Salaries. SECTION 3. The judges of probate and insolvency for the county of Essex shall each receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.542 AN ACT FURTHER TO DEFINE THE DUTIES OF COUNTY COM 1906, 463, § 23, Part I, amended. Alteration of crossings. MISSIONERS IN THE ALTERATION OF CROSSINGS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section twenty-three of Part I of chapter four hundred and sixty-three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby amended by inserting after the word "board", in the seventeenth line, the words:This proceeding may include any case where there is need of the rebuilding of a highway bridge or any structural change or renewal for the purpose of strengthening or improving it, — and by inserting after the word "building", in the twentieth line, the words: rebuilding, changing, renewing, so as to read as follows: ·Section 23. If a public way and a railroad cross each other, and the board of aldermen of the city or the selectmen of the town in which the crossing is situated, or the directors of the railroad corporation, or the directors of a street railway company having tracks on the said way are of opinion that it is necessary for the security or convenience of the public that an alteration which does not involve the abolition of a crossing at grade should be made in the crossing, the approaches thereto, the location of the railroad or way, or in a bridge at the crossing, they shall apply to the county commissioners, or, if the crossing is situated in the city of Boston, to the board of railroad commissioners, who shall, after public notice, hear all parties interested, and, if they decide that such alteration is necessary, shall prescribe the manner and limits within which it shall be made, and shall forthwith certify their decision to the parties and to said board. This proceeding may include any case where there is need of the rebuilding of a highway bridge or any structural change or renewal for the purpose of strengthening or improving it. In case any street railway company is authorized to lay and use tracks upon the said. way, the said company shall bear such part of the expense of building, rebuilding, changing, renewing, repairing or improving a bridge forming a part of said way, or of altering or improving the approaches thereto, as shall be deemed to be just by the commission provided for in sections twenty-five and twenty-six. 66 Part I, " amended. SECTION 2. Section twenty-five of Part I of said chap- 1906 463, § 25. ter is hereby amended by inserting after the word " such in the sixth line, the words: -bridge or, and by inserting after the word "such ", in the twenty-first line, the words: bridge or crossing and, so as to read as follows: Section 25. A special commission of three dis- Award to be interested persons, who shall be appointed as provided in special comthe following section, shall determine which party shall mission. carry such decision into effect and which party shall pay the charges and expenses of making such alteration and the future charges for keeping such bridge or crossing and the approaches thereto in repair, as well as the costs of the application to the county commissioners, or the board of railroad commissioners, and of the hearing before said special commission; and it may apportion all such charges, expenses and costs between the railroad corporation, the street railway company having tracks on said way, and the counties, cities or towns in which said crossing is situated and other cities and towns which may be specially benefited. If a street railway company is authorized to lay and use tracks upon any bridge in a highway which is built or repaired or altered as above provided for, or the approaches to which are altered or improved as above provided for, the said commission shall determine what part of the charges and expenses of making such changes or improvements, or of keeping such bridge or crossing and approaches in good condition, shall be paid by the said street railway company. Approved May 26, 1908. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE INSURANCE COMPANIES DOING FI DELITY INSURANCE TO DO LIABILITY INSURANCE BUSI- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.543 Companies authorized to do an insurance business under Insurance comclause Third of section thirty-two of chapter five hundred fidelity insurand seventy-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred liability insurand seven may also do an insurance business under clause ance business. ance may do a Fifth of the said section: provided, that they possess a capital equal to the aggregate capital required of separate companies doing business under said clause Third and under said clause Fifth. Approved May 26, 1908. Chap.544 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL TO Members of unpaid com may be reimbursed for expenses. MAKE CERTAIN PAYMENTS TO MEMBERS OF UNPAID COM- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The governor and council are hereby aumissions, etc., thorized to reimburse members of unpaid commissions, and citizens who may be sent officially to represent the commonwealth at national conventions, to such extent as may be found by the governor and council to be reasonably necessary on account of the giving by such commissioners and delegates of their services to the commonwealth. