said section, and such statement shall be kept on file with SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.389 AN ACT RELATIVE TO NOTICES IN CASES OF INJURIES TO PERSONS Notices in cases of injuries to persons or property. OR PROPERTY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. In an action to recover for bodily injury, or damage to a person in his property, hereafter sustained, no defendant shall avail himself in defence of such action of any omission to state in the written notice now required by law, the time, place or cause of the injury or damage, unless, within five days after the receipt of a written notice given by the person entitled to give the same within the time now required by law, which notice shall refer to the injury or injuries sustained and claim damages or payment therefor, the person or corporation receiving such notice, or some one in his or its behalf, shall give to the person injured, or to the person giving or serving such notice in behalf of the person injured, or to the executor or administrator of the person injured, a notification in writing that the notice given is not in compliance with the law, and requesting forthwith a further written notice which shall comply with the law. And if the person legally authorized to give such notice shall, within five days after the receipt of such notification and request for a further written notice, give a further written notice complying with the law as to the time, place and cause of the injury or damage; such notice shall be of the same legal effect as if it had been given at the time of the original notice, and shall be considered as a part thereof. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.390 AN ACT TO LEGALIZE THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL TOWN Proceedings of town meeting legalized. MEETING OF THE TOWN OF IPSWICH. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The election of town officers for the town of Ipswich at the annual town meeting of said town in the present year, held on the fifth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and continued by ad journment on the nineteenth day of March and second day of April, shall not be invalid by reason of the fact that the nomination papers for the officers to be elected at said meeting were not certified to by the registrars of voters, as required by law; and the proceedings of said meeting in respect to the election of said officers are hereby legalized and declared valid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 12, 1894. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE MEDFIELD INSANE ASYLUM. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.391 SECTION 1. For the purpose of meeting any expenses Medfield Insane incurred, and that may be hereafter incurred, under the Asylum Loan. provisions of chapter four hundred and twenty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act to provide for the building of an asylum for the chronic insane", or of any act supplementary thereto, the treasurer and receiver general is hereby authorized, with the approval of the governor and council, to issue scrip or certificates of indebtedness to an amount not exceeding seven hundred thousand dollars, for a term not exceeding thirty years. Said scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall be issued as registered bonds or with interest coupons attached, and shall bear interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of April and October in each year. Such scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall be designated on the face thereof, Medfield Insane Asylum Loan; shall be countersigned by the governor and shall be deemed a pledge of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth, and the principal and interest shall be paid at the times specified therein in gold coin of the United States or its equivalent; and said scrip or certificates of debt shall be sold and disposed of at public auction or in such other mode and at such times and prices and in such amounts and at such rates of interest, not exceeding the rate above-specified, as shall be deemed best. The treasurer and receiver general shall, on issuing any of said scrip or certificates of indebtedness, establish a sinking fund, into which shall be paid any premiums received on the sale of said bonds; and he shall apportion thereto from year to year, in addition, amounts Proceeds of sale of bonds, etc. Repeal. sufficient with their accumulations to extinguish at maturity the debt incurred by the issue of said bonds. The amount necessary to meet the annual sinking fund requirements and to pay the interest on said bonds shall be raised by taxation from year to year. SECTION 2. From the proceeds of the sale of the bonds referred to in section one of this act there shall be paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth such amounts as may have been already expended under authority of chapter four hundred and twenty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two. SECTION 3. So much of said chapter four hundred and twenty-five and of any other act as is inconsistent with this act is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 15, 1894. Chap.392 AN ACT REQUIRING THE OLD COLONY RAILROAD To operate a ferry between New Bedford and Fairhaven. Penalty for delay. Toll for transportation. COMPANY TO OPERATE A FERRY ACROSS THE ACUSHNET RIVER BETWEEN THE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The Old Colony Railroad Company is hereby required to provide and operate a suitable ferry between some point in the city of New Bedford at