House of detention in city of Boston to be the board of police. Matron, assistant matron and female assistants. or direction of any police officer attached to a station excepting the officer in command thereof at the time. In every station to which a police matron is attached it shall be the duty of the authority ap pointing her to provide, at the expense of the city, sufficient and proper accommodation for women held under arrest. SECT. 3. In the city of Boston the board of police shall establish within three months after the passage of this act, and shall maintain, established by a house of detention for the reception and confinement of women under arrest; and for that purpose said board shall have the authority to hire, lease, alter, and arrange a building or buildings, and to fit up the same in a suitable manner. Reasonable salaries for the officers and assistants of such house of detention hereinafter provided for shall be fixed by concurrent action of the city council and of said board of police, and such salaries, together with all expenses incurred for the establishment of such house of detention, for the maintenance of the same, and for the transportation of prisoners thereto and therefrom, shall be paid by the city treasurer of said city of Boston upon the requisition of said board. Said board of police may prescribe all needful rules and regulations not inconsistent with this act, for the government of such house of detention. The officers of such house of detention shall consist of a chief matron, an assistant chief matron, and as many assistant matrons and other male or female assistants as said board of police may deem necessary for the proper management of the same. The chief matron and assistant chief matron shall be appointed by the board of police, but no woman shall be so appointed unless suitable for the position and recommended therefor in writing by at least twenty-five women of good standing, residents of the city of Boston; they shall be appointed to hold office until removal, and they may be removed at any time by said board by written order stating the cause of removal. The assistant matrons and other assistants shall be appointed, and may be suspended, by the chief matron, subject to the approval of said board of police. Either the chief matron or the assistant chief matron shall be on duty at all hours of the day and night. A police officer who takes a woman to such house of detention shall render such assistance in placing her under confinement as the chief matron or assistant chief matron may require, and the chief matron or assistant chief matron may at any time send to the nearest police station for such police assistance as she may require. Matron to be summoned to police station when a woman is arrested. SECT. 4. Whenever a woman is arrested and taken to a police station to which a matron is attached, it shall be the duty of the police officer in command of such station to cause such matron to be summoned forthwith, if she is not then present; and whenever in any city in which a police matron has been appointed, or in the city of Boston, a woman is arrested and taken to a station to which no matron is attached, it shall be the duty of such officer to cause such woman to be removed as soon as possible to the nearest station to which a matron is attached, or in the city of Boston to the house of detention above provided for, and the city treasurer of the city shall pay the reasonable expense of such removal, upon the requisition of the authority at the head of the police department of the city. In the city of Boston the board of police shall make regulations prescribing the police divisions from which all women arrested shall be taken or sent directly to said house of detention, without confinement in a police station, and the disposition that shall be made, in compliance with the provisions of this act, of women arrested in the other police divisions to whose stations no matron is attached. No such removal of a woman shall operate to take from any court any jurisdiction which it would otherwise have had. and "woman " SECT. 5. The expression "police station" or "station" in this "Police staact shall include any place where persons are temporarily confined on," "station"," under arrest; the expression "woman" shall include any person of defined. the female sex. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. April 27, 1887. MANAGEMENT OF AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER AND THE Be it enacted, etc.: of Cedar Grove cemetery incor SECTION 1. Thomas F. Temple, Herbert S. Carruth, Albe C. The proprietors Clark, J. Frank Howland, and William Pope, proprietors of lots in Cedar Grove cemetery, their associates and successors, are hereby porated. made a corporation by the name of The Proprietors of Cedar Grove Cemetery; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to such corporations, except as is hereinafter provided. sonal estate. SECT. 2. Said corporation may purchase, acquire, receive, and Real and per. hold real estate in that part of the city of Boston which was formerly Dorchester, to the extent of sixty acres; and said corporation may also hold personal estate to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. to become SECT. 3. All persons now owning lots in said cemetery, or who Owners of lots shall hereafter become proprietors of lots therein, shall be and become members of members of said corporation. corporation. to be trustees, etc. SECT. 4. The officers of said corporation shall consist of seven Commissioners trustees, a treasurer, and a secretary, and such other officers as they may direct. The same person may hold the offices of secretary and treasurer. The secretary shall