CHAPTER 643. AN ACT TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE UNITED STATES IN It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The governor is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the state the rules and regulations prepared by the commissioner of agriculture under and in pursuance of section 3 of an act of congress approved May 29, 1884, entitled "An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals,' and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the provisions of said act. SEC. 2. The inspectors of the bureau of animal industry of the United States, in co-operation with the state board of health, shall have the right of inspection, quarantine and condemnation of animals affected with any contagious, infectious or communicable disease, or suspected to be so affected, or that have been exposed to any such disease, and for these purposes are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any ground or premises. Said inspectors in co-operation with the state board of health shall have the power to call on sheriffs, constables and peace officers to assist them in the discharge of their duties in carrying out the provisions of the act of congress approved May 29, 1884, establishing the bureau of animal industry; and it is hereby made the duty of sheriffs, constables and peace officers to assist said inspectors when so requested; and said inspectors shall have the same powers and protection as peace officers while engaged in the discharge of their duties. SEC. 3. All expenses of quarantine, condemnation of animals exposed to disease, and the expenses of any and all measures that may be used to suppress and extirpate pleuro-pneumonia shall be paid by the United States, and in no case shall this state be liable for any damages or expenses of any kind under the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 644. 1887. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 56 OF THE PUBLIC Passed May 6, It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Section 5 of chapter 56 of the Public Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 5. In case the school committee shall fix upon a location for a school-house in any town or district, or shall determine that the school-house lot ought to be enlarged, and the town or district shall have passed a vote to erect a school-house, or to enlarge the school house lot, and the committee shall fix upon a location for a school-house, and the proprietor of the land shall refuse to convey the same, or cannot agree with the town or district for the price thereof, the school committee of their own motion, or on application of the town or district, may appoint three disinterested persons, who shall notify the parties and decide upon the valuation of the land; and upon the tender or payment of the sum so fixed on, to the proprietor, the title to the land so fixed on by the school committee, not exceeding one acre, shall vest in the town or district for the purpose of maintaining thereon a schoolhouse and the necessary appendages thereof.' SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Passed May 6, 1887. Appropriation for state census. CHAPTER 645. AN ACT MAKING AN ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of chapter 63 of the Public Statutes, "Of the state census," and the provisions of this act; and the state auditor is directed to draw his orders on the general treasurer, from time to time, for the expenses incurred by the census board upon the certificate of the superintendent of the census. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Passed May 6, 1887. Of false registration of cattle, etc. CHAPTER 646. AN ACT TO PUNISH FALSE PRETENCES IN OBTAINING REG- It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Every person who by any false pretence shall obtain from any club, association, society or company for improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine or other domestic animals, the registration of any animal in the herd register or other register of any such club, association, society or company, or who knowingly shall obtain a transfer of any such registration, and every person who shall knowingly give a false pedigree of any animal, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprison ment. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 647. 1887. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE ELECTION OF CERTAIN TOWN Passed May 6, It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Annual election of town officers in Scituate. SECTION 1. The electors of the town of Scituate on the third Wednesday in May annually shall vote for moderator, town clerk, a town council to consist of seven members, town treasurer, town sergeant, five justices of the peace, and seven assessors of taxes. The names of all the officers whose election is provided for in this section, voted for by any one elector shall be placed upon one ballot, and the polls shall be kept open from ten o'clock in the forenoon until three o'clock in the afternoon, when the ballots shall be counted by the moderator and town clerk, and if it shall appear that there is no election of such officers, or any one or more of them, then such town meeting shall stand adjourned to the following Saturday, without no- Adjourned tice, when said electors shall vote as hereinbefore provided for officers to fill vacancies caused by such failure to elect, and if upon that day there shall be no election of such officers, or any one or more of them, the officer or officers, excepting justices of the peace, then holding the office or offices for which there is no election shall hold the same until the next annual town meeting for the election of town officers and until his successor is elected and qualified. SEC. 2. The town council of said town at its first meeting held after its election, shall annually elect all town officers whose election is not provided for by section 1 of this act, except surveyors of highways, who shall be elected by the electors of said town on the first Wednesday in April in each year. SEC. 3. The electors of said town qualified to vote upon any proposition to impose a tax, or for the expenditure of money in said town, shall annually on the third Wednesday in May assemble in town meeting at ten o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of hearing official reports, ordering a tax, making appropriations and transacting any other business relating to the meeting. Election of officers by town council. Annual meeting tions, etc. for appropria Of voting on the acceptance of this act. finances of said town, but nothing herein contained shall prevent the making of appropriations for highways at the annual meeting of said town on the first Wednes day in April. SEC. 4. The town clerk of said town shall, in a warrant to be by him issued at least three days before the third Wednesday in May, 1887, notify and warn the electors of said town to meet at the usual voting place in said town on the day last aforesaid, there to cast their ballots for or against the acceptance of this act. The said electors shall on the day last aforesaid deposit their ballots for or against the acceptance of this act. The polls shall be opened at ten o'clock in the forenoon and kept open until four o'clock in the afternoon. The ballots so cast shall be counted in the manner hereinbefore provided for the counting of the ballots cast at the annual town meeting. If a majority of the ballots cast are against the acceptance of this act then this act shall not take effect, but if a majority of the ballots cast are in favor of the acceptance of this act, then this act shall forthwith go into effect. The moderator and clerk of said town shall within three days thereof certify to the secretary of state the result of the vote upon the acceptance of this act. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Passed May 6, 1887. District meet ings in Warwick 10 A. M., until CHAPTER 648. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AND IN ADDITION TO CHAP- It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. All district meetings held under the to be open from provisions of the act to which this act is in addition shall be opened at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and shall be kept open till five o'clock in the afternoon, and no longer. 6 P. M. |