2. The City Clerk shall issue the license, and receive and pay the money therefor into the city treasury, retaining to his own use ten cents for each license; and the City Treasurer shall keep a separate account of all monies so received.

3. The City Clerk shall annually, within one week after the first day of May, post in some public place a list of all dogs licensed for the current year, and furnish a list of the same to the Chief of Police, and also a list of such dogs as shall be subsequently licensed during the year.

4. Whoever keeps a dog not so licensed shall forfeit ten dollars, to be recovered by complaint, to the use of the city.

5. Whoever wrongfully removes the collar from, or steals a dog so licensed, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars; and whoever wrongfully kills, maims, or carries away such dog, is liable to the owner for its value, in an action of tort.

6. Dogs going at large, not licensed or collared, may be destroyed; and the Mayor and Aldermen shall require all dogs not so licensed and collared to be destroyed. Any person injured by any dog may recover of the owner thereof double the amount of damage sustained, in an action of tort.

7. The City Council may make such additional by-laws and regulations, for the licensing and restraining of dogs, as they may deem expedient, and affix penalties, [not exceeding ten dollars, for any breach thereof.

BEEF CATTLE.

CHAPTER XLIX.

The Mayor and Aldermen and Selectmen of each city and town where beef cattle are sold for the purpose of market or barrelling, shall appoint one or more persons conveniently situated in such city or town, and not dealers in cattle, to be weighers of beef; who shall be sworn.

PAUPERS.

CHAPTER LXIX.

SECTION 1. Legal settlements may be acquired in any city or town, so as to oblige such place to relieve and support the persons acquiring the same, in case they are poor and stand in need of relief, in the manner following, and not otherwise, namely:

First. A married woman shall follow and have the settlement of her husband, if he has any within the state; otherwise her own at the time of marriage, if she then had any, shall not be lost or suspended by the marriage.

Second. Legitimate children shall follow and have the settlement of their father, if he has any within the state, until they gain a settlement of their own; but if he has none, they shall in like manner follow and have the settlement of their mother, if she has any.

Third. Illegitimate children shall follow and have the settlement of their mother at the time of their birth,if she then has any within the state; but neither legitimate nor illegitimate children shall gain a settlement by birth in the place where they may be born, if neither of their parents then has a settlement therein.

Fourth. Any person of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of this or any other of the United States, and having an estate of inheritance or freehold in any place within the state, and living on the same three years successively, shall thereby gain a settlement in such place.

Fifth. Any person of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of this or any other of the United States, and having an estate, the principal of which shall be set at two hundred dollars or the income at twelve dollars in the valuation of estates made by assessors, and being assessed for the same, to state, county, city, or town taxes, for five years successively in the place where he dwells and has his home, shall thereby gain a settlement therein.

Sixth. Any person being chosen and actually serving one whole year in the office of clerk, treasurer, selectman, overseer of the poor, assessor, constable, or collector of taxes, in any place, shall thereby gain a settlement therein. For this purpose a year shall be considered

as including the time between the choice of such officers at one annual meeting and the choice at the next annual meeting, whether more or less than a calendar year.

Seventh. Every settled ordained minister of the gospel shall be deemed to have acquired a legal settlement in the place wherein he is or may be settled as a minister.

Eighth. Any person admitted an inhabitant by any place at a legal meeting, held under a warrant containing an article for that purpose, shall thereby acquire a legal settlement therein.

Ninth. Any citizen of this or any other of the United States, dwelling and having his home in any unincorporated place at the time it is incorporated into a town, shall thereby acquire a legal settlement therein.

Tenth. Upon the division of a city or town, every person having a legal settlement therein, but being absent at the time of such division and not having acquired a legal settlement elsewhere, shall have his legal settlement in that place wherein his last dwelling place or home happens to fall upon such division; and when a new city or town is incorporated, composed of a part of one or more incorporated places, every person legally settled in the places of which such new city or town is so composed, and who actually dwells and has his home within the bounds of such new city or town at the time of its incorporation, shall thereby acquire a legal settlement in such new place: provided, that no person residing in that part of a place which upon such division shall be incorporated into a new city or town, having then no legal settlement therein, shall acquire any by force of such incorporation only; nor shall such incorporation prevent his acquiring a settlement therein, within the time and by the means by which he would have gained it there if no such division had been made.

