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EMPLOYMENT TICKET, LAW OF 1888.
When [name of child], height [feet and inches], complexion [fair or dark], hair [color], presents a certificate duly signed, I intend to employ [him or her].
[Signature of intending employer or agent.]
[Town or city and date. ]
AGE AND SCHOOLING CERTIFICATE, LAW OF ISSS.
This certifies that I am the [father, mother, or guardian], of [name of child], and that [he or she] was born at [name of town or city] in the county of [name of county, if known], and state [or country] of [name], on the [day and year of birth], and is now [number of years and months] old.
[Signature of father, mother, or guardian.]
[Town or city and date. ]
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Then personally appeared before me the above named [name of person signing] and made oath that the foregoing certificate by [him or her] signed is true to the best of [his or her] knowledge and belief. I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of [name of child], height [feet and inches], complexion [fair or dark], hair [color], having no sufficient rea- son to doubt that [he or she] is of the age therein certified.
[Signature of person authorized to sign, with official character or authority.]
[Town or city and date.]
In case the age of the child is under fourteen, the certificate shall continue as follows after the word "certified :' And I hereby certify that [he or she] can read at sight, and can write legibly simple sentences in the English language, and that [he or she] has attended the [name] public [or private] day school according to law for [number of weeks, which must be at least thirty] during the year next preceding this date, and that the last thirty weeks of such attendance began [date]. This certificate expires [date, one year later than above date].
[Signature of the person authorized to sign, with official character or authority.]
If attendance has been at a private school, also signature of a teacher of such school, followed by words, -- certifying to school attendance.
[Town or city and date. ]
In case a child cannot read and write as above stated, the following may be substituted for the clause beginning "and I hereby certify" through to, and including the word "language :" "and I hereby certify that [he or she] is a regular attendant at the [name] public evening school ;" but in such case the certificate shall only continue in force for as long a time as attendance of such child at such evening school is endorsed weekly during the session of such evening school, not exceeding the length of the public school year minus thirty weeks in place of attendance at day school as now provided by law, with a statement from a teacher thereof certifying that his attendance continues regular. If attendance has been at a half-time school, sixty weeks of such attendance must be certified to instead of thirty. The foregoing certificate must be filled out in duplicate, and one copy thereof shall be kept on file by the school committee. Any explanatory matter may be printed with such certificate in the discretion of the school committee or superintendent of schools.
SECT. 5. In cities and towns having a superintendent of schools, said certificate shall be signed only by such superintendent, or by some person authorized by him in writing; in other cities and towns it shall be signed by some member or members of the school committee authorized by vote thereof; provided, however, that no member of a school commit-
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tee, or other person authorized as aforesaid, shall have authority to sign such certificate for any child then in, or about to enter, his own employ- ment, or the employment of a firm of which he is a member, or of a cor- poration of which he is an officer or employe. The person signing the certificate shall have authority to administer the oath provided for therein, but no fee shall be charged therefor; such oath may also be administered by any justice of the peace.
SECT. 6. The certificate as to the birthplace and age of a child shall be signed by his father, if living and a resident of the same city or town ; if not, by his mother; or if his mother is not living, or if living is not a resident of the same city or town, by his guardian ; if a child has no father, mother or guardian living in the same city or town, his own sig- nature to the certificate may be accepted by the person authorized to approve the same.
SECT. 7. No child who has been continuously a resident of a city or town since reaching the age of thirteen years, shall be entitled to receive a certificate that he has reached the age of fourteen unless or until he has attended school according to law in such city or town for at least thirty weeks since reaching the age of thirteen, unless such child can read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, or is exempted by law from such attendance.
Before signing the approval of the certificate of age of a child, the person authorized to sign the same shall refer to the last school census taken under the provisions of section three of chapter forty-six of the public statutes, and if the name of such child is found thereon, and there is a material difference between his age as given therein and as given by his parent or guardian in the certificate, allowing for lapse of time, or if such child plainly appears to be of materially less age than that so given, then such certificate shall not be signed until a copy of the certificate of birth or of baptism of such child, or a copy of the register of its birth with a town or city clerk, has been produced, or other satisfactory evidence furnished that such child is of the age stated in the certificate.
