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 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
 BULLETIN OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 1913. No. 8 WHOLE NUMBER, 27 
 
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 Educational Legislation 
 
 OF 1913 
 
 Enacted by the General Court, giving Acts and Resolves 
 
 with Annotations 
 
 Issued by the Board of Education August 1, 1913 
 
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 EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION 
 
 Exacted by the General Court in 1913, giving Acts and 
 Resolves with Annotations. 
 
 Content. 
 
 This pamphlet contains legislation relating to public educa- 
 tion enacted by the General Court during the session of 1913, 
 save legislation appropriating money for specific purposes or to 
 meet annual expenditures. The text of the acts and resolves is 
 followed by explanation and comment where these seem to be 
 required. The legislation is grouped under four headings: — 
 
 I. Acts and resolves conferring powers and duties on the 
 Board of Education. 
 
 II. Acts of general import to the public schools. 
 
 III. Special acts relating to specific communities or institu- 
 tions. 
 
 IV. Additional legislation of interest in education. 
 
 (For list of subjects and pages see page 69 of this pamphlet.) 
 
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 PART I. — LEGISLATION CONFERRING POWERS AND 
 DUTIES ON THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 COLLEGIATE COURSES IN NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 
 Chapter 26. 
 
 Resolve to direct the board of education to investigate the 
 advisability of establishing collegiate courses in normal 
 schools and in secondary schools. 
 
 Resolved, That the board of education is hereby authorized and directed 
 to investigate the advisability and the probable cost of establishing in 
 the normal schools of the commonwealth, and in secondary schools main- 
 tained by cities and towns, a curriculum in collegiate subjects leading to 
 a degree. 
 
 The board shall report to the general court not later than the second 
 daj r of June, in the current year, and shall accompany its report with 
 the draft of any legislation which the board may recommend. [Approved 
 March 6, 1913. 
 
 The Board of Education presented a report in accordance with 
 this resolve, but made no recommendation for legislation. 
 
 AMERICAN FLAG. 
 
 Chapter 61. 
 
 Resolve to provide for an investigation relative to the publica- 
 tion OF A MANUAL UPON THE AMERICAN FLAG. 
 
 Resolved, That the board of education is hereby authorized and directed 
 to investigate the matter of publishing a book or manual upon the Ameri- 
 can flag containing a history of the flag and such other matter as the 
 board may consider proper, for the purpose of furnishing copies to teach- 
 ers in the public schools of the commonwealth and of directing that in- 
 structions from the book be given to pupils in such grades of the public 
 schools as the school committees of the several cities and towns may 
 determine. The board shall report to the general court on or before the 
 fifteenth day of January in the year nineteen hunched and fourteen stat- 
 ing the probable cost of publishing and distributing the book, and mak- 
 ing such recommendations for legislation, if any, as it may deem expedient. 
 [Approved April 21, 1913.
 
 AGRICULTURE, ORDER FOR A REPORT RELATIVE TO THE 
 TEACHING OF. 
 
 On May 6, 1913, the Legislature passed the following order: — 
 
 Ordered, That the Board of Education be requested to consider what 
 branches of agriculture might be taught to families and by what methods; 
 what kinds of school plants and facilities would be required for such in- 
 struction; to estimate what the immediate and ultimate cost per family 
 would be; to ascertain as nearly as may be how many families would 
 take advantage of such instruction and what public benefits might be 
 expected to accrue therefrom; and to report to the next General Court 
 not later than the second Monday in January. 
 
 NORMAL SCHOOL SITES. 
 
 Chapter 99. 
 
 Resolve to provide for an investigation and a report by the 
 board op education relative to the sites of normal schools. 
 
 Resolved, That the board of education is hereby authorized and directed 
 to investigate in regard to the sites now occupied by normal schools in 
 the commonwealth, especially with the view of ascertaining whether or 
 not the sites now occupied by normal schools are located advantageously 
 for the interests of the commonwealth and for the convenience of the 
 scholars attending them. The board is also authorized to investigate as 
 to the necessity or desirability of establishing other normal schools and 
 as to the locations where such schools should be established, if additional 
 normal schools should, in the opinion of the board, be established. The 
 board shall report the result of its investigation to the general court on 
 or before the second Wednesday of January next, together with any 
 recommendations for legislation or otherwise which the board may deem 
 expedient. [Approved May 28, 1913. 
 
 APPOINTEES AND EXPENDITURES OF THE BOARD OF 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 Chapter 421. 
 
 An Act relative to the appointees of the board of education. 
 
 Section 1. Section three of chapter four hundred and fifty-seven of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by chapter 
 two hundred and eighty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 ten, by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the acts of the year nine- 
 teen hundred and eleven, and by chapter eighty of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby further amended by striking out 
 the words "at equal salaries", in the fourteenth line, — so as to read as
 
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 follows: — Section 3. The board shall appoint a commissioner of edu- 
 cation whose term of office shall be five years, and may fix his salary at 
 such sum as the governor and council shall approve. Said commissioner 
 may at any time be removed from office by a vote of six members of the 
 board. He shall exercise the powers and perform the duties now con- 
 ferred or imposed by law on the secretary of the board of education. He 
 shall be the executive officer of the board, shall have supervision of all 
 educational work supported in whole or in part by the commonwealth, 
 and shall report thereon to the board, and, when so authorized by the 
 board, may approve bills for expenditures from appropriations and funds 
 placed under the direction of the board. The board shall also appoint 
 two deputy commissioners, one of whom shall be especially qualified to 
 deal with industrial education. The powers, duties, salaries and terms 
 of offiee-of said deputy commissioners shall be such as may be established 
 from time to time by the board, but the board may, by a vote of six 
 members thereof, remove from office at any time either of said deputy 
 commissioners. The board may be allowed for rent, salaries of the com- 
 missioner, the deputies, agents, assistants and clerical sendee, and for 
 travelling and other necessary expenses of the commissioner, the deputies, 
 agents, and of the board incurred in the performance of their official 
 duties, such sum as shall be appropriated by the general court annually, 
 payable out of the treasury of the commonwealth. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 31, 1913. 
 
 The Board asked for the amendment provided by this act, in 
 order that it might, in appointing a deputy commissioner, deter- 
 mine the salary of said deputy without reference to the salary of 
 the other deputy. It is considered by the Board that the freedom 
 thus given in appointing a deputy is desirable. 
 
 CITY OF FITCHBURG AND THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 
 Chapter 662. 
 
 An Act to authorize the commonwealth to convey a parcel op 
 land in exchange for land belonging to the city of fitch- 
 BURG. 
 
 Section 1. For the purpose of straightening and improving parts of 
 North and Pearl streets in the city of Fitchburg, the commissioner of 
 education is hereby authorized, in the name and behalf of the common- 
 wealth, to convey to the city of Fitchburg a certain parcel of land situated 
 on the northerly side of said Pearl street and on the northwesterly side 
 of said North street, containing fifty-three hundred and seventeen square 
 feet of land, more or less, and delin< ated upon a plan entitled "Plan show-
 
 ing proposed changes at junction of North St. and Pearl St., Fitchburg, 
 Mass., Oct. 1912. Scale 1 in. 40 ft.", to be recorded with the conveyance 
 of these premises in the registry of deeds for the northern district of the 
 county of Worcester. In consideration of this conveyance the city of 
 Fitchburg is to convey to the commonwealth a certain parcel of land 
 situated on the southeasterly side of said North street, containing nine 
 hundred and fifty-six square feet of land, more or less, and delineated 
 upon said plan; and in addition the city of Fitchburg shall on or before 
 January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, regrade and macadamize 
 that part of said North street extending from said Pearl street to the Pearl 
 Hill road. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 May 16, 1913.
 
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 PART II. — LEGISLATION OF GENERAL IMPORT TO 
 
 SCHOOL AUTHORITIES. 
 
 EMPLOYMENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. 
 
 Chapter 205. 
 Ax Act relative to the employment of public school teachers 
 
 THROUGH THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Section 1. Chapter three hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and six, as amended by chapter two hundred and 
 thirteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven, relating to 
 the employment of public school teachers through the board of education, 
 is hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 February 28, 1913. 
 
 Chapter 731 of the Acts of 1911 makes provision for the regis- 
 tration of teachers with the Board of Education, and, conse- 
 quently, provides the service called for by chapter 399 of the 
 Acts of 1906. 
 
 NAUTICAL TRAINING SCHOOL. 
 
 Chapter 224. 
 
 An Act to change the name of the Massachusetts nautical train- 
 ing school. 
 
 Section 1. The Massachusetts nautical training school shall here- 
 after be designated and known as the Massachusetts nautical school. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 6, 19l3. 
 
 PENALTY FOR POSSESSION OF OBSCENE PRINTS, ETC. 
 
 Chapter 259. 
 Ax Act relative to the possession of obscene prints, pictures 
 
 AND ARTICLES. 
 
 Section twenty of chapter two hundred and twelve of the Revised 
 Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and twenty of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and four, is hereby further amended by in- 
 serting after the word "paper", in the eighth line, the words: — obscene,
 
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 indecent or impure print, picture, figure, image, — so as to read as fol- 
 lows: — Section 20. Whoever imports, prints, publishes, sells or dis- 
 tributes a book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other thing con- 
 taining obscene, indecent or impure language, or manifestly tending to 
 corrupt the morals of youth, or an obscene, indecent or impure print, 
 picture, figure or description, manifestly tending to corrupt the morals of 
 youth, or introduces into a family, school or place of education, or buys, 
 procures, receives or has in his possession any such book, pamphlet, 
 ballad, printed paper, obscene, indecent or impure print, picture, figure, 
 image or other thing, either for the purpose of sale, exhibition, loan or 
 circulation or with intent to introduce the same into a family, school or 
 place of education shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 
 two years and by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one 
 thousand dollars. [Approved March 8, 1913. 
 
 ANNUAL RETURNS OF SCHOOL STATISTICS. 
 
 Chapter 356. 
 
 An Act eelative to annual returns of school statistics. 
 
 Section 1. Section four of chapter forty-three of the Revised Laws, 
 as amended by section three of chapter three hundred and sixty-eight of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby further 
 amended by striking out the word "school", in the sixteenth line, and 
 inserting in place thereof the word: — fiscal, — and by inserting after 
 the word "taxation", in the twenty-fifth line, the words: — and also the 
 total expenditures, classified, for the public schools during the school 
 year last preceding the date of this certificate, — so as to read as follows : 
 — Section 4- The chairman of each school committee shall annually on 
 or before the thirty-first day of July transmit to the commissioner of 
 education a certificate filled out, signed and sworn to by him, containing 
 the following statements : — 
 
 First. The number of persons between the ages of five and fifteen 
 years, and the number of persons between the ages of seven and fourteen 
 years, residing in the town (or city), according to the school census taken 
 on the first day of September, last preceding the date of this certificate. 
 
 Second. The number of persons in the average membership of the 
 public schools of the town (or city), for the school year last preceding the 
 date of the certificate, as determined by the rules of the state school 
 register. 
 
 Third. The amount of money raised by taxation by the town (or 
 city), and expended during the fiscal j^ear last preceding the date of the 
 certificate for the support of the public schools, including the wages of 
 teachers, the transportation of school children, fuel, the care of fires, 
 schoolrooms and school premises, repairs, supervision, text-books and 
 supplies, and school sundries or incidentals, but excluding alterations of 
 school buildings, other than repairs, and construction of schoolhouses and
 
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 contributions for the support of public schools which may be received 
 from the commonwealth or from other sources than local taxation, and 
 also the total expenditures, classified, for the public schools during the 
 school year last preceding the date of this certificate. 
 
 Fourth. That the town (or city) has maintained during the school 
 year last preceding the date of this certificate each of the schools, as 
 required by section one of chapter forty-two of the Revised Laws, as 
 amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and eight, and by chapter five hundred and twenty- 
 four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, for a period of not 
 less than thirty-two weeks, or twenty-eight weeks, if such reduction has 
 been allowed under the provisions of the aforesaid section. 
 
 Fifth. That the town (or city) has maintained, during the school year 
 last preceding the date of this certificate, a high school, as required by 
 section two of said chapter forty-two, for a period of months, 
 
 days, as stated. 
 
 The board of education is authorized and directed to prepare and 
 furnish to school committees suitable forms of the certificate required 
 by this section. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 26, 1913. 
 
 The change in the form of certificate made by this act requires 
 that school authorities- shall report the amount of money raised 
 by taxation by the town or city and expended for support of 
 public schools for the fiscal year of the town or city instead of 
 the school year. It has been found that more accurate statistics 
 can be given on this basis. 
 
 SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS, DEFINITION OF. 
 
 Chapter 340. 
 
 Ax Act to change the definition of the term "support of the 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS." 
 
 Section 1. Section six of chapter forty-one of the Revised Laws is 
 hereby amended by inserting after the word "incidentals", in the thir- 
 teenth line, the words: — but excluding alterations of school buildings 
 other than repairs and construction of schoolhouses, — so as to read as 
 follows : — Section G. No such apportionment and distribution shall be 
 made to a town which has not maintained a school as required by section 
 one of chapter forty-two; or which, if containing the number of families 
 or householders required by section two of said chapter, has not main- 
 tained, for at least thirty-six weeks during the year, exclusive of vaca- 
 tions, a high school such as is mentioned therein; or which has not made
 
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 the returns required by sections five and six of chapter forty-three, and 
 complied with the laws relative to truancy; or which has not raised by 
 taxation for the support of public schools which are authorized or required 
 by law, including the wages of teachers, the transportation of school 
 children, fuel, the care of fires, school rooms and school premises, super- 
 vision, text books and supplies, and school sundries or incidentals, but 
 excluding alterations of school buildings other than repairs and construc- 
 tion of schoolhouses during the school year embraced in the last annual 
 returns, an amount not less than three dollars for each person between 
 the ages of five and fifteen years resident in such town on the first day of 
 September of said school year. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 25, 1913. 
 
 This amendment was asked in order that the definition of the 
 term "support of the public schools" in this act shall be the 
 same as in the certificate described in section 1 of chapter 356 
 of the Acts of 1913. 
 
 POSITIONS FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS. 
 
 Chapter 36S. 
 An Act relative to the obtaining of positions by school teachers. 
 
 Section 1. Section one of chapter seven hundred and thirty-one of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven is hereby amended by 
 striking out the words "and is a resident of the state", in the fifth and 
 sixth lines, so as to read as follows : — Section 1 . Any graduate of any 
 high school or normal school in this commonwealth, or of any other school 
 considered by the board of education to be of equal grade, or the grad- 
 uate of any reputable college, provided that such graduate is a person of 
 good character, may file an application with the board of education for 
 a position as school teacher upon the payment of a fee of two dollars. 
 The application shall set forth the name, address, and, briefly, the experi- 
 ence and qualifications of the applicant. It shall be the duty of the board 
 of education to communicate with the school committees in the cities 
 and towns of the commonwealth, and with persons who have made appli- 
 cation for a position as school teacher in accordance with the provisions 
 of this section, and to procure positions for them so far as may be possi- 
 ble, free of expense to the applicant beyond the aforesaid fee, and without 
 expense to the various school committees. The said board shall cause 
 to be printed and sent to school committees of cities and towns a list of 
 the applicants for positions as aforesaid, with a brief statement of their 
 qualifications and experience. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 2d, 1913.
 
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 This amendment permits the Board to register teachers from 
 other States as well as from Massachusetts; thus securing a larger 
 list of available teachers for the convenience of school authorities 
 throughout this State. 
 
 PROMOTION OF USEFULNESS OF SCHOOL PROPERTY. 
 
 Chapter 391. 
 An Act relative to the use of rooms or halls in school buildings. 
 
 Section 1. For the purpose of promoting the usefulness of the public 
 school property the school committee of any city or town may conduct 
 such educational and recreation activities in or upon school property 
 under its control, and shall allow the use thereof by individuals and asso- 
 ciations, subject to such regulations as the school committee shall estab- 
 lish, for such educational, recreation, social, civic, philanthropic and 
 similar purposes as the committee may deem to be for the interest of the 
 community, provided that no admission fee is charged and that such use 
 shall not interfere or be inconsistent with the use of the premises for 
 school purposes. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall not apply to the city of Boston. [Approved 
 March 28, 1913. 
 
 This act encourages the use of school property as social cen- 
 ters, by authorizing the school committee to conduct various 
 activities in or upon school property, and by further requiring 
 the school committee to permit the use of school buildings and 
 grounds by individuals or organizations for entertainments and 
 exercises of general interest and value to the community. 
 
 TRANSPORTATION OF PUPILS TO HIGH SCHOOLS. 
 
 Chapter 396. 
 
 An Act providing for the payment by towns for the transporta- 
 tion of pupils to outside high schools. 
 
