Damages. Proceedings for recovery of damages. age system for said hospitals or any one of them, and upon such recording the property, easements and rights described in said statement shall be deemed to be taken by the commonwealth. Said trustees shall, after they have taken any property under the right of eminent domain, notify the owner thereof. SECTION 3. Any person sustaining damage by the taking of land, easements, rights or other property hereunder who fails to agree with said trustees as to the amount thereof may have the same assessed and determined in the manner provided by law in the case of land taken for laying out highways, on application at any time within one year after the taking of such land or other property. SECTION 4. In any proceeding for the recovery of damages hereunder said trustees may offer in court and consent in writing that a sum therein specified may be awarded as damages to the complainant; and if the complainant shall not accept the same within ten days after he has received notice of such offer, and shall not finally recover a greater sum than the one offered, not including interest on the sum recovered as damages from the date of the offer, said trustees shall be entitled to recover costs after said date, and the complainant, if he recovers damages, shall be allowed costs only to the date of the offer, unless the damages so recovered shall be in excess of the amount offered by said trustees, as aforesaid. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.534 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE INCREASE OF CAPITAL STOCK R. L. 110, § 32, amended. BY GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANIES. Be it enacted, SECTION 1. etc., as follows: Section thirty-two of chapter one hundred and ten of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "laws ", in the fourth line, the word: and, - and by striking out in lines six to eleven, inclusive, the words " and, subject to the provisions of section twenty-four of chapter one hundred and nine, a corporation which is created by special charter or organized under general laws for the purpose of making and selling gas for light in a city or town, whether otherwise subject to the provisions of this chapter or not ", and by adding porations may crease capital, at the end of the section the words: A corporation which is created by special charter or organized under general laws for the purpose of making and selling gas or electricity for light, heat or power in a city or town, whether otherwise subject to the provisions of this chapter or not, may increase its capital stock from time to time by such amounts as may be authorized by the board of gas and electric light commissioners in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-four of chapter one hundred and nine, and may reduce the same, subject to the provisions of this chapter, so as to read as follows: Section 32. Certain corA corporation which is created by special charter for the reduce or inpurpose of carrying on any mechanical or manufacturing etc. business and which has not accepted the provisions of this chapter or the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, and a corporation which is created by special charter for the purpose of mining whether otherwise subject to the provisions of this chapter or not, may increase its capital stock to an amount not exceeding one million dollars, and may reduce the same, subject to the provisions of this chapter. A corporation which is created by special charter or organized under general laws for the purpose of making and selling gas or electricity for light, heat or power in a city or town, whether otherwise subject to the provisions of this chapter or not, may increase its capital stock from time to time by such amounts as may be authorized by the board of gas and electric light commissioners in accordance with the provisions of section twentyfour of chapter one hundred and nine, and may reduce the same, subject to the provisions of this chapter. SECTION 2. Chapter four hundred and thirty-seven of Repeal. the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF MARBLEHEAD TO MAKE AN ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.535 Marblehead SECTION 1. The town of Marblehead, for the purpose Town of of enlarging and improving its present system of water Water Loan, supply, may issue from time to time bonds, notes or scrip Act of 1908. Proviso. Payment of loan. to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars Said SECTION 2. Said town shall, at the time of authoriz ing said loan or any part thereof, provide for the payment thereof in such annual payments, as nearly equal in amount as practicable, as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed by this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, a sum which, with the income derived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual expense of operating its water works and the interest as it accrues on the said bonds, notes or scrip, and to make such payments on the principal as may be required under the provisions of this act shall, without further vote, be assessed by the assessors of said town in each year thereafter, in a manner similar to that in which other taxes are assessed, until the debt incurred by said loan is extinguished. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.536 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE EXPENSES OF THE BOARD OF Expenses of board of gas and electric light commissioners. Salaries of employees. GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMISSIONERS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The board of gas and electric light commissioners may expend annually for necessary statistics, books, stationery and contingent expenses, and for clerical assistance, such sum as the general court shall annually appropriate. SECTION 2. The salary of the present inspector of gas meters and of illuminating gas shall be twenty-eight hun dred dollars a year; of the present first assistant inspector, eighteen hundred dollars a year; of the present second assistant inspector, sixteen hundred dollars a year; and the board of gas and electric light commissioners may expend annually for the compensation of deputies, and for office rent, travelling and other necessary expenses incident to the duties of said inspectors, such sum as the general court shall annually appropriate. SECTION 3. So much of chapter fifty-four of the acts Repeal. of the year nineteen hundred and seven as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (The foregoing was laid before the Lieutenant Governor, Acting Governor, on the fourteenth day of May, 1908, and after five days it had "the force of a law", as prescribed by the Constitution, as it was not returned by him with his objections thereto within that time.) AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CAMPS OF THE SPANISH WAR VET- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.537 veterans may music on SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any camp of the Spanish war Spanish war veterans to parade with music on the day parade with designated by the national encampment of the grand army as memorial Sunday next preceding memorial day, for the Sunday. special purpose of attending divine service on that day: provided, however, that the music shall be suspended in passing within two hundred feet of any place of public worship in which services are being held. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.538 tions. SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appro- Appropriapriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, to wit: Instruction of officers and men of the militia. Clerical assistance to the and in solvency for the county of Plymouth. For furnishing officers and men of the organized militia with uniform instruction in military authority, organization and administration and in the elements of military art, as authorized by chapter three hundred and seventeen of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for this purpose. For clerical assistance to the register of probate and register of pro- insolvency for the county of Plymouth, as authorized by chapter three hundred and nineteen of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap propriated for this purpose. county of Hampshire. -county of Bristol. county of Berkshire. Clerical and messenger service in the state library. Clerk hire, etc., for reporter of de cisions of the supreme judicial court. For clerical assistance to the register of probate and insolvency for the county of Hampshire, as authorized by chapter three hundred and twenty-six of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for this purpose. For clerical assistance to the register of probate and insolvency for the county of Bristol, as authorized by chapter three hundred and twenty-seven of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap‐ propriated for this purpose. For clerical assistance to the register of probate and insolvency for the county of Berkshire, as authorized by chapter three hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for this purpose. For clerical and messenger service in the state library, as authorized by chapter three hundred and forty-two of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for this purpose. For clerk hire and incidental expenses in the office of the reporter of decisions, as authorized by chapter three hundred and fifty-eight of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for this purpose. |