SECT. 8. The truant officers may, when so authorized and required by vote of the school committee, visit the factories, work shops and mer- cantile establishments in their several cities and towns, and ascertain whether any children under the age of fourteen are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the school committee and to the chief of the district police or the inspector of factories for the district. The inspec- tors of factories, and the truant officers when authorized as aforesaid, may demand the names of all children under sixteen years of age em- ployed in such factories, workshops and mercantile establishments, and may require that the certificates and lists of such children provided for
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in this act shall be produced for their inspection. Such truant officers shall inquire into the employment, otherwise than in such factories, workshops and mercantile establishments, of children under the age of fourteen years during the hours when the public schools are in session, and may require that the aforesaid certificates of all children under six- teen shall be produced for their inspection ; and any such officer, or any inspector of factories, may bring a prosecution against a person or cor- poration employing any such child, otherwise than as aforesaid, during the hours when the public schools are in session, contrary to the pro- visions of this act, if such employment still continues one week after written notice from such officer or inspector that such prosecution will be brought, or if more than one such written notice, whether relating to the same child or to any other child, has been given to such employer by a truant officer or inspector of factories at any time within one year.
SECT. 9. Every parent or guardian of a child under fourteen years of age who permits any employment of such child contrary to the pro- visions of this act, and every owner, superintendent, or overseer of any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment who employs or permits to be employed therein any child contrary to the provisions of this act, and any other person who employs any child contrary to the provisions of this act, shall for every such offense forfeit not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for the use of the public schools of the city or town. Every parent, guardian or person authorized to sign the certificate prescribed by section four of this act, who certifies to any materially false state- ment therein, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and im- prisonment. A failure to produce to a truant officer or inspector of fac- tories the certificate required by the provisions of this act shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of the child whose certificate is not produced.
SECT. 10. The expressions "factory" and "workshop" used in this act shall have the meanings defined for them respectively by chapter one hundred and three of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.
SECT. 11. Within one month of the passage of this act the chief of the district police shall cause a printed copy thereof to be transmitted to the school committee of every city and town in the Commonwealth.
SECT. 12. Sections one to six, inclusive, of chapter forty-eight of the public statutes, chapter two hundred and twenty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and section one of chapter four hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, are hereby repealed.
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SECT. 13. This act shall take effect on the first day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
CHAPTER 299. [ACTS OF 1890.]
CONCERNING THE AGE AND SCHOOLING CERTIFICATES OF CHILDREN
EMPLOYED IN FACTORIES, MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS, ETC.
SECTION 1. The following words shall appear on all age and schooling certificates enumerated in section four of chapter three hundred and forty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight after the name of the town or city and date :- This certificate belongs to the person in whose behalf it has been drawn, and it shall be surrendered to [him or her] whenever [he or she] leaves the service of the corpora- tion or employer holding the same; and any such corporation or employ- er refusing to so deliver the same shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars.
SECT. 2. Any corporation or employer holding any age or schooling certificate enumerated in section four of chapter three hundred and forty- eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight and refusing to deliver the same to the person in whose behalf it has been drawn, when such person shall leave the employ of said corporation or employer, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars.
CHAPTER 48. [AS AMENDED. ]
CONCERNING TRUANT CHILDREN AND ABSENTEES FROM SCHOOL.
SECTION 10. Each town shall make all needful provisions and ar- rangements concerning habitual truants and children between seven and fifteen years of age who may be found wandering about in the streets and the public places therein, having no lawful occupation or business, not attending school, and growing up in ignorance, and such children as persistently violate the reasonable rules and regulations of the common schools; and shall make such by-laws as shall be most conducive to the welfare of such children and to the good order of such town; and shall provide suitable places for the confinement, discipline and instruction of such children.
