Acts and resolves passed by the General Court

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1883.
— Chapter
581
272.
An Act to apportion and
FIVE
£e
it
enacted,
etc.,
assess a state tax of one million
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
as follows:
city and town iu this Commonwealth
•iUl'l
and pay the several sums witn which
they stand respectively charged in the following schedule,
Section
Each
1.
is
to say
:
1
-I
shall be assessed,
that
....
Barnstable,
Twenty-seven hundred and seventy
Brewster,
Nine hundred and seventy-five dol
five dollars,
.
675 00
lars,
Eastham,
.
Two
fifteen dollars
hundred and ten
dollars,
Three thousand and sixty
Falmouth,
dollars,
Harwich,
.
Nine hundred and
Mashpee,
.
Ninety dollars,
.
Five hundred and ten dollars,
Orleans,
fifteen dollars.
....
Seventeen hundred and twenty-five
Sandwich,
Fifteen hundred and ninety dollars
Truro,
Two
dollai's,
Yarmouth,
.
1,215 00
210 00
3,060 00
915 GO
90 00
Provlncetown,
Wellfleet,
$2,775 00
Six hundred and seventy-five dol
Twelve hundred and
Dennis,
Barnstable
County.
975 00
lars
Chatham,
hundred and forty
dollars.
Eight hundred and ten dollars.
Thirteen hundred and
510 00
1,725 00
1,590 00
240 00
810 00
thirty-five
dollars,
1,335 00
,125 00
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Adams,
state tax of
$1,500,000.
—
BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
.
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Z
582
1883.
— Chapter
272.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY — Concluded.
Berkshire
County.
Dalton,
Thirteen hundred and sixty-five
.
M,365 00
dolhirs,
Egremont,
Three hundred and seventy-five
Florida,
One hundred and
dollars,
.
;575
135 00
lars,
Great Barrington,
Twenty-four hundred and
Hancock,
Three hundred and sixty
Hinsdale,
Six
thirty
2,430 00
dollars,
dollars,
....
hundred
dollars,
and
Five hundred and ten dollars.
Lee,
Seventeen hundred and twenty
675 00
510 00
1,725 00
five dollars,
.
....
....
Twelve hundred and
lars,
360 00
seventy-five
Lanesborough,
Lenox,
00
thirty-five dol-
fifteen dol
1,215 00
Monterey,
Two
Mount Washington
Sixty dollars,
New
Ashford,
Seventy-five dollars,
.
75 00
New
Marlborough
Six hundred dollars,
.
600 00
hundred
dollars,
North Adams,
and twenty-five
....
Forty-two hundred
dollars,
225 00
60 00
and
thirty
4,230 00
Otis,
Two hundred
Peru,
One hundred and twenty
Pittsfield,
Seventy-three hundred and five
Richmond,
Four hundred and
five dollars,
Sandisfield,
Three hundred and
forty-five dol-
and ten
210 00
dollars.
dollars.
7,305 00
dollars,
.
lai-s,
Savoy,
.
One hundred and
eighty dollars.
Sheffield,
Eight hundred and seventy dol-
Stockbridge,
Twentj'-two hundred and ninety-
Tyringhara,
Two
Washington,
One hundred and eighty
West Stockbridge
Six hundred and seventy-five dol-
Williamstown,
Fourteen hundred and ten dol-
Windsor,
One hundred and
....
hundred and ten
345 00
180 00
2,295 00
.
210 00
dollars.
180 00
dollars,
675 00
lars,
1,410 00
lars,
lars,
405 00
870 00
lars,
five dollars,
120 00
ninety-five dol-
195 00
32,475 00
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1883.
— Chapter
583
272.
bristol county.
Acushuet,
.
Attleborough,
Five hundred and seventy dollars,
Forty-six
.
....
and
hundred
dollars,
Berkley,
Bristol County.
sixty-five
Three hundred and ninety dollars
.
Dai'tmonth,
Nineteen hundred and
Dighton,
Six hundred and ninety dollars.
,
Thirty-three
Easton,
dollars,
five dollars
....
