Harbor and land commissioners. Incidental and contingent expenses. Insurance commissioner. Railroad commissioners. Commissioners of savings banks. Inspectors of gas meters. Civil service commissioners. Clerical services, etc. Commissioners on inland fisheries. Controller of county accounts. Board of arbitration. Board of health. Bureau of statistics of labor. COMMISSIONERS, AND OTHERS. For travelling and other necessary expenses incidental thereto, of the harbor and land commissioners, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent office expenses of the harbor and land commissioners, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars." For incidental expenses of the department of the insurance commissioner, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars. For compensation of experts or other agents, for rent of office and for incidental and contingent expenses of the railroad commissioners, a sum not exceeding seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For travelling and incidental expenses of the commissioners of savings banks, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars. For travelling and incidental expenses of the inspector and assistant inspector of gas meters, a sum not exceeding six hundred and fifty dollars; and for furnishing such additional apparatus as the inspector of gas meters may find necessary, a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation and expenses of the civil service commissioners, a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars. For clerical services, examination expenses, printing, advertising, travelling and incidental expenses of the civil service commissioners and chief examiner, a sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars. For compensation and expenses of the commissioners on inland fisheries and game, a sum not exceeding seven thousand seven hundred dollars. For travelling and office expenses of the controller of county accounts, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars. . For travelling, incidental and contingent expenses of the state board of arbitration, a sum not exceeding twentyone hundred dollars. For travelling and general expenses of the state board of health, a sum not exceeding sixty-eight hundred dollars. For the payment of rent of rooms in Ticknor building, for the use of the bureau of statistics of labor for storage purposes, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. AGRICULTURAL. For bounties to agricultural societies, nineteen thousand Agricultural eight hundred dollars. societies, board. For travelling and necessary expenses of the state Expenses of board of agriculture, a sum not exceeding nineteen hundred dollars. expenses. For incidental expenses of the state board of agricult- Incidental ure, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. For travelling and other necessary expenses of the sec- Secretary. retary of the state board of agriculture, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. For the dissemination of useful information in agri- Lectures. culture by means of lectures at farmers' institutes, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars. diseases. For the purpose of exterminating contagious diseases Contagious among horses, cattle and other animals, a sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars. volunteers, etc. EXPENSES RESULTING FROM THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. For the reimbursement of cities and towns for money State and paid on account of state and military aid to Massachusetts military aid to volunteers and their families, a sum not exceeding three hundred and ninety thousand dollars; the same to be paid on or before the first day of December of the present year. For postage, printing and all other necessary expenses Expenses. in carrying out the provisions of the state and military aid laws, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. assistance, etc. For clerical assistance, travelling expenses, rent, care Clerical of rooms and other necessary expenses of the state pension agent, a sum not exceeding thirty-two hundred and thirty-five dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. solvent corpora For the payment of unclaimed moneys in the hands of Moneys of inthe receivers of certain insolvent corporations, after the tions deposited same has been deposited in the treasury of the Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars. in treasury. administrators. To carry out the provisions of the act relative to the Public payment from the treasury of the Commonwealth of funds received from public administrators, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars. Mashpee. For expenses incurred in the construction and repair of Re. roads in the town of Mashpee during the year eighteen Weights and measures for new towns. Armory commissioners. Primary, reform and industrial schools. Boundary lines of cities and towns. hundred and eighty-eight, the sum of three hundred dollars. For weights, measures, balances and reports for sundry newly incorporated towns, a sum not exceeding twentyfour hundred dollars. For clerical services, travelling expenses, incidental, office and other necessary expenses of the armory commissioners, a sum not exceeding twenty-eight hundred dollars. For travelling and other necessary expenses of the trustees of the state primary, reform and industrial schools, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars. For the determination by triangulation of the boundary lines of the cities and towns of this Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding eighty-five hundred dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 34 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE MAGNOLIA IMPROVE Charter amended. Capital stock and shares. MENT COMPANY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section six of chapter two hundred and forty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight is hereby amended, by striking out the word fifty" in the eleventh line of said section and inserting in place thereof the word:twenty-five, so as to read as follows:- Section 6. The capital stock of said corporation shall be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, with liberty to increase said stock by vote of the corporation or of the directors, when the business requires an increase, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, to be paid in and increased at such times and in such manner and with and subject to such rules, regulations, privileges and conditions as the directors may decide: provided, that said corporation shall not begin the transaction of business until capital stock to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be subscribed for and paid in, either in cash or in property, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of corporations of this Commonwealth; and no issue of stock shall be made greater than the capital paid in. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO PRINTING ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE REPORTS Chap. 35 OF THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: copies to be SECTION 1. There shall be printed annually, in addi- Additional tion to the number already allowed by law, five hundred printed. copies of each of the reports of the insurance commissioner, for the use of said commissioner. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 15, 1889. AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO Chap. 36 THE BEST METHODS OF PROTECTING THE PURITY WATERS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: OF INLAND SECTION 1. The sum hereinafter mentioned is appro- Appropriations. priated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, from the ordinary revenue, for the payment of certain expenses in connection with the protection of the purity of inland waters, during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to wit: concerning pur of sewage, etc. For providing for investigations into the best methods Investigations of assuring the purity of water supplies, disposal of ity of water sup sewage, for services of engineers, clerks and other assist- plies, disposal ants, made necessary and authorized by chapter three hundred and seventy-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, which requires the state board of health to have general care and oversight of all inland waters, and report measures for preventing the pollution of the same, also for the proper disposal of all sewage matter, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 15, 1889. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TRUSTEES OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: THE Chap. 37 amended. SECTION 1. Section two of chapter three hundred and Charter thirty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven is hereby amended, by striking out the word "five" in the first line of said section and inserting in place thereof the word: seven, so as to read as follows:- Section 2. The number of said trustees shall Trustees, etc. --- be seven, and in case of any vacancy caused by the death, SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 38 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH Salary Chap. THE SALARY OF THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF HAMPDEN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The salary of the sheriff of the county of Hampden shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum from and after the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 39 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH Salary of first assistant clerk. Chap. 40 Yorick Club of Lowell, incorporated. THE SALARY OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON FOR CIVIL BUSINESS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The salary of the first assistant clerk of the municipal court of the city of Boston for civil business shall be twenty-five hundred dollars a year from the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred eighty-nine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 15, 1889. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE YORICK CLUB OF LOWELL. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. George R. Richardson, Paul Butler, Cyrus W. Irish, Fred A. Chase, Frank W. Howe, Frederick P. Marble, Prentiss Webster and Harry A. Brown, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Yorick Club, for the purpose of maintaining a club house and reading room in the city of Lowell, with the powers and privileges and subject to |