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SECTION 33. The school committee of every town and city shall ap- point and fix the compensation of one or more persons to be designated as truant officers, and shall make rules and regulations governing said officers. Truant officers shall not receive fees for their services. The school committees of two or more towns or cities may employ the same truant officer or officers.
SECTION 34. The truant officers of towns and cities shall inquire into all cases arising under sections eleven, twelve, twenty-four to twenty-six inclusive and thirty-one of this act, and may make complaints, serve legal processes, and carry into execution judgments thereunder. They shall perform the duties of oversight of children placed on probation as may be required of them under section twenty-eight of this act. A truant officer of any town or city may apprehend and take to school, without warrant, any truant or absentee found wandering about in the streets or public places thereof.
SECTION 35. Section three of chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as amended by section four of chapter one hundred and one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and cighty-six, by section one of chapter three hundred and thirty of the acts of the same year, and by section one of chapter two hundred and forty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following :- Section 3. Whenever it shall be made to appear to any court or magistrate after due complaint setting forth the facts relied upon, and a hearing thereon, that within
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the jurisdiction of such court or magistrate any child under sixteen years of age, by reason of orphanage, or of the neglect, crime, drunkenness or other vice of his parents, is growing up without education or salutary control, and in circumstances exposing him to lead an idle and dissolute life, or is dependent upon public charity, such court or magistrate shall, after notice to the state board of lunacy and charity, commit such child, if he lias no known settlement in this Commonwealthi, to the custody of said board, and if he has a known settlement then to the overseers of the poor of the city or town in which he has such settlement, except in the city of Boston, and if he has a settlement in said city, then to the direct- ors of public institutions of said city, until he arrives at the age of twenty-one years, or for any less time; and the said board, overseers and directors are authorized to make all needful arrangements for the care and maintenance of children so committed, in some state, municipal or town institution, or in some respectable family, and to discharge such children from their custody whenever the object of their commitment has been accomplished: prorided, however, that when it shall be made to appear that the place of legal settlement of any of such children has not. within its control any institution in which they may be lawfully main- tained such court or magistrate may commit such children to the custody of the state board of lunacy and charity, and the authority vested in overseers of the poor under this section relative to children who have a known settlement may be exercised by said state board, in the same manner and to the same extent as it might have been exercised by said overseers had such children been committed to them.
SECTION 36. Sections three and seven of chapter forty-one, sections one, two, seven, twelve, thirteen and sixteen of chapter forty-four, sec- tions one to seven inclusive, ten to thirteen inclusive and section fifteen of chapter forty-six, section ten of chapter forty-eight, and section nine- teen of chapter two hundred and twenty, of the Public Statutes; chapter one hundred and seventy-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three; chapter two hundred and thirty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six: chapter ninety-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one; chapter two hundred and thirty-one, sections one to four inclusive of chapter four hundred and thirty-six, chapter four hundred and seventy-one, and sections one, and three to twenty-nine inclusive, of chapter four hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four; chapters two hundred and twelve and two hundred and sixteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five; chapters three hundred and sixty and three hundred and eighty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed:
SECTION 37. This act shall take effect on the first day of September in the year cightcen hundred and ninety-cight. [Approved June 2, 1898.]
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[ACTS OF 1898-CHAPTER 580.]
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX OF THE ACTS OF THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT RELATIVE TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND TRUANCY.
SECTION 1. Section twenty-nine of chapter four hundred and ninety- six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as printed in the pamphlet cdition of the acts and resolves, is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following words :- and shall be mode by the trustees for children of said city, who shall hereafter exclu- sively have and exercise the powers given to the institutions commis- sioner of said city by said chapter.
SECTION 2. Section thirty-five of said chapter is hereby amended by striking out all of said section between and including the word "section," in the first line, and the word "whenever," in the eighth line; also by striking out in the twentieth linc, the words "directors of public institu- tions," and inserting in place thereof the words :- trustees for children,- also by striking out in the twenty-second line, the word "directors," and inserting in place thereof the word :- trustees,-
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved June 23, 1898.]
[ACTS OF 1885-CHAPTER 82.]
AN ACT TO SUPPLY THE TOWN OF NORWOOD WITH WATER. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows :-
SECTION 1. The town of Norwood may supply itself and its inhab- itants with water for the extinguishment of fires and for domestic and other purposes; may establish fountains and hydrants, re-locate or dis- continue the same, may regulate the use of such water, and fix and collect rates to be paid for the use of the same.
