also licensed to sell intoxicating liquors and who are authorized to keep open their places of business on the Lord's day, nor the letting of horses and carriages or of yachts. and boats, nor the running of steam ferry boats on established routes, nor the running of street railway cars, nor the preparation, printing and publication of newspapers, nor the sale and delivery of newspapers, nor the wholesale or retail sale and delivery of milk, nor the transportation of milk, nor the making of butter and cheese, nor the keeping open of public bath houses, nor the making or selling by bakers or their employees, before ten o'clock in the morning and between the hours of four o'clock and half past six o'clock in the evening, of bread or other food usually dealt in by them, nor the carrying on of the business of bootblacks before eleven o'clock in the forenoon, nor the digging of clams or the icing and dressing of fish. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 26, 1908.

Chap.127 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FILING OF PETITIONS FOR THE

R. L. 197, § 10, amended.

ENFORCEMENT OF LIENS ON BUILDINGS AND STRUC

TURES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

so as

SECTION 1. Section ten of chapter one hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "dollars", in the twelfth line, the words: If the building or structure affected by the lien is not situated within the judicial district of any one of such police, district or municipal courts, the petition may be brought in the court the judicial district of which adjoins the town in which such building or structure is situated, or, if said town does not adjoin any judicial district, in any one of such courts in said county, to read as follows: Section 10. The superior court buildings, etc. for the county in which the building or structure is situated shall have jurisdiction to enforce liens under the provisions of this chapter; but if the building or structure affected by the lien is situated within their respective jurisdictions, a trial justice shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction with the superior court if the amount claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars, a police, district or municipal court, except the municipal court

Enforcement

of liens on

of the city of Boston, shall have like jurisdiction if the amount claimed does not exceed one thousand dollars, and the municipal court of the city of Boston shall have like jurisdiction if the amount claimed does not exceed two thousand dollars. If the building or structure affected. by the lien is not situated within the judicial district of any one of such police, district or municipal courts, the petition may be brought in the court the judicial district. of which adjoins the town in which such building or structure is situated, or, if said town does not adjoin any judicial district, in any one of such courts in said county. The parties shall have like rights of appeal as in other civil

cases.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 27, 1908.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WHITMAN BOARD OF TRADE Chap.128

CORPORATION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Board of Trade

incorporated.

SECTION 1. Benjamin S. Atwood, Leonard B. Hatch, Whitman George O. Jenkins, Obed H. Ellis, George D. Soule, Corporation George L. Paine, Walter E. Trufant, Thomas A. Cushman and George D. Alden, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation for the term of thirty years from the date of the passage of this act, by the name of the Whitman Board of Trade Corporation, with authority to purchase and hold land not exceeding six acres, with the buildings thereon, within the limits of the town of Whitman, and also to erect and maintain buildings thereon of brick, wood or stone for manufacturing and business purposes, and with authority to lease, sell or mortgage any of said estate, subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and ten of the Revised Laws, and any acts in addition thereto or in amendment thereof, and to all general laws now or hereafter in force relating to such corporations.

SECTION 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall Capital stock. be ten thousand dollars, divided into shares of ten dollars each, and may be increased from time to time to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 27, 1908.

Chap.129 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF NEW BEDFORD TO

Street may be laid out, etc., over Hathaway Cemetery, in the city of New Bedford.

Proviso.

EXTEND A PUBLIC STREET THROUGH THE HATHAWAY
CEMETERY.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The city of New Bedford is hereby authorized to lay out, construct and continue Whitman street, in, through and over the Hathaway Cemetery, socalled, the same being an ancient private place of burial upon land of the heirs of Ann H. Willis, in said city: provided, that the assent of the heirs thereto is first obtained in writing and filed with the records of the clerk of said city.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 27, 1908.