 Section 1. Section three of. chapter forty-two of the Revised Laws, 
 as amended by chapter four hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and two, and by chapter five hundred and thirty- 
 seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby further 
 amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: — A town 
 of less than five hundred families or householders, in which a public high 
 school or public school of corresponding grade is not maintained, shall, 
 through its school committee, when necessary, provide for the transporta-
 
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 tion of any child who resides in said town and who, with the previous 
 approval of the school committee of the town, attends the high school of 
 any other town or city, and shall pay for the expense of such transportation 
 a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per week during the time 
 of actual attendance of such child in the high school. If any town fails 
 to provide such transportation, it shall be liable in an action of contract, 
 to the parent or guardian of a child who has been furnished with such 
 transportation for such amounts, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents 
 per week, as the parent or guardian has paid for the same. A town which 
 has expended for the support of its public schools for the preceding year 
 from the proceeds of local taxation ,an amount not less than four and less 
 than five dollars per thousand dollars of valuation shall receive from the 
 treasury of the commonwealth one half of the amount actually expended 
 for transportation under the provisions of this act; and a town which has 
 expended from the proceeds of local taxation for the support of its public 
 schools for the preceding year an amount equal to at least five dollars per 
 thousand of valuation shall receive from the treasury of the common- 
 wealth the whole transportation under the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon the first day of July in the 
 year nineteen hundred and thirteen. [Approved March 28, 1913. 
 
 This act is intended to encourage the attendance of children, 
 resident in towns not maintaining high schools, on high schools in 
 other towns and cities. Many towns before the passage of this act 
 were already paying for the transportation of pupils attending high 
 schools in other places. The reimbursement, in part or in whole, 
 is to be made for transportation expenses incurred after July 1, 
 1913, when the act went into effect. 
 
 CASES AGAINST CHILDREN. 
 
 Chapter 457. 
 
 An Act to authorize continuances in cases against children. 
 
 Whenever any child is brought before any court for being neglected, 
 wayward, delinquent, truant, or for being an habitual absentee and 
 habitual school offender or stubborn, the court may continue the case 
 for such time not exceeding six months for any one continuance as shall 
 seem best for the interest of the child. [Approved April 10, 1913.
 
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 ATTENDANCE OF ILLITERATE MINORS ON EVENING SCHOOLS. 
 
 Chapter 467. 
 
 An Act to require the attendance of illiterate minors between 
 the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years in a public evening 
 
 SCHOOL. 
 
 Section 1. Every illiterate minor between sixteen and twenty-one 
 years of age shall attend some public evening school in the city or town in 
 which he resides for the whole time during which the public evening schools 
 are in session: provided, that such city or town maintains a public evening 
 school. Attendance at a public day school, or at a private school approved 
 for the purpose by the school committee, shall exempt such minor from 
 attending a public evening school. This act shall not affect any existing 
 laws regarding the compulsory school attendance of illiterate minors or 
 their employment, but shall be in addition to such laws. 
 
 Section 2. An illiterate minor who wilfully violates any provision 
 of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars. 
 
 Section 3. Every person having under his control an illiterate minor 
 between sixteen and twenty-one years of age shall cause him to attend 
 a public evening school as hereby required; and if such person fails for 
 six sessions within a period of one month to cause the minor so to attend 
 school, unless the minor's physical or mental condition is such as to render 
 his attendance at school harmful or impracticable, such person shall, 
 upon complaint by a truant officer and conviction thereof, be punished 
 by a fine of not more than twenty dollars. 
 
 Section 4. Whoever induces or attempts to induce such minor to 
 absent himself unlawfully from school, or employs such a minor except as 
 is provided b} r law, or harbors such a minor who, while school is in session, 
 is absent unlawfully therefrom, shall be punished by a fine of not more 
 than fifty dollars. [Approved April 10, 1913. 
 
 The purpose of this act is to make more effective the legal 
 requirements for the attendance of illiterate minors between six- 
 teen and twenty-one years of age on the public schools by pro- 
 viding a penalty also on the minor of a fine of not less than $5 
 in addition to that which may be imposed upon the person hav- 
 ing sp.id minor in his control.
 
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 FREE MEALS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. 
 
 Chapter 575. 
 
 An Act to authorize cities and towns to provide free meals for 
 
 school children. 
 
 Section 1. The city council of a city and the selectmen of a town may 
 provide meals or lunches free or at such price, not exceeding the cost, as 
 they may fix, for children attending its public schools, and cities and 
 towns may appropriate money for this purpose. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall be submitted to the voters of any city or 
 town at the municipal election in any year if a petition to that effect, 
 signed by not less than five per cent of the voters, is filed with the city 
 clerk or town clerk, as the case may be, not less than one month before 
 said election; and if accepted by a majority of the voters voting thereon 
 it shall take effect in such city or town. Otherwise this act shall not take 
 effect. [Approved May 2, 1913. 
 
 CERTAIN POLITICAL RIGHTS OF SCHOOL TEACHERS. 
 
 Chapter 628. 
 
 An Act to provide that public school teachers shall not be re- 
 stricted in the exercise of certain political rights. 
 
 Section 1. No school committee shall by rule, regulation or in any 
 other manner restrict any teacher in, or dismiss him for, exercising his 
 right of suffrage, the signing of nomination papers and the petitioning 
 or appearing before committees of the legislature; but nothing herein 
 contained shall be construed as limiting the power of a school committee 
 so to restrain any teacher or dismiss him for exercising any of the afore- 
 said rights, suffrage excepted, on school premises, during school hours or 
 when the exercise thereof actual^ interferes with the performance of 
 school duties. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 May 8, 1913. 
 
 CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 Chapter 655. 
 
 An Act to revise and codify the building inspection laws of the 
 
 commonwealth. 
 
 Section 11. If a schcolhouse in a city has not been provided with a 
 safe and proper egress or other means of escape from fire, as required by 
 this act, within six months after the written notice provided for in sec- 
 tion twenty-eight of this act, the mayor, for the purpose of conforming
 
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 to the provisions of this act relative to egresses or other means of escape 
 from fire in schoolhouses, may, upon petition of one hundred citizens or 
 taxpayers in such city, authorize the expenditure upon such schoolhouse 
 of not more than fifteen per cent of the cost thereof, payable from any 
 money in the treasury of that city which is not otherwise appropriated. 
 
 Section 15. No building which is designed to be used, in whole or in 
 part, and no building in which alteration shall be made for the purpose 
 of using it, or continuing its use, in whole or in part, as a public building, 
 public or private institution, schoolhouse, church, theatre, special hall, 
 public hall, miscellaneous hall, place of assemblage or place of public 
 resort, or as a factory, workshop or mercantile Or other establishment 
 and to have accommodations for ten or more employees, and no building 
 more than two stories in height designed to be used above the second 
 story, in whole or in part, and no building more than two stories in height 
 in which alteration shall be made for the purpose of using it, or continu- 
 ing its use, in whole or in part, as an office building, dormitory, hotel, family 
 hotel, apartment house, boarding house, lodging house or tenement house, 
 and to have eight or more rooms above said story, shall be erected, and no 
 alteration shall be made therein, until a copy of the plans and specifica- 
 tions thereof has been deposited with the supervisor of plans of the build- 
 ing inspection department of the district police by the person causing its 
 erection or alteration or by the architect thereof. Such plans and speci- 
 fications shall include those for heating, ventilation and sanitation, as 
 the supervisor of plans may require. Such building shall not be so erected 
 or altered without sufficient egresses and other means of escape from fire, 
 properly located and constructed. The supervisor of plans may require 
 that stairways shall be enclosed, that they shall have suitable landings, 
 that they shall be provided with hand-rajls, that egress doors and windows 
 shall open outward and have approved hardware, that places of egress 
 shall be properly lighted and designated, and that proper fire stops shall 
 be provided in the floors, walls, partitions and stairways of such building. 
 He may make such further requirements as may be necessary to prevent 
 the spread of fire, or its communication from any steam boiler or heating 
 apparatus therein. The certificate of approval of the supervisor of plans 
 of such plans and specifications, endorsed with the approval of the deputy 
 chief of the building inspection department of the district police, or a 
 specification of requirements necessary for compliance with the provisions 
 of this act, set forth in detail and so endorsed, shall be issued to the per- 
 son causing its erection or alteration, or to the architect thereof, and a 
 copy of the same, together with the plans, shall then be turned over to 
 the inspector in whose district the building is to be erected or altered, 
 who shall enforce the requirements thereof and supervise such erection 
 or alteration. After a certificate of approval, or a specification of re- 
 quirement, has been issued, no change shall be made in the plans or speci-
 
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 fication, or in the building, without the permission in writing of the super- 
 visor of plans. 
 
 Section 20. A building which is used, in whole or in part, as a public 
 building, public or private institution, schoolhouse, church, theatre, 
 special hall, public hall, miscellaneous hall, place of assemblage, or place 
 of public resort, and a building in which ten or more persons are employed 
 in a factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment, and an office 
 building, dormitory, hotel, family hotel, apartment house, boarding 
 house, lodging house or tenement house which has eight or more rooms 
 or in which ten or more persons are accommodated or lodged or reside 
 above the second story, the owner, lessee or occupant of which is notified 
 in writing by an inspector that the provisions of this act are deemed by him 
 applicable thereto, shall be provided with proper egresses or other means 
 of escape from fire, sufficient for the use of all persons accommodated, 
 assembled, employed, lodged or resident therein; but no owner, lessee or 
 occupant of such building shall be deemed to have violated this provision 
 unless he has been notified in writing by such inspector what additional 
 egresses or means of escape from fire are necessary and has neglected for 
 thirty days, or has refused, to provide the same. The egresses and means 
 of escape shall be kept unobstructed, in good repair and ready for use, 
 and, if the inspector so directs in writing, every such egress shall be 
 properly lighted and provided with a sign having on it the word "Exit" 
 in letters not less than five inches in height, and so made and placed as 
 plainly to indicate to persons within the building the location of such 
 egresses, stairways shall have suitable hand-rails, egress doors and win- 
 dows shall open outwardly, and women or children shall not be employed, 
 in a factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment, in a room above 
 the second story from which there is only one egress. The certificate of 
 the inspector shall be conclusive evidence of a compliance with the said 
 requirements. Portable seats shall not be allowed in the aisles or pas- 
 sageways of such buildings during any service or entertainment held 
 therein. Stairways on the outside of the building shall have suitable 
 railed landings at each story above the first, accessible at each story from 
 doors or windows, and such landings, doors and windows shall be kept 
 clear of ice, snow and other obstructions. 
 
 Section 21. The basement and each story of a building which is 
 subject to the provisions of the preceding section shall be supplied with 
 means of extinguishing fire, consisting of a hose attached to a suitable 
 water supply and capable of reaching any part of such basement or story, 
 or of such portable apparatus as the inspector shall direct; and such 
 appliances shall be kept at all times ready for use and in good condition. 
 
 Section 22. No wooden flue or air duct for heating or ventilating 
 purposes shall be placed, or shall remain placed, in any building which 
 is subject to the provisions of sections fifteen and twenty of this act, and
 
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 no pipe for conveying hot air or steam in such building shall be placed, 
 or shall remain placed, within one inch of any woodwork, unless protected 
 to the satisfaction of the inspector by suitable guards or casings of in- 
 combustible material. 
 
 Section 27. If any change in the use or otherwise shall be made 
 upon premises for which such certificate has been issued which would 
 render the certificate void, according to the provisions of section twenty 
 of this act, the person who makes such change shall forthwith give written 
 notice thereof to an inspector for the district or to the chief of the dis- 
 trict police. 
 
 Section 28. If an inspector finds that any building or part thereof 
 which is subject to the provisions of this act fails to conform thereto, or 
 if any change is made therein which would render a certificate void accord- 
 ing to the provisions of section twenty of this act, he shall give notice 
 in writing to the owner, lessee, occupant or agent in charge thereof, 
 specifying such additional provisions, egresses or other means of escape 
 from fire as in his opinion may be necessary to make it conform to the 
 provisions of this act and to obtain a certificate as aforesaid; and any 
 such owner, lessee, occupant or agent in charge thereof, failing to com- 
 ply with such notice for a period of thirty days, may be punished by a 
 fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars. 
 
 Section 39. The term "miscellaneous hall" shall mean a building or 
 part of a building containing an audience or assembly hall capable of 
 seating not more than four hundred persons, a society hall, or a hall in a 
 public or private school building. The certificate of the inspector shall 
 be conclusive evidence of a compliance with the provisions of this act 
 for such use of a hall as he shall set forth in detail in the certificate, and 
 shall be conspicuously posted near the main entrance of the hall. 
 
 Section 40. Every public building and every schoolhouse shall be 
 kept clean and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or nui- 
 sance, shall be provided with a sufficient number of proper water closets, 
 earth closets, or privies, and shall be ventilated in such a manner that the 
 air shall not become so impure as to be injurious to health. If it appears 
 to an inspector that further or different heating, ventilating or sanitary 
 provisions are required in any public building or schoolhouse, in order 
 to conform to the requirements of this section, and that such require- 
 ment can be provided without unreasonable expense, he may issue a 
 written order to the proper person or authority, directing such heating, 
 ventilating or sanitary provisions to be provided. A school committee, 
 public officer, or person who has charge of, owns, or leases any such public 
 building or schoolhouse, who neglects for four weeks to comply with the 
 order of such inspector shall be punished by a fine of not more than one 
 hundred dollars. The state inspectors of health or such other officers
 
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 as the state board of health may from time to time appoint shall make 
 such examinations of school buildings as in the opinion of said board the 
 protection of the health of the pupils may require. 
 
 Section 41. In the preceding section, "public building" shall mean 
 any building or part thereof used as a public or private institution, church, 
 theatre, special hall, public hall, miscellaneous hall, place of assemblage 
 or place of public resort, and " schoolhouse " shall mean any building or 
 part thereof in which public or private instruction is afforded to more 
 than ten pupils at one time. 
 
 Section 62. This act shall take effect on the first day of November, 
 nineteen hundred and thirteen. [Approved May 15, 1913. 
 
 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS. 
 
 Chapter 779. 
 An Act relative to school attendance and to the employment of 
 
 MINORS. 
 
 Section 1. Section one of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as 
 amended by chapter three hundred and twenty of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and five and by chapter three hundred and eighty- 
 three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six, is hereby further 
 amended by striking out the said section and inserting in place thereof 
 the following: — Section 1. Every child between seven and fourteen 
 years of age, every child under sixteen years of age who does not possess 
 such ability to read, write and spell in the English language as is required 
 for the completion of the fourth grade of the public schools of the city or 
 town in which he resides, and every child under sixteen years of age who 
 has not received an employment certificate as provided in this act and 
 is not engaged in some regular employment or business for at least six 
 hours per day or has not the written permission of the superintendent of 
 schools of the city or town in which he resides to engage in profitable 
 employment at home, shall attend a public day school in said city or 
 town or some other day school approved by the school committee, dur- 
 ing the entire time the public schools are in session, subject to such excep- 
 tions as are provided for in sections four, 1 five 2 and six 2 of this chapter 
 and in section three of chapter forty-two of the Revised Laws, as amended 
 by chapter four hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and two and by chapter five hundred and thirty-seven of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven; but such attendance shall 
 not be required of a child whose physical or mental condition is such as 
 to render attendance inexpedient or impracticable, or who is being other- 
 wise instructed in a manner approved in advance by the superintendent 
 
 1 See section 4, chapter 779, Acts of 1913. 
 
 2 Sections 5 and 6 (as amended), chapter 44, Revised Laws.
 
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 of schools or the school committee. The superintendent of schools, or 
 teachers in so far as authorized by said superintendent or by the school 
 committee, may excuse cases of necessary absence for other causes not 
 exceeding five day sessions or ten half-day sessions in any period of six 
 months. For the purposes of this section, school committees shall ap- 
 prove a private school only when the instruction in all the studies re- 
 quired by law is in the English language, and when they are satisfied 
 that such instruction equals in thoroughness and efficiency, and in the 
 progress made therein, the instruction in the public schools in the same 
 city or town; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on 
 account of the religious teaching therein. 
 
 Section 2. Said chapter forty-four is hereby further amended by 
 striking out section two and inserting in place thereof the following: — 
 Section 2. Every person having under his control a child as described 
 in section one l shall cause him to attend school as therein required, and, 
 if he fails for five day sessions or ten half-day sessions within any period 
 of six months while such control obtains, to cause such child so to attend 
 school, he shall, upon complaint by an attendance officer and conviction 
 thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars, and no 
 physical or mental condition which is capable of correction, or which 
 renders the child a fit subject for special instruction at public charge in 
 institutions other than public day schools, shall avail as a defence under 
 the provisions of this or the preceding section, unless it shall be made to 
 appear that the defendant has employed all reasonable measures for the 
 correction of the condition and the suitable instruction of the child. 
 
 Whoever induces or attempts to induce a child to absent himself unlaw- 
 fully from school, or employs or harbors a child while school is in session, 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Section 3. Section three of said chapter forty-four, as amended by 
 section one of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby further amended by striking out 
 the said section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 3. 
 Every child shall have a right to attend the public schools of the city or 
 town where he actually resides, subject to the provisions of section four 2 of 
 this chapter, and to such reasonable regulations as to numbers and quali- 
 fications of pupils to be admitted to the respective schools and as to other 
 school matters as the school committee shall from time to time prescribe. 
 Xo child shall be excluded from a public school of any city or town on 
 account of race, color or religion. 
 