be clerk of the board of trustees. The five persons now commissioners of Cedar Grove cemetery under the provisions of an act passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act relating to a public cemetery in the town of Dorchester," and the acts in addition thereto, shall respectively be and remain trustees under this act until three years after the expiration of their respective terms of service under the aforesaid acts; and at the first annual meeting of said corporation two additional trustees of said corporation shall be chosen, one of whom shall hold his office for one year, and the other shall hold his office for two years from the time of such election. All vacancies in said board of Vacancies. trustees shall be filled by elections by ballot. At the annual meeting in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one trustee shall be chosen, who shall hold his office for the term of seven years. At every annual meeting thereafter one trustee shall be chosen to hold his office for the term of seven years after his election. And the said trustees shall have the general management, care, and superintendence of the property, expenditures, business and prudential affairs of said corporation, and of the sales of lots in said cemetery, and shall make a report of their doings to the corporation at its annual meeting. The treasurer shall give such bonds as the trustees may Treasurer to direct. In case of a vacancy in said board of trustees by death, res give bonds. property, rights, etc. ignation, removal, or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled by the choice of another trustee, who shall hold his office for the residue of the term for which such member, so deceased, resigned, or removed, would have held the same. And such election may be made at any annual or special meeting of said corporation. Said trustees shall not receive any compensation for their services as such trustees. City of Boston SECT. 5. The city of Boston is hereby authorized and required to to convey to corporation all transfer and convey, immediately upon the organization of this corporation, to said corporation all the right, title, and interest which it has in the lands which have been purchased or set apart for said cemetery, and in and to all other estate, property, rights, and things purchased or otherwise obtained, acquired, and accrued to said cemetery, and within the territory aforesaid, which said city now has or is entitled to have, and in and to any and all moneys standing to the credit of said cemetery upon the books of the city of Boston, and all other rights, interests, moneys, and trust funds relating to said cemetery. And said corporation shall hold the said property, estate, and rights for the same uses and purposes, and charged with the same duties and liabilities for and subject to which the same are now held by the city of Boston; and all rights which any persons have acquired in said cemetery shall remain valid to the same extent as if this act had not been passed. Annual meetings. Upon convey. ance made, cor ceed to all rights, etc. SECT. 6. The annual meetings of said corporation shall be held on the fourth Monday of April in each year, at such place in the city of Boston as the trustees shall direct, and notices thereof, signed by the secretary, shall be published in one or more of the newspapers printed in Boston at least seven days before the meeting; special meetings may be called by order of the trustees in the same manner. At all meetings of said corporation a quorum for business shall consist of not less than nine persons, and any business may be transacted of which notice shall be given in the advertisements for the meeting, and all questions shall be decided by a majority of the members present and represented, and voting either in person or by proxy. SECT. 7. As soon as said city of Boston shall have made the conporation to suc. veyance and transfer of said property as aforesaid, said corporation shall succeed to all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, obligations, and liabilities in respect to the same, which said city of Boston had or was liable to before such conveyance, and the trustees herein provided for, shall have all the rights, powers, authorities, trusts, immunities, and privileges which the said commissioners under the said act, entitled "An act relating to a public cemetery in the town of Dorchester," and the acts in addition thereto had, and after such conveyance the last named commissioners shall cease to have any power or authority under the said act. but shall have and hold their power and authority under this act. And said trustees shall have the authority to grant and convey to any person or persons by deeds duly executed the sole and exclusive rights of burial and of erecting tombs, cenotaphs, and other monuments in any of the designated lots or subdivisions of said cemetery, upon such terms and conditions as they by their rules and regulations shall from time to time prescribe; and said trustees may from time to time make such rules and regulations in regard to the mode and manner in which the proprietors shall exercise the rights granted to them in their respective lots or subdivisions of land in said cemetery as to them shall seem fit, the same not being inconsistent with this act or the laws of this Commonwealth relating to such cemeteries, and such regulations shall be binding upon all proprietors in the same. Trustees to make rules and regulations. take and hold trust. SECT. 8. Said board of trustees are hereby authorized to take and Trustees may hold any grant, donation, or bequest of property upon trust to apply donation, etc., the same or the income thereof for the