SECT. 2. Section two of chapter two hundred and forty-three of Repeal of 1875, c. :43, § 2. the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five is hereby repealed. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city Subject to accouncil of the city of Boston. ceptance by city council. AN ACT RELATING TO THE EXPENSE OF RECORDING PROBATE PROCEED- Be it enacted, etc.: pense of re cxcccd $2,800. SECTION 1. The expense of recording probate proceedings in the Annual excounty of Suffolk, regulated by section forty-four of chapter one cording in hundred and fifty-six of the Public Statutes, shall not exceed twenty- Suffolk not to eight hundred dollars in any one year. So much of said section forty-four as is inconsistent with this act is hereby repealed. SECT. 2. Chapter one hundred and eighteen of the acts of the Repeal of 1884, year eighteen hundred and eighty-four is hereby repealed. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. c. 118. April 21, 1887. 1887. CHAPTER 231. AN ACT IN REFERENCE TO THE OFFICE OF FIRE MARSHAL OF THE Be it enacted, etc.: CITY OF BOSTON. salary and cx penses to be SECTION 1. Section six of chapter three hundred and fifty-four Fire marshal's of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six is amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. On the first of May of each year, repaid to city. on the presentation of proper vouchers and accounts, the treasurer of the Commonwealth shall pay to the treasurer of the city of Boston the salary of the said fire marshal, and the expenses incurred during the preceding calendar year in prosecuting his investigations in the manner above mentioned; but the total amount of such salary and expenses Limit of salary which such fire marshal may incur shall not exceed twenty-five per cent. of the tax collected by the Commonwealth on premiams received by insurance companies for writing fire risks in the city of Boston during the preceding calendar year. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. and cxpenses. IN AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF POLICE MATRONS Be it enacted, etc. : to designate SECTION 1. In every city of the Commonwealth having a popula- Board of police tion of over thirty thousand inhabitants as shown by the last state or houses of deten national census, except the city of Boston, the mayor shall within tion for women. one month after the passage of this act designate one or more police stations as the station or stations for the detention and confinement To appoint matrons. Qualification of matrons. City council and board of police to fix salary. Duties of matrons. House of detention for women. Salaries of attendants. of all women under arrest within such city; and in any other city of the Commonwealth, except the city of Boston, the mayor may, and in the city of Boston the board of police may, so designate at any time one or more police stations. Such mayor or board of police may at any time so designate any additional station or stations, or may declare any station or stations to be no longer so designated, provided that at least one such station shall always remain so designated, except in the city of Boston. The board of police in the city of Boston, and the mayor in any other city, shall have the sole power to appoint, and shall appoint as soon as may be after any station has been designated as above provided, either one or two police matrons to be attached to such station. SECT. 2. No woman shall be appointed a police matron unless suitable for the position, and recommended therefor in writing by at least ten women of good standing, residents of the city in which the appointment is made. Police matrons shall be appointed to hold office until removal, and they may be removed at any time by the authority appointing them by written order stating the cause of removal. Upon the death, resignation or removal of a police matron her successor shall be appointed as soon as may be. A police matron shall receive a reasonable salary or pay, which shall be fixed, except in the city of Boston, by the city council of the city in which she is appointed in the city of Boston the salary of a police matron shall be fixed by the concurrent action of the city council and of the board of police, and paid by the city treasurer upon the requisition of said board. Where only one police matron is attached to a station she shall reside within a reasonable distance of such station, and shall hold herself in readiness to respond to any call therefrom at any hour of the day or night. Where two police matrons are attached to a station the respective hours during which they shall respond to calls therefrom shall be so fixed by the authority appointing them that one or the other of them shall be ready to respond at all hours of the day and night; and each such matron shall, during the hours so fixed for her, remain within a reasonable distance of such station, and hold herself in readiness to respond to any call therefrom. So long as any woman is detained or held under arrest in a police station to which a matron or matrons is or are attached, it shall be the duty of such matron, or one of such matrons, to remain constantly thereat ready for service. A police matron shall have the entire care and charge of all women held under arrest in the station to which she is attached, and she may at any time call upon the officer in command of such station for assistance; she shall be subject to the authority at the head of the police department of the city in which she serves, and to the rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this act, prescribed by such authority; but she shall not be subject to the control 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 appointing 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, 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 and duties of matrons. 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 Qualifications 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. 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. SECT. 5. The expression "police station" or "station" in this act shall include any place where persons are temporarily confined under arrest; the expression 66 woman shall include any person of the female sex. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Women ar rested to be placed only in house of detention. April 27, 1887. Proprietors of To hold real and personal estate. Owners of lots to be members of corporation. to be trustees. Choico and duties of trustees. 1887. CHAPTER 237. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER AND THE MANAGEMENT OF Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. Thomas F. Temple, Herbert S. Carruth, Albe C. Clark, J. Frank Howland and William Pope, proprietors of lots in Cedar Grove Cemetery, their associates and successors, are hereby 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. SECT. 2. Said corporation may purchase, acquire, receive and 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. SECT. 3. All persons now owning lots in said cemetery or who shall hereafter become proprietors of lots therein, shall be and become members of said corporation. SECT. 4. The officers of said corporation shall consist of seven 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. Commissioners 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 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 direct. In case of a vacancy in said board of trustees by death, resignation, 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 to transfer etc. SECT. 5. The city of Boston is hereby authorized and required to all its property, 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. SECT. 6. The annual meetings of said corporation shall be held on Annual the fourth Monday of April in each year, at such place in the city of meetings, 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. succeed to powers and SECT. 7. As soon as said city of Boston shall have made the con- Corporation to veyance and transfer of said property as aforesaid, said corporation shall succeed to all the rights, powers and privileges, and be subject duties of city to all the dutics, 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 to 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. make rules, etc. hold donations, 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 etc., in trust. the same or the income thereof for the improvement or embellishment 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 pro |