priation therefor, an amount equal to that so turned over to the said treasurer.

ing prisoners to

SECTION 3. The cost of removing the prisoners in the Cost of remov state prison, from Concord to Boston, and the cost of all be paid from other transportation involved in the removal of the said state treasury. prison, shall be paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth.

ages caused by

SECTION 4. Said commissioners may expend for the Repair of damrepair of damages caused by the fire which occurred in fre. one of the prison buildings at Boston on the seventeenth day of May of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four,

ance.

a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars. Said com- Clerical assistmissioners may also expend for additional clerical assistance during the current year, a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. The secretary of said com- Additional commissioners shall receive for additional service required Becretary. from him under said chapter two hundred and fifty-five, such sum, not exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars, as said commissioners shall fix.

pensation for

SECTION 5. Section fourteen of said chapter two hun- Amendment to dred and fifty-five is hereby amended by striking out, in 1884, 255, § 14 the first line thereof, the words "with the same consent," and by inserting after the word "necessary" in the fourth line of said section, the words "with the same consent SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved June 4, 1884.

AN ACT IN FURTHER ADDITION TO AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIA- Chap.332

TIONS FOR EXPENSES AUTHORIZED THE PRESENT YEAR, AND FOR

OTHER PURPOSES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appro- Appropriations. priated, 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 for other purposes, to wit:

tants of Gay

For certain inhabitants of the towns of Gay Head and Certain inhabi Chilmark, two thousand four hundred dollars, as author- Head and Chilized by chapter forty-one of the resolves of the present year.

mark.

in the late war.

For completing the list of Massachusetts officers, sailors List of the navy and marines who served in the navy in the late civil war, one thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter forty-five of the resolves of the present year, the same to be in addition

Report of trustees of agricultural college.

Hillside Agricultural Society.

Report of board of control of experimental station.

Alice S. Holbrook.

Agricultural college.

Normal school at Worcester.

Census.

Judge of probate and insol

shire county.

to five hundred dollars appropriated by chapter thirty-two of the acts of the present year.

For printing additional copies of the report of the trustees of the agricultural college, a sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty dollars, as authorized by chapter fortysix of the resolves of the present year.

For the Hillside agricultural society, two hundred dol lars, as authorized by chapter forty-seven of the resolves of the present year.

For printing the report of the board of control of the Massachusetts agricultural experimental station, a sum not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five dollars, as authorized by chapter forty-eight of the resolves of the present year.

For Alice S. Holbrook, seventy-two dollars, as authorized by chapter forty-nine of the resolves of the present

year.

For the Massachusetts agricultural college, a sum not exceeding thirty-six thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter fifty of the resolves of the present year.

For the state normal school at Worcester, one thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter fifty-one of the resolves of the present year.

For expenses in connection with preparing for taking the decennial census, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter one hundred and eightyone of the acts of the present year.

For the salary of the judge of probate and insolvency vency for Berk for the county of Berkshire, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety cents, as authorized by chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the acts of the present year, the same to be in addition to the one thousand two hundred dollars appropriated by chapter six of the acts of the present year.

Register of probate, etc., for Berkshire county.

Contagious dis

eases among cattle.

For the salary of the register of probate and insolvency for the county of Berkshire, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety cents, as authorized by chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the acts of the present year, the same to be in addition to the one thousand two hundred dollars appropriated by chapter six of the acts of the present year.

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of chapter two hundred and thirty-two of the acts of the present

year, entitled "An Act concerning contagious diseases among cattle," a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars.

state work

For the construction of additional buildings at the state Buildings at workhouse at Bridgewater, a sum not exceeding fifty house. thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter fifty-four of the resolves of the present year.

bate, etc., for

For the salary of the register of probate and insolvency Register of profor the county of Hampden, one hundred and thirty-three county of dollars and thirty-four cents, the same to be in addition to Hampden. the sixteen hundred dollars appropriated by chapter six of the acts of the present year.

changed.

For the publication of a list of persons whose names List of names have been changed in this Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, as authorized by chapter two hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the present year.

buildings.

For alterations and repairs in the old state prison build- Repairs in old ings at Boston, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand state prison dollars; for the prison and hospital loan sinking fund, sixty thousand dollars; for assistance to prisoners dis- Assistance to charged from the Massachusetts reformatory, a sum not prisoners. exceeding one thousand dollars; and for the removal of Removal of prisoners to and from the Massachusetts reformatory, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, all of the foregoing being authorized by chapter two hundred and fiftyfive of the acts of the present year.

prisoners.

reformatory.

for prison at

Concord appli

cable to prison at Boston.

