Chap.148

Savings banks, etc., may hold certain securities for five

years.

Provisos.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO SAVINGS BANKS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Savings banks and institutions for savings may hold stocks, bonds or other securities acquired in settlements effected to secure loans or indebtedness, but all such stocks, bonds or other securities shall be sold within five years after the same have been acquired by the corporation provided, however, that any such corporation now holding any securities acquired as aforesaid shall not be required to sell the same before the first day of February in the year nineteen hundred and three; and provided, further, that the board of commissioners of savings banks may, upon the petition of the board of investment of any such corporation and for good cause shown, grant an additional time for the sale of the same. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 8, 1898.

Chap.149 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

May issue bonds for school purposes, etc.

TO ISSUE BONDS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The treasurer of the city of Boston, to pay the expenses of building and furnishing high and Latin schools in said city and of taking land therefor, shall from time to time, on the request of the school committee of said city, issue and sell negotiable bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars in the year eighteen hundred and ninetynine, three hundred thousand dollars in the year nineteen hundred, and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the year nineteen hundred and one, which shall all be within the debt limit and in addition to the bonds heretofore authorized to be issued for similar purposes. The proceeds of said bonds shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of chapter four hundred and eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, but the said school committee may during any year make contracts for the payment of the whole or any part of the amounts to be issued under this act in a subsequent year. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 8, 1898.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF CLOTHING Chap.150

MADE IN UNHEALTHY PLACES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

amended.

be used only

dwelling therein

SECTION 1. Section forty-four of chapter five hundred 1894, 508, § 44, and eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following:- Section 44. No room or apartment in any tene- Rooms, etc., to ment or dwelling house shall be used for the purpose of by the family making, altering, repairing or finishing therein any coats, for making, etc., vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description what- clothing. soever, except by the members of the family dwelling therein, and any family desiring to do the work of making, Family to be altering, repairing or finishing any coats, vests, trousers licensed, etc. or wearing apparel of any description whatsoever in any room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house shall first procure a license, approved by the chief of the district police, to do such work as aforesaid. A license may be applied for by and issued to any one member of any family desiring to do such work. No person, partnership or corporation, shall hire, employ or contract with any member of a family not holding a license therefor, to make, alter, repair or finish any garments or articles of wearing apparel as aforesaid, in any room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house as aforesaid. Every Rooms, etc., to room or apartment in which any garments or articles of cleanly condiwearing apparel are made, altered, repaired or finished, ject to inspecshall be kept in a cleanly condition and shall be subject tion. to the inspection and examination of the inspectors of the district police, for the purpose of ascertaining whether said garments or articles of wearing apparel or any part or parts thereof are clean and free from vermin and every matter of an infectious or contagious nature. A room or Certain rooms, apartment in any tenement or dwelling house which is not to provisions. used for living or sleeping purposes, and which is not connected with any room or apartment used for living or sleeping purposes, and which has a separate and distinct entrance from the outside, shall not be subject to the provisions of this act. Nor shall anything in this act be so construed as to prevent the employment of a tailor or seamstress by any person or family for the making of wearing apparel for such person's or family's use.

be kept in a

tion and be sub

etc., not subject

1894, 508, § 45, amended.

Inspector to

report evidence of infectious disease, etc.

1894, 508, § 47, amended.

Tag or label

to be affixed to certain tenement made garments.

Repeal.

SECTION 2. Section forty-five of said chapter is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following: - Section 45. If said inspector finds evidence of infectious disease present in any workshop or in any room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house in which any garments or articles of wearing apparel are made, altered or repaired, or in goods manufactured or in the process of manufacture therein, he shall report the same to the chief of the district police, who shall then notify the local board of health to examine said workshop or any room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house in which any garments or articles of wearing apparel are made, altered or repaired, and the materials used therein; and if said board shall find said workshop or tenement or dwelling house in an unhealthy condition, or the clothing and materials used therein unfit for use, said board shall issue such order or orders as the public safety may require.