SECTION 2. The said town for the purposes aforesaid may take, by purchase or otherwise, and hold the waters of Buckmaster Pond and of Foundry or Colburn's brook, in the town of Dedham, and the waters which flow into and from the same, together with any water rights connected therewith, and also all lands, rights of way and easements, necessary for holding and preserving such water, and for conveying the same to any part of said town of Norwood, and may erect on the land thus taken or held proper dams, buildings, fixtures and other structures, and may make excavations, procure and operate machinery, and provide such other mncans and appliances as may be necessary for the establish-
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ment and maintenance of complete and effective water works; and may construct and lay down conduits, pipes and other works under or over any lands, water courses, railroads or public or private ways, and along any such way, in such manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same; and for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and repairing such con- duits, pipes and other works, and for all proper purposes of this act, said town may dig up any such lands, and under the direction of the board of selectmen of the town in which any such ways are situated, may enter upon and dig up any such ways, in such manner as to cause the least hindrance to public travel on such ways.
SECTION 3. The said town shall, within sixty days after the taking of any lands, rights of way, water rights, water sources or easements as aforesaid, otherwise than by purchase, file and cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county within which such lands or other prop- erty are situated, a description thereof sufficiently accurate for identifi- cation, with a statement of the purpose for which the same were taken, signed by the water commissioners hereinafter provided for.
SECTION 4. The said town shall pay all damages sustained by any person or corporation in property by the taking of any land, right of way, water, water source, water right or easement, or by any other thing done by said town under the authority of this act. Any person or corporation sustaining damages as aforesaid under this act who fails to agree with said town as to the amount of damages sustained, may have the damages assessed and determined, in the manner provided by law when land is taken for the laying out of highways, on application at any time within the period of three years from the taking of such land or other property, or the doing of other injury, under the authority of this act; but no such application shall be made after the expiration of said three years. No application for assessment of damages shall be made for the taking of any water, water right or for any injury thereto, until the water is actually withdrawn or diverted by said town under the authority of this act.
SECTION 5. The said town may for the purpose of paying the neces- sary expenses and liabilities incurred under the provisions of this act, issue from time to time bonds, notes or scrip, to an amount not exceed- ing in the aggregate seventy-five thousand dollars; such bonds, notes and scrip shall bear on their face the words Norwood Water Loan; 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 six per centum per annum, and shall be signed by the treasurer of the town, and be countersigned by the water commis- sioners hereinafter provided for. The said town 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
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proper. The said town shall provide, at the time of contracting said loan, for the establishment of a sinking fund, and shall annually con- tribute to such fund a sum sufficient, with the accumulations thereof, to pay the principal of said loan at maturity. The said sinking fund shall remain inviolate and pledged to the payment of said loan, and shall be used for no other purpose.
SECTION 6. The said town instead of establishing a sinking fund may, at the time of authorizing said loan, provide for the payment thereof in such annual proportionate payments as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed in this act; and when such vote has been passed, the amount required thereby shall without further vote be assessed by the assessors of said town in each year thereafter, until the debt incurred by said loan shall be extinguished, in the same manner as other taxes are as- sessed under the provisions of section thirty-four of chapter eleven of the Public Statutes.
SECTION 7. The return required by section ninety-one of chapter eleven of the Public Statutes shall state the amount of any sinking fund established under this act, and if none is established whether action has been taken in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section, and the amounts raised and applied thereunder for the current year.
SECTION S. The said town shall raise annually by taxation a sum which, with the income derived from the water rates, will be sufficient to pay the current annual expenses of operating its water works, and the interest as it accrues on the bonds, notes and scrip issued as aforesaid by said town, and to make such contributions to the sinking fund and pay- ments on the principal as may be required under the provisions of this act.
SECTION 9. The said town may contract with the Dedham Water Company for a supply of water necessary for the purposes of this act, on such terms as may be agreed upon between said town and said cor- poration; and said Dedham Water Company is authorized to contract for and furnish, from its water supply, water to said town, and to make the necessary connections of its conduits or pipes with the conduits or pipes of the said town: provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to compel the said corporation to make such connections or to furnish said water.
SECTION 10. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts, pollutes or diverts any of the waters taken or held under this act, or injures any structure, work or other property owned, held or used by said town under the authority and for the purposes of this act, shall forfeit and pay to said town three times the amount of damages assessed therefor, to be recovered in an action of tort; and upon conviction of either of the above wilful or wanton acts shall be punished by a fine not exceed- ing three hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year.