 Section 4. Section four of said chapter forty-four, as amended by 
 chapter three hundred and seventy-five of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and five and by section two of chapter two hundred and sixty- 
 eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby fur- 
 ther amended by striking out the said section and inserting in place thereof 
 the following: — Section 4- It shall be the duty of the school committee 
 
 1 See section 1, chapter 779, Acts of 1913. 
 i See section 4, chapter 779, Acts oM913.
 
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 of each city or town to provide for the attendance of all children of school 
 age resident therein and to enforce the same under the provisions of section 
 one of this chapter. But if a child who is required by the pro-visions of 
 said section one to attend school resides temporarily in a city or town 
 other than that of the legal residence of his parent or guardian for the 
 especial purpose of attending school there in preference to the place of 
 such legal residence, the said city or town may, for the tuition of such 
 child during the period of such attendance, recover from the parent or 
 guardian, whether he resides within or without the commonwealth, a 
 sum equal to the average expense per pupil of such school for that period, 
 unless under the provisions of section three of chapter forty-two of the 
 Revised Laws, as amended by chapter four hundred and thirty-three of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two, and by chapter five hundred 
 and thirty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, or 
 of section five of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, such tuition is 
 recoverable from the city or town in which the parent or guardian resides. 
 
 A child who is not required by the provisions of section one of this chap- 
 ter to attend school may, in the discretion of the school committee, be 
 required as a condition of admission to a school in a city or town other 
 than that in which his parent or guardian has a legal residence, to pay as 
 tuition a sum equal to the average expense per pupil in the school which 
 such child seeks to enter, the same to be paid annually, semi-annually or 
 at other periods in advance as the school committee may determine. 
 
 For the tuition in the public schools in any city or town of any child 
 between the ages of five and fifteen years who shall be placed elsewhere 
 than in his own home by the state board of charity, or by the trustees of 
 the Massachusetts training schools, or kept under the control of either of 
 said boards in such city or town, the commonwealth shall pay to said 
 city or town, and for such tuition of any such child so placed by the 
 trustees for children of the city of Boston, or so kept under the control 
 of said trustees, the city of Boston from its appropriation for school pur- 
 poses, shall pay to said city or town fifty cents for each week of five days, 
 or major part thereof, of attendance of every such child in the public 
 schools, or, if the school committee of said city or town so desires, an 
 amount equal to the average expense for each pupil of such school during 
 the preceding year, for a period equal to the time during which the child 
 so attends. 
 
 For the transportation to and from a public school of any child whose 
 tuition is payable by the commonwealth or by the city of Boston under 
 the provisions of this section, the commonwealth or the city of Boston, as 
 the case may be, shall pay to the city or town furnishing such transporta- 
 tion, for each week of five days or major part thereof, an amount equal 
 to the average amount for each child paid by said city or town per week 
 for the transportation of children to and from school over the route by 
 which such child is conveyed. Settlements of the accounts of the several 
 cities and towns with the commonwealth and with the city of Boston shall 
 be made annually on the first day of April, and the amounts found clue
 
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 shall be paid within three months thereafter. The money received by 
 said cities and towns under the provisions of this section shall be applied 
 to the support of schools. For the tuition in the public schools in any 
 town of less than ten thousand inhabitants of any child between the ages 
 of. five and fifteen years not theretofore resident in such town, who is an 
 inmate of an institution containing more than six inmates, such town 
 may recover from said institution the additional school expense incurred, 
 as may be determined jointly by the school committee of said town and 
 the trustees or managers of said institution, or, in case of disagreement 
 between said school committee and said trustees or managers, as may be 
 decreed by the probate court; but no demand shall be made upon said 
 trustees or managers without a vote of the town instructing the school 
 committee to that effect. 
 
 Section 5. Section one of chapter forty-six of the Revised Laws, as 
 amended by chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the acts of the year nine- 
 teen hundred and two, is hereby further amended by striking out the said 
 section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 1. The 
 count}' commissioners of each county, except the counties of Barnstable, 
 Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Dukes County and Nantucket, shall 
 maintain either separately or jointly with the commissioners of other 
 counties as hereinafter provided, in a suitable place, not at or near a penal 
 institution, a school for the instruction and training of children committed 
 thereto as habitual truants, absentees or school offenders. The county 
 commissioners of two or more counties may, at the expense of said coun- 
 ties, establish and maintain a union school which shall be organized and 
 controlled by the chairmen of the county commissioners of said counties. 
 The chairmen of the respective boards of county commissioners of the 
 counties of Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth, having the management of the 
 Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth union training school, shall each be paid 
 the sum of one hundred dollars annually by said counties, respectively. 
 The county commissioners of the counties of Barnstable, Berkshire, 
 Franklin, Hampshire, Dukes County and Nantucket shall assign a train- 
 ing school established by law as the place for the instruction and training 
 of children committed within their respective counties as habitual truants, 
 absentees or school offenders, and shall pay for their support in said 
 school such reasonable sum as the county commissioners having control 
 of said school may determine. For the purposes of this chapter the 
 parental school of the city of Boston shall be deemed the county training 
 school of the county of Suffolk, and commitments from the towns of 
 Revere and Winthrop and the city of Chelsea shall be to the training 
 school for the county of Middlesex. 
 
 The city or town from which an habitual truant, absentee or school 
 offender is committed to a county training school shall pay to the county 
 within which it is situated one dollar a week toward his support, and 
 reports of the condition and progress of its pupils in said school shall be 
 sent each month to the superintendent of schools of such city or town;
 
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 but the towns of Revere and Winthrop and the city of Chelsea shall pay- 
 to the county of Middlesex, for the support of each child committed to 
 the training school of said county, two dollars and fifty cents a week, and 
 such additional sums for each child as will cover the actual cost of main- 
 tenance. 
 
 Section 6. Section three of said chapter forty-six, as amended by 
 chapter three hundred and thirty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 
 and three, and by chapter two hundred and twenty of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and four, is hereby further amended by striking out 
 the said section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 3. 
 A child between seven and sixteen years of age who wilfully and habitually 
 absents himself from school contrary to the provisions of section one 1 of 
 chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended, shall be deemed to 
 be an habitual truant, and, unless placed on probation as provided in 
 section seven of this chapter, may, upon complaint by an attendance officer 
 and conviction thereof, be committed to a county training school. 
 
 Section 7. Section four of said chapter forty-six, as amended by chap- 
 ter three hundred and thirty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 three, and by chapter two hundred and twenty of the acts of the year nine- 
 teen hundred and four, is hereby further amended by striking out the said 
 section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 4- A child 
 between seven and sixteen years of age who may be found wandering about 
 in the streets or public places of any city or town, having no lawful occu- 
 pation, habitually not attending school and growing up in idleness and 
 ignorance, shall be deemed to be an habitual absentee, and, unless placed 
 on probation as provided in section seven of said chapter forty-six may, 
 upon complaint by an attendance officer or any other person, and convic- 
 tion thereof, be committed to a county training school. 
 
 Section 8. Section five of said chapter forty-six, as amended by chap- 
 ter three hundred and thirty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 three and by chapter two hundred and twenty of the acts of the year nine- 
 teen hundred and four, is hereby further amended by striking out the said 
 section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 5. A child 
 under sixteen years of age who persistently violates the reasonable regula- 
 tions of the school which he attends, or otherwise persistently misbehaves 
 therein, so as to render himself a fit subject for exclusion therefrom, shall 
 be deemed to be an habitual school offender, and, unless placed on proba- 
 tion as provided in section seven of said chapter forty-six may, upon 
 complaint by an attendance officer and conviction thereof, be committed 
 to a county training school. 
 
 Section 9. Said chapter forty-six is hereby further amended by strik- 
 ing out section six and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 
 6. The court or magistrate by whom a child has been committed to a 
 county training school may make an order relative to the payment by his 
 parents to the county of the cost of his support while in said school, and 
 
 1 See section 1, chapter 779, Acts of 1913.
 
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 may from time to time revise and alter such order or make a new order as 
 the circumstances of the parents may justify. 
 
 Section 10. Section eight of said chapter forty-six, as amended by 
 section four of chapter two hundred and twenty of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and four, is hereby further amended by striking out the 
 said section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section S. 
 County commissioners, if they think it will be for the best interest of any 
 child who has been committed to a county training school under their 
 control, after notice and an opportunity to be heard has been given to 
 the superintendent of schools, or, if there is no superintendent, to the 
 school committee of the city or town from which such child was committed 
 to said school, may permit him to be at liberty upon such conditions as 
 said commissioners may deem best; or, with the approval of the court 
 which imposed the sentence, they may discharge him from said school; 
 and upon such parole or discharge they shall make an entry upon their 
 records of the name of such child, the date of parole or discharge and the 
 reason therefor; and a copy of such record shall be transmitted to the 
 court or magistrate by whom such child was committed and to the school 
 committee of the city or town from which he was committed. 
 
 If such child, in the opinion of said commissioners, violates the condi- 
 tions of his parole at any time previous to the expiration of the term for 
 which he was committed to said school, such parole may be revoked. If 
 a superintendent of schools or a school committee furnishes evidence satis- 
 factory to said commissioners of the violation by a child of the conditions 
 of his parole, said commissioners shall revoke such parole, and may there- 
 upon issue an order directed to the attendance or police officers of any city 
 or town to arrest such child wherever found and return him to said school. 
 Such officer shall arrest such child and return him to said school, where he 
 shall be held, subject to the provisions of this chapter, for the residue of 
 the term of the original sentence. 
 
 The expense of such arrest and return, so far as approved by the com- 
 missioners, shall be paid by the county or counties maintaining said school. 
 A child who has been committed to a county training school, whether he 
 be confined at the county training school or be on parole as provided in 
 this section, shall be discharged from the custody and care of such school 
 upon his becoming sixteen years of age. Releases from the parental school 
 of the city of Boston shall be governed by the provisions of chapter five 
 hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety- 
 six, and shall be made by the trustees for children who shall have and 
 exercise the powers given by said chapter to the institutions commissioner 
 of said city. 
 
 Section 11. Section ten of said chapter forty-six, as amended by 
 section four of chapter three hundred and thirty of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and three, is hereby further amended by striking out 
 the said section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 10. 
 An inmate of a county training school or of the parental school of the city
 
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 of Boston who persistently violates the reasonable regulations thereof, or 
 is guilty of indecent or immoral conduct, or otherwise grossly misbehaves, 
 so as to render himself an unfit subject for retention therein, may, upon 
 complaint by the officer in control of said school and conviction thereof, if 
 under fifteen years of age, be committed to the Lyman school for boys; if 
 over fifteen years of age, to the industrial school at Shirley. If a girl who 
 is committed to the custody of the state board of charity under sections 
 three, four or five of this chapter, proves unmanageable in a private family, 
 she may be committed, by the state board of charity, to the state industrial 
 school for girls. 
 
 Section 12. Said chapter forty-six is hereby further amended by 
 striking out section thirteen and inserting in place thereof the following: 
 — Section 13. Attendance officers shall inquire into all cases arising 
 under the provisions of sections one, 1 two, 1 three, 1 four x and six of chapter 
 forty-four and sections three, four, five and eight of this chapter, 2 or of 
 sections sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three or sixty-six of chapter five hun- 
 dred and fourteen 3 of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, 
 and may make complaints and serve legal processes issued under the pro- 
 visions of this chapter. They shall have oversight of children placed on 
 probation under the provisions of section seven 4 ; of children suffering 
 want, to whom the provisions of chapter three hundred and fifty-six of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and four apply; of minors licensed 
 by the school committee under the provisions of chapter four hundred 
 and nineteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten 6 and sub- 
 sequent amendments thereof; and of children admitted to or attending 
 shows or entertainments contrary to the provisions of chapter five hun- 
 ched and thirty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten. 
 An attendance officer may apprehend and take to school without a war- 
 rant any truant or absentee found wandering about in the streets or 
 public places. 
 
 Section 13. The officers hitherto known as truant officers shall here- 
 after be known as attendance officers, and all laws now or hereafter in 
 force relative to truant officers shall apply to attendance officers. 
 
 Section 14. (Section 1 of chapter 831, Acts of 1913, strikes out section 
 14 of this chapter and takes its place. See page 34 of this pamphlet.) 
 
 Section 15. Said chapter five hundred and fourteen is hereby fur- 
 ther amended by striking out section fifty-seven and inserting in place 
 thereof the following: — Section 57* No child between fourteen and 
 sixteen years of age shall be employed or be permitted to work in, about 
 or in connection with any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechani- 
 cal or mercantile establishment unless the person, firm or corporation 
 
 1 See sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, chapter 779, Acts of 1913. 
 
 1 See sections 6, 7, 8 and 10, chapter 779, Acts of 1913. 
 
 s See sections 19, 20, 21 and 23, chapter 779, Acts of 1913. 
 
 < See section 7, chapter 779, Acts of 1913; also section 7, chapter 46, Revised Laws. 
 
 5 This chapter should be considered in connection with section 1, chapter 831, Acts of 1913. 
 
 « This section should be considered in connection with Section 2, chapter 831, Acts of 1913.
 
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 employing such child procures and keeps on file accessible to the attend- 
 ance officers of the city or town, to agents of the board of education, and 
 to the state board of labor and industries or its authorized agents or 
 inspectors, the employment certificate as hereinafter provided issued to 
 such child, and keeps a complete list of the names and ages of all such 
 children employed therein conspicuously posted near the principal en- 
 trance of the building in which such children are employed: provided, 
 however, that children who are over fourteen but under sixteen years of 
 age shall be permitted to work in mercantile establishments on Satur- 
 days between the hours of seven in the morning and six in the evening, 
 without such certificate. On termination of the employment of a child 
 whose employment certificate is on file, said certificate shall be returned 
 by the employer within two days after said termination to the office of 
 the superintendent of schools from which it was issued. 
 
 Section 16. Section fifty-eight of said chapter five hundred and four- 
 teen, as amended by chapter two hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby further amended by 
 striking out the said section and inserting in place thereof the following: 
 — Section 58. An employment certificate shall be issued only by the 
 superintendent of schools or by a person authorized by him in writing, 
 or, where there is no superintendent of schools, by a person authorized 
 in writing by the school committee, of the city or town where the child 
 to whom it is issued resides during his employment, or in case the child 
 resides outside the commonwealth, of the city or town in which the child 
 is to be employed: provided, that no member of a school committee or 
 other person authorized as aforesaid shall have authority to issue such 
 certificate for any child then in, or about to enter, such person's own 
 employment or the employment of a firm or corporation of which, he is a 
 member, officer or employee. 
 
 The person issuing employment certificates shall in each case, before 
 issuing a certificate, receive, examine, approve and file the following 
 papers, duly executed : — 
 
 (1) A pledge or promise signed by the employer or by an authorized 
 manager or superintendent, setting forth the character of the employ- 
 ment, the number of hours per day during which the child is to be regularly 
 employed and the name and address of the employer, in which pledge or 
 promise the employer agrees to employ the child in accordance with the 
 provisions of this act, and to return the employment certificate as pro- 
 vided in section fifty-seven. 1 
 
 (2) The school record of such child, properly filled out and signed as 
 hereinafter provided. 
 
 (3) A certificate signed by a school or family physician, or by a physi- 
 cian appointed by the school committee, stating that the child has been 
 thoroughly examined by said physician and, in his opinion, is in suffi- 
 ciently sound health and physically able to perform the work which the 
 child intends to do. 
 
 1 See section 15, chapter 779, Acts of 1913.
 
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 (4) Evidence of age showing that the child is fourteen years of age, 
 which shall consist of one of the following proofs of age: 
 
 (a) A birth certificate, or a duly attested transcript thereof, made by 
 a registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged with the duty of 
 recording births. 
 
 (b) A baptismal certificate, or a duly attested transcript thereof, show- 
 ing the age and date of baptism of the child. 
 
 (c) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, and only 
 in such case, the person issuing employment certificates may accept in 
 lieu thereof a passport or a duly attested immigration record, or trans- 
 cript thereof, showing the age of the child, or other official or religious 
 record of the child's age: provided, that it shall appear to the satisfaction 
 of said person that the same is good and sufficient evidence of the child's 
 age. 
 
 (d) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, and only 
 in such case, the person issuing employment certificates may accept in 
 lieu thereof a record of age as given on the register of the school which 
 the child first attended in the commonwealth: provided, that such record 
 was kept for at least two years during the time when such child attended 
 school. 
 
 (e) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, and only 
 in such case, the person issuing employment certificates may receive the 
 signed statement of the school physician, or of the physician appointed 
 by the school committee, stating that, after examination, it is the opinion 
 of such physician that the child is at least fourteen years of age. Such 
 physician's statement shall be accompanied by a statement signed by 
 the child's parent, guardian or custodian, or in case such child has no 
 parent, guardian or custodian, the signed statement of the next adult 
 friend. Such signed statement shall contain the name, date and place 
 of birth and residence of the child, and shall certify that the parent, 
 guardian, custodian or next friend signing the statement is unable to 
 produce any of the proofs of age specified in this section. Such state- 
 ment shall be signed in the presence of the person issuing employ- 
 ment certificates by the parent, guardian, custodian, or next friend. 
 The person issuing employment certificates may, before issuing a 
 certificate, require the parent, guardian, custodian, or next adult friend 
 of the child to appear and approve in writing the issuance of said 
 certificate. 
 
