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SECT. 4. In addition to the powers already granted, said corpora- May remove tion shall have power to remove any obstructions in channels of said marsh which may thereafter accumulate, whereby the drainage of its said meadow lands is obstructed and prevented, and to vote and raise money for said purposes, and for all other necessary expenses of said corporation; and all moneys which may be voted to be raised as aforesaid shall be assessed upon each proprietor in said meadows according to the number of acres owned by him and the benefits likely to be received. Any owner who is aggrieved by the amount of tax levied on Remedy for his land may, at any time within thirty days after said assessment, grieved. appeal to the county commissioners for the county of Barnstable, who shall have power to reduce or increase the amount of said tax, and make the same as said corporation should have made it under the provisions of this Act; and if any owner neglects or refuses to pay the sum assessed upon him as aforesaid for sixty days after demand therefor, so much of his land may be sold as will be sufficient to pay the same, together with the costs, in the same way and manner as land of non-resident owners in this Commonwealth is sold to pay taxes; but nothing herein contained shall authorize arrest of person or the sale of any property except said meadow lands. All sums for which Amount of judgment may be recovered by any party against said corporation red to be judgment recovshall be assessed upon each proprietor, and collected in the same assessed upon manner as moneys voted to be raised for other purposes under this section.

proprietors.

fisheries and

SECT. 5. Said corporation shall have the exclusive right to conduct May conduct the fisheries at and about said dam and sluice-way, and may introduce introduce and and propagate any kind of fish.

SECT. 6. This Act shall not take effect until the owners of twothirds of all the meadow lands included herein shall have expressed in writing their acceptance hereof, which instrument of acceptance, together with the oath of at least three of said owners that in their belief the owners of two-thirds of all of said meadow lands have signed the same, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, and the certificate of said secretary that such instrument has been so filed shall be primâ facie evidence of such acceptance. March 28, 1882.

propagate fish. When to take effect.

CHAPTER 123.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF WAYLAND TO RAISE
ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO EXTEND AND COMPLETE ITS WATER-
WORKS.

66 Wayland Water Loan."

St. 1878, ch. 80,

SECTION 1. The town of Wayland, for the purposes named in chapter eighty of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventyeight, may issue notes, bonds, or scrip from time to time, signed by $4. the treasurer and countersigned by the chairman of the selectmen, to be denominated on the face thereof " Wayland Water Loan," to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, in addition to the amount authorized by section four of said chapter eighty, and in the manner provided in said section.

SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 28,

May pay cer

soldiers and

their legal representatives.

CHAPTER 124.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF ANDOVER TO PAY CER-
TAIN BOUNTIES.

SECTION 1. The town of Andover is authorized in the manner protain bounties to vided in section two of this Act to raise by taxation a sum of money not exceeding sixty-five hundred dollars, and appropriate the same to the payment of a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each soldier and the legal representatives of each deceased soldier of Company H, of the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, who re-enlisted in the service of the United States as a veteran under the call of the President of the United States dated October seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and was credited to said town, and has never received any bounty for re-enlistment from said town: provided, that said town shall not be re-imbursed by the Commonwealth for any money paid under authority of this Act.

Subject to

acceptance by vote of the town.

SECT. 2. At any legal meeting of said town called for the purpose a vote may be taken on the question of raising such money and appropriating the same to the payment of such bounties. The check list shall be used at such meeting and the polls shall be kept open at least four hours. The vote shall be by separate ballot, and the ballots shall be " Yes," or "No," in answer to the question: "Will the town pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each soldier and the legal representatives of each deceased soldier of Company H, of the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, who re-enlisted as a veteran under the call of the President of the United States dated October seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and was credited to the town, and has never received any bounty for re-enlistment from the town, and raise the sum of sixtyfive hundred dollars and appropriate the same to the payment of said bounties?" March 28,

SECT. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its passage.

1882.

Additional probation officers may be appointed.

