taxes to make mayor and aldermen, to the board of registrars of voters; and all Collectors of assessors and collectors of taxes of said city shall furnish any infor- return to board. mation in their possession, necessary to aid the registrars and assistant-registrars in the discharge of their respective duties. each ward fore state election. SECT. 6. [The registrars shall, at least twenty days before the day To post lists in of the annual state election, cause printed lists of the voters in each twenty days be ward to be posted in three or more places in such ward, with notices thereon, stating the place and hours in which they or the assistant- 1877, 235, § 3. registrars for such ward will hold sessions to correct and revise the lists. Such sessions shall be held in or near each ward, three or Substitute, 1880, more hours daily, for at least twelve days within the twenty days immediately preceding the annual state election, and in addition, six evening sessions, of at least two hours length each, shall be held within said twenty days. If the assistant-registrars refuse to place the name of any person on the voting-list, he may appeal to the board of registrars of voters.] SECT. 7. The registrars may make such rules and regulations, not To make rules and regulations contrary to law, for the government of the assistant-registrars, and for government for carrying out the provisions of this act, as they may deem necessary. of assistants. with office SECT. 8. The city council shall furnish office-room for the regis- To be furnished trars, and shall, when requested by them, provide in or near each room. ward a suitable room for their sessions. officer appoint SECT. 9. The registrars may remove any officer appointed by May remove any them, may fill vacancies, and may make temporary appointments in ed by them. case of absence. ing office under pointed registrar SECT. 10. No person who holds an office by election or appoint- No person hold. ment under the government of the United States, of the common- city, state, or nawealth, or of the city of Boston, except justices of the peace and tion, to be ap officers of the militia shall be appointed registrar or assistant-regis- or assistant. trar; and the appointment or election of a registrar or assistantregistrar to any such office, and his acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to be a resignation of his office of registrar or assistant-registrar. SECT. 11. Whoever gives a false name or a false answer to any ing false name registrar or assistant-registrar concerning any matter relating to the or false answer registration of voters, or to the right of any person to vote, shall to registrars. incur the same penalty which is provided by law for giving a false name or false answer to the selectmen of towns when in session to correct the list of voters. Penalty for giv. SECT. 12. Any registrar or assistant-registrar who wilfully. neg- Penalty for neglects or refuses to perform the duties of his office shall, for each duty. offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. SECT. 13. This act shall take effect when accepted by the city Subject to ac. council of the city of Boston.' [1878, 243; 1879, 163; 1880, 225; 1881, 221.] March 10, 1874. ceptance by city council. Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. George A. Curtis, Joseph F. Hovey, Joseph W. Corporators. Kinsley, William B. Sears, Henry B. White, George F. Osborne, C. E. Guild, Charles E. Lane, John W. Porter, and all other officers for the time being of any incorporated company or association, and 1 Accepted by the city council, April 17, 1874. Real and personal estate. May maintain a corps of men to discover and prevent fires, whose appoint ment shall be subject to any agent doing the business of fire insurance in the city of Boston, who may become associated with them and their successors, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the "Boston Protective Department," with power to sue and be sued, and may hold by purchase, devise, or otherwise, real and personal property for the use of said corporation, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and may sell and convey any part thereof, subject, however, to the laws of this state. SECT. 2. Said corporation shall have power to provide and maintain a corps of men, with proper officers, whose duty it shall be, so far as practicable, to discover and prevent fires; and whose appointment shall be subject to the approval of the board of fire commissioners; approval of fire shall provide suitable apparatus to save and preserve life and property commissioners. at or after a fire, and power is hereby granted to such corps and its officers to enter any building on fire, or which in their judgment is immediately exposed to, or in danger of taking fire from other burning buildings, to protect and save life and property therein, and to remove such property or any part thereof at or immediately after a fire: provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to lessen in any way the authority of the officers or members of the Boston fire department, or to warrant or justify any interference with them in the performance of their duties, nor shall it in any way justify the owner of any building or personal property in the abandonment of his property. Proviso. Right of way through the streets while going to a fire. Annual meetings of the corporation. SECT. 3. The officers and men of the Boston protective department, with their teams and apparatus, shall have the right of way, while going to a fire, through any street, lane, or alley, in the city