....
hundred and ninety
Fairhaven,
Thirteen hundred and ninet3"-five
Fall River,
Thirty-six thousand and thirty dol-
dollars,
lars,
Freetown,
Seven hundred and
.
fifty
dollars,
Mansfield,
Ten hundred and
New Bedford,
Twenty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars,
Norton,
Seven hundred and
thirty-five dollars
.
thirty-five dol-
lars,
.
Eight hundred and seventy dollars
Rehoboth,
.
Six hundred and sixty dollars,
Seekonk,
.
Six hundred dollars,
Somerset,
.
Ten hundred and
Swanzey,
.
Six hundred and ninety dollars,
Taunton,
.
Westport,
.
Ra3'nham,
thirty-five dollars
Fourteen thousand two
and thirty-five dollars.
Twelve hundred and
$570 00
hundred
fifteen dollars
DUKES COUNTY.
4,665
390
584
1883.
— Chapter
272.
essex county.
Essex County.
Amesbury,
Fourteen hundred and ten dollars,
.
$1,410 00
Andover,
Forty-one hundred and forty dollars,
4,140 00
Beverly,
Eighty-three hundred and
fifty-five
8,355 00
dollars,
Boxford,
Five hundred and
fifty-five dollars,
555 00
Bradford,
Eleven hundred and seventy dollars,
1,170 00
Danvers,
Thirty-two hundred and ten dollars,
3,210 00
Essex,
Eight hundred and twenty-five dol-
Georgetown,
Nine hundred
Gloucester,
Eighty-three hundred and seventy
Groveland,
Seven hundred and eighty
Hamilton,
Five hundred and
Haverhill,
Ten thousand one hundred and
Ipswich,
seventy dollars,
Seventeen hundred and eighty-five
...
lars,
dollars,
dollars,
00
780 00
fifty-five dollars,
655 00
....
10,170 00
dollars,
8,.370
1,785 00
dollars,
Lynnfield,
Twenty-two thousand five hundred
and seventy-five dollars,
Twenty-one thousand five hundred
and ten dollars,
Four hundred and eighty dollars,
Manchester,
Three thousand and ninety
Marblehead,
Thirty-four hundred and
Lawrence,
.
.
....
Lynn,
.
dollars,
fifty
Merrimac,
.
Ten hundred and
Methuen,
.
Twenty-three hundred and seventy
thirty-five dollars,
21,510 00
480 00
3,090 00
3,450 00
1,035 00
2,370 00
dollars,
Middleton,
Four hundred and
Nahant,
Five
Newbury,
seventy-five dollars,
Eight hundred and eighty-five dol-
fifty dollars,
thousand one hundred
.
.
5,175 00
885 00
lars,
Newburyport,
Seven thousand and eighty
North Andover,
Twenty-two hundred and
dollars,
7,080 00
five dol-
lars,
Peabody,
.
Six thousand and thirty dollars,
Rockport,
.
Seventeen hundred and eighty-five
.
2,205 00
6,030 00
1,785 00
dollars,
Four hundred and eighty
450 00
and
.
.
Rowley,
22,575 00
dol-
lars,
.
825 00
900 00
dollars,
,
480 00
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1883.
— Chapter
585
272.
ESSEX COUNTY — Concluded.
Twenty-two
thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars,
Nineteen hundred and thirty-five
Salem,
Salisbury,
Essex County.
.
dollars,
1.935
Saugus,
Eleven hundred and seventy dollars.
Swampscott,
Thirty-two hundretl and ten dollars,
Topsfield,
.
Six hundred and sixty dollars,
Wenham,
.
Four hundred and
West Newbury,
sixty-five dollars,
Nine hundred and ninety
dollars,
.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Ashfield,
Four hundred and
Bernardston,
Three hundred and ninety dollars
Buckland,
Four hundred and eighty
.
five dollars,
dollars.
Chai'lemont,
Three hundred
Colrain,
Five hundred and seventy dollars.
Conway,
Six hundred and forty-five dollars
Deerfield,
.
Two
Erving,
Three
.
.
....
....
....
and
twenty-five
hundred and eighty-five dol
lars,
Gill,
dollars,
Eleven hundred
dollars,
hundred
dollars,
and seventy-five
Greenfield,
Twenty-seven hundred and ninety
Hawley,
One hundred and
fifty dollars,
Healh,
One hundred and
sixty-five dollars
dollars,
Leverett,
.
