Acts, 1927.
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49
58, 59.
An Act relative
to the observance of Spanish war
MEMORIAL DAY AND MAINE MEMORIAL DAY.
Be
enacted,
it
Chapter
etc.,
as follows:
six of the
General Laws
is
hereby amended by
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inserting after section fourteen the following new section:
Section I4A.
The governor shall annually set apart February fifteenth, the anniversary of the sinking of the United
States battleship "Maine" in the harbor of Havana, Cuba,
as Spanish War Memorial Day and Maine Memorial Day,
proclamation recommending that the day
and shall issue his ^
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,
the display 01 the nag and by
be observed by the people
appropriate exercises in the public schools and elsewhere,
commemorative of the services and sacrifices of the men
,
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1
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who fought
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in the
An Act relative
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section after
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Memorial Day
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proclamation.
Spanish-American War.
Approved February 21, 1927.
to the duties of probation officers
IN connection with investigations by the
department
Chap. 59
of mental diseases as to the mental condition of
certain persons held for trial.
Be
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
Section 1. Section one hundred A of chapter one hundred and twenty-three of the General Laws, inserted by
chapter four hundred and fifteen of the acts of nineteen
hundred and twenty-one, as amended by chapter three
hundred and thirty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-three and by chapter one hundred and sixty-nine of
the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five, is hereby
further amended by inserting after the word "responsibility"
G. l.
123,
irnended!"'
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Whenever the probation
such court has in his possession or whenever the
inquiry which he is required to make by section eighty-five
of chapter two hundred and seventy-six discloses facts
in the twelfth line the following:
officer of
if known to the clerk would require notice as aforesuch probation officer shall forthwith communicate the
same to the clerk who shall thereupon give such notice unless
already given,
so as to read as follows:
Section 100 A. investigation
Whenever a person is indicted by a grand jury for a capital ofmental dfsoffense or whenever a person, who is known to have been conditio™of *^'
indicted for any other offense more than once or to have ?®^^i° persons
been previously convicted of a felony, is indicted by a grand
jury or bound over for trial in the superior court, the clerk
of the court in which the indictment is returned, or the
clerk of the district court or the trial justice, as the case
may be, shall give notice to the department of mental
diseases, and the department shall cause such person to be
examined with a view to determine his mental condition
and the existence of any mental disease or defect which
would affect his criminal responsibility. Whenever the Probation
probation officer of such court has in his possession or certain^^facts"
which
said,
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to clerk, etc.
Acts, 1927.
50
Filing of report
with clerk of
court, etc.
Failure of
notice to de-
partment,
etc.
Certification
of notice.
F'ees, etc., of
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60, 61.
whenever the inquiry which he is required to make by section
eighty-five of chapter two hundred and seventy-six discloses
facts which if known to the clerk would require notice as
aforesaid, such probation officer shall forthwith communicate
the same to the clerk who shall thereupon give such notice
unless already given.
The department shall file a report of
its investigation with the clerk of the court in which the
trial is to be held, and the report shall be accessible to the
court, the district attorney and to the attorney for the
accused.
In the event of failure by the clerk of a district
court or the trial justice to give notice to the department
as aforesaid, the same shall be given by the clerk of the
superior court after entry of the case in said court.
Upon
giving the notice required by this section the clerk of a
court or the trial justice shall so certify on the papers.
physician
The physician making such examination
making exam-
tification
shall,
by the department, receive the same
upon
cer-
fees
and
ination.
traveling expenses as provided in section seventy-three for
the examination of persons committed to institutions and
such fees and expenses shall be paid in the same manner as
provided in section seventy-four for the payment of comPenalty for
mitment expenses. Any clerk of court or trial justice who
neglect of duty
wilfully neglects to perform any duty imposed upon him by
by clerk of
court, etc.
this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than
fifty dollars.
Effective date.
Section 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of
July in the current year. Approved February 21, 1927.
Chap. 60 An Act prohibiting until the year nineteen hundred
AND twenty-eight THE TAKING OF DEER IN THE COUNTY
OF ESSEX.
Be
1925, 106,
amended.
Taking,
etc.,
of deer in Esses
county prohibited until
year 192S.
Penalty.
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
Chapter one hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-five is hereby amended by striking out, in
the fifth line, the word "twenty-seven" and inserting in
twenty-eight,
so as to read as
place thereof the word:
Whoever, except as otherwise provided in secfollows:
tions sixty-two, eighty-two or eighty-three of chapter one
hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws, before the
beginning of the open season on deer throughout the commonwealth in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight,
hunts, pursues, wounds or kills a deer in Essex county, or
sells or offers for sale, or has in possession, a deer or any part
thereof, captured or killed in said county, shall be punished
by a fine of one hundred dollars.
Approved February 21, 1927.
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Chap. 61 An Act authorizing gordon college of theology and
MISSIONS OF BOSTON TO GRANT ADDITIONAL DEGREES.
Be
^o^^MCoiiege
and Missions
of
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
of Theology and Missions of Boston is
hereby authorized to grant additional degrees earned in
Gordon College