Drill hall. Money may be raised by tax. ation for build ing armories, etc. Control and inspection of armories, etc. Amount paid for rent to be general. be furnished by cities and towns for each armory or headquarters located within their limits. SECT. 91. Where two or more companies of the same battalion are located within the limits of a city or town, the mayor and aldermen or selectmen thereof shall, if practicable, provide such companies with a drill hall, to be used by them in common, of capacity sufficient for battalion drill, together with a smaller room in the same building, for each of said companies, suitable for company meetings, and for the safe keeping of military property, as provided in the preceding section. The headquarters of each regiment, battalion, and corps of cadets shall be established with said commands, or portions thereof, as far as practicable. SECT. 92. Cities and towns in which regiments, battalions, corps of cadets or companies, or the headquarters of brigades, regiments, battalions, corps of cadets, signal and ambulance corps, or detachments of militia, are located, may raise money, by taxation or otherwise, for the purpose of erecting suitable buildings for the armories or headquarters of such organizations. SECT. 95. Every officer whose command occupies, assembles, or drills in any armory, drill hall, or building allowed according to law for such purpose shall have control of such premises during the period of occupation, subject to the orders of his superior commanders; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent reasonable inspection of the premises by the mayor and aldermen or selectmen of a city or town, or by the owners of the premises, according to the terms which may have been specified therefor in a lease. SECT. 96. The mayor and aldermen of cities and selectmen of certified to adjt. towns shall annually, on the first day of October, transmit to the adjutant-general a return, verified by oath or affirmation of at least two of their board, showing the name of cach militia organization or headquarters furnished with an armory, the amount paid or charged for the rent thereof, and that the amount charged is fair and reasonable according to the value of real estate in their place. Returns not received by December first will not be allowed. Precept from mayor and aldermen in case of riot. Carriages to be provided to attend with supplies. SECT. 99. When there is in any city or town a tumult, riot, mob, or a body of men acting together by force, with attempt to commit a felony, or to offer violence to persons or property, or by force and violence to break and resist the laws of the Commonwealth; or when such tumult, riot, or mob is threatened, and the fact is made to appear to the commander-in-chief, the sheriff of the county, the mayor of the city or the selectmen of the town, the commander-in-chief may issue his order, or such sheriff, mayor, or selectmen may issue a precept, directed to any commander of a brigade, regiment, battalion, corps of cadets or company, within the limits of their jurisdiction, directing him to order his command, or a part thereof, to appear at a time and place therein specified, to aid the civil authority in suppressing such violence and supporting the laws; . This precept shall be signed and properly attested as the act of such sheriff, mayor, or selectmen, and shall be under seal, and may be varied to suit the circumstances of the case; and a copy of the same shall be immediately forwarded to the commander-in-chief. SECT. 104. The mayor and aldermen of a city and the selectmen of a town to which men so ordered out, detached, or drafted, belong, when required in writing by a commander of a regiment or detachment, shall provide carriages to attend them with further supplies of provisions and to carry necessary baggage, and provide necessary camp equipage and utensils, until notified by the commanding officer to desist; and shall present their accounts for the same to the quarter master general. For any neglect by such mayor and aldermen or selectmen, under this section, such city or town shall forfeit to the use of the Commonwealth not less than twenty nor more than five hundred dollars. SECT. 108. . grounds. No ground shall be occupied for au en- Encampment campment in the time of peace without the consent of the selectmen of the town or mayor and aldermen of the city where the encampment is to be made, unless by order of the commander-in-chief; such ground to be paid for by the state on contracts to be approved by the adjutant-general. ations may SECT. 124. [No body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly Certain associ organized corps of the militia, the troops of the United States, and parade with certain specified companies and associations, shall associate themselves arms if licensed. together as a military company or organization for drill, or parade in public with arms, without the license of the governor, and all applications for such license must be approved by the mayor and aldermen ; nor shall any city raise or appropriate money toward arming, or in any way supporting or providing drill rooms for any such body of men; provided, that associations of honorably discharged United States soldiers may parade on certain specified occasions, having first obtained the written permission of the mayor and aldermen; and that students in educational institutions may, with the consent of the governor, drill and parade with arms in public, under superintendence of their teachers.] furnished. SECT. 158. [A sworn copy of the rolls of officers and enlisted men Rolls of officers in the volunteer militia shall be furnished by the commanding officers and men to be of companies and such other organizations to the mayor and aldermen, for the purpose of determining exemption from jury duty. (Sect. 151.) The clerk of the ancient and honorable artillery company shall furnish annually, as provided herein, to the mayor and aldermen of the city of Boston, sworn rolls of all active members belonging to the company.] [SECT. 167 repeals P. S., c. 14.] SELF-REGISTERING AN ACT TO REQUIRE AND REGULATE THE USE OF boxes to be under provi [This act provides that registering and cancelling ballot-boxes, Registering approved by the secretary, treasurer and auditor of the common- used in taking wealth, shall be used at each polling-precinct in taking the vote license vote. upon the question of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating sions of 1884, liquors; the provisions of 1884, c. 299, sect. 14-17, inclusive, to c. 299, §§ 14-17 apply to said boxes.] Memorial of Crispus Attucks and others. RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR THE ERECTION OF A MEMORIAL TO CRISPUS Resolved, That the governor and council be and they are hereby authorized and requested to cause to be erected in some public place in the city of Boston a suitable memorial or monument to the memory of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Jonas Caldwell, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr, who were killed by British soldiers in the streets of Boston on the fifth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy, upon the occasion known as the "Boston Massacre; " also to cause suitable headstones to be placed at the graves of the said persons, where their locations can be ascertained. The amount to be expended under this resolve shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. May 17, 1887. Memorial of RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR THE ERECTION OF A MEMORIAL TO CRISPUS Resolved, That the governor and council be and they are hereby au- |