Chap. 0489 An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, for the maintenance of departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. To provide for the maintenance of the several departments, boards, commissions and institutions, of sundry other services, and for certain permanent improvements, and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in section two, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in said section two, are hereby appropriated from the funds designated in said section, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, in this act referred to as the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, or for such period as may be specified. Section 2. appropriations made from the general fund. Service of the Legislature. Senate. Item 0101-01 For the compensation of senators, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose .... $191,250 00 [0101-02 For the salary of the clerk of the senate . 10,480 00 10101-03 For the salary of the assistant clerk of the senate....... 7,980 00 Item 0101-04 For clerical assistance to the clerk of the senate, including not more than two permanent positions ..... $10,180 00 0101-05 For the salary of the chaplain of the senate . 1,980 00 0101-06 For personal services of the counsel to the senate and assistants, including not more than four permanent positions; provided, that notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the present counsel to the senate may continue to serve in said office subject to the will of the senate . . 33,480 00 0101-07 For clerical and other assistance to the senate committee on rules, including not more than seven permanent positions; provided, that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the present clerk of the senate committee on rules may continue to serve in said office subject to the will of the senate....... 28,860 00 0101-30 For expenses of senators, including travel, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 39,000 00 0101-51 For stationery for the senate, purchased by and with the approval of the clerk . . 600 00 0101-52 For expenses of the committee on rules on the part of the senate ..... 600 00 0101-53 For expenses of the counsel to the senate . 500 00 0101-54 For expenses of the senate clerk's office 200 00 0101-56 For the expenses of the senate committee on ways and means, including not more than one permanent position . 8,000 00 0101-60 For traveling and such other expenses of the committees of the senate as may be authorized by order of the senate . 1,000 00 Total......$334,110 00 House of Representatives. 0102-01 For the compensation of representatives, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . $1,093,500 00 0102-02 For the salary of the clerk of the house of representatives..... 10,480 00 0102-03 For the salary of the assistant clerk of the house of representatives .... 7,980 00 0102-04 For clerical assistance to the clerk of the house of representatives, including not more than four permanent positions . 18,740 00 0102-05 For the salary of the chaplain of the house of representatives ..... 1,980 00 0102-06 For personal services of the counsel to the house of representatives and assistants, including not more than six permanent positions ....... 61,280 00 0102-07 For clerical and other assistance to the house committee on rules, including not more than seven permanent positions . . 33,420 00 0102-08 For clerical and other assistance to the house committee on ways and means, including not more than four permanent positions, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 22,960 00 Item 0102-30 For expenses of representatives, including travel, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose 0102-51 For stationery for the house of representatives, purchased by and with the approval of the clerk . . 0102-52 For expenses of the committee on rules on the part of the house of representatives 0102-53 For expenses of the counsel to the house of representatives .... 0102-54 For expenses of the clerk's office, house of representatives ..... 0102-56 For expenses of the house committee on ways and means, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 0102-60 For traveling and such other expenses of the committees of the house of representatives as may be authorized by order of the house of representatives ..... Total...... Sergeunt-at-Arms. For the salary of the sergeant-at-arms For clerical and other assistance employed by the sergeant-at-arms, including not more than six permanent positions . For the salaries of the doorkeepers of the senate and house of representatives, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, including not more than two permanent positions ...... For the salaries of assistant doorkeepers of the senate and house of representatives and of general court officers, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, including not more than thirty-two permanent positions For compensation of the pages of the senate and house of representatives, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, including not more than twenty-three permanent positions .... For the salaries of clerks employed in the legislative document room, including not more than three permanent positions For contingent expenses of the senate and house of representatives and necessary expenses in and about the state house, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and the previous year .... For the payment of witness fees to persons summoned to appear before committees of the general court, and for expenses incidental to summoning them, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms Total...... Other Expenses. 0110-02 For printing, binding and paper ordered by the senate and house of representatives, or by concurrent order of the two branches, 0103-01 0103-02 0103-03 0103-04 0103-05 0103-06 0103-51 0103-52 $233,500 00 1,300 00 2,500 00 850 00 500 00 5,000 00 1,000 00 $1,494,990 00 $7,380 00 24,840 00 11,880 00 136,500 00 27,600 00 14,880 00 20,000 00 200 00 $243,280 00 for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and the previous year, with the approval of the clerks of the respective branches, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose 0110-04 For expenses in connection with the publication of the bulletin of committee hearings and of the daily list, with the approval of the joint committee on rules, including not more than two permanent positions 0110-05 For telephone service .... 0110-09 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 0102-24 of section two of chapter eight hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. 0110-12 For the emergency services of a physician and for medical supplies in the state house, subject to the approval of the joint committee on rules; provided, that section twenty-one of chapter thirty of the General Laws shall not apply to the payments made under this item .... 0110-30 For traveling and such other expenses of joint committees of the general court as may be authorized by joint order of the general court ....... Total...... $180,000 00 38,020 00 20,000 00 3,200 00 ,000 00 $249,220 00 Special Investigations. 0204-00 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 0204-00 of section two of chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. 0209-00 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 0209-00 of section two of chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. 0261-00 For a study of the structure of state government, as authorized by chapter seventy-five of the resolves of nineteen hundred and forty-nine as amended by chapter ten of the resolves of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, chapter twenty-eight of the resolves of nineteen hundred and fifty-two and chapter seventeen of the resolves of nineteen hundred and fifty-three, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose ...... Total...... Total, Legislative $40,000 00 $40,000 00 $2,361,600 00 Service of the Judiciary. Supreme Judicial Court. 0301-01 For the salaries of the chief justice and of the six associate justices . . . . 0301-02 For traveling allowances and expenses $130,500 00 2,500 00 Item 0301-03 For the salary of the clerk for the commonwealth ....... $10,420 00 0301-04 For clerical assistance to the clerk 3,490 00 0301-05 For law clerks and clerical assistance for the justices...... 47,620 00 0301-06 For office supplies, services and equipment . 6,000 00 0301-07 For the salaries of the officers and messengers 6,190 00 0301-08 For the commonwealth's part of the salary of the clerk for the county of Suffolk . 1,500 00 0301- 10 For facilities provided by the Social Law Li- brary ....... 3,500 00 0302- 01 For the salary of the reporter of decisions . 10,000 00 0302-02 For the service of the reporter of decisions, including not more than four permanent positions ...... 18,575 00 Total......$240,295 00 Superior Court. 0305-01 For the salaries of the chief justice and of the thirty-one justices.....$510,000 00 0305-02 For traveling allowances and expenses 27,500 00 0305-03 For the salary of the assistant clerk and the probation officer of Suffolk county . 2,500 00 0305-04 For expenses authorized by section twenty-eight of chapter two hundred and twelve of the General Laws..... 19,850 00 0305-11 For compensation of justices of district courts while sitting in the superior court 11,000 00 0305-12 For expenses of justices of district courts while sitting in the superior court 1,850 00 0305-13 For reimbursing certain counties for compensation of certain special justices for services in holding sessions of district courts in place of the justice, while sitting in the superior court...... 3,000 00 Total......$575,700 00 Judicial Council. 0308-01 For the service of the judicial council . . $7,000 00 Administrative Committee of District Courts. 0310-01 For the service of the administrative committee of district courts .... $12,000 00 Administrative Committee of Probate and Insolvency Courts. 0320-01 For the compensation of judges of probate when acting for other judges of probate $5,000 00 0320-02 For expenses of judges of probate when acting for other judges of probate . . . 1,500 00 0320-03 For reimbursing officials for premiums paid for procuring sureties on their bonds, as provided by law ..... 500 00 0320-04 For expenses of the administrative committee of probate courts ..... 750 00 Total......$7,750 00 Probate and Insolvency Courts. Item For the salaries of judges of probate, registers of probate, assistant registers and clerical assistance to registers of the several counties: Barnstable: 0321-01 Judge of probate..... 0321-02 Register...... 0321-03 Assistant register ..... 0321- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than three permanent positions Berkshire: 0322- 01 Judge of probate..... 0322-02 Register...... 0322-03 Assistant register ..... 0322- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than five permanent positions Bristol: 0323- 01 Two judges of probate ... 0323-02 Register...... 0323-03 Two assistant registers .... 0323- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than thirteen permanent positions Dukes: 0324- 01 Judge of probate .... 0324-02 Register..... 0324- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than one permanent position Essex: 0325- 01 Two judges of probate 0325-02 Register..... 0325-03 Three assistant registers 0325- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than sixteen permanent positions Franklin: 0326- 01 Judge of probate .... 0326-02 Register..... 0326-03 Assistant register .... 0326- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than two permanent positions Hampden: 0327- 01 Two judges of probate . 0327-02 Register..... 0327-03 Three assistant registers 0327-04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than eleven permanent positions Hampshire: Judge of probate .... Register ..... Assistant register .... Clerical assistance to register, including not more than two permanent positions Middlesex: Three judges of probate . Register ..... Five assistant registers . Clerical assistance to register, including not more than forty permanent positions 0328-01 0328-02 0328-03 0328-04 0329-01 0329-02 0329-03 0329-04 $9,500 00 6,000 00 4,000 00 8,880 00 9,500 00 6,500 00 4,500 00 14,120 00 23,000 00 8,000 00 10,500 00 37,970 00 4,000 00 4,000 00 2,880 00 23,000 00 8,500 00 16,500 00 48,650 00 9,500 00 6,000 00 4,000 00 5,760 00 23,000 00 8,000 00 15,000 00 36,780 00 9,500 00 6,000 00 4,000 00 6,300 00 40,500 00 10,000 00 28,500 00 124,010 00 I torn Nantucket: 0330-01 Judge of probate..... $4,000 00 0330-02 Register...... 4,000 00 0330- 04 Clerical assistance to register . 1,195 00 Norfolk: 0331- 01 Two judges of probate .... 27,000 00 0331-02 Register...... 8,500 00 0331-03 Three assistant registers 16,500 00 0331- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than fifteen permanent positions . 45,330 00 Plymouth: 0332- 01 Judge of probate..... 9,500 00 0332-02 Register...... 6,500 00 0332-03 Assistant register..... 4,500 00 0332- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than six permanent positions . 19,560 00 Suffolk: 0333- 01 Three judges of probate .... 43,500 00 0333-02 Register...... 10,000 00 0333-03 Five assistant registers .... 28,500 00 0333- 04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than forty-eight permanent positions 148,440 00 Worcester * 0334- 01 Two judges of probate .... 23,000 00 0334-02 Register...... 8,500 00 0334-03 Three assistant registers . . 16,500 00 0334-04 Clerical assistance to register, including not more than fifteen permanent positions . 45,650 00 Total......$1,057,525 00 Land Court. 