Two
hundred and forty
dollars.
Ley den,
One hundred and eighty dollai-s.
Monroe,
Thirty dollars.
Montague,
Twenty-four
dollars,
New
Salem,
Two
....
hundred
and
thirty
hundi-ed and eighty-five dol
lars,
Northfield,
$22,995 00
Six hundred and fifteen dollars.
586
1883.
Orange,
Rowe,
County.
272.
FRANKLIN COUNTY — Concluded.
Franklin
County.
Hampden
— Chapter
1883.
— Chapter
58"
272.
HAMPDEX COUNTY — Concluded.
Tolland,
.
West
.
Springfield,
Fifty-four
hundred
thirty dollars,
.
$165 00
330 00
5,400 00
dollars,
Twenty-seven hundred and ninety
dollars,
Wilbraham,
Couuty.
sixty-five dollars.
Three hundred and
Wales,
Westfield,
One hundred and
Hampden
.
.
.
.
Six hundred and thirty dollars,
.
2,790 00
630 00
36,555 00
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Amherst,
.
Belchertown,
588
Hampshire
1883.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY — Concluded.
<'ouiity.
Westhampton,
Mifidlesfx
County.
— Chapter 272.
.
.
1883.
— Chapter
272.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY — Continued.
Lexington,
589
Middlesex
County.
590
1883.
— Chapter
272.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY — Concluded.
Middlesex
County.
Weston,
Eighteen hundred and sixty dol-
Wilmington,
Four hundred and ninety-five
Winchester,
Thirty-three hundred dollars.
3,3U0 00
Woburn,
Seventy-two hundred dollars,
7,200 00
lars,
lars,
......
$1,860 00
dol49.5
00
144,575 00
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
Nantucket
County.
Nantucket,
Twenty-two hundred and
ninety-
$2,295 00
five dollars,
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Norfolk
County.
$510 00
Bellingham
Five hundred and ten dollars,
Braintree,
Twenty-seven hundred and ninety
Brookline,
Canton,
Twenty-three thousand four hun
dred and forty-five dollars,
Twenty-eight hundred and thirty
Cohasset,
Twenty-seven hundred and
dollars,
....
....
....
....
....
.....
....
2,790 00
.
five dollars,
dollars,
Dedham,
Forty-eight
dollars,
hundred
Dover,
Four hundred and
Foxborough
Thirteen hundred
and
fifteen
ninety
five dollars.
anil
tliirty-five
dollars,.
Franklin,
Sixteen hundred and thirty-five dol
Hoi brook,
Twelve hundred and
lars,
dollars,
Hyde Park,
Four thousand and
seventy-five
sixty-five
dol
lars,
Medfield,
Ten hundred and twenty
Medway,
Fourteen hundred and eighty-five
Milton,
Ninety-eight hundred and eighty'
Needham,
Fifteen hundred aud fifteen dollars.
Norfolk,
Three hundred and
dollars,
five dollars,
dollai-s.
....
.
.
forty-five dol-
lars,
Norwood,
Sixteen hundred and sixty-five dollars,
1883.
— Chapter
272.
NORFOLK COUNTY — Concluded.
Qnincy,
591
592
1883.
— Chapter
272.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY— Concluded
Plymouth
County.
Pembroke,
.
Six hundred dollars.
Plymouth,
.
Forty-two hundred and
lars,
$600 00
.....
fifteen dol
4,215 00
Plympton,
.
Two
hundred and seventy
dollars,
270 00
Rochester,
.
Four hundred and twenty
dollars,
420 00
Rockland,
.
Two
thousand and ten dollars.
Scituate,
Eleven hundred and seventy dol-
South Abington,
Nineteen hundred and
South Scituate,
One thousand and
lars,
Wareham,
W.
.
.
Bridgewater,
fifty dollars.
five dollars
Ten hundred and eighty
2,010 00
1,170 00
1,950 00
1,005 00
dollars.
1,080 00
Eight hundred and forty dollars.
810 00
$41,925 00
SUFFOLK COUNTY.
Suftolk County.
Boston,
1883.— Chapter
wo
272.
