yellow, with white trimmings, to conform as nearly as Resolve PROVIDING FOR THE CARE OF ROOMS OF THE VARIOUS Chap. 89 DEPARTMENTS AFTER THEIR REMOVAL TO THE STATE HOUSE EX TENSION. state house Resolved, The commissioners on the state house are Care of rooms in hereby directed to cause the removal of the several boards, extension. commissions and other officials of the Commonwealth, to the rooms which may be assigned to them in the state house extension, as soon as such rooms shall be ready for occupancy, and the state house construction commission shall not be held responsible for the care of such portion of the state house extension as shall be so occupied. The commissioners on the state house shall have the charge of the various rooms in the state house extension which may be occupied under the provisions of this resolve, and of the halls adjacent thereto, and may employ messengers, watchmen and such other assistants as may be necessary for the proper care and protection thereof. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this resolve a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be expended. Approved June 16, 1894. RESOLVE RELATIVE TO INCREASING THE MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FUND. Chap. 90 school fund. Resolved, That there shall be paid into the Massachu- Massachusetts setts school fund, out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars annually, until the principal of said fund shall amount to the sum of five million dollars. Approved June 16, 1894. RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR BUILDING A STOREHOUSE AT THE STATE Chap. 91 PRISON. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Storehouse at treasury of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding five state prison. thousand dollars, to be expended at the state prison at Boston under the direction of the commissioners of prisons, for the construction of a storehouse, which shall front on Austin street and extend along the line of the Boston and Maine railroad. Approved June 20, 1894. Chap. 92 RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR THE ERECTION OF TABLETS OR MONU Tablets or monuments on battlefield of Antietam. Chap. 93 George G. MENTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF ANTIETAM. Resolved, That whenever the United States shall have acquired, by purchase or otherwise, the land where occurred the battle of Antietam in the state of Maryland, on the seventeenth of September in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, as proposed by the national commission, and the governor and council are fully satisfied of that fact, suitable tablets or monuments shall be erected to mark the positions occupied by Massachusetts troops during that battle, on the said field. The tablets or monuments shall be prepared and suitably placed by a commission to be composed of the following persons:- Samuel Dalton, Charles E. Davis, Jr., George L. Andrews, John W. Kimball, Augustus P. Martin, Dennis Linehan and Albert A. Pope, who shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses actually incurred. The design for the tablets or monuments shall be submitted to and approved by the governor and council, who shall approve all bills incurred before they are sent to the auditor for payment. The total expenditure under this resolve shall not exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars. Approved June 20, 1894. RESOLVE IN FAVOR OF GEORGE G. SPEAR. Whereas, George G. Spear, second clerk and deputy secretary of the Commonwealth, an employee in the office of the secretary for more than eighteen years, is now afflicted with a disease with which he was stricken while in the performance of his duties, and which compels him. to resign his office; therefore, Resolved, That in recognition of his long and faithful service there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth to the said George G. Spear, a sum equal to the amount of salary to which said Spear would have been entitled had he continued to perform service as second clerk as aforesaid to the end of the current year. Approved June 20, 1894. Chap. 94 RESOLVE FOR PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTING THE MASSACHUSETTS Distribution of military and naval history. MILITARY AND NAVAL HISTORY. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding seven -- thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the Commonwealth for publishing the Massachusetts military and naval history, prepared by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, State Military and Naval Historian, under authority of chapter three hundred and seventy-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Said history shall be published in two volumes, and there shall be printed sixteen hundred copies thereof, to be distributed as follows: To each member and officer of the general court of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two copies; the messengers of the general court and those other employees in the several state departments who served in the war of the rebellion, one copy; to each press reporter regularly assigned to a seat in either branch, one copy; to the governor, lieutenant governor and each member of the executive council of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the secretary, treasurer, auditor and attorney-general of the Commonwealth, the private secretary of the governor and the executive stenographer, one copy; to the adjutant general, one copy; to each post of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Commonwealth, one copy; to each free public library, one copy; to each city and town in which there is no free public library, one copy; to the state library, twenty copies; to the state military and naval historian, twenty copies; to such historical societies in the Commonwealth as may be designated by the secretary of the Commonwealth, one copy each; to each state and territory of the United States, one copy; the remaining copies to be held by the secretary of the Commonwealth subject to future calls or to be sold at a price not less than cost. Approved June 21, 1894. RESOLVE RELATIVE ΤΟ THE COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS SPEAKERS. OF Chap. 95 Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Portraits of treasury of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding five speakers. hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the speaker of the house of representatives, for reframing the portraits of former speakers, belonging to the collection of the Commonwealth, for providing frames for new portraits, for marking the frames with names and dates, for enlarging photographs to secure uniformity of size, Chap. 96 Mary L. Brown. and for obtaining photographs of some early paintings to RESOLVE IN FAVOR OF MARY L. BROWN. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, to Mary L. Brown of Peabody, the sum of twelve hundred dollars, in full compensation for property belonging to her, consisting of a house, barn and part of their contents, destroyed by fire on the thirtieth day of April of the present year, said fire having been caused by agents of the Commonwealth employed in exterminating the gypsy moth. Approved June 22, 1894. Chap. 97 RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR AN INVESTIGATION BY THE BOARD OF Working of meters of electric light companies. Chap. 98 Samuel E. GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMISSIONERS OF THE WORKING OF Resolved, That the board of gas and electric light commissioners be requested to investigate the workings of the meters now in use by the various electric light companies, and report their findings to the next general court. Approved June 22, 1894. RESOLVE IN FAVOR OF SAMUEL E. CHAMBERLAIN. Whereas, In the month of December in the year eighteen hundred and eighty there was allowed and paid to Samuel E. Chamberlain, who was at that time warden of the state prison, the sum of sixteen hundred fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents for lunches furnished to state officials; and thereafter the auditor of the Commonwealth decided that a part of said sum was improperly allowed, on the ground that the board of commissioners of prisons, established on the third day of May in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, could not approve bills for that portion of the expenditure incurred prior to that date, and said Chamberlain repaid said sum into the treasury of the Commonwealth; and on the thirtieth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one the sum of five hundred dollars was allowed and paid to said Chamberlain for that portion of said expenditure made between the third day of May in the year eighteen hundred and seventynine, the date of the establishment of the board of commissioners of prisons, and the thirtieth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and the remainder of said sum now remains due and unpaid; therefore, be it Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth to Samuel E. Chamberlain the sum of eleven hundred fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents, for expenses incurred by him while warden of the state prison for refreshments furnished to state officials and committees of the legislature from the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three to the third day of May in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Approved June 22, 1894. RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR THE PURCHASE OF LIVE STOCK AND THE Chap. 99 school for girls. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Industrial treasury of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, to be expended at the state industrial school for girls, at Lancaster, under the direction of the trustees and superintendent thereof, for the following purposes: For repairing and remodeling the stock barn, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars; for the purchase of live stock, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars. Approved June 22, 1894. RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT TO MARK Chap.100 THE SITE OF THE FIRST TOWN MEETING HELD IN AMERICA, AND meeting and first Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Site of first town treasury of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding fifteen free public thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of school. the governor and council in procuring a suitable monument or monuments to mark the site of the first town meeting held in America, and of the first free public school supported by general taxation. The design of such monument or monuments, if erected in the city of Boston, shall be submitted to the art commission for the city of Boston for their approval. And no action shall be taken toward the erection of any monument, under this |