Walley street to its junction with Beachmont avenue, and Beachmont avenue from its junction with Leyden street to Belle Isle Inlet.

visions of law

SECTION 2. Said highway shall be laid out, constructed Certain proand paid for, and the assessable cost incurred in carrying to apply. out said order shall be assessed under the provisions, so far as applicable, of chapter three hundred and twentythree of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninetyone and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, including chapter three hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1898.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT AND ASSIGNMENT
OF ASSISTANT ASSESSORS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

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assessors in

SECTION 1. The assistant assessors of taxes in the city Assistant of Boston shall be appointed and assigned to the various Boston. assessment districts on or before the tenth day of April in each year.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1898.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOLHOUSES IN THE

CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

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SECTION 1. Section twenty-four of chapter four hun- 1892, 419, § 24, dred and nineteen of the acts of the year eighteen hun- etc., amended. dred and ninety-two, as amended by section three of chapter four hundred and thirteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended by striking out in the fifth line, the words or schoolhouse", and adding at the end of said section the words:

Every permanent building hereafter erected as a schoolhouse within the building limits shall be a first class building, so as to read as follows: Section 24. Every First class building hereafter erected over seventy feet in height shall buildings. be a first class building, and this provision shall apply to all buildings hereafter increased in height to over seventy feet. Every building hereafter erected or enlarged, or converted to use as a hotel, shall be a first class building,

and every tenement or lodging house hereafter erected shall be a first class building. Every permanent building hereafter erected as a schoolhouse within the building limits shall be a first class building.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 25, 1898.

Chap.229 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE HAVERHILL CITY HOSPITAL. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Name changed.

SECTION 1. The name of the Haverhill City Hospital, established by chapter seventy-seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby changed to The Hale Hospital.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1898.

Chap.230 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE SHIPWRECKED

Relief of destitute shipwrecked

seamen by cities and

towns.

SEAMEN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. A city or town may furnish transportation to destitute shipwrecked seamen from one place to another in this Commonwealth, and such other assistance as the authorities of such city or town deem necessary, not exceeding the amount of ten dollars for each person, while awaiting such transportation. A detailed statement of expenses so incurred shall be rendered, and, after approval by the state board of lunacy and charity, such expenses shall be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth from the appropriation for the temporary support of state paupers, without reference to such seamen's legal settlement.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1898.

Chap.231 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF STONEHAM TO TAKE LAND

Town of Stoneham may take

cemetery for

FOR A PUBLIC PARK.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The town of Stoneham is hereby authorWilliam Street ized to take the land at the junction of William and Pomworth streets in said town, used as a burial ground remove remains and known as the William Street cemetery, for a public park or common, and may, subject to the provisions of

a public park,

of dead, etc.

section three of this act, remove the remains of the dead and the monuments erected to their memory in said William Street cemetery to lots in Lindenwood cemetery in said town, and shall pay all the costs and expenses incident to the removal of the remains and the re-erection of said monuments; and owners of lots in the William Street cemetery shall be entitled to receive by proper conveyances in exchange therefor burial lots in the Lindenwood cemetery, and in such exchange the relative size, location and value of lots so exchanged, with all improvements, shall be considered.

fixed for

remains to be

SECTION 2. Said town shall fix a time for the removal Notice of time of said remains and monuments, and shall publish notice removal of thereof once each week for three successive weeks in some published. newspaper published in said town, the last publication thereof to be at least seven days before the time fixed for said removal.

removal, etc., to be borne by

town in certain

cases.

SECTION 3. Upon a request in writing by any relative Expense of or friend of a person whose remains are to be removed said remains may be interred and said monuments erected in any other cemetery, the expense of a new lot and of the removal of such remains, their re-interment and the re-erection of any monument to their memory removed from the William Street cemetery to be borne by the town of Stoneham.

appropriate a

SECTION 4. The town of Stoneham at any legal town Town may meeting called for the purpose may raise and appropriate certain sum. for the purposes of this act a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars.

effect.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its accept- When to take ance by a majority of the legal voters of said town present and voting thereon at a legal town meeting called for the purpose, or at any annual meeting of said town.

Approved March 25, 1898.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE BASIS OF APPORTIONMENT FOR STATE

AND COUNTY TAXES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

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apportionment

SECTION 1. The number of polls, the amount of prop- Basis of erty, and the proportion of every one thousand dollars of for State and state tax, including polls at one tenth of a mill each, for county taxes. each city and town in the several counties of the Commonwealth, as contained in the following schedule, are hereby

Barnstable county.

Berkshire county.

established, and shall constitute a basis of apportionment for state and county taxes until another is made and enacted by the legislature, to wit:

Polls, Property, and Apportionment of State and County
Tax of $1,000.