Pub. Sts. ch. 212, § 78.

Pub. Sts. ch. 212, § 78, amended.

CHAPTER 125.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL
PROBATION OFFICERS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

SECTION 1. The mayor and aldermen of the city of Boston may, if in their judgment it seems proper so to do, appoint two additional probation officers in the manner and subject to the provisions prescribed in section seventy-eight of chapter two hundred and twelve of the Public Statutes.

SECT. 2. Section seventy-eight of chapter two hundred and twelve of the Public Statutes is hereby amended by striking out in the second line the words "annually in the month of May and." March 28,

1882.

Corporators.

CHAPTER 126.

AN ACT ΤΟ INCORPORATE THE BOSTON LIGHT INFANTRY

VETERAN CORPS.

SECTION 1. John C. Whiton, Samuel A. Green, William H. Jackson, Fred R. Shattuck, William G. Train, John D. Lilley, L. H.

Baldwin, Joshua M. Cushing, Cornelius G. Attwood, Warren S. Davis, James C. Laughton, Charles H. Allen, John K. Hall, Charles W. Wilder, Louis N. Tucker, D. W. Wardrop, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a corporation by the name of the Name. Boston Light Infantry Veteran Corps, with all the powers and privi- Powers and leges and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force applicable to such corporations.

duties.

to aged and in

SECT. 2. The objects of the corporation shall be to afford pecu- To afford relief niary relief to aged, reduced, and indigent members, and their widows digent memand children, and to promote social union and patriotic fellowship bers. among the members, and to preserve and keep alive the recollections of past services in the Boston Light Infantry.

sonal property.

SECT. 3. The said corporation shall have power to hold property Real and perreal and personal to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. SECT. 4. The members of said corporation may parade in public with side arms.

March 28, 1882.

CHAPTER 127.

AN ACT RELATING TO JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

to be committed

SECTION 1. No court or magistrate shall commit any child under Child under twelve years of age to a jail or house of correction, to the house of twelve years not industry of the city of Boston, or to the State workhouse, in default for offence not punishable by of bail, for non-payment of fine or costs, or both, or for punishment imprisonment for any offence not punishable by imprisonment for life, of which said for life. child may have been adjudged guilty.

custody of state board of health.

SECT. 2. Whenever any child under twelve years of age is held by Such child to be any court or magistrate for examination or trial, and said child is committed to unable to furnish bail for such examination or trial, such court or magistrate shall commit said child to the custody of the state board of health, lunacy, and charity; and said board is authorized to make all proper provisions for the safe keeping of said child, and for his presence at the examination or trial for which he is held, at the time and place named in the mittimus.

issued, and if

appear, then a arrest.

warrant for

SECT. 3. When a complaint is made to any court or magistrate of Summons to be any offence, not punishable by imprisonment for life, committed by a child fails to child under twelve years of age, such court or magistrate, if an examination is deemed necessary, shall, in the first instance, issue a summons to said child requiring his presence before such court or magistrate at the time and place named in said summons; and if said child fails then and there to appear as directed in said summons, such court or magistrate shall then issue a warrant for the arrest of said child. SECT. 4. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to either of the offences mentioned in section ten of chapter forty-eight of the Public tioned in Pub. Statutes. March 28, 1882.

Not to apply to

offences men

Sts. ch. 48, § 10.

CHAPTER 128.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE AMES MANUFACTURING COMPANY
TO INCREASE ITS CAPITAL STOCK.

SECTION 1. The Ames Manufacturing Company, incorporated by chapter thirty-one of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and thirty

St. 1831, ch. 31. capital stock.

May increase

Salary.

four, is authorized to increase its capital stock by an amount which,
together with the capital stock heretofore authorized, shall not exceed
in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars, and to invest such
increase in the capital stock in real and personal estate necessary and
convenient for carrying on the business of said corporation.
SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 30,
1882.

CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE JUDGE OF PRO-
BATE AND INSOLVENCY FOR THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.