593
594
1883.
— Chapter
272.
WORCESTER COUNTY — Concluded.
WorecstHCtiuiity.
Phillipston,
.
1883.
— Chapter
595
272.
recapitulation.
Rocnpitulation
by counties.
Bristol County,
Sixteen thousand one hundi'ed
and twenty-five dollars,
Thirty-two thousand lour hundred and seventy-fiYe dollars,
Ninety-six thousand six hundred
Dukes County,
and thirty dollars,
Twenty-seven hundred and thirty
Essex County,
One hundred and
Barnstable County,
.
Berkshire County,
.
.
152,250 00
thousand two hundred
.
Fifteen
.
and twenty-five dollars,
Sixty-six thousand five hundred
Hampshire County,
Twenty-two thousand nine hun-
Middlesex County,
Two
.
Hampden
County,
and
15,225 00
66,555 00
fitty-five dollars,
22,920 00
dred and twenty dollars,
.
96,630 00
fifty-two thouhundred and tifty dol-
lars,
Franklin County,
32,475 00
2,730 00
dollars
sand two
$16,125 00
hundred and fnrty-four
thousand five hundred and
244,575 00
seventy-five dollars,
Nantucket County,
Two
ninety-five dollars,
Eio:hty-four thousand four hun-
2,295 GO
Norfolk County,
dred and fitly d(jllars,
Forty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars,
Five hundred and ninety-six
thousand and forty dollars.
84,450 00
thousand two hundred and
.
Plymouth County,
.
.
Suffolk County,
.
Worcester County,
41,925 00
596,040 CO
One hundred
and twenty-five
thousand eight hundred and
five dollars,
....
125,805 00
$1,500,000 00
Section 2. The trrasuier of the Commonwealth shall
forthwith send his warrant, directed to the selectmen or
assessors of each city or town taxed as aforesaid, requiring them respectively to assess the sum so charged,
according to the provisions of chapter eleven of the Public
Statutes, and to add the amount of such tax to the amount
of town and county taxes to be assessed by them respectively on each city
Section
3.
The
Treasurer of
the
Common-
wealth to issue
warrants.
and town.
treasurer of the
Commonwealth
in his
warrant shall require the said selectmen or assessors to
pay, or to issue severally their warrant or warrants requiring the treasurers of their several cities or towms to
pay, to the treasui-er of the Commonwealth, on or before
the tenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred
To
require
selectmen or
assessors to
issue warrants
to city or town
treasurers.
596
1883.
— Chapter
273.
and eighty-three, the sums set against said cities and
towns in the schedule aforesaid and the selectmen or
;
To
notify the
de'itnque'iftcitiea
and town.
assessors respectively shall return a certificate of the
names of the treasurers of their several cities and towns
with the sura which each may be required to collect, to
the treasurer of the Commonwealth at some time before
the first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-three.
Skction 4. If the amouut due from any city or town,
as providcd iu this act, is not paid to the treasurer of the
Commonwealth within the time specified, then the said
treasurer shall notify the treasurer of such delinquent city
or town, who shall pay into the treasury of the CommonAvealth, in addition to the tax, such further sum as would
be equal to one per centum per month during such delinquency, from and after the tenth day of December in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-three and if the same
remains unpaid after the first day of January in the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, an information may be
filed by the treasurer of the Commonwealth in the supreme
judicial court or before any justice thereof against such
delinquent city or town and upon notice to such city or
town and a summary hearing thereon, a warrant of distress may issue against such city or town, to enforce the
payment of said taxes under such penalties as said court
or the justice thereof before whom the hearing is had shall
order.
Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
;
Warrant of
distress may
issue to enforce
payment.
;
Approved July 20, 1883.
Ck(ip.273 An Act authorizing the town of leominster
WATER BONDS.
Be
May renew
water bonds.
it
enacted,
etc.,
to
renew
its
as foUoios:
The town of Leominster
is hereby authorized to renew
any of the bonds heretofore issued by virtue of section
four of chapter two hundred and forty-nine of the acts of
2^^'ovided,
the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one
that in no event shall the time for the payment of the
same or any part thereof l)e extended beyond the period
of thirty years from the fifth day of May in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
:
Approved July 20, 1883.