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SECTION 11. The said town shall, after its acceptance of this act, at. a legal meeting called for the purpose, elect by ballot three persons to- hold office, one until the expiration of three years, one until the expira- tion of two years, and one until the expiration of one year from the next. succeeding annual town meeting, to constitute a board of water com- missioners; and at each annual town meeting thereafter, one such com- missioner shall be elected by ballot for the term of three years. All the authority granted to the said town by this act, and not otherwise- specifically provided for, shall be vested in said board of water commis- sioners, who shall be subject, however, to such instructions, rules and regulations as said town may impose by its vote; the said commissioners. shall be trustees of the sinking fund herein provided for, and a majority of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business relative both to the water works and to the sinking fund. Any vacancy occurring in said board from any cause may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by said town at any legal town meeting called for that purpose.
SECTION 12. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by a two- thirds vote of the voters of said town, present and voting thereon at a legal town meeting called for the purpose, within three years from its: passage; but the number of meetings so called in any year shall not exceed three.
[ACTS OF 1886-CHAPTER 208.]
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF NORWOOD TO MAKE AN ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN.
Be it enacted by the Senate und House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows :-
SECTION 1. The town of Norwood for the purposes mentioned in section five of chapter eighty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hun- dred and eighty-five may issue bonds, notes or scrip, to be denominateď on the face thereof Norwood Water Loan, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized by law to be issued by said town for the same purposes; said bonds, notes or scrip to be issued upon the same terms and conditions and with the same powers as are provided in said act for the issue of the Norwood Water Loan by said town: provided, that the whole amount of such bonds, notes or scrip issued by said town, together with those heretofore issued by said town for the same purposes, shall not in any event exceed the amount of one hundred thousand dollars.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved May 14. 1886.]
(Adopted in town meeting, May 26, 1887.)
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[ACTS OF 1894 -CHAPTER 44.]
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF NORWOOD TO MAKE AN ADDITIONAL WATER LOAN.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION 1. The town of Norwood, for the purposes mentioned in sec- tion five of chapter eighty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for the further purpose of making extensions of the water works therein authorized, may issue bonds, notes or scrip to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized by law to be issued by said town for the "same purposes; said bonds, notes or scrip to be issued upon the same terms and conditions and with the same powers as are provided in said act for the issue of the Norwood water loan by said town.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved February 21, 1894.]
(Adopted in town meeting, May 9, 1895.)
[ACTS OF 1885-CHAPTER 120.]
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A CHANGE OF THE GRADE OF THE OLD CEMETERY IN NORWOOD.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows :-
SECTION 1. The town of Norwood is hereby authorized, under the direction of its selectmen and board of health, to lower the grade of the old parish cemetery in said town adjoining the location of the New York and New England Railroad and lying northwesterly of said railroad location between said location and Washington Street, or such part of said cemetery as said town may think proper, and to remove, replace and re-inter the remains of the dead and the monuments erected to their memory in said cemetery: provided, however, that the selectmen of said town shall first give thirty days' notice in some newspaper of general circulation in said town, that said change of grade and removal, replac- ing and re-interring of the remains of the dead and their monuments is intended; and provided, further, that the remains so removed shall be re-interred and the monuments so removed shall be re-erected in sub- stantially the same relative positions after such change of grade is made as they now occupy in said cemetery: and provided, further, that the parish to which the land was conveyed to form said cemetery shall first consent thereto.
SECTION 2. The remains so removed may be re-interred in any other
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authorized cemetery in this Commonwealth, instead of as hereinbefore provided, and the monuments erected in connection with the same, re- erected in such other cemetery, if the relatives or friends of those whose- remains are so removed shall so request in writing, and first give a satisfactory guarantee to pay the expense of the removal and re-inter- ment.
SECTION 3. Said town is hereby authorized at its next annual meet- ing or at any legal town meeting called for that purpose, to raise by taxation and appropriate such sums as shall be found necessary for the. purposes of this act.
SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[ACTS OF 1867 -CHAPTER 242.]
AN ACT CONCERNING SHADE AND ORNAMENTAL TREES STAND- ING IN HIGHWAYS AND STREETS.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION 1. No person who has by law a right to cut down or remove. any ornamental or shade trees standing in any highway, town-way or street, shall exercise such right without first giving notice of his inten- tion to one of the selectmen of the town or mayor of the city in which the tree stands; and, if the selectmen of the town or mayor and alder- men of the city desire to retain the tree, they shall give notice thereof to. such person within ten days after his notice to them; and in that case, .. the same course shall be taken and the same rules apply as to the assess- ment, appeal, and final determination and payment of the damage such person may suffer by the retaining of said tree, as in the case of damage done by an alteration in such highway, town-way or strect.