 Section 17. Said chapter five hundred and fourteen is hereby fur- 
 ther amended by striking out section fifty-nine and inserting in place 
 thereof the following: — Section 59. The school record required by 
 section sixteen ! of this act shall be filled out and signed by the principal 
 or teacher in charge of the school which the child last attended and shall 
 be furnished only to a child who, after due examination and investiga- 
 tion, is found to be entitled thereto. Said school record shall state the 
 grade last completed by such child and the studies pursued in completion 
 
 1 Section 16, chapter 779, Acts of 1913.
 
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 thereof. It shall state the number of weeks during which such child has 
 attended school during the twelve months next preceding the time of 
 application for said school record. It shall also give the name, date of 
 birth, and the residence of the child as shown on the records of the school 
 and the name of the parent, guardian or custodian. In case it is found 
 to be impossible to obtain said school record from the principal or teacher 
 in charge of the school which such child last attended, the requirement 
 of a school record may be waived. 
 
 No such school record shall be issued or accepted, and no emplo3 r ment 
 certificate shall be granted unless the child possesses the educational quali- 
 fications enumerated in section one of chapter forty-four of the Revised 
 Laws as amended by section one of this act. 1 
 
 No such school record shall be issued or accepted unless the child has 
 regularly attended the public schools or other lawfully approved schools 
 for not less than one hundred and thirty days after becoming thirteen 
 years of age: provided, however, that the school record may be accepted 
 in the case of a person who has been an attendant at a public day school 
 or other lawfulby approved school for a period of not less than seven years, 
 if in the opinion of said superintendent such person is mentally incapable 
 of acquiring the educational qualifications herein prescribed. 
 
 Section 18. Section sixty of said chapter five hundred and fourteen, 
 as amended by section four of chapter two hundred and fifty-seven of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby further amended 
 by striking out the said section and inserting in place thereof the follow- 
 ing: — Section 60. The employment certificate' required by this act 
 shall state the name, sex, date and place of birth and the place of resi- 
 dence of the child and describe the color of the hair and eyes and any 
 distinguishing facial marks of the child. It shall certify that the child 
 named in such certificate has personally appeared before the person issu- 
 ing the certificate and has been examined and found to possess the edu- 
 cational qualifications enumerated in section one 1 of chapter forty-four of 
 the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of this act, and that all 
 the papers required by section fifty-eight 2 have been duly examined, 
 approved and filed and that all the conditions and requirements for issu- 
 ing an employment certificate have been fulfilled. It shall state the grade 
 last completed by said child. Every such certificate shall be signed in 
 the presence of the person issuing the same by the child in whose name 
 it is issued. It shall state the name of the employer for whom, and the 
 nature of the emplojmient in which, the certificate authorizes the child 
 to be employed. It shall bear a number, show the date of its issue and 
 shall be signed by the person issuing it. No fee shall be exacted for an 
 employment certificate or for any of the papers required by this act. 
 Duplicate employment certificates shall not be issued until it shall ap- 
 pear to the satisfaction of the person authorized to issue certificates that 
 
 i Section 1, chapter 779, Acts of 1913. 
 
 2 See section 16, chapter 779, Acts of 1913.
 
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 the original certificate has been lost. A record giving all the facts con- 
 tained on every employment certificate issued shall be filed in the office 
 issuing the same, together with the papers required by section fifty-eight l 
 as amended. A record shall also be kept of the names and addresses of 
 all children to whom certificates have been refused, together with the 
 names of the schools which said children should attend and the reasons 
 for refusal. All the aforesaid records and papers shall be preserved until 
 such children, if living, shall have become sixteen years of age. Such 
 records and statistics concerning the issuance of employment certificates 
 as may be prescribed by the board of education shall be kept and shall 
 be open to the inspection of said board, its officers or agents. The blank 
 certificates and other papers required in connection with the issuing of 
 employment certificates and educational certificates under this act shall 
 be designed by and furnished to the local school committees by the state 
 board of labor and industries after conference with the board of educa- 
 tion, and the approval of the forms thereof by the attorney-general. 
 Said certificates and papers may bear such further and explanatory mat- 
 ter as may be needed to facilitate the enforcement of this act or to com- 
 ply with future legislative requirements. 
 
 Section 19. Section sixty-one of said chapter five hundred and four- 
 teen, as amended by chapter two hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby further amended by striking out 
 the said section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 61. 
 Whoever employs a person under the age of sixteen years, and whoever 
 procures or, having under his control a person under sixteen years of age, 
 permits such person to be employed in violation of the provisions of 
 sections fifty-six 2 or fifty-seven 3 of this act, shall for each offence be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or 
 by imprisonment for not more than thirty days; and whoever continues 
 to employ a person under sixteen years of age in violation of the provi- 
 sions of either of said sections, after being notified thereof by a school 
 attendance officer or by an inspector appointed by the state board of 
 labor and industries, shall for every day thereafter while such employ- 
 ment continues be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than 
 two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days; 
 and whoever forges, or procures to be forged, or assists in forging a cer- 
 tificate of birth or other evidence of the age of such person, and whoever 
 presents or assists in presenting a forged certificate or evidence of birth 
 to the superintendent of schools or to a person authorized by law to issue 
 certificates, for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining the employment 
 certificate required by this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 ten nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more 
 than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, Whoever, being 
 
 1 Sae section 16, chapter 779, Acts of 1913. 
 - See section 1, chapter 831, Acts of 1913. 
 3 See section 15, chapter 779, Acts of 1913.
 
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 authorized to sign an employment certificate, knowingly certifies to any 
 materially false statement therein shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than ten nor more than two hundred dollars. 
 
 Section 20. Said chapter five hundred and fourteen is hereby fur- 
 ther amended by striking out section sixty-two and inserting in place 
 thereof the following: — Section 62. Attendance officers may visit the 
 factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile estab- 
 lishments, theatres, and places of public exhibition in their several cities 
 and towns and ascertain whether any children are emplo3 r ed therein con- 
 trary to the provisions of this act and shall report in writing any cases 
 of such illegal employment to the superintendent of schools or the school 
 committee and to the state board of labor and industries or its authorized 
 officers or agents. Inspectors appointed by the state board of labor and 
 industries shall visit all factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical 
 and mercantile establishments within their respective districts, and as- 
 certain whether any children are employed therein contrary to the pro- 
 visions of this act, and shall enter complaint against whomever is found to 
 have violated any of said provisions. An inspector who knowingly or 
 wilfully violates any provision of this section may be punished by a fine 
 of not more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Section 21. Said chapter five hundred and fourteen is hereby further 
 amended by striking out section sixty-three and inserting in place thereof 
 the following: — Section 63. An attendance officer shall apprehend and 
 take to school, without a warrant, any child under the age of twenty-one 
 years who is employed in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechani- 
 cal or mercantile establishment in violation of the provisions of this act, 
 or who is employed in any theatre or place of public exhibition contrary 
 to the provisions of this act, and such attendance officer shall forthwith 
 report to the police, district or municipal court or trial justice within whose 
 judicial district the illegal employment occurs, the evidence in his pos- 
 session relating to the illegal employment of any child so apprehended, and 
 shall make complaint against whomever the court or trial justice may 
 direct. An attendance officer who knowingly and wilfully violates any 
 provision of this section may be punished by a fine of not more than one 
 hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Section 22. Said chapter five hundred and fourteen is hereby fur- 
 ther amended by striking out section sixty-four and inserting in place 
 thereof the following: — Section 64. Inspectors appointed by the state 
 board of labor and industries, agents of the board of education and at- 
 tendance officers may require that the employment or educational cer- 
 tificates and lists of children who are employed in factories, workshops, 
 manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishments shall be pro- 
 duced for their inspection. A failure to produce to any person author- 
 ized by this section who requests the same an employment or educational 
 certificate or list required by law shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal 
 employment of any person whose certificate is not produced or whose
 
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 name is not so listed. A corporation or other employer, or any agent or 
 officer thereof, who retains an employment or educational certificate in 
 violation of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Section 23. Said chapter five hundred and fourteen is hereby further 
 amended by striking out section sixty-six and inserting in place thereof 
 the following: — Section 66. No child who is over sixteen and under 
 twenty-one years of age shall be employed in a factory, workshop, manu- 
 facturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment unless his employer 
 procures and keeps on file an educational certificate showing the age of 
 the child and his ability or inability to read and write as hereinafter pro- 
 vided. Such certificates shall be issued by the person authorized by this 
 act to issue employment certificates. 
 
 The person authorized to issue such educational certificates shall, so 
 far as is practicable, require the proof of age stated in section fifty-eight. 
 He shall examine the child and certify whether or not he possesses the 
 educational qualifications enumerated in section one of chapter forty- 
 four of the Revised Laws, as amended. x Every such certificate shall be 
 signed in the presence of the person issuing the same by the child in whose 
 name it is issued. 
 
 Every employer of such children shall keep their educational certifi- 
 cates accessible to any officer authorized to enforce the provisions of 
 this act and shall return said certificates to the office from which they 
 were issued within two days after the date of the termination of the 
 employment of said children. If the educational certificate of any child 
 who is over sixteen and under twenty-one years of age fails to show that 
 said child possesses the educational qualifications enumerated in section 
 one of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended, then no per- 
 son shall employ such child while a public evening school is maintained 
 in the city or town, in which the child resides, unless such child is a regular 
 attendant at such evening school or at a day school, and presents to his 
 employer each week a school record of such attendance. When such 
 record shows unexcused absences, such attendance shall be deemed to be 
 irregular and insufficient. The person authorized to issue educational 
 -certificates, or teachers acting under his authority, may, however, excuse 
 justifiable absence. Whoever employs a child in violation of the pro- 
 visions of this section shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars 
 for each offence, to the use of the evening schools of such city or town. 
 A parent, guardian or custodian who permits a child to be employed 
 in violation of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not more 
 than twenty dollars, to the use of the evening schools of such city or 
 town. 
 
 Section 24. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent chil- 
 dren of any age from receiving manual training or industrial education in, 
 or in connection with, any school in this commonwealth: provided, that 
 
 1 See section 1, chapter 779, Acts of 1913.
 
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 the same has been duly approved by the local school committee or by 
 the board of education. 
 
 Section 25. Chapter three hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and six and chapter three hundred and ten 
 of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven and all acts and parts 
 of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 26. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, 
 nineteen hundred and thirteen. [Approved June 18, 1913. 
 
 CONTINUATION SCHOOLS AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION FOR 
 WORKING CHILDREN. 
 
 Chapter 805. 
 
 An Act relative to the establishment and maintenance of con- 
 tinuation SCHOOLS AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION FOR WORKING 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Section 1. When the school committee of any city or town shall have 
 established continuation schools or courses of instruction for the educa- 
 tion of minors between fourteen and sixteen years of age who are regularly 
 employed in such city or town not less than six hours per daj r , such school 
 committee may, with the consent of the board of education, require the 
 attendance in such continuation schools or on such courses of instruction 
 of every such minor thereafter receiving an employment certificate and 
 who is not otherwise receiving instruction approved by the school com- 
 mittee as equivalent to that provided in schools established under the 
 provisions of this act. The required attendance provided for in this act 
 shall be at the rate of not less than four hours per week and shall be be- 
 tween the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the 
 afternoon of any working day or days. The time spent by a child in a 
 continuation school or class shall be reckoned as a part of the time or 
 number of hours that minors are permitted by law to work. 
 
 Section 2. Continuation schools or courses of instruction as provided 
 in section one of this act, shall, so long as they are approved by the board 
 of education as to organization, control, location, equipment, courses of 
 study, qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, conditions of 
 admission, employment of pupils and expenditure of the money, consti- 
 tute approved continuation schools or courses of instruction. Cities and 
 towns maintaining such approved continuation schools or courses of 
 instruction shall receive reimbursement from the commonwealth, as pro- 
 vided in section three of this act. 
 
 Section 3. The commonwealth, in order to aid in the maintenance 
 of approved continuation schools or courses, shall as provided in this 
 act pay annually from the treasury to cities and towns maintaining such 
 schools or courses an amount equal to one half of the sum to be known 
 as the net maintenance sum. Such net maintenance sum shall consist
 
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 of the total sum raised by local taxation and expended for the mainte- 
 nance of such a school, less the amount, for the same period, of tuition 
 claims paid or unpaid and receipts from the work of pupils or the sale of 
 products. 
 
 Section 4. When the school committee of any city or town shall 
 have established a continuation school or courses of instruction as pro- 
 vided in section one of this act, the said school committee may require 
 the attendance, as provided in section one of this act, in such continua- 
 tion school or on such courses of instruction of all minors between four- 
 teen and sixteen years of age residing in said city or town who are regu- 
 larly employed in another city or town: provided, that the city or town 
 in which such minors are employed does not maintain and require at- 
 tendance at a continuation school or courses of instruction as defined in 
 section one of this act. 
 
 Section 5. Any minor between fourteen and sixteen years of age who 
 is regularly employed in a city or town other than that in which the said 
 minor resides may attend a continuation school or courses of instruction, 
 as provided in section one of this act, in the city or town in which such 
 minor resides. Any minor attending a continuation school or courses of 
 instruction, as hereinbefore described, in the city or town of his residence 
 in preference to attending such school or courses of instruction in the city 
 or town of his employment, shall file or cause to be filed regularly, at 
 least once a month, with the superintendent, or his representative duly 
 authorized in writing, of the city or town in which such minor is employed, 
 a report of attendance certified by the superintendent, or his representa- 
 tive duly authorized in writing, of the city or town in which such minor 
 is attending school: provided, however, that the filing of such certified 
 report of attendance with the superintendent of a city or town in which 
 attendance at continuation schools or courses of instruction as defined in 
 section one of this act is not compulsory shall not be required. 
 
 Section 6. The employer of any minor between fourteen and six- 
 teen years of age who is compelled by the provisions and regulations 
 either of the school commttee in the city or town in which such minor 
 resides or of the school committee in the city or town in which such minor 
 is employed to attend a continuation school or courses of instruction as 
 defined in section one of this act, shall cease forthwith to employ such 
 minor when notified in writing by the superintendent or his representa- 
 tive duly authorized in writing, having jurisdiction over such minor's 
 school attendance, that such minor is not attending school in accordance 
 with the compulsory attendance regulations as defined in section one of 
 this act. Any employer who fails to comply with the provisions of this 
 section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one 
 hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Section 7. The superintendent of schools having jurisdiction, or a 
 person authorized by him in writing, may revoke the age and schooling 
 or employment certificate of any minor who is required by the provisions
 
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 of this act to attend a continuation school or courses, if such minor fails 
 to attend such school or courses as provided by this act. 
 
 Section 8. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, 
 nineteen hundred and thirteen. [Approved June 16, 1913. 
 
 The Board of Education, in accordance with a request from the 
 Legislature (chapter 64, Resolves of 1911), made an investigation 
 into the need of part-time schooling, vocational or otherwise, for 
 working children, and presented a report to the Legislature of 
 1913 on the needs and possibilities of part-time schooling, for 
 which the above act makes provision. 
 
 LABOR OF MINORS. 
 
 Chapter 831. 
 
 An Act to regulate the labor of minors. 
 
 Section 1. Section fifty-six of chapter five hundred and fourteen of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by section 
 fourteen of chapter seven hundred and seventy-nine of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby further amended by strik- 
 ing out the said section and inserting in place thereof the following: — 
 Section 56. No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed or 
 permitted to work in or about or in connection with any factory, work- 
 shop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, barber 
 shop, bootblack stand or establishment, public stable, garage, brick or 
 lumber yard, telephone exchange, telegraph or messenger office or in the 
 construction or repair of buildings, or in any contract or wage earning 
 industry carried on in tenement or other houses. No minor under four- 
 teen years of age shall be employed at work performed for wage or other 
 compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public 
 schools are in session or shall be employed at work before half past six 
 o'clock in the morning or after six o'clock in the evening. 
 
 MINORS UNDER SIXTEEN. 
 
 Section 2. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed 
 or permitted to work in operating or assisting in operating any of the 
 following machines: (1) circular or band saws, (2) wood shapers, (3) 
 wood jointers, (4) planers, (5) picker machines or machines used in pick- 
 ing wool, cotton, hair or any other material, (6) paperlace machines, 
 (7) leather burnishing machines, (8) job or cylinder printing presses 
 operated by power other than foot power, (9) stamping machines used in 
 sheet metal and tinware or in paper or leather manufacturing or in washer 
 and nut factories, (10) metal or paper cutting machines, (11) corner stay- 
 ing machines in paper box factories, (12) corrugating rolls such as are
 
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 used in corrugated paper or in roofing or washboard factories, (13) steam 
 boilers, (14) dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description, (15) 
 wire or iron straightening or drawing machinery, (16) rolling mill machin- 
 ery, (17) power punches or shears, (18) washing or grinding or mixing 
 machinery, (19) calender rolls in paper and rubber manufacturing or other 
 heavy rolls driven by power, (20) laundering machinery, (21) upon or 
 in connection with any dangerous electrical machinery or appliances. 
 
 Section 3. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or 
 permitted to work in any capacity in adjusting, or assisting in adjusting 
 any hazardous belt to any machinery, or in oiling or cleaning hazardous 
 machinery, or in proximity to any hazardous or unguarded belts, ma- 
 chinery or gearing while such machinery or gearing is in motion; nor on 
 scaffolding; nor in heavy work in the building trades; nor in stripping, 
 assorting, manufacturing or packing tobacco; nor in any tunnel; nor in 
 a public bowling alley; nor in a pool or billiard room. 
 
