Acts and resolves passed by the General Court

Acts, 1907.
An Act
Be
it
— Chaps.
139
182, 183, 181.
to authorize the city of quincy to incur in- (7^^r).182
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DEBTEDNESS FOR WATER SUPPLY PURPOSES.
enacted,
etc.,
as foUoivs:
Section 1. The city of Quincy, for the purpose of extending its water mains, fixtures, works and service, may
from time to time issue bonds, notes or scrip, to be denominated on the face thereof, Quincy Public Water Supply
Loan, Act of 1907, to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, outside the limit of indebtedness
fixed by law for that city and in addition to the amounts
heretofore authorized by law to be issued by the city for
the same purposes.
Such bonds, notes or scrip shall be
Quincy Public
Loan.'^AciPof^
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upon the terms and conditions and with the force
chapter four hundred and one of the
of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, except
issued
and
effect sj^ecified in
acts
that they shall not bear a rate of interest in excess of four
per cent per annum.
Section
2.
This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 8, 1907.
An Act
to authorize the state board of health to de- nif^jj. iqq
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FINE WHAT DISEASES ARE TO BE DEEMED DANGEROUS TO THE
PUBLIC HEALTH.
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Be
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
Section 1. The state board of health is hereby authorized and directed to define what diseases shall be deemed
to be " dangerous to the public health ", as the term is used
in chapter two hundred and thirteen of the acts of the year
nineteen hundred and two.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March S, 1907.
An Act
to authorize the city of new Bedford to incur
indebtedness for the construction of sewers, beyond
the limit fixed by law.
Be
it
enacted,
etc.,
The
state
to define dls-
dtnlerouf to
p"^''*' health.
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as follows:
city of Xew Bedford, for the purpose New Bedford
of constructing sewers and for the purpose of sewage dis- AcTof 190";
posal, may incur indebtedness to an amount not exceeding
Section
1.
The
two hundred and
fifty
thousand
dollars,
and
may
issue
Acts, 1907.
140
— Chap.
185.
bonds, notes or scrip therefor, to be denominated on the
face thereof, Xew Bedford Sewer Loan, Act of 1907.
Such bonds, notes or scrip shall be signed bj the treasurer
of the city and countersigned by the mayor.
They shall
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be j)ayable at the expiration of not more than thirty years
from the dates of issue, shall bear interest at a rate not
exceeding four per cent per annum, and shall not be
reckoned in determining the statutory limit of indebtedness of the city. The city may sell such securities at public or private sale or pledge the same for money borrowed
for the purposes aforesaid, uix)n such terms and conditions
as it may deem proper provided, that they shall not be
sold or pledged for less than their par value.
Section 2. The city at the time of authorizing said
loan shall provide for the payment thereof in such annual
proportionate payments as will extinguish the same within
the time prescribed in this act and when such provision
has been made the amount required thereby shall without
:
Payment
of
loan.
;
further vote annually be assessed by the assessors of the
city, in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed,
until the said debt is extinguished.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March
12, 1907.
city of new bedfokd to incur
INDEBTEDNESS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.
CAap.185 Ax Act to authorize the
Be
The
New
may
city of
Bedford
incur
additional in-
debtedness for
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
city of New Bedford, for the purpose
Section
of constructing and furnishing three new school buildings
.^^-^d f gp purchasing the necessary land therefor, and for the
purpose of erecting an addition to the school building at
Lund's Corner, may incur indebtedness beyond the limit
1.
fixed
by law
to
The
an amount not exceeding two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds, notes or
Such bonds, notes or scrip shall be payable
scrip therefor.
within such jDeriods, not exceeding twenty years from the
dates of issue, and shall bear such rate of interest, not exceeding four per cent per annum, payable semi-annually,
Except as otherwise
as the city council shall determine.
provided herein the provisions of chapter twenty-seven of
the Eevised Laws shall, so far as they may be applicable,
apply to the indebtedness hereby authorized and to the
securities issued therefor.