0340-01 For the salaries of the judge, associate judges and the recorder, including not more than four permanent positions . . . $55,000 00 0340-02 For the service of the land court, including not more than thirty-five permanent positions ....... 217,555 00 Total......$272,555 00 Pensions for Certain Retired Juslices. 0345-01 For pensions of retired judges, as authorized by law.......$98,000 00 District Attorneys. 0350- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the Suffolk district, including not more than fourteen permanent positions .......$97,700 00 0351- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the northern district, including not more than seven permanent positions ....... 46,400 00 0352- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the eastern district, including not more than five permanent positions 23,880 00 Item 0354- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the southern district, including not more than four permanent positions $23,540 00 0355- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the middle district, including not more than five permanent positions . 23,880 00 0356- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the western district, including not more than three permanent positions ...... 15,580 00 0357- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistant for the northwestern district, including not more than two permanent positions ....... 9,180 00 0358- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the Norfolk district, including not more than four permanent positions ...... 18,000 00 0359- 01 For the salaries of the district attorney and assistants for the Plymouth district, including not more than three permanent positions ...... 14,500 00 0365-01 For traveling expenses necessarily incurred by the district attorneys, except in the Suffolk district, including expenses incurred in previous years ..... 7,000 00 Total......$279,660 00 Board of Probation. 0370-01 For the service of the board, including not more than forty-eight permanent positions $163,140 00 Board of Bar Examiners. 0380-01 For the service of the board, including not more than six permanent positions . $36,110 00 Suffolk County Court House. 0385-01 For reimbursing the city of Boston for thirty per cent of the cost of maintenance of the Suffolk county court house, as provided by and subject to the conditions of section six of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-five, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose; provided, that this appropriation shall not be construed as fixing the specific amount for which the commonwealth shall be liable on account of said maintenance Total, Judiciary .... $180,000 00 $2,929,735 00 0401-01 0401-02 Service of the Executive Department. Governor. For the salary of the governor For the salaries of officers and employees in the governor's office .... $20,000 00 125,000 00 Item 0401-03 0401-04 For postage, printing, office and other contingent expenses, including travel, of the governor...... $35,000 00 For maintenance expenses of the governor's automobile...... 1,300 00 Total...... $181,300 00 0401-35 0402-01 0402-02 0403-01 0403-02 0403-03 0403-05 Other Expenses. For the expenses of a committee to study state hospitals, to be expended with the approval of the governor Lieutenant-Governor. For the salary of the lieutenant-governor For personal services for the lieutenant-governor's office .... Total Governor's Council. For the salaries of the eight councilors For personal services for the council For postage, printing, stationery, traveling and contingent expenses of the governor and council ..... For travel and expenses of the lieutenant-governor and council from and to their homes ...... Total..... $6,000 00 $8,000 00 14,400 00 $22,400 00 $24,000 00 26,250 00 15,000 00 4,500 00 $69,750 00 Extraordinary Expenses. 0405-01 For the cost, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, of entertainment of distinguished visitors to the commonwealth, provided that no expenditure shall be allowed for a party exceeding fifty visitors; for the payment of extraordinary expenses not otherwise provided for; and for transfers to appropriation accounts where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient, provided that requests for such transfers shall be referred to the commission on administration and finance which, after investigation, shall submit for the approval of the governor and council its written recommendation as to the amount of funds required, with facts pertinent thereto . $100,000 00 0406-01 0406-03 0406-04 0406-05 Civil Defense Agency. The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 0406-01 of section two of chapters three hundred and ten and six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. This item postponed. This item postponed. This item postponed. Total, Executive Department $379,450 00 Service of the Military Division. Adjutant General. Item 0420-01 For the salary of the adjutant general . $11,559 00 0420- 02 For the office of the adjutant general, includ- ing not more than thirty-two permanent positions...... 146,264 00 Militia: 0421- 01 For allowances to companies and other ad- ministrative units, to be expended under the direction of the adjutant general 180,000 00 0421-02 For officers' uniform allowances, as authorized by paragraph (c) of section one hundred and twenty of chapter thirty-three of the General Laws..... 65,000 00 0421-05 For certain camps of instruction 64,500 00 0421-07 For transportation of officers and non-commissioned officers to and from military meetings and regimental and battalion drills....... 3,000 00 0421-13 For compensation for special and miscellaneous duty, including not more than five permanent positions, and for expenses of operation of the twenty-sixth division 28,305 00 0421-14 For compensation for accidents and injuries sustained in the performance of military duty....... 4,000 00 0421-15 To cover certain small claims for damages to private property arising from military maneuvers...... 1,000 00 0421-17 For the military reservation, located in Barnstable county, including compensation of the commissioner ..... 1,075 00 0421-21 For the service of the air national guard . 7,925 00 State Guard: 0421-50 For the planning and organizing of a state guard, for the training of an air ground observer corps and an aircraft warning service, and for expenses related thereto, to be expended under the direction of the adjutant general; provided, that upon request of the adjutant general and the recommendation of the commission on administration and finance, the governor, with the approval of the council, may transfer in whole or in part to this item amounts authorized for military affairs for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-four; and, further provided, that the unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 0421-50 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. Total......$512,628 00 State Quartermaster. 0423-01 For the office of the state quartermaster $4,250 00 0423-02 For the operation of armories of the first class, including not more than eighty-four permanent positions .... 470,955 00 Itflm Special: 0423- 21 For certain repairs to armories . Militia: 0424- 01 For reimbursement for rent and maintenance of armories not of the first class 0424-02 For the Camp Curtis Guild rifle range, including not more than seven permanent positions ...... 0424-05 For certain storage and maintenance facilities, including not more than twelve permanent positions ..... 0424-08 For certain national guard aviation facilities, including not more than two permanent positions ..... Total $126,000 00 29,900 00 28,010 00 129,195 00 108,105 00 $896,415 00 Armory Commission. 0428-01 For compensation of one member and for expenses of the armory commission Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter thirty of the General Laws, certain military personnel in the military division may be paid salaries according to military pay grades, so called. Total, Military Division $170 00 $1,409,213 00 Boards and Commissions serving under Governor and Council. Commission on Administration and Finance. 0440-31 For personnel appeal boards, as authorized by chapter four hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five 0441- 01 For the office of the commissioner of admin- istration, including not more than fourteen permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of twenty-one thousand seven hundred and one dollars from the Highway Fund ..... 0441- 03 For telephone service in the state house 0442- 01 For the bureau of the comptroller, including not more than one hundred and seventeen permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars from the Highway Fund .... 0443- 01 For the bureau of the budget commissioner, including not more than eight permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of eleven thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars from the Highway Fund....... 0444- 01 For the bureau of the purchasing agent, in- cluding not more than seventy-one permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of fifty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars from the Highway Fund..... 284,220 00 $100 00 108,505 00 110,000 00 500,114 00 56,875 00 Item 0444- -02 For the purchase of paper used in the execution of the contracts for state printing, other than legislative .... 0444- 03 For the purchase by the state purchasing agent of motor vehicles for which funds are not otherwise available. Motor vehicles purchased under this item are to be allocated, with the approval of the commission on administration and finance, to the departments and agencies of the commonwealth whose appropriations are made from the General Fund, and transfers of the sums required for said purchases are to be authorized by said commission from the amount herein appropriated to appropriations made for the services of said departments and agencies. Said commission is hereby authorized to provide for the transfer of motor vehicles from one such agency or department to another when, in its opinion, such a transfer is for the best interests of the commonwealth .... 0445- 01 For the division of personnel and standardi- zation, including not more than thirty-seven permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of forty-two thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars from the Highway Fund ..... Total...... $75,000 00 250,000 00 212,230 00 $1,597,044 00 0450-01 0450-02 State Superintendent of Buildings. For the office of the superintendent, including not more than five permanent posi- tions For the maintenance of the state house and the Ford building, including not more than one hundred and sixty-seven permanent positions ...... Total...... $26,800 00 771,415 00 $798,215 00 New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission. 0455-01 For expenses of the New England interstate water pollution control commission, as authorized by chapter four hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and for compensation and expenses of the commissioners, as provided by section four of said chapter . $7,730 00 State Planning Board. 0456-01 For the service of the state planning board, including not more than fourteen permanent positions.....$74,377 00 Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. 0457-01 For the expenses of the commissioners $1,725 00 State Library. Item 0459-01 For the service of the state library, including not more than thirty-two permanent positions .......$123,830 00 Art Commission. 0460-01 For expenses of the commission, notwithstanding the limitation of section nineteen of chapter six ..... $500 00 Ballot Law Commission. 0461-01 For compensation and expenses of the commissioners, including not more than three permanent positions .... $3,085 00 Massachusetts Commission on Discrimination. 0462-01 For the service of the Massachusetts commission on discrimination, including not more than thirteen permanent positions . . $70,605 00 Emergency Housing Commission. 0463-01 This item omitted. Outdoor Advertising Authority. 0464-01 For the service of the outdoor advertising authority, including not more than ten permanent positions .... $44,230 00 Massachusetts Public Building Commission. 0465-01 For the service of the Massachusetts public building commission, including not more than thirteen permanent positions . . $85,140 00 Mount Greylock Reservation Commission. 0466-01 For the maintenance of the Mount Greylock war memorial ..... $1,700 00 Old State House. 0467-01 For the contribution of the commonwealth toward the maintenance of the old provincial state house ..... $1,500 00 Commission on Alcoholism. 0468-01 For the service of the commission on alcoholism, as authorized by chapter five hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-seven, including not more than one permanent position . . $11,755 00 Item 0471-01 Contributory Retirement Appeal Board. For the service of the contributory retirement appeal board ..... $200 00 Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission. 0490-01 For the compensation and expenses of members of the Massachusetts aeronautics commission, including not more than five permanent positions ..... 0490-02 For the service of the Massachusetts aeronautics commission, including not more than nine permanent positions Total $6,800 00 56,200 00 $63,000 00 State Airport Management Board. 0492- 01 For the service of the state airport manage- ment board, as authorized by chapter six hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-eight, including not more than ten permanent positions . 0493- 01 For the operation of the Logan airport, in- cluding not more than one hundred and five permanent positions .... Special: 0493- 21 The unexpended balance remaining in appro- priation item 0461-21 of section two of chapter eight hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. 