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entered upon under the provisions of this act until such remains shall have been removed to some other cemetery and duly interred therein, with all headstones as they now exist transferred so as to mark their appropriate graves, without expense to the owner of or persons interested in such burial lot.

damages.

SECTION 2. Said city shall be liable to the owners of Liability for and all parties interested in said burial lot, to pay all damages sustained in their property by the taking of any lands under the provisions of the preceding section. If said owners or any party interested as aforesaid cannot agree with the city upon the amount of said damages, such owners or party may have said damages assessed in the same manner as is provided in case of taking land for highways: provided, that any application for a jury to assess said damages shall be made within one year after said damages are sustained.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1889.

AN ACT RELATING TO BUILDINGS IN THE PUBLIC PARKS OF THE Chap.129

• CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

ings may be

erected in the parks in Boston.

SECTION 1. The park commissioners of the city of Certain build. Boston may erect in the parks of said city that now are or hereafter may be under their control, except the common, public garden and public squares, structures for the shelter and refreshment of persons frequenting such parks and for other park purposes, of such materials and in such places as in the opinion of the fire commissioners of said city do not endanger buildings beyond the limits of the park. Section sixteen of chapter fifty-four of the Public Statutes and chapter three hundred and seventy-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five shall not apply to such buildings.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1889.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE JUSTICE OF THE DIS

TRICT COURT OF EASTERN HAMPDEN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.130

lished.

SECTION 1. The salary of the justice of the district Salary estab court of Eastern Hampden shall be twelve hundred dollars

per annum, to be so allowed from the first day of March
in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1889.

Chap.131 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOSTON PILOTS' RELIEF SOCIETY TO

Real and per-
sonal estate not
to exceed
$200,000.

HOLD ADDITIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc.; as follows:

SECTION 1. The Boston Pilots' Relief Society, incorporated by chapter ninety-one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the purposes set forth in said act is hereby authorized to hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1889.

Chap.132 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE

Election of the board of overseers of Har. vard College.

OF THE ACTS OF THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE
IN RELATION TO THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF HARVARD COL-
LEGE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter one hundred and seventy-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five is amended by striking out all of said section after the word "list" in the eleventh line thereof, and by inserting in place thereof the following: - The names of the persons voted for, and the number of votes received for each person, shall be entered in words at length by said inspectors upon a record kept by them for that purpose, which shall, after such election, be forthwith made up, signed and delivered by them to the board of overseers. The persons who shall receive the highest number of votes for the places in said board shall, to the number of overseers to be elected, be deemed and declared by said board elected to be members thereof for the following terms, to wit: The five persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected to the class having the longest term, and in case any vacancy or vacancies exist in any other class or classes, the persons voted for shall be declared elected to such vacancy or vacancies according to the number of votes received by them, the person or persons receiving the next highest number of votes being declared elected to the class having

the next longest term to run, and so on in order for other
vacancies. In case by reason of a tie it shall be uncer-
tain to which class any persons should be declared elected,
the board of overseers shall by vote determine to which
classes the persons receiving the same number of votes
shall be assigned.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1889.

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE A. C. BARNES WHIP COм- Chap.133

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

PANY.

SECTION 1. The name of the A. C. Barnes Whip Name changed. Company is hereby changed to the Massasoit Whip Com

pany.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 19, 1889.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN HUMANE EDUCATION Chap.134

SOCIETY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

mane Education

SECTION 1. George T. Angell, Edmund H. Bennett, American HuSamuel C. Cobb, Henry O. Houghton, Daniel Needham Society, incorand Samuel E. Sawyer, their associates and successors, porated. are hereby made a corporation by the name of The American Humane Education Society, for the purpose of encouraging and promoting humane education throughout the United States of America, and elsewhere, with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to such corporations; with authority to hold real and personal estate for the purposes of the corporation not exceeding in amount five hundred thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1889.

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF
MINORS WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE IN THE ENGLISH LAN-

GUAGE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.135

Section two of chapter four hundred and thirty-three Employment of of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven cannot read and

minors who

write in the English language.

is hereby amended as follows: in the eighth line thereof,
after the word "day", by striking out the words "or
evening" and by adding after the word "school" in the
same line the following words: - or has not attained an
attendance of seventy per cent. or more of the yearly
session of the evening school, so that the section as
amended shall read as follows:- Section 2. Every per-

son who regularly employs, or permits to be employed, a
minor fourteen years of age, or over, who cannot read
and write in the English language, providing such minor
has been, since reaching the age of fourteen years, for
one year continuously a resident of a city or town in this
Commonwealth wherein public evening schools are main-
tained, and is not a regular attendant of a day school, or
has not attained an attendance of seventy per cent. or
more of the yearly session of the evening school, shall,
for every such offence, forfeit not less than fifty nor more
than one hundred dollars, for the use of the evening schools
of such city or town.
Approved March 19, 1889.

Chap.136 AN ACT RELATING TO CLERICAL ASSISTANCE IN THE OFFICE OF

Allowance for clerical assist

ance.

THE REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY FOR THE COUNTY
OF BRISTOL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The register of probate and insolvency for the county of Bristol shall be allowed annually, in addition to the amount now allowed by law, a sum not exceeding four hundred dollars for clerical assistance actually performed, to be paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth upon the official certificate of the judge of probate and insolvency for said county.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 19, 1889. Chap.137 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE CLERK OF THE THIRD

Salary estab lished.

DISTRICT COURT OF PLYMOUTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The salary of the clerk of the third district court of Plymouth shall be five hundred dollars a year, to be so allowed from the first day of March in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 19, 1889.

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE MARLBOROUGH SCHUYLER Chap.138

ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The name of The Marlborough Schuyler Name changed. Electric Light Company, incorporated under the general

laws of this Commonwealth, is hereby changed to the Marlborough Electric Company.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 19, 1889.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOSTON ART CLUB TO HOLD ADDI-
TIONAL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.139

sonal estate not

SECTION 1. The Boston Art Club, incorporated by Real and perchapter seventy-three of the acts of the year eighteen to exceed hundred and seventy-one, is hereby authorized for the $300,000. purposes set forth in said act to hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 21, 1889.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PENTUCKET CLUB OF HAVERHILL. Chap.140 Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

corporated.

SECTION 1. A. Washington Chase, Ira O. Sawyer, Pentucket Club David B. Tenney, William E. Blunt and Charles C. of Haverhill, inGriffin, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Pentucket Club, for the purpose of maintaining a club house and reading room in the city of Haverhill, with the powers and privileges and subject to the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force applicable to such corporations.

sonal estate not

SECTION 2. Said corporation for the purpose aforesaid Real and per may hold real and personal estate to an amount not ex- to exceed ceeding fifty thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 21, 1889.

$50,000.

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