Boards of aldermen of said cities may grant locations for street cars on said bridge. May make cer tain contracts with street rail. way companies. Cities to have care and management of bridge and draw, etc. SECT. 2. The boards of aldermen of said cities, or either of them within the limits of its city, may by vote grant locations and set apart a portion of said bridge when so widened for the special use of street cars, or may grant locations under the provisions of chapter one hundred and thirteen of the Public Statutes; and said boards of aldermen or either of them are hereby authorized and empowered to Contract with any street railway company, owning, controlling, or running street cars on said bridge for the making of said widening, or for the payment of all or any part of the expense or cost thereof, and for keeping the same in repair, and for the setting apart as aforesaid of a portion of said bridge when so widened for such special use of such street cars. Such street railway company may acquire private lands, by purchase or lease, for the purpose of making proper approaches to or for the extension of such location. The board of aldermen of the city where such lands are situate may then grant to said company special locations on and over lands so acquired. SECT. 3. The care and management of the whole of said bridge and draw shall remain in said cities; the expense of all repairs made on that portion of it set apart for the special use of street cars shall be borne by the company owning or controlling said cars, so long as it continues to use it. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. May 23, 1889. City may take certain land for library. 1889. CHAPTER 379. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO TAKE LAND FOR THE Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. The city of Boston, for purposes connected with the uses of public public library of said city, may, through the agency of the board of street commissioners of said city, take a certain lot of land in said Boston, bounded south by Blagden street, twenty-five and a half feet; east by land known as the new public library lot; north by a passageway, twenty-five and a half feet, and west by a line parallel with and twenty-five and a half feet westerly from said library lot, together with the right to use said passageway in common with others having any right therein, and shall pay for the same with the proceeds of the loan authorized by chapter sixty-eight of the acts of the current year. SECT. 2. The said board of street commissioners shall, within sixty days from the time of taking said land for the purposes of this act, cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county of Suffolk a description of the land so taken as certain as is required in a common conveyance of land, and a statement of the purpose for which it was taken, which description and statement shall be signed by a majority of said board. Description of land taken to be recorded in reg. istry within sixty days. City to pay damages. Jury may be had if parties do not agree. SECT. 3. The city of Boston shall pay all damages for injuries to property sustained by any person whose property is taken under authority of this act; and if the said board and any person whose property is taken cannot agree upon the amount of damages a jury of the superior court may be had to determine the same in the same manner as a jury is had and damages are determined when parties are dissatisfied with an estimate of damages sustained by any person in the laying out of a highway in said city. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. May 28, 1889. [1878, 114; 1880, 222; 1882, 143; 1883, 141; 1887, 60; 1889, 68; 1891, 324.] ! AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CORRECTION OF TAX BILLS AND THE REGISTRA- Be it enacted, etc.: Errors in names assessors, and SECT. 2. Section nine of chapter two hundred and forty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, relating to registration in the city of Boston, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty is hereby further amended by striking out at the beginning thereof the words, "All corrections of assessed names upon to be corrected tax bills shall be made by the board of assessors, the registrars of on tax bills by voters, or assistant registrars, on a form of certificate specially pre- on certificates. pared for the purpose," and by inserting in place thereof the words: "All corrections of errors in names upon tax bills of persons assessed shall be made by the board of assessors upon such tax bills and also on forms of certificates prepared for the purpose on personal application of the person assessed, or such corrections may be made by the registrars or assistant registrars of voters when application is made to them by the persons assessed for the purpose of registering as voters." AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON Be it enacted, etc.: may employ SECTION 1. The board of police of the city of Boston may employ Board of police legal assistance, as they may deem necessary, to assist them in the legal assistance. performance of their duties, and incur liability therefor to an amount not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars in any municipal year, and expenses so incurred shall be paid by the city of Boston upon the requisition of said board. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. June 5, 1889. AN ACT TO provide FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS FOR DUTY ON ELECTION DAYS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. Be it enacted, etc.: may appoint The board of police for the city of Boston may appoint for duty on Board of police days on which elections are to be held in said city such number of special police special police officers as said board may find to be necessary. The for election day. officers so appointed shall receive the same compensation which reserve police officers now receive, and such compensation shall be paid by the city treasurer upon the requisition of said board. [1878, 244; 1885, 323.] June 6, 1889. Park commissioners may fill in, etc, certain area of tide water. Lands of the 1289. CHAPTER 438. OF THE PROPOSED MARINE AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ENLARGEMENT Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. The board of park commissioners of the city of Boston, subject to the provisions of chapter nineteen of the Public Statutes, excepting so much of section sixteen of said chapter as requires the payment into the treasury of compensation for the rights and privileges hereby granted in land of the Commonwealth, may make such excavation and filling and erect and maintain such structures in and over the area of tide water at or near Dorchester point in South Boston which lies east of the westerly line of Q street, extending southerly into old harbor, and northerly to the southerly line of the reserved channel as established by the board of harbor and land commissioners and approved by the governor and council under chapter forty-six of the resolves of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and south of the said southerly line of said reserved channel as the said board may deem necessary or desirable for the purposes of a public park, in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five. SECT. 2. All lands of the Commonwealth which are occupied or to be used solely enclosed under the provisions of this act shall be appropriated to and for public park. used solely for the purposes of a public park. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1875, 185; 1885, 360; 1887, 427.] June 7, 1889. Governor to appoint three men, to consti. tute board of metropolitan missiouers. AN 1889. CHAPTER 439. ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BUILDING, MAINTENANCE, AND OPERATION OF A SYSTEM OF SEWAGE DISPOSAL FOR THE MYSTIC AND CHARLES RIVER VALLEYS. Be it enacted, etc. : SECTION 1. The governor by and with the advice and consent of the council shall appoint three able and discreet men, inhabitants of the Commonwealth, who shall constitute a board to be known as the sewerage com metropolitan sewerage commissioners, and who shall hold office, one for the term of five years, one for the term of four years and one for the term of three years beginning with the first Monday in January in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and in the year Tenure of office. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and annually thereafter the governor shall appoint, as aforesaid, one such commissioner to hold office for the term of three years beginning with the first Monday in January in the year of his appointment, and in case of any vacancy occurring in said board by resignation or otherwise shall in the same manner appoint a commissioner for the residue of the term, and may in the same manner remove any commissioner. The members of said board shall each receive the salary of three thousand dollars per year. Salaries. Organization of board. Clerk. SECT. 2. Said board shall, as soon as may be after its appointment and annually thereafter on the first Monday of February of each year, organize by the choice of one of its members as chairman, and shall at the same meeting elect a clerk, who shall not be a office in Boston. member of said board, and may from time to time appoint such agents, officers, and servants as it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this act, and may determine their duties and compensation and remove the same at pleasure. Said board shall be Board to have furnished with an office in some suitable place in the city of Boston in which the maps, plans, and documents relating to its business, and to the sewers, land, and other property in its charge, and records of all its doings shall be kept. struct two sys SECT. 3. Said board shall construct, maintain, and operate for the Board to concities of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Malden, Chelsea, Woburn, tems of sewage and the towns of Stoneham, Melrose, Winchester, Arlington, disposal. Belmont, Medford, Everett, and Winthrop, such main sewers and other works as shall be required for a system of sewage disposal for said cities and towns, and for the cities of Boston, Waltham, and Newton, and the towns of Watertown and Brookline another such system, both of which systems shall be in substantial accordance with the plans reported and recommended by the state board of health in its report to the legislature of eighteen hundred and eightynine; and for that purpose may make all contracts necessary for the construction of the sewers and works aforesaid, or may where deemed advisable carry on such construction by day labor. Said Board may conboard may from time to time contract with any other city or town for and towns for the extension thereto of either of said systems of sewage disposal, 1 systems. and for the reception and disposal of sewage therefrom. tract with cities extension of Board may take lands, watercourses, etc., of this act. lands, etc., recorded in reg. SECT. 4. Said board acting on behalf of the Commonwealth may take by purchase or otherwise any lands, water-courses, rights of way or easements, and may take by purchase or otherwise or enter for purposes and use any existing sewers or parts of sewers necessary for the carrying out under the provisions of this act of the recommendations 1890, 270. and plans of said state board of health contained in its said report. When any lands, water-courses, rights of way or easements, or any sewers or parts of sewers are so taken or entered and used in any manner other than by purchase or agreement, said board shall within thirty days of said taking or entering and using cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county or