0494- 01 For the operation of the Hanscom field, in- cluding not more than nine permanent positions ...... Total...... Total, Boards and Commissions serving under Governor and Council $58,079 00 655,055 00 41,960 00 $755,094 00 $3,639,730 00 0501-01 0501-02 0502-01 Service of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. For the salary of the secretary . . $9,000 00 For the office of the secretary, including not more than seventy-four permanent positions ....... 326,044 00 For the purchase of certain supplies, equipment and repairs necessary in connection with the reproduction of the manuscript collection designated "Massachusetts Archives", and for the furnishing of photostatic copies of corporation papers, election papers and aets and resolves . . . 6,250 00 0502-02 For the purchase and distribution of copies of eertain journals of the house of representatives of Massachusetts Bay from seventeen hundred and fifteen to seventeen hundred and eighty, inclusive, as au- 0503-01 0503-02 0503-03 thorized by chapter four hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty ...... Total Printing Laws, etc.: For printing and distributing the pamphlet edition and for printing and binding the blue book edition of the acts and resolves of the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . For the printing of reports of decisions of the supreme judicial court, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose ...... For printing and binding public documents, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . Total...... $750 00 $342,044 00 $32,200 00 13,517 00 6,200 00 $51,917 00 0504-01 0505-01 Matters Relating to Elections: For preparing, printing and distributing ballots, and other miscellaneous expenses for primary and other elections, including not more than five permanent positions . $172,692 00 Medical Examiners: For medical examiners' fees . . . $1,500 00 Commission on Interstate Co-operation. 0506-01 For the service of the commission, including not more than two permanent positions . $25,510 00 Total, Secretary of the Commonwealth $593,663 00 Service of the Treasurer and Receiver-General. 0601-01 For the salary of the treasurer and receiver-general ......$9,000 00 0601-02 For the office of the treasurer and receiver-general, including not more than forty-three permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars from the Highway Fund....... 312,056 00 Total $321,056 00 Commissioners on Firemen's Relief. 0602-01 For expenses of administration and for relief disbursed by the commissioners on firemen's relief ...... $15,175 00 Item 0604-01 State Board of Retirement. For the administrative office of the board, including not more than eighteen permanent positions ...... 0604-03 For the payment of the commonwealth's share in financing the state employees' retirement system, as provided by chapter thirty-two of the General Laws for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and the previous year, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars from the Highway Fund 0604-04 The unexpended balance remaining in item 0604-04 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. Total...... $62,710 00 3,500,000 00 $3,562,710 00 Emergency Finance Board. 0605-01 For administrative expenses of the board, including not more than one permanent position .......$15,000 00 Total, Department of the Treasurer and Receiver-General . . ¦ . . $3,913,941 00 Service of the Auditor of the Commonwealth. 0701-01 For the salary of the auditor . . . $9,000 00 0701-02 For the office of the auditor, including not more than thirty-eight permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of forty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars from the Highway Fund 208,915 00 0701-23 For an audit of the accounts of the Metropolitan Transit Authority . . . 20,400 00 0701-24 For the expense of an audit of the books of the New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, to be reimbursed by said authority as provided by law .... 1,910 00 Total, Department of the Auditor $240,225 00 Service of the Department of the Attorney General. 0801-01 For the salary of the attorney general . $12,000 00 0801- 02 For the office of the attorney general, includ- ing not more than forty-two permanent positions...... 246,000 00 0802- 01 For the settlement of certain claims, as pro- vided by law, on account of damages by cars owned by the commonwealth and op- Item erated by state employees; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund from the appropriate funds sums equal to the payments made under this item for claims against agencies whose ap- propriations are derived from other funds $25,000 00 0802- 02 For the settlement of certain small claims, as authorized by section three A of chapter twelve of the General Laws . . 10,000 00 0803- 10 This item omitted. Total, Department of the Attorney General ......$293,000 00 Service of the Department of Agriculture. 0901-01 For the salary of the commissioner . $7,000 00 0901-02 For the office of the commissioner, including not more than twenty-six permanent positions ....... 126,453 00 0901-11 For compensation and expenses of members of the advisory board .... 450 00 0901-21 For apiary inspection, including not more than one permanent position, and for the reimbursement of owners of diseased bees as provided in section thirty-four of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the General Laws...... 7,627 00 0901-22 For a program of soil conservation, as authorized by chapter five hundred and thirty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five, as amended 1,719 00 Total...... $143,249 00 Division of Dairying and Animal Husbandry. 0905-01 For the service of the division, including not more than nine permanent positions . . $48,681 00 0905-03 For administering the law relative to the inspection of barns and dairies by the department of agriculture, including not more than fourteen permanent positions . . 78,376 00 Total......$127,057 00 Milk Control Board. 0906-01 For the service of the board, including not more than thirty-four permanent positions; provided, that permanent civil service employees of the milk control board may be transferred to positions in the service of the commonwealth of equal or lower grade, as established by the division of personnel, regardless of whether or not the title is similar, upon request of the appointing authority of the department to which the employee is to be transferred and with the consent of the employee. Such transfer shall be without loss of seniority, retirement or other rights .... $160,928 00 Division of Livestock Disease Control. Item 0907-01 For the office of the director, including not more than twenty-four permanent positions and not more than fifty permanent intermittent positions .... $205,386 00 0907-06 For reimbursement of owners of horses killed during the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and previous year3, travel, when allowed, of inspectors of animals, incidental expenses of killing and burial, quarantine and emergency services, and for laboratory and veterinary supplies and equipment . 16,250 00 0907-07 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 0907-07 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the aets of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. 0907-08 For the reimbursement of certain towns for compensation paid to inspectors of animals for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and" the previous year . . 4,700 00 Total......$226,336 00 Division of Markets. 0908-01 For the service of the division, including not more than twelve permanent positions $84,605 00 Division of Plant Pest Control and Fairs. 0909-01 For the service of the division, including not more than three permanent positions $31,870 00 State Reclamation Board. 0910-01 For the service of the board, including not more than four permanent positions $15,445 00 Total, Department of Agriculture $789,490 00 Service of the Department of Conservation. 1001-01 For the salary of the commissioner 1001-02 For the office of the commissioner, including not more than seventeen permanent positions . ..... 1001-03 This item included in item 1003-02. 1001-31 For the suppression of insect pests and shade tree diseases, including gypsy and brown tail moths and Japanese beetles, and including not more than seven permanent positions, and for reimbursement to cities and towns of a proportion of their expenses for such work, as provided by law and to be in addition to any amounts heretofore appropriated for the purpose $7,000 00 102,795 00 166,446 00 Total .276,241 00 Division of Forestry. Item 1002-01 For the office of the director, including not more than five permanent positions . $21,665 00 1002-11 For aiding towns in the purchase of equipment for extinguishing forest fires, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and' for previous years, as provided by section eleven of chapter forty of the General Laws 1,000 00 1002-12 For the service of the state fire warden, in-eluding not more than eighteen permanent positions...... 310,550 00 1002-14 For the expenses of forest fire patrol, as authorized by section twenty-eight A of chapter forty-eight of the General Laws . . 38,310 00 1002-15 For reimbursement to certain towns for extinguishing forest fires .... 1,000 00 1002-18 For the cost of establishing forest cutting practices, including not more than two permanent positions ..... 8,545 00 1002-21 For the development of state forests, including not more than thirty-five permanent positions...... 227,013 00 1002-26 For certain farm forestry projects in co-operation with the United States Forest Service and the county of Berkshire; provided, that no expenditure shall be made under this item until the county of Berkshire shall have deposited the sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars in the state treasury for this project . 5,830 00 1002-27 For certain farm forestry projects in co-operation with the United States Forest Service and the county of Essex; provided, that no expenditure shall be made under this item until the county of Essex shall have deposited the sum of one thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars in the state treasury for this project . . 5,855 00 1002-30 For expenses of the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Commission, as authorized by chapter four hundred and fifty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and for compensation of commissioners, as provided by section four of said chapter...... 1,250 00 Total......$621,018 00 Division of Law Enforcement. 1003-01 For the office of the director, including not more than five permanent positions 1003-02 For the administration and enforcement of laws relative to shellfish and other marine fisheries, and for regulating the sale and cold storage of fresh food fish, including not more than twenty-one permanent positions ....... 1003-03 For conservation officers, including not more than thirty-nine permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund a sum equal to fifty per cent of the payments made under this $20,190 00 136,079 00 item from the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund, as provided by section three A of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the General Laws ..... Total...... $205,375 00 $361,644 00 Division of Marine Fisheries. 1004-70 For the service of the office of the director, including not more than nine permanent positions, and for the administration of the activities provided for under items 1004-84 and 1004-85 .... $62,610 00 1004-84 For the reimbursement to certain coastal cities and towns of a part of the cost of projects for the propagation of shellfish, as authorized by section twenty of chapter one hundred and thirty of the General Laws; provided, that the expenditure by said cities and towns of funds herein provided shall not be subject to appropriation as required by section fifty-three of chapter forty-four of the General Laws 12,500 00 1004-85 For the reimbursement to certain coastal cities and towns of a part of the cost of projects for the suppression of enemies of shellfish, as authorized by section twenty of chapter one hundred and thirty of the General Laws; provided, that the expenditure by said cities and towns of funds herein provided shall not be subject to appropriation as required by section fifty-three of chapter forty-four of the General Laws . 7,500 00 1004-87 For the cost of construction and improvement of certain fishways, as provided by law, including not more than one permanent position ....... 14,550 00 1004-90 For services and expenses of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, as authorized by chapter four hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-one..... 4,800 00 1004-91 For bounties on seals 450 00 1004-93 For experimental work with and consultant services of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, for the purpose of increasing the supply of shellfish in the commonwealth . 20,000 00 Total......$122,410 00 Total, Department of Conservation $1,381,313 00 Service of the Department of Banking and Insurance. Division of Banks. 1101-01 For the salary of the commissioner . . $12,000 00 1101-02 For the office of the commissioner, including not more than one hundred and fifty-four permanent positions .... 806,074 00 Item 1102-01 For the office of the supervisor of loan agencies, including not more than nine permanent positions.....$42,297 00 Total......$860,371 00 Division of Insurance. 