SECT. 11. The school committee of each town shall appoint and fix the compensation of two or more suitable persons, to be designated truant officers, who shall, under the direction of said committee, inquire into all cases arising under such by-laws, and shall alone be authorized, in case of violation thereof, to make complaint and carry into execution the judgment thereon; and who may serve all legal processes issued by
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the courts in pursuance of such by-laws or of sections ten to sixteen in- clusive, but who shall not be entitled to receive any fees for such service.
SECT. 12. Any minor convicted under a by-law made under section ten, of being an habitual truant, or of wandering about in the streets and public places of a city or town, having no lawful employment or busi- ness, not attending school, and growing up in ignorance, or of persist- ently violating the rules and regulations of the common schools, shall be committed to any institution of instruction or suitable situation provided for the purpose, under the authority of said section or by-law, for a term not exceeding two years.
CHAPTER 71. [ACTS OF 1885.]
AN ACT TO PREVENT TRUANCY.
Whoever, after notice from a truant officer to refrain from so doing, offers a reward for service to any child, in consequence of which reward such child is induced unlawfully to absent himself from school, or who- ever, after notice as aforesaid, in any manner entices or induces any child to truancy, or whoever knowingly employs or harbors any unlawful ab- sentee from school, or truant, shall forfeit not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars to the use of the public schools of the city or town in which said offense occurs, to be recovered by complaint.
CHAPTER 422. [ACTS OF 1889.]
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE TRUANT OFFICERS TO APPREHEND AND TAKE TO SCHOOL WITHOUT WARRANT TRUANTS DISCOVERED IN THE
ACT OF TRUANCY.
SECTION 1. Truant officers of cities and towns are hereby author- ized, under the direction of the school committees of their respective cities and towns, to apprehend and take to school without warrant all truants found wandering about in the streets and public places.
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
CHAPTER 111. [ACTS OF 1890].
AN ACT PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN SESSIONS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHALL BE DEVOTED TO EXERCISES OF A PATRIOTIC NATURE.
SECTION 1. In all the public schools of the Commonwealth the last regular session prior to Memorial Day, or a portion thereof, shall be de- voted to exercises of a patriotic nature.
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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CHAPTER 106. [RESOLVES OF 1891. ]
RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE SUBJECT OF MANUAL TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
Resolved, That the governor appoint a commission to consist of three persons, who are hereby instructed to investigate the existing systems of manual training and industrial education, with special refer- ence to the question whether any existing system of manual training or industrial education, or any modification thereof, can be adopted with advantage in any of the public schools of this Commonwealth. The commissioners herein provided for shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed for all expenses actually incurred in the performance of their official duties such a sum as the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall approve, which shall be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth; and they shall report the results of their investigations, with such recommendations as may seem best to them, to the next general court.
[By a resolve of the legislature of 1892, the above commission were instructed to continue the above investigation, and report the results thereof, with such recommendations as may seem best to them, to the next general court.]
REPORT OF POLICE DEPARTMENT.
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF MILFORD, GENTLEMEN : I have the honor to present the following report from May 1, 1893, to February 1, 1894.
Whole number of arrests from the 1st of May, 1893, to the 1st of Feb- ruary, 1894, was 281. Males, 271; females, 10, of which 224 were resi- dents and 57 of them non-residents.
The offences were as follows :-
Adultery
1
Assault and battery
30
Assault felonious
4
Accessory to rape .
1
Armed with revolver
1
Breaking and entering
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Bastardy
1
Cruelty to animals
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Drunkenness
· 125
Disturbing the peace
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Disorderly house .
1
Defrauding innkeeper
1
Disorderly conduct
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False pretence
2
Fast driving
2
Gambling on Lord's day
4
Gambling .
