The state board of lunacy and charity to be hereafter called the state board of charity, etc. State board of insanity to re. port to legis. lature. 1886, 298, § 9, amended. tics, the Massachusetts hospital for dipsomaniacs and inebriates, the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded, and the Hospital Cottages for Children, are hereby taken from the said state board of lunacy and charity and vested in the state board of insanity, and said state board of insanity is hereby authorized and empowered to assume and exercise the same. The said state board of insanity shall also succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the said state board of lunacy and charity in respect to all the insane poor placed in families by the latter board, and said insane poor so boarded out are hereby transferred to the care, custody and control of the said board of insanity without further process of law. The state board of lunacy and charity shall hereafter be called the state board of charity, and shall have and exercise all the powers now possessed by it, and all the duties now incumbent upon it, except when otherwise by law provided, including all questions relating to the settlement or non-settlement of the state poor coming under the control of the state institutions under its supervision, and under the supervision of the state board of insanity, and shall administer the laws of settlement relating to the support of the state's sane poor by cities and towns, and shall prosecute all cases of bastardy of non-settled persons. SECTION 25. The state board of insanity shall report to the legislature, on or before the first Wednesday in January in the year nineteen hundred, such method or methods as in its opinion will most effectually provide for the care and support of the insane poor who, under existing laws, are cared for by or supported at the expense of the cities and towns of the Commonwealth. In such report the board shall include a statement of what building or buildings are needed to accommodate such insane persons, and any other suggestions which they may wish to submit for the consideration of the legislature in relation thereto. Said report shall embody a plan for the remedial treatment of recoverable cases of insanity in a hospital set apart for such treatment, and to which no other cases of insanity shall be committed. It shall also report a plan by which convalescing insane patients, during the period of recovery, shall have ample opportunity of association with sane people and be freed from association with insane people as far as practicable. SECTION 26. Section nine of chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and etc., amended. eighty-six is hereby amended by striking out in the third line, the words "board of education", and inserting in place thereof the words: state board of insanity. SECTION 27. Section three of chapter three hundred 1885, 385, § 3, and eighty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as amended by section four of chapter one hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, is hereby amended by striking out the words "board of lunacy and charity", wherever they occur therein, and inserting in place thereof the words: state board of insanity. - sections of acts SECTION 28. The acts and sections of acts hereinafter Certain acts and specified in this section are hereby amended by striking amended. out the words "lunacy and charity", wherever they occur therein, and inserting in place thereof the word: -insanity, Section one of chapter eighty-seven of the Public Statutes, as amended by section four of chapter one hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Section twelve of chapter eighty-seven of the Public Statutes, as amended by chapter one hundred and ninety-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Section ten of chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the Public Statutes, as amended by section four of chapter one hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Section eleven of chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the Public Statutes, as amended by section four of chapter one hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Sections seven and nine of chapter three hundred and twenty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as amended by section four of chapter one hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Section one of chapter three hundred and eighty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as amended by section four of chapter one hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Sections two and ten of chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Sections one and two of chapter three hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and section three of said chapter as amended by section two of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety. Section two of chapter three hundred and forty-six of the acts of the year eight When to take effect. Chap.434 Board of estimate and appor tionment for city of Boston established. Vacancies in elected members, etc. een hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by chapter four hundred and eighty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Section sixteen of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by section two of chapter one hundred and fifty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Section four of chapter four hundred and twenty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two. Section two of chapter two hundred and eighty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Sections five and six of chapter three hundred and ninety of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Sections ten and eleven of chapter four hundred and eighty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. SECTION 29. All the provisions of this act except as hereinafter provided in this section shall take effect upon the first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, but the members of the state board of insanity may be appointed at any time after the passage of this act, and said board may appoint agents and officers and assign their duties before the said first day of October. Approved May 13, 1898. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FINANCES OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. A board of estimate and apportionment is hereby established for the city of Boston, to consist of the mayor, the chairman of the board of aldermen, the president of the common council, who shall serve ex officiis and without additional pay, and two members, who shall be elected by the voters of the city at large. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight two members of said board shall be elected at the annual municipal election, one to serve for the term of two years and one for the term of one year from the first Monday of January next ensuing; and thereafter at each annual municipal election one member of said board shall be so elected to serve for the term of two years from said day. In case of a vacancy in the elected members of said board through death or resignation the chairman of the board of street commissioners of said city shall fill such vacancy for the remainder of the municipal year; and in case of a second vacancy in such elected members for like cause the same shall be filled during the remainder of the municipal year by the chairman of the board of commissioners of sinking funds of said city. Each elected member of said board shall be paid for his services at the rate of ten dollars for each meeting of said board at which he is present, but not exceeding the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars in any one year. mit department pare and pass a general mainpriation order. tenance appro SECTION 2. The mayor, as early as practicable in the Mayor to submonth of January, shall submit to said board, with his estimates to recommendations thereon, the department estimates fur- board. nished as required by section eight of chapter two hundred and sixty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and said board, by the affirmative vote and Board to presignatures of at least four of its members, including the mayor, shall, prior to the first day of February, prepare and pass a general maintenance appropriation order, containing appropriations to enable the city of Boston to meet the current expenses payable during the financial year beginning with said day, of performing the duties and exercising the powers devolved by statute or ordinance, or by vote of the city council during the year, upon the city of Boston or the county of Suffolk, or the departments or officers thereof. mit to board appropriations. pare and pass a appropriation SECTION 3. The mayor, as early as practicable in the Mayor to submonths of January or February, shall submit to such department reboard, with any recommendations which he may desire quests for loan to make thereon, any requests for loan appropriations furnished to him by the several departments; and said pored pre board by vote and signatures as aforesaid shall, prior to general loan the first day of March, prepare and pass a general loan order, etc. appropriation order, containing such appropriations to be met by loan, and for such purposes as said board shall deem the public necessity or convenience may require, not exceeding in the aggregate four fifths of the estimated amount which can be raised in that municipal year by loans within the debt limit of said city; but such loan appropriation order shall not be passed unless at least four of the members of said board, including the mayor, shall in writing certify upon such order that no item therein is to meet a current expense, or that certain specified items therein and no others are to meet current expenses, but that public necessity requires the borrowing of money therefor. Board may prepare and pass additional appropriation orders. Appropriations not to exceed certain amounts. Appropriation orders to be submitted to city council, etc. City anditor may make cer appropriations, etc. SECTION 4. Said board, by similar vote and signatures, and certificate in the case of a loan order, may at any time during the year, at the request of the mayor, prepare and pass one or more appropriation orders, containing such appropriations as they may deem the public necessity or convenience may require. SECTION 5. Said board in making appropriations to be met by income and taxes shall not exceed the amount that can be raised by taxation within the tax limit of said city, as certified to the mayor by the board of commissioners of sinking funds, plus the income of the city, as estimated and certified to the mayor by the city auditor of said city; and in making appropriations to be met by loans authorized by the legislature for specific purposes shall not exceed the amount that can be raised under such loans, and in making appropriations to be met by other loans shall not exceed the amount that can be raised by loan within the debt limit of said city. SECTION 6. The mayor shall, within three days after any such appropriation order has been passed as aforesaid, submit the same to the city council of said city, and the city council shall forthwith proceed carefully to consider and investigate the same, and may, within the period of thirty days following such submission, pass a vote or votes reducing or striking out any appropriation therein, except an appropriation the amount of which is fixed by law, or an appropriation for interest and sinking fund requirements, but shall not pass any other vote relating to any appropriation, or insert any new appropriation; and any such vote of reduction or striking out shall be subject to the veto of the mayor and to passage over his veto as provided by law. At the expiration of said period of thirty days the orders with the appropriations therein as passed by said board, or as altered in accordance with the preceding provisions, shall stand and be in force as appropriation orders of said city. SECTION 7. The city auditor of said city, with the tain transfers of approval of said board, acting by vote and signatures of a majority of its members, and of the mayor, may from time to time during the year make transfers from the appropriation for current expenses of one division of a department to the appropriation for current expenses of any other division of the same department, and transfers from the general treasury or from the appropriation for |