 Section 4. The state board of labor and industries may from time 
 to time, after a hearing or hearings duly held, determine whether or not 
 any particular trade, process of manufacture or occupation in which the 
 employment of minors under the age of sixteen years is not already for- 
 bidden by law, or any particular method of carrying on such trade, pro- 
 cess of manufacture or occupation, is sufficiently dangerous or is suffi- 
 ciently injurious to the health or morals of minors under sixteen years 
 of age to justify their exclusion therefrom. No minor under sixteen years 
 of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any trade, process or 
 occupation thus determined to be dangerous or injurious to such minors. 
 
 MINORS UNDER EIGHTEEN. 
 
 Section 5. No minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed 
 or permitted to work: (1) in or about blast furnaces; (2) in the operation 
 or management of hoisting machines; (3) in oiling or cleaning hazardous 
 machinery in motion; (4) in the operation or use of any polishing or 
 buffing wheel; (5) at switch tending; (6) at gate tending; (7) at track 
 repairing; (8) as a brakeman, fireman, engineer, motorman or conductor 
 upon a railroad or railway; (9) as a fireman or engineer upon any boat or 
 vessel; (10) in operating motor vehicles of any description; (11) in or 
 about establishments wherein gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite or 
 other high or dangerous explosive is manufactured or compounded; (12) 
 in the manufacture of white or yellow phosphorus or phosphorus matches; 
 (13) in any distillery, brewery, or any other establishment where malt or 
 alcoholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled; (14) in 
 that part of any hotel, theatre, concert hall, place of amusement or other 
 establishment where intoxicating liquors are sold. The provisions of this 
 section shall not prohibit the employment of minors in drug stores. 
 
 Section 6. The state board of labor and industries may from time to 
 time, after a hearing or hearings duly held, determine whether or not any 
 particular trade, process of manufacture or occupation, in which the
 
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 employment of minors under the age of eighteen j^ears is not already for- 
 bidden by law, or any particular method of carrying on such trade, 
 process of manufacture or occupation, is sufficiently dangerous or is 
 sufficiently injurious to the health or morals of minors under eighteen 
 years of age to justify their exclusion therefrom. No minor under eight- 
 een years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any trade, 
 process or occupation thus determined to be dangerous or injurious to 
 such minors. 
 
 PERSONS UNDER TWENTY-ONE. 
 
 Section 7. No person under twenty-one years of age shall be em- 
 ployed or permitted to work in, about or in connection with any saloon 
 or bar-room where alcoholic liquors are sold. No such person in any 
 employment shall knowingly be taken, sent or caused or permitted to be 
 sent, to any disorderly house or house of prostitution or assignation or 
 other immoral place or resort or amusement. 
 
 Section 8. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or 
 permitted to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or 
 occupation named in section one for more than six days in any one week, 
 nor more than forty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eight 
 hours in any one day, nor before the hour of half-past six o'clock in the 
 morning, nor after the hour of six o'clock in the evening of any day. 
 
 Section 9. No boy under the age of eighteen years and no girl under 
 the age of twenty-one years shall be employed or permitted to work in, 
 about or in connection with any establishment or occupation named in 
 section one for more than six days in any one week, nor more than fifty- 
 four hours in any one week, nor more than ten hours in any one day, 
 nor before the hour of five o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of 
 ten o'clock in the evening, nor in the manufacture of textile goods after 
 the hour of six o'clock in the evening. 
 
 Section 10. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected 
 with the business of conducting or publishing a newspaper, to a newspaper 
 office or directly between newspaper offices, no person under the age of 
 twenty-one years shall be employed or permitted to work as messenger 
 for a telegraph, telephone or messenger company in the distribution, trans- 
 mission or delivery of goods or messages before five o'clock in the morning 
 or after ten o'clock in the evening of an} r day. 
 
 street trades. 
 
 Section 11. No boy under twelve years of age and no girl under 
 eighteen years of age shall, in any city having a population of over fifty 
 thousand inhabitants, sell, expose or offer for sale any newspapers, maga- 
 zines, periodicals, or any other articles of merchandise of any description, 
 or exercise the trade of bootblack or scavenger, or any other trade, in any 
 street or public place. 
 
 Section 12. No boy under sixteen years of age shall, in any city
 
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 having a population of over fifty thousand inhabitants, engage in any of 
 the trades or occupations mentioned in the preceding section, unless he 
 complies with all of the provisions of this act and with all of the legal 
 requirements concerning school attendance, and unless a badge as herein- 
 after provided shall have been issued to him by the officer authorized to 
 issue employment certificates in the city or town where such boy resides. 
 
 Section 13. Such badge shall not be issued until the officer issuing the 
 same shall have received, examined, approved and filed evidence that such 
 boy is twelve years of age or upwards, which shall consist of the proof of 
 age required for the issuing of an employment certificate. Such officer may 
 refuse to issue such badge to any boy who, in his opinion after due investi- 
 gation, is found to be physically or mentally incompetent or unable to do 
 such work in addition to the regular school attendance required by law. 
 
 Section 14. The badge herein required shall be worn, conspicuously 
 exposed at all times, by such boy while so working. No boy to whom the 
 said badge, has been issued shall transfer the same to any other boy. He 
 shall exhibit the same upon demand at any time to any officer charged 
 with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this act which relate to street 
 trades. The school committee of any city may make further regulations 
 and requirements for the issuance of the badge required by this act. 
 
 Section 15. No boy under sixteen years of age shall engage in any of 
 the trades or occupations mentioned in section eleven in any street or 
 public place after nine o 'clock in the evening or before five o 'clock in the 
 morning of any day, nor, unless provided with an employment certificate, 
 during the hours when the public schools in the city where such boy 
 resides, or the schools which such boy attends, are in session. 
 
 enforcement. 
 
 Section 16. Except as provided in section seventeen, every person 
 employing any minor in any establishment mentioned in this act shall 
 post and keep posted in a conspicuous place in the room where such minor 
 is employed or permitted to work a printed notice stating the number of 
 hours such minor is required or permitted to work on each day of the week, 
 with the total for the week, the hours of commencing and stopping work 
 and the hours when the time allowed for meals begins and ends for each 
 day of the week. 
 
 The employment of any minor at any time other than as stated in said 
 printed notice shall be deemed a violation of the provisions of this section. 
 The terms of such notice for any week or part thereof shall not be changed 
 after the beginning of labor on the first day of the week, without the 
 written consent of the commissioner of labor. 
 
 Section 17. Every employer who employs any minor subject to the 
 provisions of this act and who is engaged in furnishing public service 
 shall post in a conspicuous place in every room in which such persons are 
 employed a printed notice stating separately the hours of employment 
 for each shift or tour of duty and the time allowed for meals.
 
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 A list by name of minor employees, stating in which shift each is em- 
 ployed, shall be kept on file at each place of employment for inspection 
 by employees and officers charged with the enforcement of the law. 
 
 The provisions of this act, so far as they relate to hours of employment 
 of minors of eighteen years or over, shall not apply to such employers in 
 cases of extraordinary emergency or extraordinary public requirement, 
 but in such cases no employment contrary to the provisions of this act 
 shall be considered as legalized until a written report of the day and hour 
 of its occurrence and its duration is sent to the commissioner of labor. 
 
 Section 18. The state board of labor and industries, after approval 
 by the attorney-general, shall furnish the printed forms of the laws and 
 notices required by this act, upon application, to all persons required to 
 post the same. 
 
 The inspectors of the state board of labor and industries shall visit and 
 inspect the places of employment mentioned in this act and shall ascertain 
 whether any minors are employed therein contrary to the provisions of 
 this act, and shall prosecute violations thereof. They shall report to the 
 school authorities any cases of children under sixteen years of age dis- 
 charged for illegal employment. Any person shall have the right to prose- 
 cute violations of this act. 
 
 Section 19. The provisions of this act relating to minors engaged in 
 the occupations mentioned in section eleven shall be enforced by the 
 truant officers and school attendance officers, who are hereby vested with 
 full police power for the purpose, and by police officers. The school 
 committee of each city may appoint or designate one or more special 
 truant or attendance officers to have supervision over minors engaged in 
 such occupations and over the enforcement of the said provisions. 
 
 PENALTIES. 
 
 Section 20. Any person who, whether by himself or for others, or 
 through agents, servants or foremen employs, induces or permits any 
 minor to work contrary to any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, for a first offence, be punished by a 
 fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprison- 
 ment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprison- 
 ment; and for a second or subsequent offence, by a fine of not less than 
 fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for 
 not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 The employment of any minor in violation of any provision of this act 
 after the person employing such minor has been notified thereof in writing 
 by any authorized inspector, school attendance officer or truant officer, 
 shall constitute a separate offence for every day during which the employ- 
 ment continues. 
 
 Section 21. Any person who hinders or delays any authorized in- 
 spector, school attendance officer, or truant officer in the performance of 
 his duties, or who refuses to admit to or locks out any such inspector or
 
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 officer from any place which such inspector or officer is authorized to 
 inspect, or who refuses to give to such inspector or officer such informa- 
 tion as may be required for the proper enforcement of this act, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and 
 imprisonment. 
 
 Section 22. Any person who furnishes or sells to any minor any 
 article of any description with the knowledge that the minor intends to 
 sell such articles in violation of any provision of this act, or after having 
 received written notice to this effect from any officer charged with the 
 enforcement of any provision of this act, or any person who knowingly 
 procures or encourages any minor to violate any of the provisions of this 
 act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a 
 fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and 
 imprisonment. 
 
 Section 23. Any parent, guardian or custodian having a minor under 
 his control, who compels or permits such minor to work in violation of 
 any provision of this act, or who knowingly certifies to any materially 
 false statement for the purpose of obtaining the illegal employment of 
 such minor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic- 
 tion, shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than two 
 dollars nor more than ten dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than 
 five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and for a second or 
 subsequent offence he shall be punished by a fine of not less than five 
 dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment for not 
 more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Section 24. Any inspector, school attendance officer, truant officer, 
 superintendent of schools or other person authorized to issue the badges 
 required by this act, or any other person charged with the enforcement 
 of any of the provisions of this act, who knowingly violates or fails to 
 comply with any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprison- 
 ment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Section 25. Any minor who shall engage in any of the trades or 
 occupations mentioned in section eleven in violation of any provision of 
 this act shall, for the first offence, be warned by the officers whose duty it 
 is to enforce the provisions of this act relating to street trades, and the 
 parent, guardian or custodian shall be notified. In case of a second vio- 
 lation, such minor may be arrested and dealt with as a delinquent child, 
 or, if over seventeen years of age, shall be punished by a fine not exceed- 
 ing fifteen dollars upon the recommendation of the principal or chief 
 executive officer of the school which such minor is attending, or upon the 
 complaint of any school attendance officer, truant officer, police officer
 
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 or probation officer, the badge of any minor who violates any provision 
 of this act, or who becomes delinquent or fails to comply with all legal 
 requirements concerning school attendance, may be revoked by the offi- 
 cer issuing the same for. a period of three months and the badge taken 
 from such minor. The refusal of any minor to surrender such badge, or 
 the working at any of the occupations mentioned in section eleven by 
 any minor after notice of the revocation of such badge, shall be deemed 
 a violation of this act. 
 
 Section 26. Police, district and municipal courts and trial justices 
 and the Boston juvenile court as to minors under seventeen years of age 
 shall have jurisdiction of offences arising under this act. A summons or 
 warrant issued by any such court or justice may be served at the direc- 
 tion of the court or magistrate by an inspector of the state board of labor 
 and industries or by a truant officer or school attendance officer, or by 
 any officer qualified to serve criminal process. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Section 27. Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the 
 juvenile reformatories, other than the Massachusetts reformatory, or to 
 prevent minors of any age from receiving manual training or industrial 
 education in or in connection with any school in this commonwealth 
 which has duly been approved by the school committee or by the board 
 of education. 
 
 Section 28. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provi- 
 sions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 29. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, 
 nineteen hundred and thirteen. [Approved June 19, 1913. 
 
 RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. 
 
 Chapter 832. 
 
 An Act to establish a retirement system for public school 
 
 teachers. 
 
 construction. 
 Section 1. The following words and phrases as used in this act, 
 unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have 
 the following meanings : — 
 
 (1) "Retirement system" shall mean the arrangement provided in this 
 act for payment of annuities and pensions to teachers. 
 
 (2) "Annuities" shall mean payments for life derived from contribu- 
 tions from teachers. 
 
 (3) "Pensions" shall mean payments for life derived from contribu- 
 tions from the commonwealth.
 
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 (4) "Teacher" shall mean any teacher, principal, supervisor or super- 
 intendent employed by a school committee, or board of trustees, in a 
 public day school within the commonwealth. 
 
 (5) "Public school" shall mean any day school conducted within this 
 commonwealth under the order and superintendence of a duly elected 
 school committee and also any day school conducted under the provisions 
 of chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and eleven. 
 
 (6) "Regular interest" shall mean interest at three per cent per annum, 
 compounded annually on the last day of December of each year. 
 
 (7) "Retirement board" shall mean the teachers' retirement board, as 
 provided in section four of this act. 
 
 (8) "Retirement association" shall mean the teachers' retirement asso- 
 ciation, as provided in section three of this act. 
 
 (9) " Expense fund " shall mean the fund provided for in paragraph 
 numbered one in section five of this act. 
 
 (10) "Annuity fund" shall mean the fund provided for in paragraph 
 numbered two in section five of this act. 
 
 (11) "Pension fund" shall mean the fund provided for in paragraph 
 numbered three in section five of this act. 
 
 (12) "School year" shall mean the twelve months from the first day of 
 July of any year to the thirtieth day of June next succeeding. 
 
 (13) "Assessments" shall mean the annual payments to the annuity 
 fund by members of the association. 
 
 ESTABLISHMENT OP A TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. 
 
 Section 2. A teacher's retirement system shall be established on the 
 first day of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen. 
 
 TEACHERS' RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Section 3. A teachers' retirement association shall be organized 
 among the teachers in the public schools as follows : — 
 
 (1) All teachers, except those specified in paragraph (3) of this section, 
 who enter the service of the public schools for the first time on or after 
 July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall become thereby mem- 
 bers of the association. 
 
 (2) All teachers, except those specified in paragraph (3) of this section, 
 who shall have entered the service of the public schools before June 
 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, may at any time between July 
 first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and September thirtieth, nineteen 
 hundred and fourteen, upon application in writing to the commissioner 
 of education, become members of the retirement association. Any teacher 
 failing to do so may thereafter become a member of the retirement board 
 by paying an amount equal to the total assessments, together with regu-
 
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 lar interest thereon, that he would have paid if he had joined the retire- 
 ment association on September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. 
 (3) Teachers in the service of the public schools of the city of Boston 
 shall not be included as members of the retirement association. 
 
 STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT BOARD. 
 
 Section 4. (1) The management of the retirement system is hereby 
 vested in the teachers' retirement board, consisting of seven members: 
 the insurance commissioner for the commonwealth, the bank commis- 
 sioner for the commonwealth, the commissioner of education for the 
 commonwealth, three members of the retirement association and one 
 other person. Upon organization of the retirement association the mem- 
 bers thereof shall elect from among their number in a manner to be 
 approved by the insurance commissioner, the bank commissioner and the 
 commissioner of education, three persons to serve upon the retirement 
 board, one member to serve for one year, one for two years and one for 
 three years, and thereafter the members of the retirement association 
 shall elect annually from among their number in a manner to be approved 
 by the retirement board one person to serve upon the retirement board 
 for the term of three years. The seventh member of the retirement 
 board shall be elected annually by the other six to serve for the term of 
 one year. On a vacancy occurring on the board, a successor of such 
 person whose place has become vacant shall be chosen in the same man- 
 ner as his predecessor to serve until the next annual election. Until the 
 organization of the retirement association and the election of three rep- 
 resentatives therefrom, the insurance commissioner, the bank commis- 
 sioner and the commissioner of education shall be empowered to perform 
 the duties of the retirement board. 
 
 (2) The members of the retirement board shall serve without compensa- 
 tion, but they shall be reimbursed from the expense fund of the retire- 
 ment association for any expenditures or loss of salary or wages which 
 they may incur through serving on the board. All claims for reimburse- 
 ment on this account shall be subject to the approval of the governor and 
 council. 
 
 (3) The retirement board shall have power to make by-laws and regu- 
 lations not inconsistent with the provisions of this act; and to employ 
 a secretary who shall give a bond in such amount as the board shall 
 approve, and clerical and other assistance as may be necessary. The sal- 
 aries shall be fixed by the board, with the approval of the governor and 
 council. 
 
 (4) The retirement board shall provide for the payment of retirement 
 allowances and such other expenditures as are required by the provisions 
 of this act. 
 
 (5) The retirement board shall adopt for the retirement system one or 
 more mortality tables, and shall determine what rates of interest shall be
 
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 established in connection with such tables, and may later modify such 
 tables or prescribe other tables to represent more accurately the expense 
 of the retirement system or may change such rates of interest, and may 
 determine the application of the changes made. 
 
 (6) The retirement board shall perform such other functions as are 
 required for the execution of the provisions of this act. 
 