19
Illegal trespassing
3
Insane persons
2
Keeping gambling house
2
Non-support of minor child
1
Present at gambling
2
Threatening personal injury
1
Violation of health laws
1
Violation of game laws
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Vagrant
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Liquor nuisances .
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Keeping liquors for sale
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Of which number 270 were found guilty, 11 were found not guilty, 21 were committed to the House of Correction.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Assistance to other officers and arrests
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Buildings found open and secured
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Fires discovered and alarms given
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Fires discovered and extinguished without alarm
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Cases investigated
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Injured and sick persons assisted .
9
Liquor seizures made .
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Lost children restored to parents .
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Estray teams put up
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Search warrants served for liquors, none found
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Lost and stolen property recovered and restored to owners to the amount of $1,063.
The total amount of fines imposed in the District Court from the 1st of May, 1893, to the 1st of February, 1894, was $2,375.
The total amount of fines paid into the District Court from the 1st of May, 1893, to the 1st of February, 1894, was $1760.
The amount of fines paid into the Superior Court, was $410.
The fines imposed in the District Court from the 1st of May, 1890, to February 1, 1891, were $1,806.01.
The amount paid in the District Court, was $959.
The officers' fees and costs from May 1st, 1890, to February 1st, 1891, were $1246.91.
The fines imposed in the District Court from the 1st of May, 1891, to the Ist of February, 1892, were $958.
The amount paid in the District Court, was $603.
The officers' fees and costs from May 1, 1891, to February, 1892, were $722.56.
The fines imposed in the District Court from May 1, 1892, to Febru- ary 1, 1893, were $715.02.
The amount paid in the District Court, was $405.
The officers' fees and costs from May 1, 1892, to February 1, 1893' were $1038.22.
During the year the department has consisted of a Chief, one regular officer and fifteen constables. Four of them have performed duty on the street to the amount of twenty-three hours each week.
One performs duty fifteen hours each week. One performs duty eight hours each week.
In September, I found it necessary to make a change in the hours of duty performed by two of the officers. I therefore attended the Court in the morning and patroled the Main street until relieved by officer Clarke, he remaining on duty until 6 P. M., officer Moore patroling East Main street until 11 P. M., and from 12 p. M. until 4 A. M. he patroled from the
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Town House down North Bow street to Central street, and around the factories and back up Central street to Main, thence to the Town House, patroling this above territory every three-quarters of an hour. He also visits the lockup at the end of every round, to see that everything is all right, and to attend to the wants of prisoners.
When I took charge of this department, I found nothing to work with. There had been no records of the police work kept; therefore I had to secure a set of books, so as to establish some kind of system to the department, and at present there is a record from May 1, 1893, of every arrest made, giving the officer's name making the arrest and a full description of the prisoner; also the final disposition of the case, which, as a matter of record, is very beneficial to the department.
There is also a record kept of all matters pertaining to the Police Department. I have also established a police headquarters in the Town House, and, acting on instructions from your Board, I purchased a desk and other office furniture.
The officers doing duty on the street, have in years past dressed in citizens' clothes, and worn a small badge pinned on the outside of their coats when on duty. Wishing to have a uniform style of badges, I pur- chased a badge for each officer. The officers doing regular duty on the streets, purchased a uniform at their own expense, which I think was a great improvement in the appearance of the officers. I also found it necessary to purchase, for the use of the officers, a regulation club, chain, twisters and handcuffs.
I found that in years past the custom had been to charge the consta- ble and the police officers one dollar each for the lockup keys. There- fore, there being no record of the keys, it was impossible to know who was in possession of keys. I found it necessary to change the lock on the outer door, thus having a new set of keys, keeping a record of each officer having a key.
I also found it necessary to have a porch built over the entrance to the lockup door, so as to prevent the water from entering.
In examination of the court records, I found that there were no liquor prosecutions made the previous year. The number of kitchen bar- rooms existing in the town when I took charge of this department, went to show that the licensed liquor dealers had no protection.
