statements, and assessors shall forward to the tax commissioner all such lists and statements received by them with the statements required by section ninety of said chapter; and the tax commissioner shall cause to be prepared and submitted with his annual report to the general court such an abstract of the particulars contained in such lists and statements as he shall deem for the public interest. SECT. 4. This act shall not apply to corporations making returns to the insurance commissioner under the provisions of section eleven of chapter one hundred fifteen of the Public Statutes. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved May 12, 1882. BY-LAWS OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, LUNACY AND CHARITY. (Adopted June, 1879; Revised June, 1880.) 1. The Board shall, on the nineteenth day of June, 1880, and annually thereafter on the first Saturday in July, beginning with the year 1881, elect by ballot a Chairman and Secretary, who shall each hold office until his successor shall have been chosen. In the absence or disability of the Chairman or Secretary, a Chairman or Secretary pro tem. may be chosen, as the Board may determine. 2. Regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the first Saturday of each month at such hour as the Board may designate, and, unless otherwise ordered, shall be holden at the office of the Board at the State House. Special meetings may be called when the Board or the Chairman may direct. Four members shall constitute a quorum for business. 3. There shall be appointed the following standing committees, to whom special duties shall be assigned: viz., a Committee on Health, of five members; a Committee on Lunacy, of four members; a Committee on Charities, of five members; and an Executive Committee, to consist of the chairmen of the standing committees. Except in such matters as shall require the direction or sanction of the whole Board, or unless the Board shall otherwise expressly vote, each Committee shall direct the business of its own department. The Executive Committee shall perform the functions of the Board in the intervals between its meetings, when immediate action is necessary; and action so taken shall be reported to the next meeting, and, if no objection is made, shall be recorded as the will of the Board. 4. The officers of the Board shall be a Health Officer, an Inspector of Charities, a Superintendent of the Out-door Poor, and a Superintendent of the In-door Poor, all of whom shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board. They shall each receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, together with a proper allowance for travelling and incidental expenses. They shall annually nominate to the Board suitable persons for clerical and other work, for whom, if approved, the Board shall assign a proper compensation. With the approval of the Division Committee, they may appoint persons temporarily when necessary. 5. The Secretary shall be present at the meetings of the Board, and keep a record of the doings at the same. The Health Officer shall discharge the duties of the Department of Health and of the Sanitary Supervision of the Institutions, and perform such other duties as the Board may assign him. He shall monthly report his doings to the Board, and annually in the month of September shall furnish a résumé of his work for the year. 6. The Superintendent of the Out-door Poor shall execute all the provisions of the laws relating to the sick State poor and those ill with contagious diseases, to the poor receiving temporary relief from the State, to foundlings and destitute infants, and to persons of Indian descent; and shall perform such other duties as the Board may from time to time assign him. He shall be under the immediate direction of the Committee on Charities, and report his doings to the Board monthly, and annually in the month of September shall furnish a résumé of his work for the year. 7. The Superintendent of the In-door Poor shall execute all the provisions of the laws relating to State pauper inmates of the State lunatic hospitals, almshouses, workhouse and reformatories; the laws relating to alien passengers, and to proceedings in bastardy. He shall be charged with the visitation of the children who may be the wards of the State; with the collection of all money due to the State for the support of inmates in the several State establishments; with the auditing of the bills of the several lunatic hospitals against the Commonwealth for the support of non-settled lunatic paupers; and shall perform such other service as the Board may from time to time require of him. He shall be under the immediate direction of the Committee on Charities, and monthly report his doings to the Board, and annually in the month of September shall furnish a résumé of his work for the year. He shall give a bond to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, for the faithful performance of his duties. 8. The Inspector of Charities shall occupy the office at the State House. He shall have the charge of such statistical work, not otherwise assigned, as the Board shall direct, and shall, under the direction of the Committee on Lunacy, see that the statutes regulating the commitment and detention of lunatics are complied with. He shall exercise constant watchfulness over all the institutions which the Board is required to supervise. He shall monthly report to the Board his doings, and annually in the month of September shall furnish a résumé of his work for the year, and shall perform such other duties as the Board may from time to time require. 9. These By-Laws may be amended at any meeting of the Board during the present year by the vote of a majority of the full Board, and after that time by a vote of two-thirds of the same at any meeting, after previous notice of the change that is desired in the same by any member. 1 From June, 1879, to July 1, 1880. DEPARTMENT OF OUT-DOOR POOR. INSTRUCTIONS TO OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, AND FORMS OF BILLS. When a state pauper falls ill in a city or town, and calls for help, on the very day the same is granted one of the overseers should forward to the superintendent of the out-door poor a notice similar to the following: (and for this reason the statute allows no reimbursement whatsoever for aid granted before the day of notice.) To the Superintendent of Out-door Poor, 9 State House, Boston: John Brown, a state pauper, is ill in this town [or city] and unable to be removed to a state almshouse. He has called for aid, which we have rendered, and for which we shall claim reimbursement from the State to the extent of the statute. Yours respectfully, JOHN WILLIAMS, Overseer of the Poor of Residence, No. 2 Oak Street. Where there are no streets the overseer must designate the locality of the party's residence as distinctly as possible, that he may be visited without trouble or delay by some officer of the Board, if thought desirable. The disease must in all cases be specified. When assistance has ceased, it is expedient to make up and send in the bill immediately, while the facts are yet fresh in memory. And here follow two forms, one of which is to be used when the party is aided at his own home, or at the house of some friend; the other when he is removed to the local almshouse, or supported by agreement in a family at a given weekly rate. Overseers must give such a history as will show that the party, as far as they can possibly ascertain, has neither a military or civil settlement in the Commonwealth. They must also specify with accuracy the date of the commencement and close of the relief, as the law requires the reimbursement to be fixed at a weekly rate during its continu ance. Whenever relief is continued in any case beyond the 31st of December of any year, they must send a new notice for that case on Jan. 1 of the next year. When such notice is not renewed, the town has no claim against the State (see Gen. Stat., chap. 72, sect. 57), and when the residence and disease are omitted, the parties are not visited. |