 CREATION OF FUNDS. 
 
 Section 5. The funds of the retirement sj^stem shall consist of an 
 expense fund, an annuity fund and a pension fund. 
 
 (1) The expense fund shall consist of such amounts as shall be appro- 
 priated by the general court from year to year on estimates submitted by 
 the retirement board to defray the expense of the administration of this 
 act, exclusive of the payment of retirement allowances. 
 
 (2) The annuity fund shall consist of assessments paid by members of 
 the retirement association, and interest derived from investments of the 
 annuity fund. Each member of the retirement association shall pay into 
 the annuity fund, by deduction from his salary in the manner provided in 
 section nine, paragraph five, of this act, such assessments upon his salary 
 as may be determined by the retirement board. The rate of assessment 
 shall be established by the retirement board on the first day of July of 
 each year after a prior notice of at least three months, and shall at any 
 given time be uniform for all members of the retirement association, and 
 shall not be less than three per cent nor more than seven per cent of the 
 members' salary: provided, however, that when the total sum of assess- 
 ments on the salary of any member at the rate established by the retire- 
 ment board would amount to more than one hundred dollars or less than 
 thirty-five dollars for any school year, such member shall in lieu of assess- 
 ments at the regular rate be assessed one hundred dollars a year or thirty- 
 five dollars a year as the case may be, payable in equal instalments to be 
 assessed for the number of months during which the schools of the com- 
 munity in which such member is employed are commonly in session. Any 
 member of the retirement association who shall for thirty years have paid 
 regular assessments to the annuity fund as provided herein, shall be exempt 
 from further assessments; but such member may thereafter, if he so elects, 
 continue to pay his assessments to the fund. No member so electing shall 
 pay further assessments after the total sum of assessments paid by him 
 shall at any time have amounted, with regular interest, to a sum sufficient 
 to purchase an annuity of five hundred dollars at age sixty; and interest 
 thereafter accruing shall be paid to the member at the time of his retire- 
 ment. 
 
 (3) The pension fund shall consist of such amounts as shall be appro- 
 priated by the general court from time to time on estimates submitted 
 by the retirement board for the purpose of paying the pensions provided 
 for in this act.
 
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 PAYMENT OF RETIREMENT ALLOWANCES. 
 
 Section 6. (1) Any member of the retirement association may retire 
 from the service in the public schools on attaining the age of sixty years, 
 or, at any time thereafter, if incapable of rendering satisfactory service 
 as a teacher, may, with the approval of the retirement board, be retired 
 by the employing school committee. 
 
 (2) Any member of the retirement association, on attaining the age of 
 seventy years, shall be retired from service in the public schools. 
 
 (3) A member of the retirement association after his retirement under 
 the provisions of paragraphs numbered (1) or (2) of this section, shall be 
 entitled to receive from the annuity fund, as he shall elect at the time of 
 his retirement, on the basis of tables adopted by the retirement board: — 
 (a) an annuity payable in quarterly payments, to which the sum of his 
 assessments under section five, paragraph (2), with regular interest 
 thereon, shall entitle him; or, (b) an annuity of less amount, as determined 
 by the retirement board for the annuitants electing such option, payable 
 in quarterly payments, with the provision that if the annuitant dies 
 before receiving payments equal to the sum of his assessments under 
 section five, paragraph (2), with regular interest, at the time of his retire- 
 ment, the difference between the total amount of said payments and the 
 amount of his contributions with regular interest shall be paid to his legal 
 representatives. 
 
 (4) Any member of the retirement association receiving payments of 
 an annuity as provided in paragraph numbered (3) of this section shall, if 
 not rendered ineligible therefor by the provisions of section twelve of this 
 act, receive with each quarterly payment of his annuity an equal amount 
 to be paid from the pension fund as directed by the retirement board. 
 
 (5) Any teacher who shall have become a member of the retirement 
 association under the provisions of paragraph numbered (2) of section 
 three, and who shall have served fifteen years or more in the public schools 
 of the commonwealth, not less than five of which shall immediately 
 precede retirement, shall, on retiring as provided in paragraphs (1) and 
 (2) of this section, be entitled to receive a retirement allowance as follows: 
 — (a) such annuity and pension as may be due under the provisions of 
 paragraphs numbered (3) and (4) of this section; (6) an additional pen- 
 sion to such an amount that the sum of this additional pension and the 
 pension provided in paragraph (4) of this section shall equal the pension 
 to which he would have been entitled under the provisions of this act if he 
 had paid thirty assessments on his average yearly wage for the fifteen 
 years preceding his retirement and at the rate in effect at the time of his 
 retirement: provided, (1) that if his term of service in the commonwealth 
 shall have been over thirty years the thirty assessments shall be reckoned 
 as having begun at the time of his entering service and as drawing regular 
 interest until the time of retirement; and further provided, (2) that if the 
 sum of such additional pension together with the annuity and pension pro-
 
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 vided for by paragraphs numbered (3) and (4) of this section is less than 
 three hundred dollars in any one year, an additional sum sufficient to make 
 an annual retirement allowance of three hundred dollars shall be paid from 
 the pension fund. 
 
 (6) If at any time it is impossible or impracticable to consult the original 
 records as to wages received by a member during any period, the retire- 
 ment board shall determine the pension to be paid under paragraph num- 
 bered (5) (6) of this section in accordance with the evidence they may be 
 able to obtain. 
 
 WITHDRAWAL AND REINSTATEMENT. 
 
 Section 7. (1) Any member of the retirement association with- 
 drawing from service in the public schools before becoming eligible to 
 retirement shall be entitled to receive from the annuity fund all amounts 
 contributed as assessments, together with regular interest thereon, in the 
 manner hereinafter provided. 
 
 (2) If such withdrawal shall take place before ten annual assessments 
 have been paid, the total amount to which such member is entitled as 
 determined by the retirement board under the provisions of this act shall 
 be paid to him in four annual instalments. 
 
 (3) If such withdrawal shall take place after ten annual assessments 
 have been paid the amount so refunded shall be in the form of such annuity 
 for life based on the contributions of such member, together with regular 
 interest thereon, as may be determined by the retirement board according 
 to its annuity tables, or in four annual instalments, as such member may 
 elect. 
 
 (4) If a member of the association withdrawing and receiving payments 
 in accordance with paragraphs numbered (2) and (3) of this section, shall 
 die before the amount of such payments equals the amount of his con- 
 tributions to the annuity fund with regular interest, the difference between 
 the amount of such payments and the amount of his contributions with 
 regular interest shall be paid to his legal representatives. 
 
 (5) Any member of the retirement association who shall have with- 
 drawn from service in the public schools shall, on being re-employed in the 
 public schools, be reinstated in the retirement association in accordance 
 with such plans for reinstatement as the retirement board shall adopt. 
 
 (6) If a member of the retirement association shall die before retirement, 
 the full amount of his contributions to the annuity fund with regular 
 interest to the day of his death shall be paid to his legal representatives. 
 
 taxation, attachments and assignments. 
 Section 8. That portion of the salary or wages of a member deducted 
 or to be deducted under this act, the right of a member to an annuity or 
 pension, and all his rights in the funds of the retirement system shall be 
 exempt from taxation, and from the operation of any laws relating to 
 bankruptcy or insolvency, and shall not be attached or taken upon execu-
 
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 tion or other process of any court. No assignment of any right in, or to, 
 said funds shall be valid. The funds of the retirement system, so far as 
 invested in personal property, shall be exempt from taxation. 
 
 DUTIES OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
 
 Section 9. (1) The school committee of each town and city in the 
 commonwealth shall, before employing in any teaching position any person 
 to whom this act may apply, notify such person of his duties and obliga- 
 tions under this act as a condition of his employment. 
 
 (2) On or before October first of each year the school committee of 
 each town and city in the commonwealth shall certify to the retirement 
 board the names of all teachers to whom this act shall apply. 
 
 (3) The school committee of each town and city in the common- 
 wealth shall, on the first day of each calendar month, notify the retire- 
 ment board of the employment of new teachers, removals, withdrawals, 
 changes in salary of teachers, that shall have occurred during the month 
 preceding. 
 
 (4) Under the direction of the retirement board the school committee 
 of each town or city in the commonwealth shall furnish such other informa- 
 tion as the board may require relevant to the discharge of the duties of 
 the board. 
 
 (5) The school committee of each town and city in the commonwealth 
 shall, a\s directed by the retirement board, deduct from the amount of the 
 salary due each teacher employed in the public schools of such city or town 
 such amounts as are due as contributions to the annuity fund as prescribed 
 in this act, shall send to the treasurer of said town or city a statement as 
 voucher for such deductions, and shall send a duplicate statement to the 
 secretary of the retirement board. 
 
 (6) The school committee of each town and city in the commonwealth 
 shall keep such records as the retirement board may require. 
 
 DUTIES OF BOARDS OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 Section 10. In administering this act for the benefit of teachers in 
 schools conducted in accordance with chapter four hundred and seventy- 
 one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, the boards of 
 trustees of said schools are hereby authorized and required to perform all 
 the duties prescribed for school committees under this act. 
 
 CUSTODY AND INVESTMENT OF FUNDS. 
 
 Section 11. (1) The treasurer of each town or city in the common- 
 wealth on receipt from the school committee or board of trustees of the 
 voucher for deductions from the teachers' salaries provided for in section 
 nine shall transmit, monthly, the amounts specified in such voucher to 
 the secretary of the retirement board.
 
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 (2) The secretary of the retirement board shall monthly pay to the 
 treasurer of the commonwealth all sums collected by him under the pro- 
 visions of paragraph (1). 
 
 (3) All funds of the retirement system shall be in custody and charge 
 of the treasurer of the commonwealth and the treasurer shall invest such 
 funds as are not required for current disbursements in accordance with 
 the laws of the commonwealth governing the investment of sinking funds. 
 He may, whenever he sells securities, deliver the securities so sold upon 
 receiving the proceeds thereof, and may execute any or all documents 
 necessary to transfer the title thereto. 
 
 (4) The treasurer of the commonwealth shall make such payments to 
 members of the retirement association from the annuity fund and pension 
 fund as the retirement board shall order to be paid in accordance with 
 sections six and seven of this act. 
 
 (5) On, or before, the third Wednesday in January, the treasurer of 
 the commonwealth shall file with the insurance commissioner for the 
 commonwealth, and with the secretary of the retirement board, a sworn 
 statement exhibiting the financial condition of the retirement system on 
 the thirty-first day of the preceding December and its financial transac- 
 tions for the year ending at such date. Such statement shall be in the 
 form prescribed by the retirement board and approved by the insurance 
 commissioner. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP IN OTHER RETIREMENT ASSOCIATIONS. 
 
 Section 12. (1) No person required to become a member of the asso- 
 ciation, under the provisions of paragraph (1) of section three of this act 
 shall be entitled to participate in the benefits of any other teachers' retire- 
 ment system, supported in whole or in part by funds raised by taxation, 
 or to a pension under the provisions of chapter four hundred and ninety- 
 eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, or chapter five 
 hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 eight, as amended by chapter six hundred and seventeen of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and ten. 
 
 (2) No member of the retirement association shall be eligible to receive 
 any pension as described in section six of this act, who is at the time in 
 receipt of a pension paid from funds raised in whole or in part from taxa- 
 tion under the provisions of chapter four hundred and ninety-eight of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, or chapter five hundred and 
 eighty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, as amended 
 by chapter six hundred and seventeen of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and ten, or of any other act providing pensions for teachers, 
 providing that this paragraph shall not be construed as applying to the 
 Boston Teachers' Retirement Fund Association.
 
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 REIMBURSEMENT OF CITIES AND TOWNS. 
 
 Section 13. (1) Whenever, after the first day of July, nineteen hun- 
 dred and fourteen, a town or city retires a teacher who is not eligible to 
 a pension under the provisions of section six, paragraph (4) of this act, 
 and pays to such teacher a pension in accordance with chapter four hun- 
 dred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, 
 or chapter five hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and eight, as amended by chapter six hundred and seventeen of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, and the school committee 
 of said town or city certifies under oath to the retirement board to the 
 amount of said pension, said town or city shall be reimbursed therefor 
 annually by the commonwealth: provided, that no such reimbursement 
 shall be in excess of the amount, as determined by the retirement board, 
 to which said teacher would have been entitled as a pension, had he become 
 a member of the retirement association under the provisions of section 
 three, paragraph (2) of this act. 
 
 (2) On or before the first Wednesday of January of each year, the 
 retirement board shall present to the general court, a statement of the 
 amount expended previous to the preceding first day of July by cities 
 and towns in the payment of pensions under the provisions of the pre- 
 ceding paragraph, for which such cities and towns should receive reim- 
 bursement. On the basis of such a statement, the general court may 
 make an appropriation for the reimbursement of such cities and towns 
 up to such first day of July. 
 
 JURISDICTION OF COURT. 
 
 Section 14. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity upon 
 petition of the insurance commissioner or of any interested party to com- 
 pel the observance and restrain the violation of this act, and of the rules 
 and regulations established by the retirement board hereunder. 
 
 referendum and repeal. 
 Section 15. Upon the petition of not less than five per cent of the 
 legal voters of any city or town that has adopted chapter four hundred 
 and ninety-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, this 
 question shall be submitted, in case of a city, to the voters of such city 
 at the next city election, and, in case of a town, to the voters of such town 
 at he next annual town meeting, and the vote shall be in answer to the 
 question to be placed upon the ballot: "Shall an act passed by the gen- 
 eral court in the year nineteen hundred and eight, entitled 'An Act to 
 authorize cities and towns to establish pension funds for teachers in the 
 public schools', be repealed?" and if a majority of the voters voting thereon 
 at such election or meeting shall vote in the affirmative said act shall be 
 repealed in such city or town.
 
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 Section 16. So much of chapter four hundred and ninety-eight of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight as authorizes its sub- 
 mission to the voters of a city or town for acceptance after the passage 
 of this act is hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 17. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 June 19, 1913. 
 
 In accordance with a request from the Legislature of 1911 
 (chapter 47, Resolves of 1911), the Board of Education submitted 
 to the Legislature of 1913 a special report on teachers' retirement 
 allowances. The above act makes provision for a retirement sys- 
 tem for public school teachers. 
 
 ELECTION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
 
 Chapter 835. 
 
 Section 400. . . . The town shall likewise at its annual meeting 
 choose from the inhabitants thereof members of the school committee, 
 which committee shall consist of any number of persons divisible by 
 three which the town has decided to elect, one third thereof to be elected 
 annually, for the term of three years. If a town fails or neglects to choose 
 such committee, an election at a subsequent meeting shall be valid. 
 Where official ballots are used the number to be so elected shall be deter- 
 mined at a meeting held at least thirty days before the annual town 
 meeting. A town may, at an annual meeting, if official ballots are not 
 used, otherwise at a meeting held at least thirty days before the annual 
 meeting at which such change is to become operative, vote to increase 
 or diminish the number of its school committee. Such increase shall be 
 made by adding one or more to each class, to hold office according to the 
 tenure of the class to which they are severally chosen. Such diminution 
 shall be made by choosing, annually, such number as will in three years 
 effect it, and a vote to diminish shall remain in force until the diminution 
 under which it is accomplished. 
 
 Women shall be eligible as overseers of the poor and school committee. 
 
 Section 411. The election of town clerk, selectmen, assessors, over- 
 seers of the poor, town treasurer, auditor, collector of taxes, constables, 
 road commissioners, sewer commissioners, board of health and school com- 
 mittee shall be by ballot; and the election of all other town officers shall 
 be in such manner as the town may determine, unless otherwise provided 
 by law. . . . 
 
 Section 413. If the town clerk, selectmen, assessors, treasurer, col- 
 lector of taxes and school committee are voted for on one ballot, the mod-
 
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 erator shall cause all such ballots when canvassed and counted, and record 
 thereof has been made, publicly to be enclosed in envelopes, which shall 
 be sealed and indorsed, and certified in the manner required by section 
 three hundred and four. 
 
 Section 414. A person who is elected town clerk, if present at the 
 meeting, shall forthwith be sworn, either by the moderator or by a justice 
 of the peace, and shall at once enter upon the performance of his duties. 
 Every town officer designated by name in section four hundred, unless 
 other provision is specifically made by law, shall enter upon the per- 
 formance of his duties on the day after his election or as soon thereafter 
 as he is qualified, and shall hold office during the term fixed by law, which 
 shall begin on the day after the annual meeting, and until another person 
 is chosen and qualified in his stead. 
 
 Section 415. Town officers designated by name in section four hun- 
 dred shall, before entering upon their official duties, be sworn to the faith- 
 ful performance thereof. Such oath may be administered by the moder- 
 ator in open town meeting, or by the town clerk. The town clerk shall 
 forthwith, after the election or appointment of town officers required to 
 take an oath of office, make a list of the names of all such officers not 
 sworn by him or by the moderator, and deliver it with his warrant to a 
 constable requiring him within three days to summon each such person 
 to appear and take the oath of office within seven days after the service 
 of such summons upon him; and the constable shall within said seven 
 days make return thereof to the town clerk. Persons so summoned, 
 unless exempt by law from holding the office, shall within said seven days, 
 take the oath of office before the town clerk or before a justice of the 
 peace, and file a certificate thereof with the town clerk. 
 