A comparison of the records of the District Court for several years past, with the last nine months, will go far towards proving the advan- tage of a permanent police force.
The following figures will show the individual work of the officers : CHIEF DELANO AND OFFICER CLARKE.
Fines imposed, $1785. Fines paid, $1315. Costs and fees, $201.96.
OFFICER WATERS.
Fines paid, $115. Costs and fees, $58.62.
Fines imposed, $185.
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Fines imposed, $105.
OFFICER MOORE.
Fines imposed, $70. Fines paid, $70. OFFICER CASEY. Fines imposed, $30. Fines paid, $30.
DEPUTY SHERIFF SNELL.
Fines imposed, $50. Fines paid, $20. Costs and fees, $50.56.
DEPUTY SHERIFF JENKINS.
Fines imposed. $45. Fines paid, $45.
OFFICER HOWARD.
Fines imposed, $30. Fines paid, $30.
OFFICER KELLEY.
Fines imposed, $25. Fines paid, $25.
Costs and fees, $6.74.
Fines imposed, $5.
OFFICER DALTON. Fines paid, $5.
Costs and fees, $26.77.
Fines imposed, $10.
OFFICER BRODERICK. Fines paid, $10. OFFICER POWERS. Fines paid, Supe- rior Court, $100. OFFICER HUNT. Fines paid, $10, OFFICER BURNS.
Costs and fees, $22.31.
Fines imposed, $10.
Costs and fees,
$3.58.
Fines imposed, $5.
Fines paid, OFFICER RYAN. Fines paid, $10.
Costs and fees,
$3.58.
Fines imposed, $10.
OFFICER CARUSO.
Costs and fees,
$4.16.
Fines imposed, none.
OFFICER MARINO. Fines paid, none. OFFICER SMITH.
Costs and fees,
$3.33.
Costs and fees,
$3.16.
Fines imposed, $10.
Costs and fees, $12.28.
Nine months ago, gentlemen, I came among you, a stranger to you all, to take charge of this department. If we have not accomplished all that it was hoped that we might, speaking for myself and for the officers of my command, I can truthfully say we have done what we could.
Respectfully submitted, WALTER F. DELANO,
Chief of Police.
Milford, February 1, 1894.
OFFICER HOLMES. Fines paid, $70. Costs and fees, $113.22.
Costs and fees, $51.45.
Costs and fees, $45.03.
Costs and fees, $30.36.
Costs and fees, $19.64.
Costs and fees,
$2.58.
Fines imposed, none.
Fines imposed, none. Fines paid, none. OFFICER EDWARDS. Fines paid, none.
Costs and fees,
$2.58.
Fines imposed, none. Fines paid, none.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, ss.
To Either Constable of the Town of Milford, in said County,
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified by law to vote in Elections and in Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Town, on MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1894, punctually at eight o'clock in the forenoon, to act upon the following articles, namely :-
(The Polls may be closed at four o'clock in the afternoon on said day of meeting.)
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ARTICLE 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing. A Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Tax Collector, Auditor, three Selectmen, three Assessors, three Overseers of the Poor, two members of the School Committee, two Trustees of Pub- lic Library, three members of the Board of Health, three Trustees of Vernon Grove Cemetery (one to fill vacancy), and fifteen Consta- bles, to be voted for on ballots prepared and furnished in accord- ance with the provisions of Chapter 386 of the Acts of 1890 ; also upon said ballots the voters will giye in their votes "Yes" or "No" in answer to the question "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?"
ARTICLE 3. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen, School Committee, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Engineers of Fire Department, Tax Collector, Trustees of Public Library, Trus- tees of Vernon Grove Cemetery, and any other officers and com- mittees of said Town.
ARTICLE 4. To raise and appropriate such sum or sums of
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money as may be necessary to defray Town expenses for the year ensuing.
ARTICLE 5. To see what action the Town will take in regard to lighting its streets and appropriate money for the same.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of the taxes of the current year.
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