guidepost which it so neglects or refuses to maintain. Pub. Sts., c. 53, § 5. Headstones for Soldiers. See Memorial Day.

History. Towns may grant and vote money for procuring the writing and publishing of their town histories. Pub. Sts., c. 27, § 10.

Hospitals. A city or town not maintaining or managing a hospital is hereby authorized to make a contract with any hospital established therein, or in its vicinity, for the reception, care, and treatment of persons who, by misfortune or poverty, require relief during temporary sickness, and may make the necessary appropriations of money therefor. But nothing herein shall

add to the compensation now required from the Commonwealth, or from any city or town, for the care and treatment of any person who shall be chargeable as a pauper to the Commonwealth, or to any city or town, or diminish the right of the Commonwealth to require the removal of a pauper dependent upon it for relief to the State almshouse. St. 1890, c. 119. See Poor. Any town may authorize its Board of Health to make and enforce in such town such regulations as said board may deem

House Drainage.

necessary for the safety and health of the people with reference to house drainage and its connection with public sewers, when a public sewer abuts the estate to be drained. Whoever violates any such regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. St. 1889, c. 108.

Impounding Cattle. When beasts are taken up and distrained by a field driver in a town which has adopted the provisions of chapter 366 of the statutes of the year 1869, or of this section, he may impound them in any suitable place on his own premises; and for the purposes of this chapter he shall be considered a pound keeper, and such place on his own premises shall be considered a town pound in relation to beasts therein impounded. Pub. Sts., c. 36, § 29.

Jury List. The selectmen of each town shall once in every year prepare a list of such inhabitants of the town, not absolutely exempt, as they think well qualified to serve as jurors, being persons of good moral character, of sound judgment, and free from all legal exceptions ; which list shall include not less than one for every one hundred inhabitants of the town, and not more than one for every sixty inhabitants, computing by the then last census, except that in Dukes County it may include one for every thirty inhabitants.

The list, when so prepared, shall be posted up by the selectmen in public places in the town ten days at least before it is submitted