The General Court of the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one as sembled on Wednesday, the fifth day of January. The oaths of office were taken and subscribed by His Excellency CHANNING H. Cox and His Honor ALVAN T. FULLER, on Thursday, the sixth day of January, in the presence of the two Houses assembled in convention. ACTS. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CALLING OF CERTAIN TOWN Chap. 1 MEETINGS IN METHUEN. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Samuel Rushton, William L. Stedman and Henry Dean, elected selectmen of Methuen on March fifth, in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, are hereby authorized and empowered forthwith to notify, in the manner provided by law, a meeting of the inhabitants of Methuen, duly qualified to vote, for the purpose of voting whether or not to petition the general court to erect and constitute a city government in said Methuen. Provision for calling certain town meetings in Methuen. to vote, etc. SECTION 2. All inhabitants of Methuen whose names who entitled appear as qualified voters of said Methuen upon the latest voting lists prepared by John T. Douglas, Ansel L. Huckman, Henry H. Crompton and Edward J. Feeney, as registrars of voters of said Methuen, shall be entitled to vote at such meeting. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF MELROSE TO PENSION Chap. CARRIE M. WORTHEN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Melrose may SECTION 1. The city of Melrose may pay to Carrie M. City of Worthen, for about forty-eight years a librarian at the Mel- pension Carrie rose Public Library, a pension not exceeding fifty dollars M. Worthen. monthly. mitted to city SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance To be subby the city council of the said city, subject to the provisions council, etc. of its charter, provided that such acceptance occurs prior to Proviso. December thirty-first in the current year. Approved January 26, 1921. 2 Chap. City of Melrose may pension John Dragon. To be submitted to city council, etc. Proviso. Chap. City of Taunton may discontinue part of Caswell burial ground. Proviso. To be sub mitted to city council, etc. Proviso. Chap. 3 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF MELROSE TO PENSION JOHN DRAGON. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Melrose may pay to John Dragon, for about twenty-five years employed by it as a laborer and now incapacitated, a pension not exceeding one half of the average annual compensation paid him as laborer during the two years next prior to his retirement. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city council of the said city, subject to the provisions of its charter, provided that such acceptance occurs prior to December thirty-first in the current year. Approved January 26, 1921. 4 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF TAUNTON TO DISCONTINUE A PART OF THE CASWELL BURIAL GROUND. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Taunton may discontinue for use as a burial ground such part of the Caswell lot, so-called, owned by it and lying on the southerly side of Middleboro avenue in said city, as is not now occupied by graves or lots, and may use for school purposes the said part so discontinued, provided, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the use of said lot contrary to any restrictions thereon without the consent of the heirs or legal representatives of Cyrus Caswell and Julia Fairbanks, under whose deeds the city holds title to the said land. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the city council of the said city, subject to the provisions of its charter, provided that such acceptance occurs prior to December thirty-first in the current year. Approved January 26, 1921. 5 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TOWN OF WINTHROP AND TO THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN THEREIN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter four hundred and twenty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty is hereby amended by striking out the word "male", wherever it appears in said chapter. amended. number of voting precincts. amended. Town meeting election, etc. SECTION 2. Section one of said chapter four hundred and 1920, 427, § 1, twenty-seven is hereby amended by striking out, in the sixth Maximum line, the word "one", and inserting in place thereof the voters in word: - three. SECTION 3. Section two of said chapter four hundred 1920, 427, § 2, and twenty-seven is hereby amended by striking out, in the fifth line, the word "six", and inserting in place thereof the members, words: the largest number which is divisible by three and which will not exceed three, by striking out, in the fourteenth line, the word "two", and inserting in place thereof the words: — the largest number which will not exceed one, -and by inserting after the word "precincts", the first time it occurs in the nineteenth line the following sentence: -The number of town meeting members to be elected in any year from each precinct shall be based on the number of registered voters in the precinct as of the first day of January prior to the annual town election. amended. SECTION 4. Section three of said chapter four hundred 1920, 427, § 3, and twenty-seven is hereby amended by striking out, in the Town meeting twentieth line, the word "own", and inserting in place thereof town. members to be judges of election, etc., of their members. and 1920, 427, § 5, amended. the word:SECTION 5. Section five of said chapter four hundred twenty-seven is hereby amended by striking out, in the Warrant fourth and fifth lines, the words "granting licenses for the articles, how sale of intoxicating liquors". acted upon, etc. amended. meeting memings to fill bers of meet SECTION 6. Section seven of said chapter four hundred 1920, 427, § 7, and twenty-seven is hereby amended by striking out, in the Notice to town eleventh line, the word "four", and inserting in place thereof the word: seven, and by striking out, in the last line, vacancies, etc. the word "five", and inserting in place thereof the word: — three. amended. izing expendi SECTION 7. Section eight of said chapter four hundred 1920, 427, § 8, and twenty-seven is hereby amended by striking out, in the Votes authorsecond line, the words "making an appropriation", and in- tures, when serting in place thereof the words: authorizing an ex- operative. penditure, by striking out, in the third line, the words "specific purpose", and inserting in place thereof the words: - special appropriation, -and by striking out, in the Referendum. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap. 1857, 2, § 5, etc., amended. Appointment of assistant assessors in city of New Bedford. 6 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL ASSESSORS IN THE CITY OF NEW BEDFORD. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Section five of chapter two of the acts of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, as amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-four of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby further amended by striking out at the beginning of the last paragraph, the words "During the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, the board of assessors of the city of New Bedford shall appoint six suitable persons, for the term of one year, one from each ward, to be assistant assessors; and annually thereafter twelve suitable persons, two from each ward", and inserting in place thereof the following: During the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one and annually thereafter as many suitable persons as the board of assessors may deem necessary, so that the said paragraph will read as follows:- During the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one and annually thereafter as many suitable persons as the board of assessors may deem necessary, residents of the city of New Bedford shall be appointed assistant assessors by said board for such term as the board may determine. The said assistants shall furnish the assessors with such information as they may require relative to the persons and property taxable in the city of Compensation, New Bedford. They shall receive for their services such compensation per diem as the city council may determine. In making the said appointments named herein, the board of assessors shall not be subject to the provisions of the civil service laws and regulations. etc. To be sub mitted to city council, etc. Proviso. Chap. City of Lynn SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by vote of the city council of the said city subject to the provisions of its charter, provided that such acceptance occurs prior to December thirty-first in the current year. Approved January 29, 1921. 7 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF LYNN TO PENSION CHARLES O. BAIRD. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The school committee of the city of Lynn may pay to Charles O. Baird, who has reached the age of seventy-two years, after completing a service of not less than |