Acts and resolves passed by the General Court

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1887.
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129.
An Act making appropriations for expenses authorized the
PRESENT YEAR, AND FOR CEKTAIN OTHER EXPENSES AUTHORIZED
BY LAW.
Be
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as follows
The sums
hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes
specified in certain acts and resolves of the present year
and to meet certain other expenses authorized by law, to
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Appropriations.
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salary of the third clerk in the department of ™rdcierkof
the SGcrGtiirv of
the secretary of the Commonwealth, the sum of two hun- thecommon^'^'^
dred dollars, as authorized by chapter twenty-six of the
acts of the present year, being in addition to the thirteen
hundred dollars appropriated by chapter one of the acts
of the preii^ent year.
For the salar}' of the second clerk in the department of fhe auditor'^ °^
the auditor of the Commonwealth, the sum of two hundred dollars, as authorized by chapter thirty of the acts
of the present year, being in addition to the fifteen hundred dollars appropriated by chapter one of the acts of
the present year.
Register of proFor clerical assistance to the reirister of probate and bate,
etc., for
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imsolvency tor the county ot VV orcester, a sum not ex- Worcester.
ceeding eight hundred dollars, as authorized by chapter
thirty-nine of the acts of the present year.
For the salary of the judge of probate and insolvency judge of pro^""^
for the county of Norfolk, the sum of five hundred Norfolk!''
dollars, as authorized by chapter seventy-two of the acts
of the present j^ear, being in addition to the two thousand dollars appropriated by chapter four of the acts of
the present year.
For the salary of the executive clerk of the governor Executive clerk.
and council, the sum of two hundred dollars, as authorized
by chapter eighty-three of the acts of the present year,
being in addition to the fifteen hundred dolhirs appropriated by chapter one of the acts of the present year.
For the expenses of the auditor of the Commonwealth, Auditor's expenses concern/• ^1
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to enable hun to carry out the provisions of the act con- ing keeping cer^'*"' ^''•^°""'*cerning the keeping of accounts in sundry stsite institu-
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not exceeding two thousand five hundred
dollars, as authorized by chapter eighty-seven of the acts
of the present year.
tions, a
686
1887.
District attorney for western
district.
State normal art
scbool building.
Desks in reporters' gallery.
Law books for
st^te library.
Eye and ear
infirmary.
Oeorge H. Cannon.
Josiah Robinson.
Thomas
J. Can-
non.
Benjamin
— Chapter
For the salary of the
129.
western
district, the sum of three hundred dollars, as authorized
by chapter ninety-seven of the acts of the present year,
being in addition to the eighteen hundred dollars appropriated by chapter four of the acts of the present year.
For furnishing the state normal art school building, a
sum not exceeding live thousand dollars, as authorized by
chapter two of the resolves of the present year.
For providing desks in the reporters' gallery of the
house of representatives, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, as authorized by chapter three of the resolves of the present year.
For the purchase of law books for the state library, a
sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, as authorized by
chapter live of the resolves of the present year.
For the Massachusetts charitable eye and ear infirmary,
the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, as authorized by
chapter six of the resolves of the present year.
For George H. Cannon, the sum of twenty-four dollars
and fifty cents for Thomas J. Cannon, thirty-eight dollars
for Josiah Robinson, forty-one
and seventy-five cents
for Benjamin F. Ro])inson,
dollars and twenty-five cents
for John Gillespie,
dollars
and
fifty
cents;
seventeen
for Farnham Gillespie, twenty-nine
forty-one dollars
and for Francis Jenkins,
dollars and sixty-five cents
eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents, as authorized by
chapter nine of the resolves of the present year.
For Charles O. Newell of Boston, the sum of ninety- two
dollars, as authorized by chapter ten of the resolves of the
district attorney for the
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F. liobinson.
John Gillespie.
Farnham Gillespie.
Francis
Jenkins.
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Charles O.
Newell.
present year.
James Burke.
For James Burke, the sum of one hundred dollars, as
authorized by chapter eleven of the resolves of the present
vear.
Ellen Madigan.
For Ellen Madigan, the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars, as authorized by chapter twelve of the resolves of
the present year.
Annie J. Welch.
Soldiers'
Home
in Massachusetts.
Attorney-general.
Welch, the sum of one hundred dollars,
as authorized by chapter thirteen of the resolves of the
For Annie
J.
present year.
For the trustees of the soldiers' home in Massachusetts,
as authorized by chapter fourteen of the resolves of the
present year, the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses of the attorney-general's department, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, being in
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addition to the thirteen hundred and seventy-five dollars
appropriated by chapter nine of the acts of the present
year.
For publishing reports of capital trials, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, being in addition to the
fifteen hundred dollars appropriated by chapter two hundred and eighty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
For providing for the protection of the Commonwealth
from Asiatic cholera, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars, to be expended under the direction of the state
board of health, whenever the governor and council shall
be satisfied that Asiatic cholera exists within the limits of
Commonwealth.
For authorized expenses of committees of the present
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Expenses of
committees.
include clerical assistance to committees
authorized to employ the same, a sum not exceeding eight
thousand dollars, being in addition to the five thousand
dollars appropriated by chapter two of the acts of the
present year.
For small items of expenditure, for which no appropri- e^eQdit"4°^
ations have been made, or for which appropriations have
been exhausted or have reverted to the treasury in previous 3^ears, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
for
For expenses in connection with awardino^ the contract Contract
'1 state printing.
for state printing, as authorized by chapter sixteen ot the
resolves of the present year, a sum not exceeding three
legislature, to
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hundred dollars.
For editing the registration report, under the direction of the secretary of the Commonwealth, a
exceeding five hundred dollars.
Section
sum
not
Editing regis"*"°° '^p°"-
This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 29, 1887.
2.
An Act to incorforate the American mutual
liability in- (7Aa/;.130
SURANCE COMPANY.
Be
it
enacted,
etc.
,
as follows
William C. Lovering, C. H. Dalton,
Section I.
William Whitman, L. M. Sargent, Francis Cabot, George
Atkiubon, Robert H. Stevenson, William H. Bent, John C.
Sharp, John E. Sanford, Philip L. Moeu, Thomas L.
Livermore, Arthur T. Lyman, S. A. Williams, Edmund
Grinnell, John S. Brayton, A. S. Covel, Thomas J. Borden, Theophilus Parsons, T. S. Edmunds, Eugene H.
American mu.
i"«u™?c^i'com.
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