SECTION 3. Section forty-seven of said chapter is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following: - Section 47. Whoever sells or exposes for sale any coats, vests, trousers or any wearing apparel of any description whatsoever which have been made in a tenement or dwelling house in which the family dwelling therein has not procured a license, as specified in section forty-four of this act, shall have affixed to each of said garments a tag or label not less than two inches in length and one inch in width, upon which shall be legibly printed or written the words "tenement made ", and the name of the state and the town or city where said garment or garments were made. SECTION 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved March 9, 1898.

Chap.151 AN ACT TO CHANGE AND ESTABLISH THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN

Boundary line between Cambridge and Watertown changed, etc.

THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE TOWN OF WATERTOWN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The boundary line between the city of Cambridge and the town of Watertown is hereby changed and established as follows:- Beginning at a point on the southerly line of Mount Auburn street in Cambridge, two hundred seventy and seventy-three hundredths feet easterly from the boundary stone numbered eight in the present boundary line between the city of Cambridge and the town

of Watertown; thence westerly along a curve of one thousand seventeen and twenty-four hundredths feet radius, one hundred ninety-nine and thirty-eight hundredths feet; thence again westerly in a straight line, one hundred fifty-six and forty-one hundredths feet to a drill hole in the westerly abutment of the bridge over the Watertown branch of the Fitchburg railroad; thence northerly, ninety-three and seventy-three hundredths feet to a point in the present boundary line between said city and said town, to be marked by a boundary stone. Said new boundary line is shown by a red line upon a plan drawn by L. M. Hastings, city engineer of Cambridge, dated the twenty-sixth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "Plan of proposed change in boundary line between the city of Cambridge and the town of Watertown ", on file in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, and a copy of the same shall be filed by said city in the registry of deeds for the southern district of the county of Middlesex within thirty days after the passage of this act. All that part of the Part of Watertown of Watertown between the lines above described Cambridge. and the present boundary line between said city and said town is hereby set off from the town of Watertown and annexed to the city of Cambridge, and, until a new division of wards in said city is made, shall be and constitute a part of the first ward thereof.

town annexed to

set off to Water

SECTION 2. The boundary line between the city of Certain land Cambridge and the town of Watertown, from the north- town. west corner of the premises hereby set off from the town of Watertown to the city of Cambridge to the boundary line between the city of Cambridge and the town of Belmont, at stone monument numbered ten, shall be and hereby is the present southerly line of Belmont street, as shown by a red line upon the plan referred to in section one; and all the land which may lie on the southerly side of said street line is hereby set off to the town of Watertown.

costs and ex

SECTION 3. The costs and expenses incurred in the Payment of establishment of the lines hereby defined and of erecting penses. suitable monuments at the angles thereof shall be paid equally by said city of Cambridge and by said town of Watertown.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 9, 1898.

Chap.152 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WORCESTER HIBERNIAN BUILDING

ASSOCIATION IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. John McNamara, Jeremiah A. Twomey, Philip Kelley, John Burns, John J. Rogers, Walter N. Drohan, Martin J. Leonard, Daniel T. Courtney and Michael McCarthy, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Worcester Hibernian Building Association in the city of Worcester, for the purpose of erecting a building in the city of Worcester, and maintaining the same, for the accommodation and purposes of Hibernian apartments and lectures, and for social and charitable purposes; with all the rights and privileges and subject to the restrictions, duties and liabilities set forth in all general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force, so far as applicable to such corporations.

SECTION 2. The above-named persons shall continue members of the corporation during the term of three years from and after the passage of this act and until their successors shall be chosen, as follows:- At the third annual meeting after the passage of this act held by divisions one, three and twenty-four of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America of Worcester, each organization may elect three members of the corporation, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years; and such organization may at each annual meeting thereafter elect one member for the term of three years; any other division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America in said Worcester, now or hereafter organized and recognized by the Massachusetts State Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America, shall be likewise entitled to elect members of the corporation in the manner above described, upon payment of such sum of money to said corporation for the purposes above mentioned in this act, as said corporation shall by vote determine.

SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have authority to elect from its members a board of trustees for its government and management and to determine by its by-laws the tenure of office of its trustees, and to make rules and regulations governing the same. Said board shall also have power to invest, re-invest and manage all gifts, devises and bequests and all other funds of the corpora