 • • ■ • • • . • • • • • • •« 
 
 Section 420. No ballot shall be received from any woman who votes 
 for school committee in a town which does not use official ballots unless 
 it has the words "For School Committee only", on the back thereof. 
 Such ballots shall be counted only in the choice of members of the school 
 committee, and for no other office or purpose. 
 
 Section 429. If there is a failure to elect, or if a vacancy occurs in 
 any town office, other than the offices of selectmen, town clerk, assessor, 
 treasurer, collector of taxes or auditor, the selectmen shall in writing 
 appoint a person to fill such vacancy. If there is a vacancy in a board 
 consisting of two or more members, the remaining members shall give 
 notice thereof in writing to the selectmen, who, with the remaining mem- 
 ber or members of such board shall, after one week's notice, fill such 
 vacancy by ballot. A majority of the ballots of the officers entitled to 
 vote shall be necessary to such election. The person so appointed or 
 elected shall perform the duties of the office until the next annual meeting 
 or until another is chosen and qualified.
 
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 Section 430. If a person removes from a town, he shall thereby 
 vacate any town office held by him. 
 
 Section 431. The proceedings in an election held by reason of a 
 previous failure to elect, or to fill a vacancy, and the qualifications of a 
 person to be elected or appointed, shall be the same as in an original 
 election. 
 
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 Approved June 20, 1913.
 
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 PART III. — SPECIAL LEGISLATION RELATING TO 
 SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES OR INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 PLAYGROUNDS IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 
 
 Chapter' 172. 
 Ax Act relative to playgrounds in the city of Worcester. 
 
 Section 1. The park commissioners of the city of Worcester may, 
 upon request of the city council, set apart portions of public parks exist- 
 ing in that city for the purposes of public playgrounds, which shall there- 
 after be under the control of the playground commission. 
 
 The areas so set apart shall be described by metes and bounds, and a 
 plan thereof shall be filed with the clerk of the park commission and in 
 the offices of the city clerk and city engineer before the same shall become 
 public playgrounds under control of the playground commission. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 February 26, 1913. 
 
 SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF BEVERLY TO APPOINT SCHOOL 
 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 Chapter 208. 
 
 An Act to authorize the school committee of the city of beverly 
 to appoint the school physicians for that city. 
 
 Section 1. So much of chapter five hundred and two of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and six and of acts in amendment thereof as 
 provide that in cities the board of health shall appoint school physicians 
 shall not apply to the city of Beverly, and the school physician or physi- 
 cians in that city shall be appointed by the school committee. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city 
 council of the city of Beverly, with the approval of the mayor. [Approved 
 February 28, 1918. 
 
 INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL IN BOSTON. 
 
 Chapter 337. 
 
 An Act to provide for an independent agricultural school within 
 
 the city of boston. 
 
 Section 1. The school committee of the city of Boston may estab- 
 lish and maintain an independent agricultural school, as defined by 
 chapter four hundred and seventy-one of the acts of the year nineteen
 
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 hundred and eleven, and under the authority of and subject to the pro- 
 visions of said act and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto. 
 
 Section 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, 
 the board of schoolhouse commissioners of the city of Boston may cause 
 to be taken for the city, in the same manner in which land is taken for 
 schoolhouses, land in that city not exceeding fifty acres, approved by the 
 school committee of the city, and shall build and furnish such buildings 
 as are approved by the school committee: provided, that land having a 
 building thereon may be purchased at such price as the school committee, 
 the schoolhouse commissioners and the mayor may determine. 
 
 Section 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 21, 1913. 
 
 HOLYOKE TO INCUR INDEBTEDNESS FOR BUILDINGS. 
 
 Chapter 362. 
 
 An Act to authorize the city of holyoke to incur indebtedness 
 for school and police buildings. 
 
 Section 1. For the purpose of acquiring land for and constructing 
 and equipping school and police buildings, the city of Holyoke is hereby 
 authorized to borrow the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, and may 
 from time to time issue bonds or notes therefor, and the same shall not be 
 reckoned in determining the statutory limit of indebtedness of the city. 
 Such bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words, Holyoke School 
 and Police Building Loan, Act of 1913, shall be payable in such annual 
 payments, beginning not more than one year after the respective dates 
 thereof, as will extinguish the loan within twenty years from the date 
 thereof; and the amount of such annual payment of any loan in any year 
 shall not be less than the amount of the principal of said loan payable in 
 any subsequent year. Each authorized issue of bonds or notes shall con- 
 stitute a separate loan. Said bonds or notes shall bear interest at a rate 
 not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum, payable semi-annually ; 
 shall be signed by the mayor and treasurer of the city and countersigned 
 by the auditor. The city may sell such bonds or notes at public or private 
 sale, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper, but they shall 
 not be sold for less than their par value, and the proceeds shall not be used 
 for any purpose other than that herein specified. 
 
 Section 2. The said city shall, at the time of authorizing said loan or 
 loans, provide for the payment thereof in accordance with section one of 
 this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, a sum sufficient 
 to pay the interest as it accrues on the bonds or notes issued as aforesaid 
 by the city, 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 the city annually thereafter, in the same manner in which
 
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 other taxes are assessed, until the debt incurred by said loan or loans is 
 extinguished. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 26, 1913. 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. 
 
 Chapter 363. 
 
 An Act to provide for a building for the high school of commerce 
 
 in the city of boston. 
 
 Section 1. Chapter four hundred and forty-six of the acts of the year 
 nineteen hundred and nine is hereby amended by striking out section one 
 and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 1. The board of 
 schoolhouse commissioners of the city of Boston may cause to be taken 
 for the city in the manner provided for the taking of land for schoolhouses, 
 land for a building to be occupied by the High School of Commerce, and 
 said board shall erect and furnish said building as approved by the school 
 committee : provided, however, that the building may be erected within the 
 limits of the Back Bay Fens, if the mayor and the city council of Boston 
 shall so determine. 
 
 Section 2. Section two of said chapter four hundred and forty-six is 
 hereby amended by inserting after the word "eleven", in the seventh line, 
 the words : — and one hundred thousand dollars in the year nineteen hun- 
 dred and thirteen, — so as to read as follows: — Section 2. The school 
 committee of said city, to meet the expenses incurred under this act, may 
 appropriate a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in the year nineteen 
 hundred and nine, three hundred thousand dollars in the year nineteen 
 hundred and ten, and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the year 
 nineteen hundred and eleven, and one hundred thousand dollars in the 
 year nineteen hundred and thirteen. The amount which the school com- 
 mittee may thus appropriate in any single year shall be reckoned in 
 determining the statutory limit of indebtedness of the city for that year. 
 The treasurer of the city shall issue and sell negotiable bonds of the city 
 to such amount as shall be determined by the school committee within the 
 powers conferred by this act. Said bonds shall be payable in a period of 
 years not exceeding twenty, and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 
 four per cent per annum. The city may, at the discretion of the mayor, 
 issue said bonds upon the serial payment plan, instead of establishing a 
 sinking fund for the retirement thereof. Such plan, if adopted, shall 
 provide for the issue of bonds or scrip to be paid serially in such amounts 
 and at such times as shall be determined by the mayor; the bond last 
 payable to become clue at a date not later than that on which the whole 
 seiies of bonds would have matured if they had been issued under the sink- 
 ing fund method. The orders of the school committee determining the 
 amount of said bonds which the city treasurer is to issue shall be presented 
 to the mayor for his approval or disapproval, and the same proceedings
 
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 shall be had in respect thereto as are now prescribed by law in regard to 
 other orders of the school committee involving the expenditure of money. 
 The proceeds of said bonds shall be expended by the board of schoolhouse 
 commissioners of the city in accordance with the provisions of this act and 
 of chapter four hundred and seventy-three of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and one and of any amendments thereof. 
 
 Section 3. Section three of said chapter four hundred and forty-six of 
 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine is hereby amended by 
 striking out in the first, second and third lines of said section the following 
 "of the estate on Mason Street in said city now occupied by the school 
 committee for office and other purposes and", so as to read as follows: — 
 Section 3. The proceeds of the sale of the Winthrop school estate on 
 Tremont street shall be applied toward the cost of the land and building 
 authorized by this act, and the amount of bonds which may be issued here- 
 under shall be reduced by an amount equivalent to the net proceeds of 
 such sale : provided, that if such sale shall not be completed until after the 
 issue of some or all of the bonds authorized hereby, then the net proceeds 
 of such sale, less any amount employed in reduction of the amount of 
 bonds thereafter to be issued as above provided, shall be paid to the board 
 of sinking fund commissioners and applied to the retirement or redemption 
 of the bonds authorized hereby. 
 
 Section 4. Chapter five hundred and forty of the acts of the year nine- 
 teen hundred and eleven is hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 5. Sections one and three of this act shall take effect upon 
 its passage, and section two shall take effect if approved within the calen- 
 dar year nineteen hundred and thirteen by the mayor and by the city 
 council of the city of Boston. [Approved March 26, 1913. 
 
 BROCKTON TO INCUR INDEBTEDNESS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. 
 
 Chapter 379. 
 
 An Act to authorize the city of brockton to incur indebtedness 
 
 for school purposes. 
 
 Section 1. For the purpose of acquiring land and erecting thereon a 
 building to be used as a high school, the city of Brockton is hereby 
 authorized to borrow the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, and 
 may from time to time issue bonds or notes therefor, payable at periods 
 not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates of issue, and the 
 same shall not be reckoned in determining the statutory limit of indebt- 
 edness of the city. Such bonds or notes shall be signed by the treasurer 
 and countersigned by the mayor of the city; shall be denominated on 
 the face thereof, Brockton High School Loan, Act of 1913, and shall bear 
 interest at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum, 
 payable semi-annually. The city may sell the said securities at public 
 or private sale, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper:
 
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 but they shall not be sold for less than their par value, and the proceeds 
 shall be used only for the purpose herein specified. 
 
 Section 2. The said city shall, at the time of making the said loan, 
 provide for the payment thereof in such annual payments, beginning 
 not more than one year after the date of each respective issue of such 
 bonds or notes, as will extinguish the same within the time prescribed 
 by this act; and the amount of such annual payment of any loan in any 
 year shall not be less than the amount of the principal of said loan pay- 
 able in any subsequent year. When a vote to the effect aforesaid has 
 been passed, a sum sufficient to pay the interest as it accrues on the bonds 
 or notes issued as aforesaid, 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 the city in each year thereafter, in 
 the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until the debt incurred 
 by said loan or loans is extinguished. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 28, 1913. 
 
 BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE MAY ESTABLISH FREE EMPLOY- 
 MENT OFFICE FOR MINORS. 
 
 Chapter 389. 
 
 An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a 
 free employment office for minors of the city of boston by 
 the school committee of said city. 
 
 Section 1. There may be established and maintained by the school 
 committee of the city of Boston an employment office for registering 
 applications of minors residing in the city of Boston who seek employ- 
 ment, and of those who desire to employ such minors. 
 
 Section 2. The school committee shall establish regulations respect- 
 ing the conduct of the office and shall take such action as the committee 
 deems best to promote the purposes of an employment office for minors, 
 and to bring together such minors seeking employment and those desiring 
 to employ them. 
 
 Section 3. No fees, direct or indirect, shall be charged to or accepted 
 from applicants for employment who apply at the office established here- 
 under, and the expense of maintaining the same shall be charged to the 
 appropriation for the support of schools in the city of Boston. 
 
 Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 28, 1913.
 
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 BROCKTON MAY MAINTAIN DENTAL CLINIC FOR SCHOOL 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Chapter 400. 
 
 An Act to authorize the city of brockton to establish and main- 
 tain A DENTAL CLINIC FOR THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THAT CITY. 
 
 Section 1. The city of Brockton is hereby authorized to appropriate 
 annually, beginning with the current year, a sum not exceeding five thou- 
 sand dollars, to be expended by the school committee for the establish- 
 ment and maintenance of a dental clinic for school children in the said 
 city, upon such terms and conditions and under such regulations as the 
 school committee shall from time to time prescribe. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 28 T 1913. 
 
 FRAMINGHAM, ISSUE OF CERTAIN SCHOOL LOAN BONDS. 
 
 Chapter 506. 
 
 An Act to ratify the issue of certain school loan bonds of the 
 
 town of framingham. 
 
 Section 1. The issue of bonds by the town of Framingham, pursu- 
 ant to the provisions of chapter sixty-one of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and eleven, to the amount of sixty-five thousand dollars, under 
 votes of the town taken August twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and 
 twelve, the said bonds being designated as Framingham Grade School 
 Loan, Act of 1911, and being for one thousand dollars each and payable 
 in the order of their numbers, four on the sixteenth day of September of 
 each year from nineteen hundred and thirteen to nineteen hundred and 
 seventeen, both inclusive, and three on the sixteenth day of September 
 of each year from nineteen hundred and eighteen to nineteen hundred 
 and thirty-two, both inclusive, is hereby authorized and declared valid. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 April 21, 1913. 
 
 TAUNTON MAY BORROW MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. 
 
 Chapter 512. 
 
 An Act to authorize the city of taunton to borrow money for 
 
 school purposes. 
 
 Section 1. The city of Taunton, for the purpose of constructing and 
 equipping, together with other expenses incident thereto, a schoolhousc 
 on Monroe street in that city, may issue from time to time notes or bonds 
 to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and the same 
 shall not be reckoned in determining the statutory limit of indebtedness 
 of the city. Such notes or bonds shall bear on their face the words,
 
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 Taunton School Loan, Act of 1913, shall be payable by such annual pay- 
 ments, beginning not more than one year after the date thereof, as will 
 extinguish each loan within twenty years from its date; and the amount 
 of such annual payment of any loan in any year shall not be less than the 
 amount of the principal of said loan payable in any subsequent year. 
 Each authorized issue of bonds or notes shall constitute a separate loan. 
 Said bonds or notes shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and 
 one half per cent per annum, payable semi-annually; and shall be signed 
 by the treasurer of the city and countersigned by the mayor and a ma- 
 jority of the municipal council. The city may sell the said securities at 
 public or private sale, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem 
 proper, but they shall not be sold for less than their par value, and the 
 proceeds shall be used only for the purpose herein specified. 
 
 Section 2. Said city shall, at the time of authorizing said loan or 
 loans, provide for the payment thereof in accordance with section one 
 of this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, a sum which 
 ■will be sufficient to pay the interest as it accrues on the bonds or notes 
 issued as aforesaid by the city, and to make such payments on the prin- 
 cipal as may be required under the provisions of this act, shall, without 
 further vote, be assessed by the assessors of the city annually thereafter, 
 in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until the debt 
 incurred by said loan or loans is extinguished. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 April 21, 1913. 
 
 CHELSEA SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
 
 Chapter 583. 
 
 An Act kelative to the park commissioners and the school com- 
 mittee OF THE CITY OF CHELSEA. 
 
 Section 2. Section sixty-six of Part II of said chapter six hundred 
 and eighty is hereby amended by striking out the words "pertaining 
 thereto", in the second line, and inserting in place thereof the words: — 
 used therein, — so as to read as follows: — Section 66. The manage- 
 ment and control of the public schools of the city and of the property 
 used therein shall be vested in the school committee, consisting of the 
 mayor, ex officio, and ten other members elected in accordance with the 
 provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 May 2, 1913.
 
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 WATERTOWN MAY BORROW MONEY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. 
 
 Chapter 588. 
 
 An Act to authorize the town of watertown to borrow money 
 
 for school purposes. 
 
 Section 1. The town of Watertown, for the purpose of constructing 
 and equipping a new schoolhouse and for purchasing or otherwise acquir- 
 ing a site and approaches for the same, to be located on the southerly side 
 of Charles river, may issue from time to time bonds or notes to an amount 
 not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 
 and the securities so issued shall not be reckoned in determining the 
 statutory limit of indebtedness of the town. Such bonds or notes shall 
 bear on their face the words, Watertown School Loan, Act of 1913, and 
 shall be payable by such annual payments, beginning not more than one 
 year after the date of each loan, as will extinguish each loan within twenty 
 years from its date; and the amount of such annual payment of any loan 
 in any year shall not be less than the amount of the principal of the loan 
 payable in any subsequent year. Each authorized issue of bonds or 
 notes shall constitute a separate loan. Said bonds or notes shall bear 
 interest at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum, 
 payable semi-annually; and shall be signed by the treasurer of the town, 
 and countersigned by a majority of the selectmen. The town may sell 
 the said bonds or notes at public or private sale, but they shall not be 
 sold for less than their par value, and the proceeds shall be used only for 
 the purposes specified in this act. 
 
 Section 2. Said town shall, at the time of authorizing said loan or 
 loans, provide for the payment thereof in accordance with the provisions 
 of section one of this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, 
 a sum which will be sufficient to pay the interest as it accrues on the bonds 
 or notes issued as aforesaid, 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 the town annually thereafter, in the 
 same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until the debt incurred 
 by said loan or loans is extinguished. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. {Approved 
 May 2, 1913.
 
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 BOSTON, APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS, NEW 
 SCHOOL BUILDINGS, ETC. 
 
 Chapter 615. 
 
 An Act relative to appropriations for the support of public 
 schools, for new school buildings and for repairs and altera- 
 tions of school buildings in the city of boston. 
 
