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Acts, 1931.
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289.
is a proper subject for said school, and all provisions
of said section shall apply to such certificate, except that the
physician's examination of the alleged feeble minded person
shall have occurred within ten days of the signing and making
oath to the certificate, which shall bear date not more than
twenty days prior to the commitment of such person. The
order of commitment shall also direct the sheriff, deputy
sheriff, constable, police officer, or other person to apprehend
and convey the said person to the school to which he has
been committed. Such order shall be void if such person
shall not be received at the school named therein within sixty
days after the date of such order. Unless the person sought
to be committed is present at the time of the hearing, or
the application is made by some one legally entitled to his
custody, notice of the apphcation and of the time and place
of hearing shall be given to the person sought to be committed, and the order of commitment shall state what notice
was given or the finding of facts which made notice unnecessary, and shall authorize custody of the person until
he shall be discharged by order of a court or otherwise in
accordance with law.
Section 2. Section seventy of said chapter one hundred
and twenty-three is hereby amended by inserting at the
beginning thereof the words
Except as provided in section sixty-six,
so as to read as follows:
Section 70.
Except as provided in section sixty-six, an order of commitment of a person to an institution shall be void if such
person shall not be received at the institution within thirty
days after the date of such order.
person
Order void,
when.
G. L.
123, § 70,
amended.
Commitment,
order void,
when.
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Approved
May
5,
19S1.
Chap. 2^^ An Act relative to the marking of containers used
FOR THE SALE OF VINEGAR OTHER THAN UNDILUTED CIDER
VINEGAR.
Be
G. L. 94, §
amended.
it
enacted,
etc.,
as follows:
of the General Laws is hereby amended
striking out section one hundred and sixty-five and inMarking of
serting in place thereof the following:
Section 165.
No
containers used
manufacturer or producer of, or wholesale dealer in, vinegar
for the sale
of vinegar.
shall, by himself or by his servant or agent, use a cask, barrel
or other container for the sale, offering for sale, exchange or
delivery of vinegar, or have such vinegar in possession in
any cask, barrel or other container with intent to sell, offer
for sale, exchange or deliver such vinegar therein, unless
the container is plainly marked with the name and place of
business of such manufacturer, producer or wholesale dealer,
the kind of vinegar contained therein and the substances
from which it is made and unless the following additional
requirements as to the marking and labelling of the container
are complied with
If the vinegar is cider vinegar diluted
to legal strength, the container shall be distinctly and con165,
Chapter ninety-four
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290, 291.
spicuously labelled, "Diluted to Legal Strength" or by other
Each compound, mixture
like words indicating such fact.
or blend of vinegar shall be marked with the word ''compound" or "mixture", together with a statement of its
constituents and the percentage of each constituent.
The
principal label, including the word "compound" or "mixture", if used on vinegar in wooden packages, shall be in
Roman letters not less than one inch high, properly spaced
and in straight parallel lines with no more than two inches
The marking of vinegar in
of space between each line.
other containers than wooden packages shall be governed
by
vsections
one hundred and eighty-six and one hundred and
eighty-seven.
Violation of any provision of this section shall
Penalty.
be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. Not applicable
This section shall not apply to undiluted cider vinegar.
dder vi'negar.
Approved
An Act
Be
it
May
6,
1931.
relative to pensions payable by domestic
surance COMPANIES.
enacted,
etc.,
in-
Chap.290
as follows:
Chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General ^^de'd' ^ ^^'
Laws is hereby amended by striking out section thirty-six
and inserting in place thereof the following
Section 36. Pensions to
Any domestic company, when authorized so to do by a vote domestic insurance companies.
in each case of not less than a majority of its directors, at a
meeting called for the purpose, recorded in the minutes of
the board, may grant a pension to any employee who has
been continuously in the service of the company for ten
years and who has become incapacitated for further service
by reason of physical or mental disability resulting from
sickness or injury, and may grant a pension to any employee
retiring by reason of the infirmities of age who has been
continuously in the service of the company for not less than
:
—
No
such pension shall exceed three fourths
employee for three years preand any such pension shall be
discontinued when any such pensioner substantially recovers
his earning capacity.
Any such company, with the written approval of the
commissioner, may also establish an employees' savings
fund or contributory pension system for the benefit of its
aged or disabled employees, to which fund or system the
employees shall contribute an amount not less than the
amount contributed by the company.
fifteen years.
of the average salary of the
ceding the date of retirement,
Approved
An Act
May
6,
Employees'
or^contributory
fe,"®'ertlb-'
iishment.
1931.
relative to the sale of deer, moose, caribou or QJiav 291
ELK LAWFULLY TAKEN OUTSIDE OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the g.l. i3i, new
General Laws, as appearing in section two of chapter three afterTi29.