SECTION 2. If any such person shall cut down, remove or injure such tree without first giving the notice required in the foregoing section, or in violation of any of the provisions thereof, or of the rights of the city or town acquired thereunder to maintain the same, he shall suffer the penalty provided for the injury or destroying of ornamental or shade. trees in the seventh section of the forty-sixth chapter of the General Statutes, and the penalty in such case shall accrue to the town or city.
SECTION 3. This act shall not be in force in any town or city until it shall be accepted by a majority of the legal voters in such town at a. meeting legally called therefor, or by the city council.
SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved' May 16, 1867.]
(Accepted in town meeting, May 17, 1875.)
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[ACTS OF 1884-CHAPTER 186.]
AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BURIAL PLACES AND LOTS THEREIN.
Be it enacted, ctc., as follows: 1
SECTION 1. Any city or town is hereby authorized to receive, hold and apply any funds, moneys or securities which may be deposited with the treasurer of such city or town for the preservation, care, improve- ment or embellishing of any public or private burial place situated there- in, or of burial lots located in the samc.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved April 28, 1884.]
(Adopted in town meeting, March, 1887.)
[ACTS OF 1890-CHAPTER 386.]
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTING OF BALLOTS FOR TOWN ELECTIONS AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION 1. In any town which, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, shall accept the provisions of this act, elections of town officers shall thereafter be held as herein provided.
SECTION 2. When any town accepts the provisions of this act it shall at the same meeting determine what officers, if any, not required by law to be chosen by ballot shall be so chosen, also the number and terms of such officers; and for this purpose may accept any existing act providing a system or manner of electing any town officers. All such matters shall be notified in the warrant for such meeting. No change shall be there- after made in the officers to be chosen by ballot or in the number or terms thercof except at a meeting held at least thirty days before any annual town election.
SECTION 3. All warrants for town meetings for the election of officers as herein provided shall specify the time of opening the polls and the time when the same may be closed; but the polls shall be kept open at least four hours.
SECTION 4. Nominations of candidates may be made by caucus, or by nomination papers signed in the aggregate for each candidate by qualified voters of such town not less in number than one for every fifty voters who were registered for the last preceding state election in such town; but the voters so signing shall in no case be less than twenty in number. Each voter signing a nomination paper shall add to his sig- nature his place of residence with the street and number thereof, if any;
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and cach voter may subscribe to as many nominations for each office as there are persons to be clected thereto, and no more. Women qualified to vote for members of the school committee may sign nomination papers for candidates for the school committee.
SECTION 5. All certificates of caucus nominations shall be signed by the presiding officer and sceretary of the caucus. Such certificates and nomination papers shall, besides containing the names of candidates, specify as to each candidate the office for which he is nominated, and his place of residence, with street and number thereon, if any, and may in- clude a designation of such candidacy, expressed in not more than three words.
SECTION 6. Certificates of nomination shall be filed with the town clerk at least eight days previous to the day of the clection, and nomina- tion papers shall be so filed at least six days previous to the day of elcc- tion. The certificates of nomination and nomination papers being so filed, and being in apparent conformity with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed to be valid unless objection thereto is duly made in writing. Such objections or questions arising in the case of nominations shall be consid- ered by the board of registrars of voters, and the decision of a majority of the board shall be final. In case such objection is made, notice shall forth- with be delivered to the candidates affected thereby. All certificates of nomination and nomination papers when filed shall be open under proper regulations to public inspection, and the town clerk shall preserve the same in his office not less than one year.
SECTION 7. All ballots for use in such elections shall be prepared by the town clerk. Every general ballot, or ballot intended for the use of all male voters, which shall be printed in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall contain the names of all candidates whose nominations for any offices specified in the ballot have been duly made, and shall con- tain no other names. The names of candidates for cach office shall be ar- ranged under the designation of the office in alphabetical order according to surnames. There shall be left at the end of the list of candidates for each different office as many blank spaces as there are persons to be elected to such office, in which the voter may insert the name of any person not printed on the ballot for whom he desires to vote as candi- date for such office. Whenever any question is submitted to the vote of the people of a town, in accordance with a statute providing for such submission, such question shall be printed upon the ballot after the list of candidates. Special ballots containing only the names of candidates for the school committee shall also be prepared in like manner and printed for the use of women qualified according to law to vote for members of the school committee. The ballots shall be so printed as to give to each voter a clear opportunity to designate, by a cross mark [X] in a square at the right of the name and designation of each candidate, his choice of
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