district in which such Description of lands, water-courses, rights of way or easements, or sewers or parts taken, to be of sewers lic, a description of the same as certain as is required in a istry within common conveyance of land, with a statement of the purpose for thirty days. which the same is taken or entered and used, which description shall be signed by a majority of said board; and the fee of the lands, water-courses, rights of way or easements, or sewers or parts of sewers so taken or purchased shall vest in the Commonwealth, which shall pay, in the manner hereinafter described, all damages that shall be sustained by any person or corporation by reason of such taking or entering as aforesaid. Such damages to be agreed upon by said board and the person or corporation injured; and if the parties cannot agree, a jury in the superior court of the county in which the Jury may be property taken or damaged is situated, may be had to determine the cannot agree same in the same manner as a jury is had and damages are deter- on damages. mined in the case of persons dissatisfied with the estimate of damages sustained by the laying out of ways in the city of Boston: provided, however, that no suit for such damages shall be brought after the expiration of two years from the date of the recording of the taking or entering as herein required. had if parties carry and con. SECT. 5. Said board may, for the purposes aforesaid, carry and Board may conduct any sewer by it to be made and constructed under or over duct sewers, any water-course, or any street, turnpike road, railroad, highway, or and may enter other way in such manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct or impede upon, water over and under, : etc., for purposes of this courses, streets, travel thereon; and may enter upon and dig up any such road, street, or way for the purpose of laying down sewers beneath the surface act, subject, etc. thereof, and for maintaining and repairing the same; and in general may do any other acts and things necessary or convenient and proper for the purposes of this act. In entering upon and digging up any such road, street, or way of public travel it shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as may be made by the mayor and aldermen or selectmen of the cities and towns respectively wherein such works shall be performed. Streets, etc., dug up to be re order and condition. for defects in SECT. 6. Whenever said board shall dig up any road, street, or stored to good way, as aforesaid, it shall so far as practicable restore the same to as good order and condition as the same was in when such digging commenced. And the Commonwealth shall at all times indemnify Commonwealth and save harmless the several cities and towns within which such to indemnify cities and towns roads, streets, or ways may be against all damages which may be recovered against them respectively, and shall reimburse to them all expenses which they shall incur by reason of any defect or want of repair in any road, street, or way caused by the construction of any of said sewers, or by the maintaining or repairing of the same: provided, that said board shall have due and reasonable notice of all claims for such damages or injury and opportunity to make a legal defence thereto. roads, etc., caused by con struction of sewer. Board may alter direction of water-course, and with con. sent, etc., loca. tion of highways. Separate accounts to be kept for each system. Connections of local and private sewers with main sewer, subject to direc tion of board. Penalty for ma property held State board of health to trans. fer certain books, maps, etc. Treasurer, with approval of gov. ernor, etc., to SECT. 7. Said board may also alter or change the course or direction of any water-course, or may with the consent of the mayor and aldermen of cities or selectmen of towns alter or change the location or grade of any highway, townway, public street, or way of travel crossed by any sewers constructed under the provisions of this act, or in which such sewers may be located. SECT. 8. Said board shall at all times keep for each of said systems full, accurate, and separate accounts of its receipts, expendi tures, disbursements, assets, and liabilities, and shall include an abstract of the same in its annual report to the general court. SECT. 9. Any city or town within whose limits any main sewer shall have been constructed under the provisions of this act shall connect its local sewers with such main sewer, subject to the direction and control of said board, and any person, firm, or corporation may, subject to the direction, control, and regulation from time to time of said board, and subject to such terms, conditions, and regulations as each city or town may prescribe, connect private drains with said main sewer. SECT. 10. Any person or persons who shall wantonly or maliciously destroy or injure any sewer or other property, held or used by said board by the authority and for the purposes of this act, shall forfeit and pay to the Commonwealth three times the amount of the damages that shall be assessed therefor, to be recovered by any proper action. And every such person or persons may, on indictment and conviction of either of the wanton or malicious acts aforesaid, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding one year. SECT. 11. The state board of health shall, on the organization of the board created by this act, transfer and deliver over to said board all books, plans, maps, engineers' reports, instruments, and other property acquired during the surveys and investigations relating to the systems of sewage disposal for the Mystic and Charles river valleys on which the report of the said board of health, herein before referred to, was founded. SECT. 12. To meet the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, the treasurer and receiver-general shall with the approval of |