For salaries and expenses at the Massachusetts refor- Massachusetts matory, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars. The appropriation made by chapter fifty of the acts of Appropriation the present year for the payment of salaries and expenses at the state prison at Concord, is hereby made applicable for the payment of salaries and expenses at the state prison at Boston, whenever the prison is removed to Boston as provided for in chapter two hundred and fifty-five of the acts of the present year.

man in boarding

water normal

For the support of normal schools, a sum not exceeding Night watchfive hundred dollars, to be paid out of the moiety of the house at Bridgeincome of the school fund applicable for educational pur- school. poses, said sum being for the purpose of employing a night watchman in the boarding house at the Bridgewater normal school, being in addition to the sixty-two thousand and thirty-four dollars appropriated by chapter twenty-one of the acts of the present year.

For authorized expenses of committees of the present Expenses of

committees.

Dwelling. houses, etc., at state prison at Concord.

Connecticut
River.

Cape Cod ship canal, engineers and commissioners.

Report of secretary of board of agriculture.

Commission on drainage of val. River, etc.

legislature, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, in addition to the ten thousand dollars appropriated by chapters two and two hundred and forty of the acts of the present year.

For the completion of dwelling houses and the disposal of sewage at the state prison at Concord, a sum not exceeding thirty-eight hundred dollars, as authorized by chapter fiftyseven of the resolves of the present year.

For the conservation of the Connecticut river, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter fifty-eight of the resolves of the present year.

For compensation and expenses of engineers and commissioners, to be appointed by the governor, as provided for in sections seven and twelve of chapter two hundred and seventy-four of the acts of the present year, being an act entitled" An Act in relation to the Cape Cod ship canal company," a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

For printing extra copies of the report of the secretary of the board of agriculture, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, as authorized by chapter sixty-two of the resolves of the present year.

For compensation and expenses of a commission to leys of Mystic consider a general system of drainage for the valleys of the Mystic, Charles and Blackstone rivers, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter sixty-three of the resolves of the present year.

Adulteration of food and drugs.

Books for the registration of voters.

Ballot-boxes.

Agents ap.

pointed by

lunacy aud

To carry out the provisions of the act relating to the adulteration of food and drugs, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, as authorized by chapter two hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of the present year, to be in addition to the five thousand dollars appropriated by chapter nine of the acts of the present year.

For blank books for the registration of voters, as provided for in section twenty-two of chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the purpose of providing cities and towns with ballot-boxes, as provided for in section ten of chapter two hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars.

For salaries and expenses of agents appointed by the board of health board of health, lunacy and charity, under the authority of chapter two hundred and fifty-eight of the acts of the present year, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars.

charity.

in-door and out

From the appropriation made the present year for Departments of salaries and expenses of the departments of in-door and door poor. out-door poor there may be used such sum as may be necessary to pay the salary of the auditor and clerk of the board of health, lunacy and charity.

For the support and transportation of outside foundlings, Foundlings. a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, in addition to the ten thousand dollars appropriated by chapter nine of the acts of the present year.

special committee of the

senate.

For expenses of the special committee of the senate, Expenses of appointed to inquire into any attempt to improperly influence the action of senators upon the bill relative to the formation of water gas companies, to include stenographic reporting and fees of witnesses, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

messengers and

For compensation of the doorkeepers, messengers and Doorkeepers, pages of the present legislature, a sum not exceeding two pages. thousand dollars, in addition to the twenty thousand dollars appropriated by chapters two and two hundred and forty of the acts of the present year.

For Mary Going of Boston, two hundred and forty- Mary Going. eight dollars and fifty cents, as authorized by chapter sixty-eight of the resolves of the present year.

normal school

For providing for fire escapes at the state normal school Fire escapes at at Bridgewater, a sum not exceeding eight hundred dol- at Bridgewater. lars, as authorized by chapter sixty-nine of the resolves

of the present year.

To provide for a topographical survey and map of the Map and survey Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, of the state. as authorized by chapter seventy-two of the resolves of

the present year.

For the widow of the late Lewis Gaul, four hundred Lewis Gaul. and eighty-one dollars, as authorized by chapter seventythree of the resolves of the present year.

Finan.

For the brothers of the late James William Finan, three Janes William hundred and twelve doliars, as authorized by chapter eighty of the resolves of the present year.

erative Bank.

For the Campello Coöperative Bank, two hundred and six Campello Coöpdollars and twenty-nine cents, as authorized by chapter seventy-seven of the resolves of the present year.

To carry out the provisions of the act to improve the Civil service.

civil service of the Commonwealth and the cities thereof,

a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, as authorized