Acts, 1911.
Section
2.
— Chaps.
All provisions of
153
203, 204.
law inconsistent herewith
Repeal.
are hereby repealed.
Section
3.
This act
shall
take effect upon
its
passage.
Approved March 25, 1911.
An Act
relative to the expense of maintaining and
OPERATING A CERTAIN BRIDGE ACROSS THE POWOW RIVER
IN THE TOWN OF AMESBURY.
Be
it
enacted,
etc.,
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203
as fuUows:
Section 1. The expense of maintaining and operating Maintenance
the Powow bridge, so-called, across the Powow river in fionofthe
the town of Amesbury, shall, in the first instance, be paid bridge e'tJ^'^
out of the treasury of the county of Essex. The county
commissioners of the county of Essex shall have full control
of said bridge and shall annually in the month of November
submit to the town of Amesbury a true statement of the
expense of its maintenance and operation; and within thirty
days thereafter the said town shall pay into the treasury
of the county of Essex sixty per cent of said expense, and
if the town shall refuse or neglect to pay its proportion as
required aforesaid the said commissioners shall, after a
notice to the town, issue a warrant for its proportion, determined as aforesaid, with interest and the costs of the notice
and warrant, and the same shall be collected and paid into
the treasury of said county, to be applied in payment of
the expense aforesaid.
Section 2. Any street railway company having a loca- Proportion
'°
tion on said bridge shall annually pay into the treasury of bepa^'by
the county of Essex, toward keeping said bridge in repair, c^Jj^*^* nf ^''^
a portion of the total excise and franchise taxes payable by
such corporation, equivalent to the proportion of its mileage located upon said bridge to its total mileage, determined
according to law.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1911.
An Act
Be
it
to provide for the appointment of inspectors
OF crude petroleum and its products.
enacted,
etc.,
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204
as follows:
Section 1. The mayor and aldermen of a city, the
selectmen of a town of more than fifteen hundred inhabit-
inspectors
petroleum, etc
Acts, 1911.
154
— Chap.
205.
ants and, upon the written application of five or more
citizens of a town of less than fifteen hundred inhabitants,
the selectmen thereof, shall annually appoint and fix the
compensation of one or more inspectors of petroleum who,
before entering upon their official duties, shall be sworn
and who shall not be interested in the sale of crude petroleum or in the sale or manufacture of petroleum or earth
rock
oil
or in
any
The compensation of
be paid by persons who require their
of their products.
said inspectors shall
under the provisions of the following section.
SECTION 2. No pcrson shall sell or keep for sale, at
services
und'approvai.
illuminating purposes any kerosene,
any product of petroleum, unless it
has been inspected and approved by an inspector authorized
in this commonwealth.
Section 3. Cities and towns may adopt ordinances, bylaws and regulations, not inconsistent with law, relative to
wholesale or
retail, for
refined petroleum or
b/tawyi'etc.
Repeal.
the inspection of the oils named in the preceding section
which have not been inspected and approved by an insj)ector.
SECTION 4, So inucli of any act as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed.
Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1911.
Chap.20^ An Act relative to the kinds of business which may
BE DONE BY INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Be
Vsl'etl^,'
amended.
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
Section thirty-four of chapter five hundred
scvcuty-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred
g^j^^l
and seven, as amended by chapter eighty-one of the acts
of the year nineteen hundred and eight, and by chapter four
hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of the year nineteen
hundred and nine, and by chapter four hundred and ninetynine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten, is
hereby further amended by inserting after clause "//", a
new clause to be lettered clause i, as follows:
The kinds
i.
of business specified in the sixth clause of section thirtytwo, and also insurance against the sickness and the bodily
injury or the death by accident of the insured, if })erniitted
to transact either kind, and if it has a ])aid-uj) capital of
not less than two hundred thousand dollars.
Section 2. This act shall take efi'ect upon its passage.
Section
1.
—
Approved March JS, 1911,