1103-01 For the salary of the commissioner . $12,000 00 1103-02 For the service of the division, including expenses of the board of appeal and certain other costs of supervising motor vehicle liability insurance, and including not more than two hundred and forty permanent positions; provided, that contracts or orders for the purchase of statement blanks for the making of annual reports to the commissioner of insurance shall not be subject to the restrictions prescribed by section one of chapter five of the General Laws; and, provided further, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and fifty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars from the Highway Fund . . 1,049,035 00 Total......$1,061,035 00 Division of Savings Bank Life Insurance. 1105-01 For the service of the division, including not more than thirty permanent positions $126,777 00 Total, Department of Banking and Insurance ......$2,048,183 00 Service of the Department of Corporations and Taxation. 1201-01 For the salary of the commissioner . $11,000 00 1201-02 For personal services of the department except as otherwise provided, including not more than six hundred and sixty-six permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars from the Highway Fund, the sum of one hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars from amounts collected under chapter sixty-four B of the General Laws and the sum of one million four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars from the receipts of the income tax 2,440,000 00 1201-03 For expenses of the department except as otherwise provided for; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of twenty-two thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars from the Highway Fund . . . 110,965 00 1201-12 For expenses of the division of field investigation and temporary taxes . 18,915 00 1201-22 For expenses for the administration of an excise on meals; provided, that a sum equivalent to the payments under this item shall Item be transferred to the General Fund from amounts collected under chapter sixty-four B of the General Laws . . . $23,125 00 1202-02 For expenses of the income tax division; provided, that a sum equivalent to the payments under this item shall be transferred to the General Fund from receipts of the income tax...... 428,593 00 Total......$3,032,598 00 Division of Accounts. 1203-01 For the service of the division, including not more than one hundred and twenty-one permanent positions, partly chargeable to item 1203-11 .....$589,396 00 1203-11 For expenses of auditing and installing systems of municipal accounts, the cost of which is to be assessed upon the municipalities for which the work is done . . 61,900 00 1203-12 For the expenses of certain books, forms and other material which may be sold to cities and towns requiring the same for maintaining their system of accounts . 45,000 00 1203-21 For the service of the county personnel board, including not more than six permanent positions...... 15,460 00 Total......$711,756 00 Appellate Tax Board. 1204-01 For the service of the board, including not more than twenty-eight permanent positions .......$168,954 00 Reimbursement for Loss of Taxes. 1205-01 For reimbursing cities and towns for loss of taxes on land used for state institutions and certain other state activities, as certified by the commissioner of corporations and taxation for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and for the reimbursement of certain towns as authorized by section seventeen B of chapter fiftjr-eight of the General Laws; provided, that the commissioner shall not include in any distribution under this item any amounts on account of land not included in such distributions prior to January one, nineteen hundred and fifty, unless specifically so authorized by legislative act.....$594,000 00 1205-02 For the reimbursement of cities and towns for abatements granted, as provided by chapter five hundred of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one .... 47,740 00 Total......$641,740 00 Total, Department of Corporations and Taxation.....$4,555,048 00 Service of the Department of Education. Item 1301-01 For the salary of the commissioner $11,000 00 1301-02 For the office of the commissioner, including not more than sixty permanent positions . 284,130 00 1301-06 For printing school registers and other school blanks for cities and towns . . . 4,900 00 1301-07 For expenses of holding teachers' institutes . 970 00 1301-08 For aid to certain pupils in state teachers' colleges, under the direction of the department of education..... 4,000 00 1301-10 For the service of the state building on Newbury Street, Boston, including not more than four permanent positions . 34,760 00 1301-18 For expenses required for the operation of an agency for surplus property . 16,930 00 1301-19 For reimbursement to cities and towns of a portion of the cost of a program for extended school services for certain children of certain employed mothers, as authorized by sections twenty-six A to twenty-six F, inclusive, of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws..... 12,600 00 1301-20 For the Board of Education, including not more than two permanent positions 9,740 00 1301-21 For the service of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, including not more than six permanent positions . . 12,920 00 1301-23 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 1301-23 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. 1301-24 For the advancement of education for American citizenship, as authorized by chapter six hundred and ninety-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one . 11,000 00 1301-25 For expenses of the board of collegiate authority ....... 625 00 1301-28 For a program to secure fair educational practices......12,810 00 1301-29 For a program of sight saving classes and for the reimbursement of certain cities and towns as provided by law 20,250 00 1301-31 For a school facilities survey, to be expended in co-operation with funds received from the federal government .... 15,000 00 1301-51 For assisting small towns in providing themselves with school superintendents, as provided by law...... 185,000 00 1301-53 For the reimbursement of certain towns for the transportation of pupils as provided by law; provided, that a sum equivalent to the payments under this item shall be transferred to the General Fund from the receipts of the income tax . 2,350,000 00 1301-54 For the reimbursement of certain cities and towns for a part of the expenses of maintaining agricultural and industrial vocational schools as provided by law . 3,786,958 00 1301-55 For reimbursement of certain cities and towns for adult English-speaking classes . 95,000 00 1301-56 For the reimbursement of certain towns for the transportation of pupils, as authorized by section eight A of chapter seventy- Item four of the General Laws; provided, that a sum equivalent to the payments under this item shall be transferred to the General Fund from the receipts of the income tax $61,111 00 1302-01 For a summer school to be conducted at Hyannis or elsewhere, with the approval of the commissioner of education . . 7,930 00 Total......$6,937,534 00 School Building Assistance Commission. 1303-01 For the school building assistance commission $62,615 00 1303-05 For reimbursement of certain cities and towns for part of the cost of construction of school projects, as authorized by chapter six hundred and forty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-eight as amended, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose; provided, that a sum equivalent to the payments under this item be transferred to the General Fund from the receipts of the income tax...... 2,600,000 00 Total......$2,662,615 00 Community School Lunch Program. 1305-01 For the community school lunch program, including not more than twenty-two permanent positions ... $93,014 00 1305-05 For partial assistance in the furnishing of lunches to school children, as authorized by chapter five hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one; provided, that notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, reimbursements so authorized to be paid from state funds shall not exceed fifty per cent of the total reimbursement authorized by the national school lunch act; and, further provided, that a sum equivalent to the payments under this item shall be transferred to the General Fund from the receipts of the income tax..... 1,200,000 00 Total......$1,293,014 00 Division of Vocational Education. 1307-01 For the training of teachers for vocational schools, to comply with the requirement of federal authorities under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes act, so called, including not more than thirty-three permanent positions......$99,350 00 Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. 1309-01 For the expenses of promotion of vocational rehabilitation in co-operation with the federal government ..... $155,000 00 1309-02 For aid to certain persons receiving instruction in the courses for vocational rehabilitation, as authorized by section twenty-two B of chapter seventy-four of the General Laws......$11,000 00 Total......$166,000 00 Education of Deaf and Blind Pupils. 1311-01 For education of deaf and blind pupils of the commonwealth, as provided by sections twenty-six and twenty-eight of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws . . $1,104,500 00 Division of University Extension. 1313-01 For the university extension courses, including not more than forty permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars from the Veterans' Services Fund . $323,995 00 1313-05 For English-speaking classes for adults, including not more than two permanent positions...... 9,050 00 Total......$333,045 00 Division of Immigration and Americanization. 1315-01 For the service of the division, including not more than nineteen permanent positions . $84,508 00 Division of Public Libraries. 1316-01 For the service of the division, including not more than twenty-five permanent positions $108,690 00 Division of the Blind. 1317-01 For general administration and for instruction of the adult blind in their homes, including not more than sixty-five permanent positions......$255,125 00 1317-08 For aiding the adult blind, subject to the conditions provided by law, including the cost of certain medical assistance and supplies, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 1,108,800 00 1317-10 For expenses of administering and operating the service of piano tuning under section twenty-five of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws..... 25,000 00 1317-11 For the operation of local shops, including not more than eleven permanent positions 159,587 00 1317-13 For the operation of the Woolson House industries, including not more than three permanent positions .... 93,830 00 1317-15 For the operation of the salesroom and other expenses in connection with the sale of materials made by blind persons, includ- ing not more than four permanent positions ....... $37,760 00 1317-16 For the operation of certain industries for men, including not more than seven permanent positions . . . 341,895 00 1317-17 For the operation of a workshop for the blind in the city of Springfield, as authorized by chapter six hundred and sixty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, including not more than two permanent positions .... 31,990 00 1317-28 For the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of the blind in co-operation with the federal government .... 15,000 00 Total......$2,068,987 00 Teachers' Retirement Board. 1319-01 For the service of the board, including not more than thirty permanent positions . $109,740 00 1319 04 For reimbursement of certain cities and towns for pensions to retired teachers, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose .... 1,475,000 00 1319-08 For the payment of the commonwealth's share in financing the teachers' retirement system, as provided by chapter thirty-two of the General Laws as amended 6,612,000 00 Total......$8,196,740 00 1327-01 1327-10 Massachusetts Maritime Academy. For administration, including not more than two permanent positions For maintenance of the academy and ship, including not more than forty-nine permanent positions, with the approval of the commissioner of education 1327-20 For the maintenance of the property at Hy-annis, including not more than six permanent positions, with the approval of the commissioner of education Total...... $10,905 00 329,820 00 24,755 00 $365,480 00 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the following state teachers' colleges, and the boarding halls attached thereto, with the approval of Vie commissioner of education: 1330-01 State teachers' college at Bridgewater, including not more than eighty-two permanent positions ..... $455,658 00 1330- 21 State teachers' college at Bridgewater, board- ing hall, including not more than thirty-two permanent positions . . 167,620 00 1331- 01 State teachers' college at Fitchburg, including not more than seventy-four permanent positions...... 424,880 00 1331-21 State teachers' college at Fitchburg, boarding hall, including not more than eleven permanent positions ..... 94,475 00 Item 1331-25 1332- 01 1332-21 1332-31 Special: For certain boiler plant renovations . $66,000 00 State teachers' college at Framingharn, including not more than eighty permanent positions...... 346,579 00 State teachers' college at Framingharn, boarding hall, including not more than thirty permanent positions ..... 140,515 00 For the centennial celebration at the state teachers' college at Framingharn . . 1,000 00 Special: 1332- 36 For the renovation of the heating system, Crocker hall...... 10,000 00 1333- 01 State teachers' college at Lowell, including not more than fifty permanent positions . 211,405 00 1334- 01 State teachers' college at North Adams, in- cluding not more than thirty-six permanent positions...... 