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 26, 1908. Chap.545 AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE RECLAMA Reclamation of province lands. Expenditures. TION OF THE PROVINCE LANDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, to be expended during the period of four years after the passage of this act, under the direction of the board of harbor and land commissioners, for the reclamation of the province lands belonging to the commonwealth in the county of Barnstable, as a means toward the preservation of Provincetown harbor. SECTION 2. Of the said amount there shall be expended not more than one fourth in any one year, except that if less than three quarters of the whole sum hereby appropriated shall have been spent during the first three years the remainder of said three quarters may be added to the one quarter set apart for the fourth year. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF COTUIT Chap.546 HARBOR IN THE TOWN OF BARNSTABLE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: of Cotuit The board of harbor and land commissioners is hereby Improvement authorized and directed to improve Cotuit harbor in the harbor. town of Barnstable by removing rocks and by deepening the channel, and otherwise as it may deem expedient, and the board may expend for this purpose a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars. Approved May 26, 1908. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE HOURS OF LABOR OF EMPLOYEES IN THE PENAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.547 of employees in penal insti tutions. SECTION 1. The hours of labor for officers, instructors Hours of labor and employees of the state penal institutions shall not exceed sixty in each week; and every officer, instructor or employee whose duties require his presence at the institution seven days a week shall be given at least two days vacation in each month, which shall be in addition to the regular annual vacation and without loss of pay. Nothing in this section shall prevent the warden or superintendent, respectively, from requiring the services of all his officers, instructors and employees to assist in recapturing an escaped prisoner, or in any case of extraordinary emergency involving danger to property, to life, to public safety or to public health. officers may SECTION 2. There may be employed at the state prison, Additional the Massachusetts reformatory, and the reformatory prison be employed. for women, such officers in addition to the number now allowed by law as the prison commissioners shall consider necessary to carry out the purpose of this act. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect on the first day when to take of December in the year nineteen hundred and eight. Approved May 27, 1908. effect. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WANNACOMET WATER COMPANY. Chap.548 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: amended. SECTION 1. Section two of chapter twenty-seven of the 1880, 27, § 2, acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty is hereby amended by inserting after the word "inhabitants", in Wannacomet certain waters. the eighteenth line, the words: provided, however, that no source of water supply for domestic purposes and no. lands shall be acquired or used under this act without the consent of the state board of health, and that the location of all dams, reservoirs, wells or other works for collecting or storing water shall be subject to the approval of said board,- so as to read as follows: Section 2. Said corpany may take poration for the purpose aforesaid may take and hold the waters of the pond formerly known as the "Western Washing Pond", and now known as the Wannacomet Pond, together with so much as may be necessary for the purpose, of any springs, ponds, or natural brooks within the limits of said town; and may convey the same through the town of Nantucket or any part thereof; and may take and hold by purchase or otherwise, such land on or around the margin of said ponds or brooks, not exceeding five rods in width, as may be necessary to secure the purity of the water; and may also take and hold in like manner, such land as may be necessary for constructing any reservoir, for erecting and maintaining dams, embankments and gate houses, and for laying down and maintaining conduits, pipes and drains, and erecting engines and pumps, constructing aqueducts, hydrants and other works for collecting, conducting and distributing water among the said inhabitants provided, however, that no source of water supply for domestic purposes and no lands shall be acquired or used under this act without the consent of the state board of health, and that the location of all dams, reservoirs, wells or other works for collecting or storing water shall be subject to the approval of said board. Said corporation shall, within ninety days after taking such lands, file in the registry of deeds in the county of Nantucket a description of the lands so taken, sufficiently accurate for identification, together with a statement of the purposes for which said lands are taken, signed by the president of said corporation. Proviso. 1880, 27, § 5, amended. Lands, etc. SECTION 2. Section five of said chapter twenty-seven is hereby amended by striking out the words "real estate ", in the second line, and inserting in place thereof the word: lands, and by striking out the word "thirty", in the third line, and inserting in place thereof the word:sixty, so as to read as follows: Section 5. Said corporation for the purposes aforesaid may hold lands not |