SECTION 1. The judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Middlesex, from and after the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars.

SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 30, 1882.

Investment of funds of the Commonwealth.

Pub. Sts. ch. 16, $ 60.

CHAPTER 130.

AN ACT REGULATING THE INVESTMENT OF THE FUNDS OF
THE COMMONWEALTH.

SECTION 1. In addition to the securities authorized by the provisions of section sixty of chapter sixteen of the Public Statutes for the investment of funds over which the Commonwealth has exclusive control, money's belonging to such funds may be invested in the bonds or notes of any incorporated district in this Commonwealth or of any city of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island or Connecticut, issued for municipal purposes, whose net indebtedness at the time of purchase does not exceed five per cent. of the last preceding valuation of the property therein for the assessment of taxes; or in the notes of any corporation established within this Commonwealth to become due in one year or less time if secured by a pledge of bonds of the United States or of this Commonwealth to at least an equal amount estimating the bonds at not more than eighty-five per centum of their market value.

SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 30,

1882.

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CHAPTER 131.

AN ACT CEDING TO THE UNITED STATES JURISDICTION OVER
CERTAIN LAND FOR THE FISH AND FISHERIES COMMISSION.

THE fourth section of the first chapter of the Public Statutes is amended by inserting after the word "navigators," in the sixth line thereof, the words "or for the use of the United States Fish and Fisheries Commission." March 30, 1882.

CHAPTER 132.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE DESCENT OF THE REAL ESTATE OF

ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.

estate.

SECTION four of chapter one hundred and twenty-five of the Public Descent of real Statutes, relating to the descent of the real estate of illegitimate Pub. Sts. ch. children, is amended by adding thereto the following words: --or in 125, § 4, case she is not living, to the persons who would have been entitled thereto by inheritance through his mother if he had been a legitimate child. March 30, 1882.

amended.

CHAPTER 133.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PAYMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS BY
CITIES AND TOWNS.

nual propor

ments, instead

of establishing pub. Sts. ch. 29. St. 1883, ch. 72,

sinking funds.

SECTION 1. Any city or town required by chapter twenty-nine of May by vote the Public Statutes to establish a sinking fund for the payment of its provide for anindebtedness may, instead thereof, by a majority vote provide for the tionate paypayment of such indebtedness in such annual proportionate payments as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed in said chapter; and when such vote has been heretofore or shall be hereafter passed, the amount required thereby shall, without further vote, be assessed by the assessors in each year thereafter, until the debt shall be extinguished, in the same manner as other taxes are assessed under the provisions of section thirty-four of chapter eleven of the Public Pub. Sts. ch. 11, Statutes. $ 34.

§ 2.

made.

SECT. 2. The return required by section ninety-one of chapter Returns to be eleven of the Public Statutes shall state the amount of any sinking Pub. Sts, ch. 11, fund established, and if not so established whether action has been § 91. taken in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section and the amounts raised and applied thereunder for the current year. SECT. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. March 30, 1882.

CHAPTER 134.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPOSIT OF MONEY IN LIEU OF FUR-
NISHING SURETIES IN CRIMINAL CASES.

furnishing

inal cases.

SECTION 1. When a person arrested on criminal process has been Deposit of ordered to recognize with surety or sureties for his appearance before money in lieu of any court or trial justice he may, instead of giving sureties, at any sureties in crimtime give his personal recognizance and deposit the amount of the bail which he is ordered to furnish with the court, trial justice, or magistrate authorized by law to take such recognizance, and such court, trial justice, or magistrate shall give him a certificate thereof, and upon delivering said certificate to the officer in whose custody he is he shall be discharged from custody.

clerk,

SECT. 2. Such court, trial justice, or magistrate on the receipt of Money to be such deposit shall at once deposit the same with the clerk of the court deposited with or with the trial justice before whom such person recognized to appear, and in case such court has no clerk with the justice of said court.

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