Eleventh. A minor who serves an apprenticeship to a lawful trade for the space of four years in any place, and actually sets up such trade within one year after the expiration of said term, being then twentyone years old, and continues there to carry on the same for five years, shall thereby gain a settlement in such place; but being hired as a journeyman shall not be considered as setting up a trade.

Twelfth. Any person of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of this or any other of the United States, who resides in any place within the state for ten years together, and pays all state, county, city, or town taxes, duly assessed on his poll or estate for any five years within said time, shall thereby gain a settlement in said place.

SECT. 2. No person who has begun to acquire a settlement by the laws in force at and before the time when this chapter takes effect, in any of the ways in which any time is prescribed for a residence,or for the continuance or succession of any other act, shall be prevented or delayed by the provisions of this chapter; but he shall acquire a settlement by a continuance or succession of the same residence or other act in the same time and manner as if the former laws had continued in force.

SECT. 3. Every legal settlement shall continue till it is lost or defeated by acquiring a new one within this state; and upon acquiring such new settlement all former settlements shall be defeated and lost.

HEALTH.

CHAPTER XXVI.

SECT. 7. The board shall examine into all nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness, within its town, or in any vessel within the harbor of such town, that may in its opinion be injurious to the health of the inhabitants, and the same shall destroy, remove, or prevent, as the case may require.

SECT. 8. The board or the health officer shall order the owner or occupant at his own expense to remove any nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness, found on private property, within twenty-four hours or such other time as it deems reasonable after notice served as provided in the following section; and if the owner or occupant neglects so to do, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every day during which he knowingly permits such nuisance or cause of sickness to remain after the time prescribed for the removal thereof.

SECT. 9. Such orders shall be made in writing, and served by any person competent to serve a notice in a civil suit, personally on the owner, occupant, or his authorized agent; or a copy of the order may be left at the last and usual place of abode of the owner, occupant, or agent, if he is known and within the state. But if the premises are unoccupied and the residence of the owner or agent is unknown or

without the state, the notice may be served by posting the same on the premises and advertising in one or more public newspapers in such manner and for such length of time as the board or health officers may direct.

SECT. 10. If the owner or occupant fails to comply with such order, the board may cause the nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness, to be removed, and all expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by the owner, occupant, or other person who caused or permitted the same, if he has had actual notice from the board of health of the existence thereof.

SECT. 11. The board, when satisfied upon due examination that any cellar, room, tenement, or building, in its town, occupied as a dwelling place, has become by reason of the number of occupants; or want of cleanliness or other cause, unfit for such purpose and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the occupants or the public, may issue a notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them, requiring the premises to be put into a proper condition as to cleanliness, or if they see fit requiring the occupants to remove or quit the premises within such time as the board. may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them, neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, the board may cause the premises to be properly cleansed at the expense of the owners, or may remove the occupants forcibly and close up the premises, and the same shall not be again occupied as a dwelling place without the consent in writing of the board. If the owner thereafter occupies or knowingly permits the same to be occupied without such permission in wriing, he shall forfeit a sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.

SECT. 16. When any person coming from abroad or residing in any town in this state is infected, or lately has been infected with the plague or other sickness dangerous to the public health, except as is otherwise provided in this chapter, the board shall make effectual provision in the manner which it judges best for the safety of the inhabitants, by remov ing such person to a separate house or otherwise, and by providing nurses and other assistance and necessaries, which shall be at the charge of the person himself, his parents, or master, if able, otherwise at the charge of the town to which he belongs; and if he is not an inhabitant of any town, at the charge of the Commonwealth.

SECT. 17. If the infected person cannot be removed without danger to his health, the board shall make provision for him as directed in the