146,785 00 1334- 21 State teachers' college at North Adams, boarding hall, including not more than five permanent positions .... 23,690 00 1335- 01 State teachers' college at Salem, including not more than sixty-one permanent positions ....... 294,820 00 Special: 1335- 39 For the purchase of certain land; provided, that no payment shall be made hereunder until an independent appraisal of the value of said land has been made . . . 5,000 00 1336- 01 State teachers' college at Westfield, including not more than thirty-nine permanent positions ...... 159,705 00 1336- 21 State teachers' college at Westfield, boarding hall, including not more than two permanent positions ..... 7,815 00 1337- 01 State teachers' college at Worcester, including not more than fifty-four permanent positions ....... 230,095 00 1337- 31 1338- 01 1339-01 Special: For resurfacing certain floors 5,000 00 State teachers' college at Boston, including not more than sixty-four permanent positions ....... 372,436 00 Massachusetts school of art, including not more than thirty-three permanent positions .......213,621 00 Total......$3,377,099 00 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the following textile institutes, with the approval of the commissioner of education and the trustees thereof: 1340-01 Bradford Durfee technical institute, including not more than thirty-one permanent positions, and including the sum of ten thousand dollars which is to be assessed upon the city of Fall River as a part of Item the charges to be paid by said city to the commonwealth in the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-three . 1342-01 New Bedford textile institute, including not more than thirty-four permanent positions, and including the sum of ten thousand dollars which is to be assessed upon the city of New Bedford as a part of the charges to be paid by said city to the commonwealth in the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-three Total Lowell Technological Institute of Massachusetts. 1345-01 For the maintenance of the Lowell Technological Institute of Massachusetts, with the approval of the trustees, including not more than one hundred and thirty permanent positions, and including the sum of ten thousand dollars which is to be assessed upon the city of Lowell as a part of the charges to be paid by said city to the commonwealth in the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-three; provided, that said institute is hereby authorized to conduct a summer school at no expense to the commonwealth, and for said purpose the institute may receive and expend income derived therefrom . • . $801,488 00 Special: 1345-38 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 1332-38 of section two of chapter eight hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. Total......$801,488 00 $208,860 00 205,785 00 $414,645 00 University of Massachrisetts. 1350-01 For the maintenance of the University of Massachusetts, with the approval of the trustees, including not more than eight hundred and seventy-three permanent positions; provided, that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the salary of the president of the University of Massachusetts for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, shall be paid according to schedules as shown by the files of the joint committee on ways and means, a copy of which was filed with the division of personnel and standardization on November twentieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-one; and, further provided, that notwithstanding the limitation of section four of chapter seven hundred and fifteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, authorization is hereby granted to allow payment from this account of the increase provided under said chapter seven hundred and fifteen to all employees at the University of Massachusetts classified under sections forty-five to fifty, inclusive, of chapter thirty of the General Laws, as amended . $5,460,480 00 Special: 1350-21 For expenses in connection with research Erojects for which the commonwealth will e fully reimbursed by the federal government, with the approval of the commission on administration and finance, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 50,000 00 1350-96 For certain scholarships at the University of Massachusetts, as authorized by chapter five hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one . 25,000 00 Special: 1350-98 For the purchase of certain land; provided, that no payment shall be made hereunder until an independent appraisal of the value of said land has been made 5,000 00 1350-99 For a payment to the town of Amherst for the purpose of purchasing certain fire apparatus in co-operation with the town and Amherst College, provided that the town shall assume all responsibility for the maintenance and operation of said fire apparatus 11,500 00 Total......$5,551,980 00 Yovth Service Board. 1380-01 For administration of the youth service board, as authorized by chapter six hundred and five of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two, including not more than sixty-five permanent positions . $480,500 00 1380-10 For reimbursement of cities and towns for tuition of children attending the public schools...... 11,000 00 Total......$491,500 00 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the institutions under the control of the youth service board, with the approval of said board; provided, that permanent employees in the farm quotas of said institutions whose positions are abolished as of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, shall be transferred to positions in the service of the commonwealth of equal or lower grade, as established by the division of personnel, regardless of whether or not the title is similar, upon request of the appointing authority of the department to which the employee is to be transferred and with the consent of the employee. Such transfer shall be with- Item 1381-01 1382- 01 1383- 01 1383- 22 1384- 01 out loss of seniority, retirement, civil service or other rights: Industrial school for boys, including not more than one hundred and twelve permanent positions..... $479,180 00 Industrial school for girls, including not more than fifty-one permanent positions . . 308,410 00 Lyman school for boys, including not more than one hundred and thirty-seven permanent positions..... 710,710 00 Special: For the replacement of certain water mains 50,000 00 For the operation of a detention home, including not more than six permanent positions ....... Total .... Total, Youth Service Board Total, Department of Education 126,285 00 . $1,674,585 00 . $2,166,085 00 . $35,731,760 00 Service of the Department of Civil Service and Registration. Division of Civil Service. 1402-01 For the salary of the director and for the compensation of members of the commission . $33,400 00 1402-02 For the service of the division, including not more than two hundred and one permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars from the Highway Fund..... 763,560 00 1402-21 For expenses of hearings, as authorized bisection one of chapter six hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five..... 2,500 00 Total......$799,460 00 Division of Registration. 1403-01 For the salary of the director . . . $5,000 00 1403-02 For the service of the division, including not more than forty-four permanent positions 201,910 00 Total...... $206,910 00 For the service of the folloinng agencies in the division: 1404- 01 Board of registration in medicine, including not more than seven permanent positions $6,800 00 1405- 01 Board of dental examiners, including not more than five permanent positions . 4,800 00 1406- 01 Board of registration in chiropody, including not more than five permanent positions . 2,800 00 1407- 01 Board of registration in pharmacy, including not more than nine permanent positions . 25,730 00 1408- 01 Board of registration of nurses, including not more than ten permanent positions . . 4,405 00 Item 1409- 01 Board of registration in embalming and fu- neral directing, including not more than three permanent positions . . . $6,400 00 1410- 01 Board of registration in optometry, including not more than five permanent positions . 2,250 00 1411- 01 Board of registration in veterinary medicine, including not more than five permanent positions...... 2,300 00 1412- 01 Board of registration of professional engineers and land surveyors .... 3,760 00 1413- 01 Board of registration of architects, including not more than five permanent positions . 2,575 00 1414- 01 Board of registration of certified public ac- countants, including not more than five permanent positions .... 7,700 00 1416- 01 State examiners of electricians, including not more than two permanent positions . 7,000 00 1417- 01 State examiners of plumbers, including not more than three permanent positions . 5,600 00 1420- 01 Board of registration of barbers, including not more than eight permanent positions . 31,940 00 1421- 01 Board of registration of hairdressers, includ- ing not more than seventeen permanent positions...... 67,090 00 Total......$181,150 00 Total, Department of Civil Service and Registration.....$1,187,520 00 Service of the Department of Labor and Industries. 1601-01 For general administration, including not more than twelve permanent positions 1603-01 For the division of industrial inspection, including not more than sixty-seven permanent positions ..... 1605-01 For the division of occupational hygiene, including not more than fifteen permanent positions ...... 1607-01 For the division of statistics, including not more than thirty-six permanent positions . 1609-01 For administration of the division on necessaries of life, including not more than five permanent positions .... 1609-05 For administration, by said division, of sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five O, inclusive, of chapter ninety-four of the General Laws, relating to the advertising and sale of motor fuel at retail, including not more than twelve permanent positions 1611-01 For the board of conciliation and arbitration, including not more than eighteen permanent positions ..... 1613-01 For the commission on minimum wage and for expenses of wage boards, including not more than thirty-four permanent positions 1615-01 For the division of standards, including not more than fifteen permanent positions Total...... $71,710 00 316,490 00 69,252 00 134,835 00 21,550 00 54,688 00 99,804 00 130,622 00 80,602 00 $979,553 00 Massachusetts Development and Industrial Commission. Item 617-01 For the service of the commission, including not more than twelve permanent positions $184,945 00 Labor Relations Commission. 1619-01 For the service of the commission, including not more than twenty permanent positions $102,595 00 Division of Industrial Accidents. 1651-01 For personal services of members of the board, including not more than nine permanent positions ..... 1651-02 For the service of the board, including not more than one hundred and twenty-five permanent positions; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of chapter six hundred and thirty of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two, the board shall provide such clerical service from time to time as may be required by the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission 1651-05 For expenses of impartial examinations for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and the previous year .... 1651-06 For the compensation of certain public employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and for previous years, as provided by section sixty-nine of chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the General Laws; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars from the Highway Fund $73,000 00 628,550 00 71,500 00 Total 450,000 00 . $1,223,050 00 Division of Self-Insurance. 1651-21 For the service of the division, including not more than six permanent positions, as authorized by chapter sixty of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five $28,030 00 Total, Department of Labor and Industries ......$2,518,173 00 Service of the Department of Mental Health. 1701-01 For the salary of the commissioner . . $15,000 00 1701-02 For administration, including not more than one hundred and two permanent positions, and including transportation, medical examinations and boarding out of patients and certain feeble-minded persons; provided, that the position of supervisor of laundry service shall not be subject to the civil service laws and rules . . 664,641 00 Total......$679,641 00 Division of Mental Hygiene. Item 1702-00 For the service of the division, including not more than eighty-two permanent positions $420,405 00 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the following institutions under the control of the department of mental health: 1710-00 Boston psychopathic hospital, including not more than one hundred and ninety-three permanent positions .... 873,654 00 Special: 1710-21 For the replacement of certain sash, to be in addition to the amount appropriated in item 1710-21 of section two of chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two 11,000 00 Special: 1710- 22 For certain renovations to the kitchen and dining room, including the cost of furnishings and equipment .... 25,000 00 1711- 00 Boston state hospital, including not more than seven hundred and seventy-two permanent positions ..... 3,709,358 00 Special: 1711-22 For the replacement of certain sash, to be in addition to the amount appropriated in item 1711-22 of section two of chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two . . 25,000 00 Special: 1711-23 For the replacement and repair of certain steam lines...... 