of Boston, subject to such rules and regulations as the city council and the fire commissioners may prescribe, and subject also to the rights of the Boston fire department, and any violation of the street rights of the Boston protective department shall be punished in the same manner as is provided for the punishment of violations of the rights of the Boston fire department in chapter three hundred and seventyfour of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three. SECT. 4. In the month of March, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, and in the month of March of every year thereafter, there shall be held a meeting of the corporation hereby created, of which ten days' previous notice shall be inserted in at least two newspapers Insurance com published in the city of Boston, at which meeting each incorporated insurance company or association doing business in the city of Boston, whether its officers or its agents be members of this corporation or not, shall have the right to be represented by one of such officers or agent, and each organization represented at such meeting shall be entitled to one vote. panies to have right to be rep. resented. Payment of expenses provided for. A majority of the whole number so represented shall have power to decide upon the question of sustaining the corps herein before mentioned, and of fixing the maximum amount of expenses which shall be incurred therefor during the fiscal year next to ensue; and the whole of such amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be assessed upon the organizations belonging to this corporation, and upon all other organizations and agencies, as herein before mentioned, in proportion to the several amounts of premiums returned as received by each, as hereinafter provided, and such assessment shall be collectable by this corporation in any court of law in the state of Massachusetts. SECT. 5. To provide for the payment of persons employed, and to maintain the apparatus for saving life and property contemplated, this corporation is empowered to require a statement to be furnished semi-annually by all corporations, associations, underwriters, agents, or persons, of the aggregate amount of premiums received for insuring property in the city of Boston, for and during the six months next preceding the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December of each year, which statement shall be sworn to by the president or secretary of the corporation or association, or by the agent or person so acting and effecting such insurance in said city, and shall be handed to the treasurer of this corporation, within thirty days after the time to which such returns are to be made. require state companies. SECT. 6. It shall be lawful for the treasurer or other appointed Treasurer may officer of this corporation, within ten days after the first day of Jan- ment to be made uary and the first day of July, in each year, by written or printed by insurance demand, signed by him, to require from every corporation, association, underwriter, agent, or person, engaged in the business of fire insurance in the city of Boston, the statement provided for in the last preceding section of this act; and every officer of such corporation or association, and every individual, agent, or underwriter, who shall, for thirty days after such demand, neglect to render the account, shall forfeit fifty dollars for the use of the corporation created by this act; and he shall also forfeit, for their use, five dollars in Penalty for neglect to comply. addition for every day he shall so neglect after the expiration of the said thirty days; and such additional penalty may be computed and recovered up to the time of the trial of any suit for the recovery thereof, which penalty may be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, in any court of record within this state. SECT. 7. This act shall take effect upon its passage. to be made in May instead of February. SECTION 1. Section seven of chapter sixty-eight of the acts of the Annual report year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight is so amended that the commissioners of the cemetery referred to in said act, now known as Cedar Grove cemetery, shall make the annual report required by said section, in the month of May instead of February in each year. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO "AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON Be it enacted, etc.: way and con across South SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to lay out May lay out the way and construct the bridge authorized by the seventy-eighth struct bridge chapter of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, at bay. any time within two years from the date of the passage of this act: provided, that the way hereby authorized, shall not be constructed Proviso. across any railroad at grade. SECT. 2. Said city may, with the consent and approval of the May construct board of harbor commissioners, construct said way solid, between the consent of har solid way, with bor commissioners. termini set forth in said act, within such limits, and upon such terms and conditions, as said board of harbor commissioners shall determine and prescribe. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1869, 78, 447.] March 28, 1874. Malden bridge to be supported ton. 1874. CHAPTER 139. AN ACT CONCERNING MALDEN BRIDGE. Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. Chapter ninety-nine of the acts of the year eighteen by city of Bos- hundred and fifty-nine, and chapter two hundred and sixty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, are repealed, and Malden bridge shall hereafter be supported by and be under the care and superintendence of the city of Boston. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Establishment of Boston normal school ratified and made valid. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE BOSTON NORMAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY Be it enacted, ect.: SECTION 1. The action of the city council and of the school committee of the city of Boston, in establishing and maintaining the school, called the Boston normal school, is ratified, confirmed, and made valid, to the same extent as if, prior to the establishment thereof, and during its continuance, and at the present time, the said city council, and said school committee, or either of them, had authority to establish and maintain the same; and the said school committee shall have the same power to maintain and continue the said normal school as they have now to maintain and continue the other public schools of said city. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1882, 136.] April 15, 1874. May build bridge between Boston and Cambridge. Each city may take land within its own limits. 1874.-CHAPTER 175. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE A NEW BRIDGE BETWEEN BOSTON AND CAM Be it enacted, etc.: BRIDGE. SECTION 1. The cities of Boston and Cambridge are authorized to lay out, make, and maintain, a new avenue from Brattle square in said Cambridge across Charles river to some point on Market street in ward nineteen in said Boston, and to build and maintain a bridge across said river, which shall be a part of said avenue. SECT. 2. Each of said cities may, within its own limits, take land for said avenue in the same manner as lands are taken therein for laying out highways, with the same right to all parties to appeal to a jury, and betterments may be assessed in each city as in the case of other ways. 1See city council minutes, 1874, p. 213. clear opening of SECT. 3. Said bridge shall have a draw with a clear opening of Draw to have a thirty-eight feet for the free passage of vessels, and the authority thirty-eight fect. hereby given to build said bridge is given subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the year one P.S. 19. thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. draw. SECT. 4. Each of said cities shall bear the expense of laying out, Expense of making avenue making, and maintaining, that part of said avenue on its own side of and maintaining the channel, but the expense of making, maintaining, and operating, said draw shall be borne equally by said cities. And the care and management of said bridge and draw shall be vested in the board of commissioners provided for in section six of chapter three hundred and two of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city councils of Boston and Cambridge. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO IMPROVE STONY Be it enacted, etc.: remove obstruc on either side of try of deeds a land taken. 120 Mass. 596. SECTION 1. The city of Boston, for the purpose of surface Boston may drainage, may remove obstructions in or over Stony brook and the tions in Stony tributaries thereof, so far as the said brook and tributaries flow brook. within the limits of said city; may divert the water, and alter the course and deepen the channel thereof; and, the more effectually to May take land make said improvements, may take or purchase land, not exceeding channel. four rods in width, on either side of the present channel of said brook and of its tributaries, or of any channel into which said waters may be diverted within the limits of said city. Said city shall, within To file in regissixty days from the time they shall take any of said lands, file, in the description of office of 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 that the same are taken in pursuance of the provisions of this act; which statement shall be signed by the mayor of said city; and the title to all land so taken shall vest in said city. SECT. 2. Any person injured in his property by any of the acts Damages to be done by said city, under the first section of this act, shall, upon board of application to the board of aldermen of said city, have compensation therefor, the amount thereof to be determined by said board of aldermen. And said board of aldermen shall finally adjudicate upon the question of damages, within thirty days after the filing of said application, unless the parties agree in writing to extend the time. In case damages are awarded, payment shall be made forthwith by said city. awarded by aldermen. damages is jury. SECT. 3. If the applicant is aggrieved, either by the estimate of If applicant for his damages, or by a refusal or neglect within thirty days to estimate aggrieved he the same, he may, within three months from the expiration of said may apply for a thirty days, or of the extended time as provided in the second section, apply for a jury and have his damages assessed in the manner provided when land is taken in laying out highways. If the damages are increased by the jury the damages and costs shall be paid by the city, otherwise the costs arising on such application shall be paid by the applicant. SECT. 4. All the expenses of improving said brook and its tribu- Damages to be taries. authorized by this act, including all damages paid under the paid by city. preceding sections, shall be paid by said city. But the board of aldermen of said city may assess upon the estates bordering upon betterments Estates may be assessed for |