improvement or embellishment of property in of said cemetery or for the erection, repair, preservation, or renewal of any monument, fence, or other erection, or for the planting and cultivation of trees, shrubs, or plants in or around any lot, or for improving said premises in any other manner or form consistent with the purposes for which said cemetery is established according to the terms of such grant, donation, or bequest; and whenever any such grant, donation, or bequest, or any deposit of any money shall be made by the proprietor of any lot in said cemetery, for the annual repair, preservation, or embellishment of such lot and the erections thereon, the said trustees may give to such proprietor or his representative an agreement or obligation in such form and upon such conditions as they may establish, binding themselves and their successors to preserve and keep in repair said lot forever, or for any such period as may be agreed upon. And any sums of money so received by said Investment of trustees shall be, and any other funds in their hands may be by them invested in savings banks, and in any securities in which savings banks are authorized to invest. And unless other provision is made by the terms of any such grant, donation, or bequest, all such sums and property shall be under the direction of said board of trustees, and the income of such fund or funds shall be appropriated by said board of trustees in such manner as shall in their opinion best promote the purposes for which said grants, donations, bequests, or deposits are made; but said board of trustees shall not be liable to make any renewal or reconstruction of any monument or other erection on any lot in said cemetery, unless such liability shall be expressed in the agreement given by them as aforesaid, or in the terms and conditions under which they accept any grant, donation, or bequest. funds. sales, etc., to be SECT. 9. All personal property now belonging to said cemetery, Proceeds of and the proceeds of all sales of lots in lands now held or hereafter to applied to im be acquired by said cemetery, shall be forever devoted and applied to provement and the preservation, improvement, embellishment, protection, and en- cemetery. largement of said cemetery, and the incidental expenses thereof, and to no other purpose. protection of effect upon acceptance. SECT. 10. This act shall take effect upon its passage so far as to To take full authorize the commissioners to call the meeting hereafter mentioned, and for the proprietors to act upon the acceptance of the same; and it shall take full effect whenever the proprietors of lots in said cemetery shall, within sixty days after the passage of this act, accept the same at a meeting of such proprietors to be held at such time and place as shall be designated by the commissioners of Cedar Grove cemetery, who shall be in office at the time of the passage of this act. Said meeting shall be called by the said commissioners, to be held at some suitable place within the city of Boston, by publishing notices of the time, place, and purpose thereof, once in each of two successive weeks, in two or more newspapers published in said city, the last of which publications shall be at least seven days before said meeting. SECT. 11. If this act shall be accepted at the meeting of said pro- Annual meetprietors mentioned in the preceding section, by the votes of the ma-ing. jority of said proprietors present or represented at said meeting, voting in person or by proxy, the meeting for the organization of said corporation, and the annual meeting of said corporation for the present year, shall be held at the same place and on the same day with the said meeting mentioned in the preceding section, and immediately after the acceptance of this act, and such notice of the said meeting for organizing said corporation, and of said annual meeting shall be given by said commissioners as they shall deem expedient; and the trustees elected at such annual meeting shall hold their offices, one for one year and one for two years from the first Monday of May of the present year. May 2, 1887. Clerk to be appointed. Salary. Subject to law governing clerks of police, etc., courts. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A CLERK FOR THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. There shall be a clerk of the municipal court of the West Roxbury district of the city of Boston, who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of law relating to the appointment of clerks of police and district courts, who shall enter upon his duties on the first day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. SECT. 2. Said clerk shall receive from the county of Suffolk an annual salary of five hundred dollars. SECT. 3. Said clerk shall be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to clerks of police and district courts. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. May 14, 1887. Inspectors of Repeal. AN ACT TO FURTHER AMEND SECTION TWENTY-THREE OF CHAPTER ONE Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. Section twenty-three of chapter one hundred and four of the Public Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "The authority of the inspectors mentioned in section thirteen of this chapter to enforce the provisions of sections fourteen to twenty-two inclusive shall not extend to the city of Boston." SECT. 2. Chapter two hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven is hereby repealed. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. May 16, 1887. Limit of taxation in the city of Boston. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and seventyeight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five is |