55,000 00 Special: 1711- 24 For the replacement of the power plant roof 22,000 00 1712- 00 Danvers state hospital, including not more than six hundred and fifty-five permanent positions......2,818,512 00 1713- 00 Foxborough state hospital, including not more than four hundred and fifteen permanent positions ..... 1,756,819 00 1714- 00 Gardner state hospital, including not more than four hundred and twenty-two permanent positions ..... 1,852,590 00 1715- 00 Grafton state hospital, including not more than five hundred and thirty-seven permanent positions ..... 2,337,875 00 Special: 1715- 21 For certain renovations to the sewage disposal system....... 60,000 00 1716- 00 Medfield state hospital, including not more than five hundred and thirty permanent positions...... 2,155,193 00 Special: 1716-23 For certain improvements to the power plant 80,000 00 Special: 1716- 24 For the replacement of certain steam lines . $10,000 00 1717- 00 Metropolitan state hospital, including not more than five hundred and seventy permanent positions ..... 2,375,835 00 Special: 1717-29 For the purchase and installation of certain screens, to be in addition to the amount appropriated in item 1717-29 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two 10,000 00 Special: 1717- 30 For certain renovations to the medical and surgical building ..... 1718- 00 Northampton state hospital, including not more than five hundred and twenty-nine permanent positions .... 1719- 00 Taunton state hospital, including not more than five hundred and thirty-eight permanent positions ..... Special: 1719- 24 For certain renovations to the refrigeration system ....... 1720- 00 Westborough state hospital, including not more than six hundred and thirty-three permanent positions .... 1721- 00 Worcester state hospital, including not more than six hundred and eighty-three permanent positions ..... 1722- 00 Monson state hospital, including not more than five hundred and six permanent positions ....... 40,000 00 2,491,404 00 2,394,390 00 32,000 00 2,564,625 00 3,034,748 00 2,154,065 00 Special: 1722-22 For the replacement of certain steam lines, to be in addition to the amount appropriated in item 1722-22 of section two of chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two 20,000 00 Special: 1722-24 For certain rewiring for fire protection, to be in addition to the amount appropriated in item 7717-39 of section two of chapter seven hundred and fifty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one 35,000 00 Special: 1722-25 For fire protection improvements in the women's hospital, men's hospital and women's cottage ..... 10,000 00 Special: 1722- 26 For the renovation of the refrigeration sys- tem ....... 42,000 00 1723- 00 Belchertown state school, including not more than three hundred and eighty-two permanent positions ..... 1,727,238 00 1723-21 This item included in item 1723-00. Item Special: 1723-22 For the purchase and installation of detention screens and guards .... Special: 1723- 23 For the renovation of the milk processing sys- tem, including the purchase and installation of cooling equipment and certain alterations to the boiler plant 1724- 00 Walter E. Fernald state school, including not more than seven hundred and fifty-eight permanent positions Special: 1724-22 For the repairs to and renovation of certain roofs and gutters, Waverly Special: 1724-23 For the renovation of the refrigeration and food storage facilities at the storehouse Special: 1724- 24 For certain rewiring for fire protection 1725- 00 Wrentham state school, including not more than five hundred and sixteen permanent positions ...... Special: 1725- 21 For certain improvements in the surface drainage system, to be in addition to the amount appropriated in item 1725-21 of section two or chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two ..... 1726- 00 Myles Standish state school, including not more than four hundred and ninety-one permanent positions .... Total..... $30,000 00 17,000 00 2,970,363 00 20,000 00 26,000 00 15,000 00 2,185,018 00 7,500 00 2,052,420 00 $40,046,607 00 Total, Department of Mental Health . $41,146,653 00 Service of the Department of Correction. For the salary of the commissioner $8,000 00 For administration, including not more than forty-three permanent positions; provided, that the persons employed under the division of classification of prisoners shall not be subject to the civil service laws and rules....... 206,400 00 For the operation of prison camps, as authorized by chapter seven hundred and fifty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, including not more than twelve permanent positions . . . 94,240 00 Non-Contributory Pensions: 1801-21 For the compensation of certain prison officers and instructors formerly in the service of the commonwealth, now retired . 60,000 00 1801-01 1801-02 1801-05 Total $368,640 00 Parole Board. Item 1805-01 For the service of the board, including not more than forty permanent positions $205,415 00 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the following institutions under the control of the department of correction: 1810-01 State farm, including not more than four hundred and seventy-two permanent positions .......$2,443,591 00 1812-01 State prison, including not more than one hundred and sixty-four permanent positions ....... 954,390 00 1814-01 Massachusetts reformatory, including not more than two hundred and four permanent positions 1,177,690 00 1814-21 For certain rewiring, including the purchase and installation of fixtures 61,000 00 1814-22 For the renovation of plumbing . . 35,000 00 1816-01 Reformatory for women, including not more than one hundred and thirty-eight permanent positions 689,615 00 1816-21 For the renovation of certain wiring for fire protection...... 6,000 00 1818-01 State prison colony, including not more than two hundred and thirty-four permanent positions...... 1,295,082 00 1818-22 For the renovation of the electrical distribution system....... 8,000 00 Total......$6,670,368 00 Total, Department of Correction . . $7,244,423 00 Service of the Department of Public Welfare. 1901-01 For the salary of the commissioner 1901-03 For administration of the program of old age assistance provided by chapter one hundred and eighteen A of the General Laws, as amended, and for the office of the commissioner and expenses of the department of public welfare, including not more than five hundred and forty-one permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of six hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars from the Old Age Assistance Fund; and, provided further, that any revenue resulting from the administration of old age assistance shall be credited to the Old Age Assistance Fund 1901-22 This item included in item 1305-01. Total...... The following items are for rcimbursem,ent of cities and toums and for certain other purposes, and are to be in addition to any unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for the purpose: $10,000 00 2,245,045 00 $2,255,045 00 Item 1904-10 For the payment of suitable aid to certain dependent children .... 1904-11 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 1904-11 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. 1904-12 For expenses in connection with smallpox and other diseases dangerous to the public health ....... 1904-13 For the support of sick indigent persons who have no legal settlement 1904-14 For temporary aid given by cities and towns to indigent persons with no legal settlement, and to shipwrecked seamen, and for the transportation of indigent persons under the charge of the department 1904-16 For administrative cost and for the reimbursement of cities and towns for total and permanent disability assistance, as provided by chapter one hundred and eighteen D of the General Laws, and for payments made in accordance with section three of said chapter one hundred and eighteen D ..... $5,900,000 00 350,000 00 350,000 00 1,750,000 00 Total 2,500,000 00 . $10,850,000 00 Division of Child Guardianship. 1906-04 For the care and maintenance of children under the jurisdiction of the division of child guardianship, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose......$2,154,500 00 1906-05 For tuition in the public schools, including transportation to and from school, of children boarded by the department, for the twelve months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-three . 500,000 00 Total......$2,654,500 00 Massachusetts Hospital School. 1918-00 For the maintenance of the Massachusetts hospital school, including not more than one hundred and eighty-eight permanent positions......$860,247 00 Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary. 1919-00 For the maintenance of the Tewksbury state hospital and infirmary, including not more than seven hundred and seven permanent positions.....$2,988,028 00 Special: 1919-22 For certain furnishings, employees' quarters, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . . 7,500 00 Item Special: 1919-26 For the renovation of certain roofs . $15,000 00 Special: 1919-27 For the renovation of certain flooring . . 10,000 00 Total...... $3,020,528 00 Total, Department of Public Welfare . $19,640,320 00 Service of the Department of Public Health. Bureau of Administration. 2001-01 For the salary of the commissioner . $12,500 00 2001-02 For the service of the division of administration, including not more than forty-two permanent positions .... 187,181 00 Total...... $199,681 00 Bureau of Institutions. 2010-01 For the service of the division of tuberculosis and sanatoria, including not more than twenty-eight permanent positions . $222,760 00 2010-05 For the payment of subsidies for tubercular patients in certain hospitals . . 450,000 00 2010-10 For the service of the division of biologic laboratories, including not more than one hundred and nine permanent positions . 585,810 00 2010-20 This item included in item 2010-01. 2010-30 For the service of the division of hospitals, including not more than sixteen permanent positions...... 84,720 00 2010-40 For the service of the division of chronic diseases, including not more than seventeen permanent positions .... 143,875 00 2010-60 For a heart disease control program . 15,000 00 Total......$1,502,165 00 Bureau of Environmental Sanitation. 2015-01 For the service of the bureau, including not more than ninety-nine permanent positions .......$502,970 00 Special: 2015-24 For expenses in connection with the moving of the water laboratory .... 7,000 00 Total...... $509,970 00 Bureau of Preventive Medicine. 2020-01 For the service of the division of preventive medicine, including not more than fifty-four permanent positions . . $344,045 00 2020-10 For the service of the division of communicable diseases, including not more than nineteen permanent positions . 384,898 00 Item 2020-30 2022- 00 2023- 00 2024- 00 2025- 00 2025- 22 2026- 00 2031-00 For the operation of alcoholic clinics in the out-patient departments of certain general hospitals ...... Total For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the following institutions under the control of the department of public health: Lakeville state sanatorium, including not more than two hundred and twenty-five permanent positions North Reading state sanatorium, including not more than two hundred and two permanent positions ..... Rutland state sanatorium, including not more than two hundred and forty-nine permanent positions ..... Westfield state sanatorium, including not more than two hundred and seventy-five permanent positions .... Special: For certain improvements to the power plant and electrical distribution system Lemuel Shattuck hospital, including not more than three permanent positions Pondville hospital, including not more than two hundred and forty-five permanent positions ...... Total...... $93,125 00 $822,068 00 $914,906 00 823,962 00 1,020,682 00 1,188,738 00 86,000 00 103,300 00 1,061,428 00 $5,199,016 00 Total, Department of Public Health . $8,232,900 00 Service of the Department of Public Safety. 2101-01 For the salary of the commissioner . $10,000 00 2101-02 For administration, including not more than eighty-two permanent positions . 320,145 00 Total......$330,145 00 Division of State Police. 2102- 04 For expert assistance to the commissioner, and for maintenance of laboratories, including not more than ten permanent positions $49,050 00 Division of Fire Prevention. 2103- 01 For the fire prevention service, including not more than twenty-five permanent positions $153,670 00 Division of Inspection. 2104- 01 For administration, including not more than one permanent position .... $9,105 00 2104-11 For the building inspection service, including not more than thirty-one permanent positions ....... 172,610 00 Item 2104-21 For the boiler inspection service, including not more than twenty-six permanent positions ....... $145,070 00 2104-31 For the board of boiler rules, including not more than four permanent positions . 2,200 00 Total......$328,985 00 State Boxing Commission. 2105-11 For the service of the commission, including not more than five permanent positions . $28,050 00 Board of Standards. 2106-01 For the service of the board, including not more than seven permanent positions . $4,650 00 Board of Elevator Regulations. 2107-01 For the service of the board, including not more than seven permanent positions . $4,600 00 Board of Fire Prevention Regulations. 2108-01 For the service of the board, including not more than six permanent positions . $3,650 00 Total, Department of Public-Safety . $902,800 00 Service of the Department of Public Works. Division of Waterways. 