 Section 1. Section one of chapter four hundred of the acts of the 
 year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by section one of 
 chapter four hundred and forty-eight of the acts of the year nineteen 
 hundred and one, by section one of chapter one hundred and seventj' of 
 the acts of the j r ear nineteen hundred and three, by section one of chapter 
 two hundred and five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six, 
 by section one of chapter three hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of 
 the year nineteen hundred and nine, and by section one of chapter seven 
 hundred and eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, 
 is hereby further amended by striking out the said section and inserting 
 in place thereof the following : — Section 1 . The school committee of 
 the city of Boston, in each year, by vote of four fifths of all its members, 
 taken by yeas and nays, may make an appropriation in one sum for con- 
 structing and furnishing new school buildings, including the taking of 
 land therefor, and for school yards, and the preparing of school yards 
 for use, and may also make an appropriation in one sum for repairs and 
 alterations of school buildings, and may make such other appropriations 
 by items for the support of the public schools as it deems necessary. The 
 total amount thus to be appropriated for the public schools of the city 
 and their support, in addition to the money which may be given therefor, 
 the income collected, the balance of appropriations of preceding years, 
 and the money which may be authorized by acts of the general court 
 passed prior to the year nineteen hundred and thirteen and not repealed, 
 shall not exceed the following sums for the periods specified, to wit : — 
 for the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of January, nineteen 
 hundred and fourteen, three dollars and ninety-five cents, for the finan- 
 cial year ending on the thirty-first day of Januarj^, nineteen hundred and 
 fifteen, and for each financial year thereafter, four dollars and five cents 
 upon each one thousand dollars of the valuation on which the appro- 
 priations of the city council are based; and the amounts which may so 
 be raised shall be appropriated by the school committee as aforesaid, and 
 shall be a part of and be met by taxes within the tax limit; and of said 
 amounts not more than thirty cents upon every such one thousand dol- 
 lars shall be appropriated solely for new school buildings, lands, yards 
 and furnishings as aforesaid, and not more than thirty-five cents upon 
 every such one thousand dollars shall be appropriated solely for repairs 
 and alterations of school buildings: provided, however, that if of said 
 amounts less than thirty cents upon every such one thousand dollars
 
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 shall be appropriated solely for new school buildings, hinds, yards and 
 furnishings as aforesaid, the balance remaining of such appropriation for 
 new school buildings, lands, yards and furnishings shall be certified by 
 the school committee to the mayor and shall be added to the amount 
 upon each one thousand dollars of the valuation on which the appropria- 
 tions of the city council are based and may be appropriated for other 
 than school purposes. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Apja 
 May 8, 1913. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
 
 Chapter Gis. 
 An Act relative to the Massachusetts college of pharmacy. 
 
 Section 1. Section one of chapter ninety-three of the acts of the 
 year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as amended by chapter twenty-five 
 of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, is hereby fur- 
 ther amended by striking out the words "by public lectures", in the 
 eleventh and twelfth lines, — and by striking out the word "twenty", 
 in the thirteenth line, and inserting in place thereof the words : — six 
 hundred, — so as to read as follows: — Section 1. Thomas Farrington, 
 Joseph Burnett, George S. Jones, and all such persons as are now members 
 of an association known as the "Massachusetts College of Pharmacy", 
 or shall hereafter become members of the same, are hereby constituted a 
 corporation and body politic in law and in fact, by the name of the " Massa- 
 chusetts College of Pharmacy", for the purpose of cultivating, improving, 
 and making known the principles of pharmacy, its collateral branches of 
 science, and the best modes of preparing medicines and their compounds, 
 and of giving instruction in the same; and may hold real and personal 
 estate to an amount not exceeding six hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 Section 2. The said chapter ninety-three of the acts of the year eight- 
 een hundred and fifty-two, as amended by chapter twenty-five of the acts 
 of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, by chapter fifteen of the 
 acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and by chapter sevent v- 
 seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby 
 further amended by striking out all after section one of the said act and 
 inserting in place thereof the following sections: — Section 2. The said 
 college may establish by-laws and rules for its government and regula- 
 tion, and for the preservation and application of the funds thereof, not 
 repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of the 
 commonwealth of Massachusetts, and shall have power to erect build- 
 ings for its use, and to constitute a faculty or learned body to consist of 
 such head or heads, and such number of professors in chemistry, phar- 
 macy, materia medica and the collateral sciences, as it may judge neces- 
 sary, and, whenever it shall see fit, to remove them or any of them, and 
 to appoint others in their stead; and to do all acts necessary or proper
 
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 for the establishment and maintenance of said college and faculty. 
 Section 3. There shall be a board of trustees of fifteen members, chosen 
 from the members of the college corporation and elected as follows: At 
 each annual meeting, there shall be elected by ballot three trustees, each 
 to serve for the term of five years, or until his successor is chosen; and 
 any vacancy occurring in the board of trustees shall be filled at the next 
 meeting of the college, or at a special meeting duly called for the purpose. 
 The board of trustees shall convene each year within the ten days follow- 
 ing the annual meeting of said college, and shall elect by ballot, from their 
 number, as officers of the college, a president, two vice presidents, a 
 secretary, a treasurer and an auditor, whose respective duties may be 
 assigned by the by-laws, and who shall hold their offices until their suc- 
 cessors are chosen. The president and secretary shall be, respectively, 
 chairman and secretary of the board of trustees. The said board shall 
 appoint such administrative officers, teachers, and other employees as 
 are necessary for the conduct of the college, and may make such rules 
 and regulations and do such other things for the support and government 
 of the college as they may deem proper, and shall perform such duties 
 as are, or may be, from time to time committed to them by said college; 
 but their acts shall be submitted to the college for revision at each stated 
 meeting of the college. Trustees and other officers holding office when 
 this act takes effect shall continue to hold their respective offices during 
 the period for which they were elected, and until their successors are 
 duly chosen in accordance with this act. Section J,. There shall be five 
 trustees of funds elected as follows : — At each annual meeting there shall 
 be elected by ballot from* the members of the college one trustee of funds 
 to serve for the term of five years, and until his successor is chosen. Any 
 vacancy occurring among the trustees of funds shall be filled at the next 
 stated meeting of the college or at a special meeting called for the pur- 
 pose. The trustees of funds, under the direction of the board of trustees, 
 shall have the care and investment of all the trust and other permanent 
 funds of the college. Section 5. The board of trustees shall have power 
 to confer degrees in pharmacy upon those persons who shall have satis- 
 fied the requirements for graduation adopted by the board and approved 
 by the college. Section 6. The college shall have the right to issue 
 scrip stock, execute bonds, mortgages, and conveyances, and to sell and 
 convey its property, whether personal or real estate, books, productions 
 of nature or art, by instruments under the seal of the college and signed 
 by its president, and in any way to dispose of its possessions so as to pro- 
 mote pharmaceutical education and the mutual advancement of its mem- 
 bers and the elevation of the art and business of the apothecary and 
 pharmacist in the community. Section 7. If the annual election of 
 officers of the college, members of the board of trustees or trustees of 
 funds shall not be held for any cause on the day fixed therefor, the said 
 corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but the officers and trustees 
 shall continue in office until a new election. Section 8. The annual
 
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 meeting of the corporation shall be held on the first Monday in June, but 
 the corporation may by by-law change the date of its annual meeting. 
 Section 9. The corporation hereby created shall have all the powers and 
 privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities con- 
 tained in all general laws now or hereafter in force relating to such cor- 
 porations, except as may otherwise be provided herein. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 May 8, 1913. 
 
 SOUTH HADLEY MAY INCUR INDEBTEDNESS FOR HIGH SCHOOL 
 BUILDING. 
 
 Chapter 732. 
 
 An Act to authorize the town of south hadley to incur indebted- 
 ness FOR A TOWN HALL AND HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. 
 
 Section 1. The town of South Hadley, for the purpose of construct- 
 ing and equipping a combined town hall and high school building may 
 issue from time to time bonds or notes of the town to an amount not 
 exceeding in the aggregate seventy thousand dollars, and twenty thou- 
 sand dollars of the securities so issued shall not be reckoned in determin- 
 ing the statutory limit of indebtedness of the town. Such bonds or notes 
 shall bear on their face the words, South Hadley Town Hall and High 
 School Loan, Act of 1913; Exempt from Taxation in Massachusetts, and 
 shall be payable by such annual payments, beginning not more than one 
 year after the date of each loan, as will extinguish each loan within twenty 
 years from its date. The amount of such annual payment of any loan 
 in any year shall not be less than the amount of the principal of such 
 loan payable in any subsequent year. Each authorized issue of bonds 
 or notes shall constitute a separate loan. Said bonds or notes shall bear 
 interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semi- 
 annually; and shall be signed by the treasurer of the town, and counter- 
 signed b}' a majority of the selectmen. The town may sell the said securi- 
 ties at public or private sale, but they shall not be sold for less than their 
 par value, and the proceeds shall be used only for the purposes specified 
 in this act. 
 
 Section 2. Said town shall, at time of authorizing said loan or loans, 
 provide for the payment thereof in accordance with the provisions of 
 section one of this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, 
 a sum which will be sufficient to pay the interest as it accrues on the bonds 
 or notes issued as aforesaid by the town, 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 the town annually 
 thereafter, in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until 
 the debt incurred by said loan or loans is extinguished. 
 
 Section 3. The vote passed by said town at a meeting held May 
 twelfth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to borrow a sum not exceeding
 
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 seventy thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a town hall and 
 high school building, is hereby ratified and confirmed. 
 
 Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 May 29, 1913. 
 
 BROCKTON MAY TAKE LAND FOR HIGH SCHOOL PURPOSES. 
 
 Chapter 740. 
 
 An Act to authorize the city of brockton to take land for high 
 
 school purposes. 
 
 Section 1. The city council of the city of Brockton, with the approval 
 of the mayor, may by a majority vote of each branch of the city council, 
 take in fee for the purpose of erecting a high school building thereon a 
 certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated in Brockton 
 and bounded as follows: on the north by land owned by the city of Brock- 
 ton and known as the high school lot; on the east by Warren avenue; on 
 the south by West Elm street; and on the west by Goddard road. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 June 4, 1913. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
 
 Chapter 804. 
 
 An Act relative to the school committee of the city of Cambridge. 
 
 Section 1. Section thirty-one of chapter three hundred and sixty- 
 four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended 
 by section two of chapter five hundred and sixty-six of the acts of the 
 year nineteen hundred and seven, and by section one of chapter three 
 hundred and sixty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 
 eight, and by section one of chapter three hundred and ninety-five of the 
 acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby further amended by 
 striking out the said section and inserting in place thereof the following: 
 — Section 31. The school committee and overseers of the poor shall 
 respectively perform all those duties which the school committee and over- 
 seers of the poor in towns are required by law to perform. The school 
 committee shall annually appropriate money for the maintenance of the 
 schools and school buildings and for the salaries of all teachers and other 
 employees including janitors of school buildings, employed by them: 
 provided, however, that the words "maintenance of school buildings" shall 
 not include the restoration of a school building when damaged or 
 destroyed by fire, explosion or other unavoidable casualty. The total 
 amount thus to be appropriated for the aforesaid purposes in addition 
 to the money which may be given therefor, the income collected, the 
 balance of appropriations of preceding years, and the money which may 
 be authorized by acts of the general court passed prior to the year nine-
 
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 teen hundred and thirteen and not repealed, shall not exceed the follow- 
 ing sums for the period specified: — For the financial year ending- on the 
 thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fourteen, five dollars 
 and twenty-five cents; for the financial year ending on the thirty-first 
 day of March nineteen hundred and fifteen, five dollars and fifty cents; 
 for the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen 
 hundred and sixteen, five dollars and seventy-five cents, and for each 
 financial year thereafter six dollars on each one thousand dollars of tax- 
 able property of the city, to be estimated by taking the average amount 
 of taxable property during the three preceding years. The school com- 
 mittee shall appoint a superintendent of schools and shall elect the teach- 
 ers of the public schools as provided by section thirty-two of chapter 
 forty-two of the Revised Laws. It shall approve the situation and plans 
 of all school buildings. It shall have entire charge of the buildings used 
 for school purposes and shall have authority to appoint and remove, under 
 the laws regulating the civil service, the janitors and other persons em- 
 ployed therein. It shall have entire control of the expenditure of moneys 
 devoted to the maintenance of schools. The overseers of the poor shall, 
 annually on the first Monday of May, meet and organize, and choose 
 such subordinate officers and agents as they may deem expedient, and 
 define their duties and fix their salaries; but no member of the board shall 
 be eligible to be chosen by the board to any position of emolument. 
 
 Section 2. The additional amounts authorized to be expended by 
 the provisions of this act shall be expended by the school committee for 
 the purpose of increasing the compensation of the teachers in the public 
 schools of the city. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall not be operative unless accepted by a 
 majority of the voters of the city of Cambridge voting thereon at the next 
 state election. [Approved June 14, 1913. 
 
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 PART IV. — ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION OF INTER- 
 EST IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. 
 
 ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
 
 Chapter 319. 
 
 An Act to provide for the encouragement of agriculture among 
 
 children and youths. 
 
 Section 1. A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may annually 
 be expended by the state board of agriculture in premiums or otherwise, 
 as the board shall determine, as rewards to children and youths under 
 eighteen years of age for the purpose of stimulating interest and activity 
 in agriculture. The board shall report annually to the legislature the 
 names of the recipients of premiums or other rewards given hereunder, 
 and the amount or value given to each. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 March 21, 1913. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALIENS. 
 
 Chapter 668. 
 
 An Act to authorize the appointment by the board of free public 
 library commissioners of a director of educational work for 
 
 ALIENS. 
 
 Section 1. The board of free public library commissioners may, with 
 the consent of the governor and council, appoint an agent or secretary to 
 direct educational work for the benefit of the alien population of the com- 
 monwealth, at a salary of such amount, not exceeding two thousand 
 dollars, as the governor and council may approve. The said agent may 
 at any time be removed from office by a majority vote of the board. In 
 case of a vacancy, temporary substitutes may be engaged on terms and 
 conditions approved by the governor and council. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 
 May 16, 1913.
 
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 COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND TO MAKE SPECIAL REPORT. 
 
 Chapter 97. 
 
 Resolve to provide for a report on the condition and educati 
 of persons with seriously defective vision. 
 
 Resolved, That the Massachusetts commission for the blind investigate 
 the condition of persons in this commonwealth with seriouslv defective 
 vision, who are not now provided for either by any school or by the 
 Massachusetts commission for the blind. The commission shall consider 
 how the condition of such persons may be improved by providing them 
 with instruction in a business and training institute for persons with 
 defective vision. The commission shall report to the general court the 
 result of -its investigation, with such recommendations for legislation, if 
 any, as it may deem expedient, on or before January tenth, in the year 
 nineteen hundred and fourteen. [Approved May 27, 1913.
 
 List of Subjects of Educational Legislation 
 
 of 1913. 
 
 Part I. Acts and Resolves conferring Powers and Duties on the 
 Board of Education: — 
 Collegiate courses in normal schools, report on, 
 American flag, manual for, ..... 
 Agriculture, order for a report relative to the teaching of, 
 Normal school sites, report on, 
 
 Board of Education, appointees and expenditures of, 
 City of Fitchburg and the State Normal School, 
 
 Part II. Acts of General Import to the Public Schools: — 
 Employment of public school teachers, 
 Nautical Training School, .... 
 
 Penalty for the possession of obscene prints, etc., 
 Annual returns of school statistics, . 
 Support of schools, definition of, . 
 Positions for school teachers, .... 
 
 Promotion of usefulness of school property, 
 Transportation of pupils to high schools, 
 Cases against children, ..... 
 
 Attendance of illiterate minors on evening schools, 
 Free meals for school children, 
 Certain political rights of school teachers, 
 Construction of buildings, .... 
 
 School attendance and employment of minors, 
 Continuation schools and courses of instruction for 
 Labor of minors, ...... 
 
 Retirement system for public school teachers, . 
 Election of school committees, 
 
 working children 
 
 Part III. Special Legislation relating to Specific Communities 
 
 and Institutions: — 
 Playgrounds in the city of Worcester, ..... 
 
 School committee of Beverly to appoint school physicians, 
 Independent agricultural school in Boston, .... 
 
 Holyoke to incur indebtedness for buildings, .... 
 
 High school of commerce in the city of Boston, 
 
 Brockton to incur indebtedness for school purposes, . 
 
 Boston school committee to establish free employment office for minors 
 
 Brockton to maintain dental clinic for school children, 
 
 Framingham, issue of certain school loan bonds, 
 
 Taunton may borrow money for school purposes, 
 
 Chelsea school committee, ....... 
 
 Watertown may borrow money for school purposes, . 
 
 Boston, appropriations for support of schools, new school buildings 
 
 and for repairs and alterations, ...... 
 
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 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, ...... 61 
 
 South Hadley may incur indebtedness for a high school building, . 63 
 
 Brockton may take land for high school purposes, .... 64 
 
 Cambridge school committee, ....... 64 
 
 Part IV. Additional Legislation of Interest in Public Education: — 
 
 Encouragement of agriculture, . . . . . . - . 66 
 
 Educational work for aliens, ........ 66 
 
 Commission for the Blind to make special report, .... 67
 
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