or near the easterly termination of School street and some point in Fairhaven at or near the southerly termination of Water street, in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two and chapter one hundred and twenty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four. SECTION 2. Said company shall forfeit to the Commonwealth one hundred dollars a day for each day's delay in operating such ferry after the first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or after the expiration of such further time as the railroad commissioners may upon hearing prescribe, and the supreme judicial court shall have jurisdiction in equity upon a petition of ten or more citizens of the city of New Bedford, or of the town of Fairhaven, to enforce the provisions of this act. SECTION 3. Said company is hereby authorized to collect and receive such toll for the transportation of persons, animals, vehicles, articles or freight as shall be approved by the board of railroad commissioners, but such toll shall not exceed the sum of five cents for transportation one SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.393 printed at the session of the close of each general court. SECTION 1. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall, Acts and Actives to be at the close of each session of the general court, collate and cause to be printed in one volume, in style and arrangement as heretofore, all the acts and resolves passed and any amendments to the constitution agreed to during such session, with the governor's address and messages, the constitution of the Commonwealth, a list of the changes of names returned during the preceding year by the probate courts, a list of the officers of the civil government of the Commonwealth, and an index. of acts and SECTION 2. Eight thousand five hundred copies of said Distribution volume shall be printed, and the secretary shall immedi- resolves. ately after their publication deposit one of said copies in his office and distribute others as follows: To the clerk of the senate, for the use of the senate, twelve copies. To the clerk of the house of representatives. for the use of the house, twenty-four copies. To each member of the general court, and to the clerks of each branch thereof, thirteen copies. To the librarian of the state library, for the use of the library, twenty-five copies. To the governor; the lieutenant governor; the members of the executive council; the treasurer and receiver general; the auditor of the Commonwealth; the attorneygeneral; the adjutant general; the chief of the district police; the fire marshal of Boston; the controller of county accounts; every permanent state board or commission having an office and clerk; the justices and clerks of the supreme judicial and superior courts; the justices. and clerks of the municipal, police and district courts; trial justices; justices of the peace to issue warrants and take bail; district attorneys; masters in chancery; medical examiners; the judges and registers of probate and insolvency; registers of deeds; county commissioners ; Distribution of acts and resolves. Pamphlet edition of acts be printed and distributed. county treasurers; sheriffs; city and town clerks, for the use of their respective cities and towns; the warden of the state prison; the superintendent of the Massachusetts reformatory; the superintendent of the reformatory prison for women; keepers of jails and houses of correction; superintendents of state lunatic hospitals and asylums; superintendents of the state primary and reform schools; superintendents of the state almshouse and the state farm; Harvard University; Williams College; Amherst College; Tufts College; Wellesley College; Smith College; College of the Holy Cross; Boston College; Boston University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Massachusetts Agricultural College; the state normal schools; such high schools in the Commonwealth as may apply; one common school in each town having no high school,—such common school to be designated by the school committee of the town; such other educational institutions as the secretary of the Commonwealth may, in his discretion, designate; all free public libraries; the county law libraries; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the New England Historic Genealogical Society; the Boston Athenæum; the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester; such other historical organizations as the secretary of the Commonwealth may, in his discretion, designate; the justices of the supreme court of the United States; the judges and clerks of the United States circuit and district courts for Massachusetts, one copy each. SECTION 3. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall and resolves to also, at the close of each session of the general court, cause to be published in pamphlet form twenty-five thousand copies of all the acts and resolves passed and of any proposed amendments to the constitution agreed to during such session, and shall cause a copy of each separate portion or signature, so-called, of such edition, as soon as it may be printed, to be sent to each of the following officers: the clerks of the several cities and towns, for the use of the inhabitants thereof; the justices and clerks of the supreme judicial and superior courts; the judges and clerks of the municipal, police and district courts; the judges and registers of the probate courts; the district attorneys; the sheriff's; the trial justices; the justices of the peace to issue warrants and take bail; the county law libraries. He may also cause copies of such signa |