2202-03 For administration, including not more than fifty-three permanent positions; provided, that an amount equal to the expenditures for personal services properly chargeable to item 2202-05, as certified by the director of the division, shall be credited as revenue to the General Fund .... $228,615 00 2202-05 For the improvement, development, maintenance and protection of rivers, harbors, tidewaters and foreshores within the commonwealth, as authorized by section eleven of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws; and of great ponds; and any unexpended balance of the appropriation remaining on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-three may be expended in the succeeding fiscal year; provided, that all expenditures for work undertaken hereunder, excepting the entire cost of the surveys and the preparation of preliminary plans, shall be upon condition that at least fifty per cent of the cost is covered by contributions from municipalities or other organizations and individuals, except that in the case of dredging channels for harbor improvements at least twenty-five per cent of the cost shall be so covered; and, provided further, that the department of public works is hereby authorized to enter and construct on private land such works as may be necessary to secure and protect sea walls already built.....$100,000 00 2202-06 For the maintenance and repair of certain property in the town of Plymouth, including not more than two permanent positions ....... 8,540 00 2202-07 For the operation and maintenance of the New Bedford state pier, including not more than nine permanent positions . 27,326 00 2202-09 For the maintenance of structures and for repairing damages along the coast line or river banks of the commonwealth, and for the removal of wrecks and other obstructions from tidewaters and great ponds; and for the improvement, development, maintenance and protection of rivers, harbors, tidewaters and foreshores within the commonwealth as authorized by section eleven of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws, and of great ponds; provided, that no contributions from municipalities or other organizations and individuals shall be required; to be in addition to any unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for the purpose 75,000 00 2202-20 For the care and maintenance of the province lands and of the lands acquired and structures erected by the Provincetown tercentenary commission, including not more than five permanent positions . . 19,445 00 2202-21 For the compensation of dumping inspectors 200 00 2202-22 For re-establishing and permanently marking certain triangulation points and stations, as required by order of the land court in accordance with section thirty-three of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws....... 200 00 2202-23 For expenses of surveying certain town boundaries ...... 250 00 2202-24 For the operation of the bathhouse and services connected therewith at the province lands.......9,715 00 Special: 2220-21 For the continuation of a survey of the great ponds of the commonwealth, including the rights of way thereto, as authorized by chapter twenty-eight of the resolves of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose .... 10,000 00 2220-27 The unexpended balance remaining in item 2220-27 of section two of chapter eight hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. Total, Department of Public Works $479,291 00 Service of the Department of Public Utilities. Item 2301-01 For personal services of the commissioners, including not more than five permanent positions......$46,500 00 2301-02 For administration, including not more than seventy permanent positions . . 369,730 00 2301-09 For hearings and special investigations; provided, that no salaries or expenses of permanent employees shall be chargeable to this item...... 30,000 00 2301-11 For the administration of certain rules and regulations, as authorized by section seventy-five E of chapter one hundred and sixty-four of the General Laws, pertaining to the construction and operation of natural gas pipe lines in the commonwealth . 20,000 00 2301-24 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 2301-24 contained in chapter one hundred and twelve of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-three is hereby reappropriated. Total......$466,230 00 Commercial Motor Vehicle Division. 2304-01 For the service of the division, including not more than thirty-two permanent positions $155,240 00 Securities Division. 2308-01 For the service of the division, including not more than nine permanent positions Total, Department of Public Utilities Interest and Redemption of Debt. 2410-00 For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the commonwealth, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and previous years, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2951-00, 3180-02 and 3590-02, and to be in addition to any amounts heretofore appropriated for the purpose ..... $1,366,347 00 2420-00 For certain serial bonds maturing during the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2952-00, 3180-01 and 3590-03 . 7,488,800 00 Total, Interest and Redemption of Debt 8,855,147 00 Annuities and Payments. 2805-01 For the payment of certain annuities and pensions of soldiers and others under the provisions of certain acts and resolves . $16,000 00 2805-02 For payment of any claims, as authorized by section eighty-nine of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, for allowances to the $42,010 00 $663,480 00 Item families of certain employees killed or fatally injured in the discharge of their duties $24,000 00 Total...... $40,000 00 Non-Contributory Pensions. 2811-02 For the compensation of veterans who may be retired by the governor under the provisions of sections fifty-six to fifty-nine, inclusive, of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, and for the cost of medical examinations in connection therewith . Total...... $1,100,000 00 $1,100,000 00 Miscellaneous. 2820-02 For payment, with the approval of the comptroller, of expenses for which no funds or insufficient funds were allotted or reserved; provided, that such expenses were not in excess of the appropriation account . $25,000 00 2820-03 For certain claims, as authorized by chapters four and nine of the resolves of the current year..... 2,295 00 2820-06 For reimbursement of persons for funds previously deposited in the treasury of the commonwealth and escheated to the commonwealth ...... 5,000 00 2820-08 For the payment of certain claims, as provided by chapter seven hundred and thirty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five, as amended, with the approval of the state treasurer, where payment has otherwise been prevented as a result of the application of section thirty-two of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws 1,000 00 2820-09 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 2820-09 of section one of chapter five hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. Total, Miscellaneous .... $33,295 00 APPROPRIATIONS MADE FROM THE HIGHWAY FUND. Service of the Department of Public Works. Highway Activities. Expenditures made from the following appropriations for highway activities shall be coded according to a system established by the department of public works and the comptroller, with the approval of the joint committee on ways and means: 2900-01 For the salaries of the commissioner and the associate commissioners, including not more than three permanent positions $31,000 00 Item 2900-02 For administration and engineering in connection with all highway activities, for the offices of the commissioner, department secretary, personnel officer and business agent, including telephone service in the public works building; and for the payment of damages caused by defects in state highways, with the approval of the attorney general and including not more than two thousand seven hundred and eighty-four permanent positions, partly chargeable to this item and to other highway activity accounts as determined by the commissioner; provided, that amounts made available by this item in any fiscal year shall be available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year . . $7,740,000 00 2900-04 For the maintenance and repair of state highways and bridges, traffic signs and signals, including the cost of snow and ice control on state highways and town roads and including traffic safety devices on town and city ways as the department may deem necessary; for work for which the Highway Fund is reimbursed other than work in connection with the projects included in federal aid programs; and for the purchase, construction and repair of shelters for departmental equipment and material, the cost of which is less than ten thousand dollars for each project; provided, that amounts made available by this item in any fiscal year shall be available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year . 12,150,000 00 2900-07 For the construction, improvement and maintenance by the department of public works of public roads in state forests, parks and reservations outside of the Metropolitan Parks districts, as authorized by chapter five hundred and sixty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two, as amended, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 100,000 00 2900-12 For projects for improving state highways and through routes, including bridges, and including construction and reconstruction, it being the intent of the general court that state highways shall be made continuous whether or not sections to be made state highways require construction work; and upon agreement with city or town officials, for construction of needed improvements on other through routes not designated as state highways and without acceptance by the commonwealth of responsibility for maintenance; provided, that any portion of the sum appropriated herein may be used in conjunction with city or town funds; and, provided further, that amounts made available by this item in any fiscal year shall be available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year . 1,500,000 00 2900-17 For projects for the construction and maintenance of town and county ways, as pro- Item vided in subdivision two (a) of section thirty-four of chapter ninety of the General Laws; provided, that amounts made available by this item in any fiscal year shall be available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year; and, further provided, that not less than three hundred thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated shall be available for maintenance projects on said town and county ways . . . $5,000,000 00 2900-18 For aiding cities and towns in the repair and improvement of public ways, as provided by section twenty-six of chapter eighty-one of the General Laws; except, that the state's contribution shall be at an annual rate not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five dollars per mile for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, the provisions of chapter six hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five and chapter seven hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-nine notwithstanding; and, provided, that the amount appropriated for the purpose in any fiscal year shall be available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year . 2,600,000 00 2900-28 The unexpended balance remaining in item 2900-28 of section two of chapter eight hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. Special: 2900-33 Item 2900-33 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby amended by inserting in line nine after the semicolon the words: - and, further provided, that an additional sum not to exceed eighty-five thousand dollars may be expended for the purpose from item 7629-01 of section two of chapter six hundred and four of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two;. Special: 2900-38 For expenses in connection with research and investigational work to be done on a cooperative basis with the Massachusetts 2900^15 This item included in item 2900-02. 2900-55 The existence of the public work stores and equipment account, established by items 2900-50 and 2900-55 of section two of chapter sixty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-three, is hereby continued for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four under the terms and conditions prescribed by said items of said chapter sixty-eight; provided, that the total amount to be expended for capital outlay for the purchase of equipment from this account in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four shall not exceed one million dollars. Institute of Technology . 30,000 00 Item 2900-61 For the compensation of former employees of the department of public works, now retired, as authorized by chapter four hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-eight .... $30,000 00 2900-80 For the operation and maintenance of the public works building, including not more than eighty-four permanent positions . 381,725 00 2900-91 The unexpended balance remaining in item 2900-91 of section two of chapter four hundred and ninety of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. Special: 2900-92 For certain repairs and improvements at the public works building .... 75,000 00 Total, Department of Public Works . $29,637,725 00 Service of the Registry of Motor Vehicles. 2924-01 For the service of the registry, including not more than seven hundred and ninety permanent positions ..... $4,057,500 00 Total, Registry of Motor Vehicles . $4,057,500 00 Service of the Department of Public Safety. Division of State Police. 2926-01 For the service of the division, including not more than four hundred and ninety-six permanent positions .... $2,698,327 00 2926-11 For the compensation of state police officers formerly in the service of the commonwealth, now retired .... 