Chap.130 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CONTROL OF PUBLIC PLEASURE

Certain public pleasure

of Salem to be

GROUNDS IN THE CITY OF SALEM.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The board of park commissioners of the grounds in city city of Salem shall have the same authority over the under control public pleasure grounds in said city known as Salem Wilcommissioners. lows, Ledge Hill Park, and Liberty Hill Park, which by

of park

Intoxicating liquors not to be sold on premises, etc.

Proviso.

chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Laws is given to boards of park commissioners over public parks located in accordance with the provisions of said chapter; but said board may permit any buildings or other structures standing upon said pleasure grounds at the time of the taking effect of this act to remain thereon, to be used for shelter, refreshments, amusements, wharves, boat landings, boat houses and other purposes, for the accommodation of the public; and may, from time to time, permit other buildings and structures to be erected on said grounds to be used for said purposes. Every permit issued hereunder shall be in writing, shall provide that no intoxicating liquors shall be sold on the premises for which the permit is granted, and shall be for such term, at such rent, and upon such conditions as said board, with the approval of the mayor, may deem proper: provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any contract or agreement entered into by said board prior to the tak ing effect of this act. Section eleven of chapter twenty

visions of law

eight, and section twenty of chapter fifty-three of the Certain proRevised Laws shall not apply to the buildings or other not to apply. structures aforesaid.

effect.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its accept- When to take ance by the city council of said city.

Approved February 27, 1908.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BROCKTON TO MAKE
AN ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.131

Water Loan,

cluded in debt

SECTION 1. The city of Brockton, for the purposes Brockton mentioned in chapter one hundred and twenty-four of the 1908. acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, may issue from time to time bonds, notes or scrip to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized by law to be issued by said city for water works purposes; but the same shall Not to be innot be reckoned in determining the statutory limit of in- limit. debtedness of the city. Such bonds, notes or scrip shall bear on their face the words, Brockton Water Loan, 1908; shall be payable at the expiration of periods not exceeding thirty years from the date of issue; shall bear interest, payable semi-annually, at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum; and shall be signed by the treasurer of the city and countersigned by the mayor. Said city may sell such securities at public or private sale, or pledge the same for money borrowed for the purposes of this act, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper: provided, that such securities shall not be Provisos. sold for less than the par value thereof; and provided, further, that no part of the proceeds of the sale of said notes, bonds or scrip shall be used in payment of running expenses.

loan.

SECTION 2. Said city shall at the time of authorizing Payment of said loan provide for the payment thereof in such annual proportionate payments, beginning not more than five years after the first issue of such bonds, notes or scrip, 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 bonds, notes or scrip issued as aforesaid by said city, and to make

When to take effect.

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 city in each year thereafter, in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed under the provisions of section thirty-seven of chapter twelve of the Revised Laws, until the debt incurred by said loan is extinguished.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city council of said city.

Chap.132 AN ACT TO

1907, 409, § 3, amended.

Powers to be exercised on decree of the superior court.

Аст

Approved February 27, 1908.

EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH THE TRUSTEES OF BRIDGEWATER ACADEMY MAY CONVEY THE PROPERTY OF SAID CORPORATION ΤΟ THE TOWN OF BRIDGEWATER.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter four hundred and nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven is hereby amended by striking out the words "within one year after the passage of this act ", in the last line, and inserting in place thereof the words: - not later than the fifteenth day of May in the year nineteen hundred and nine, so as to read as follows: Section 3. The powers hereby granted shall be exercised only in conformity with a decree of the superior court sitting in equity for the county of Plymouth, to be entered not later than the fifteenth day of May in the year nineteen hundred and nine.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 27, 1908.

Chap.133 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN HORSES

Disabled or diseased horses may be placed

of certain charitable

societies, etc.

OWNED BY CITIES AND TOWNS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1.

Whenever any horses used in the fire dein the custody partment, the police department, the street or sanitary department, or any other department of any city or town shall, by reason of disability or disease, become unfit for use therein, the commissioner or other officer having charge of such department, in cities with the approval of the mayor, and in towns with the approval of the select