55,000 00 The comptroller is hereby authorized to transfer to the Highway Fund the sum of six hundred and eighty-five thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars from the General Fund and the sum of thirty thousand dollars from the Old Age Assistance Fund on account of the above two items. Total, Department of Public Safety . $2,753,327 00 Service of the Metropolitan District Commission. The following items are to be paid with the approval of the Metropolitan District Commission: 2931-01 For general administration, including not more than sixty permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the Highway Fund seventy-five per cent of the cost of payments made under this item from the Metropolitan District Commission Funds, to be assessed by methods fixed by law . $282,105 00 Item 2931-02 2931-03 2931-04 2931-06 Special: For certain waterproofing at the metropolitan district commission building . Special: For certain roof repairs, metropolitan district commission building The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 2931-04 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. For the maintenance of boulevards and parkways, including the installation of traffic lights and including Bunker Hill and the property adjacent, and for the maintenance of parks reservations and the Charles River basin, including the retirement of metropolitan police and veterans under the provisions of the General Laws, and including not more than eight hundred and ninety-five permanent positions; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the Highway Fund proportions of payments made under this item, as provided by section fifty-five of chapter ninety-two of the General Laws .... Special: 2931-12 For the construction of a certain sea wall, Lynn Shore Reservation, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose ...... Special: 2931-44 For the installation of certain street lights, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . Special: 2931-56 For certain shore protection, Wollaston Beach ....... Special: 2931-58 To replace certain water mains, William J. Day boulevard ..... Special: 2931-59 For the reconstruction of Aberjona bridge . Special: 2931-61 For the replacement of the police alarm system, Middlesex Fells station . Special: or certa: bridge, Mystic River 2931-63 For" certain riprapping work at Wellington • Riv Special: 2931 -64 For the construction of a sea wall, Winthrop Shore Reservation ..... Special: 2931-65 For the reconstruction of Winthrop Avenue bridge, Revere Beach Parkway $20,000 00 6,600 00 5,334,405 00 15,000 00 50,000 00 50,000 00 14,000 00 20,000 00 10,000 00 20,000 00 150,000 00 30,000 00 Item Special: 2931-66 For steel guard rails along the Charles River and other roadways .... $15,000 00 Total, Metropolitan District Commission $6,017,110 00 Interest and Redemption of Debt. 2951- 00 For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the commonwealth, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and previous years, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2410-00, 3180-02 and 3590-02, and to be in addition to any amounts heretofore appropriated for the purpose......$1,957,752 00 2952- 00 For certain serial bonds maturing during the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2420-00, 3180-01 and 3590-03 . 12,256,000 00 Total, Interest and Redemption of Debt $14,213,752 00 Miscellaneous. 2955- 00 The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the Highway Fund, upon a written request of the budget commissioner, such amounts as ¦ may be available in the Highway Fund to the Highway Improvement Loan account authorized by chapter six hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty and to the Highway Improvement Loan account authorized by chapter five hundred and fifty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two in order to provide, temporarily, funds for the financing of state projects authorized by said acts and to alleviate the necessity of issuing bonds; and the state treasurer shall, on the written request of the budget commissioner, restore to the Highway Fund from said Bond Funds such amounts as had been previously transferred and are required to finance appropriations to be charged against the Highway Fund. 2956- 00 The department of public works and the metropolitan district commission are hereby authorized and directed to initiate programs and prepare plans for projects in addition to projects authorized by chapters three hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-nine, six hundred and eighty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty, and five hundred and fifty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and in addition to projects authorized to be constructed from funds heretofore appropriated or reappropriated in items 2900-10,2900-12, 2900-17, 2900-35, 2900-36 and 2931-04 of sections two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two and of this act; provided, that the estimated cost of such additional projects shall not exceed ninety-two million dollars for the department nor eight million dollars for the commission; and, further provided, that no contract shall be signed for the construction of any such project in excess of funds appropriated therefor. APPROPRIATIONS MADE FROM THE PORT OF BOSTON FUND. Service of the Port of Boston Authority. 3140-01 For expenses of administration, including not more than fifty-eight permanent positions; provided, that no compensation or expenses of consultants for legal services shall be chargeable to this item; and, provided, further, that the positions of executive secretary and site representative shall not be subject to the civil service laws and rules.......$294,040 00 3150-01 For the operation and maintenance of property under the control of the authority, including not more than seventy-four permanent positions..... 317,900 00 Total, Port of Boston Authority . . $611,940 00 Interest and Redemption of Debt. For certain serial bonds maturing during the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2420-00, 2952-00 and 3590-03 . $710,000 00 For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the commonwealth, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and previous years, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2410-00, 2951-00 and 3590-02, and to be in addition to any amounts heretofore appropriated for the purpose .... 74,524 00 Total, Interest and Redemption of Debt $784,524 00 APPROPRIATIONS MADE FROM THE INLAND FISHERIES AND GAME FUND. Service of the Department of Conservation. Division of Fisheries and Game. (It is hereby provided that federal funds received as reimbursements under the following items are to be crediied as income to the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund): 3304-01 For the service of the division, including not more than thirteen permanent positions . $65,463 00 3304-06 For expenses of the board, as authorized by chapter twenty-one of the General Laws . 2,500 00 3180-01 3180-02 Item 3304-31 For expenses of game farms and fish hatcheries, including not more than twenty-four permanent positions . . $492,435 00 3304-42 For the improvement and management of lakes, ponds and rivers, including not more than three permanent positions . . 67,534 00 3304-43 For expenses of an information program . 16,360 00 3304-44 For the contribution of the department of conservation towards a wild life co-operative research project, in accordance with a contract with the federal government, to be expended by the University of Massachusetts ...... 6,000 00 3304-45 For the establishment and maintenance of public fishing grounds, including not more than one permanent position; provided, that none of the money appropriated under this item shall be used for the purchase of land....... 10,030 00 3304-47 For certain stream surveys and inventory work, as authorized by chapter two hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, including not more than two permanent positions 30,115 00 3304-51 For wild life research and management, including not more than six permanent positions....... 85,060 00 3304-53 For expenses of establishing and conducting wild life restoration projects, as authorized by chapter three hundred and ninety-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, including not more than five permanent positions .... 138,906 00 3304-56 For a biological survey of the streams and waters of the commonwealth . . . 5,000 00 Total......$919,403 00 Division of Law Enforcement. 3308-05 For the payment of damages caused by wild deer and wild moose, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and previous years, as provided by law, including not more than one permanent position . . $13,540 00 3308-07 For the supervision of public fishing and hunting grounds..... 8,700 00 Total...... $22,240 00 Total, Department of Conservation . $941,643 00 APPROPRIATIONS MADE FROM THE VETERANS' SERVICES FUND. Service of the Commissioner of Veterans' Services. 3501-01 For personal services of the commissioner and deputies, including not more than three permanent positions .... $19,020 00 Item 3501-02 For the office of the commissioner, including not more than seventy-one permanent positions .....$325,405 00 3501-03 For the payment of annuities to certain disabled war veterans, as authorized by sections six A to six C, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the General Laws . 40,000 00 3501-11 For reimbursing cities and towns for money paid for veterans' benefits, as provided in section six of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the General Laws, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and for previous years, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 3,700,000 00 3501-12 For reimbursing cities and towns for money paid on account of war allowance, state and military aid and soldiers' relief to certain residents of the commonwealth and their dependents, as authorized by chapter eleven of the acts of the special session of nineteen hundred and forty-two, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose .... 60,000 00 Total, Commissioner of Veterans' Services ......$4,144,425 00 Service of the Adjutant General. 3504-21 For the operation of the war records project, so-called...... $22,645 00 3504-25 For expenses of the United Spanish War veterans, as authorized by section sixteen of chapter thirty-three of the General Laws 1,500 00 Total, Adjutant General . . . $24,145 00 Service of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts. 3506-01 For the maintenance of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts, including not more than five hundred and sixty-seven permanent positions......$2,584,560 00 Special: 3506-23 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 3504-38 of section two of chapter eight hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. Special: 3506-35 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 3504-35 of section two of chapter eight hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one is hereby reappropriated. Total, Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts $2,584,560 00 Item 3508-01 Service of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke. For the maintenance of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, including not more than eighty-three permanent positions . . $869,111 00 Total, Soldiers' Home in Holyoke . $869,111 00 Service of the State Housing Board. 3510-01 For the service of the board, including not more than fifteen permanent positions; provided, that all compensation and expenses for legal services shall be by direction and under the control of the attorney general.......$391,300 00 3510-11 For reimbursement to certain cities and towns, as provided by chapter two hundred of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-eight, as amended, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose...... 2,700,000 00 3510-12 For reimbursement to certain cities and towns, as provided by chapter three hundred and seventy-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-six, as amended . 379,255 00 Total, State Housing Board . $3,470,555 00 Service of the Department of the Treasurer and Receiver General. 3512-13 For making payments to soldiers in recognition of service during "World War I and the Spanish War, as provided by law . $750 00 Total, Department of the Treasurer and Receiver General .... $750 00 Service of the Department of the Auditor. 3513-01 For an audit of certain housing authorities, as authorized by chapter six hundred and eighty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-nine..... $69,500 00 Total, Department of the Auditor . $69,500 00 Service of the Department of the Attorney General. 3514-01 For the cost of providing certain legal assistance for the benefit of veterans, their wives and dependents ..... $19,000 00 Total, Department of the Attorney General......$19,000 00 Service of the Department of Education. Item 3516-01 For assistance to children of certain war veterans, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and for previous years, as authorized by section seven B of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws and corresponding provisions of earlier laws . $50,000 00 3516-05 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 3516-05 of section two of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. 3516-22 For certain educational services to certain war veterans ..... 152,000 00 Total, Department of Education . . $202,000 00 Service of the Department of Labor and Industries. Division of Apprentice Training. 3520-01 For the service of the division, including not more than twenty-nine permanent positions; provided, that all of the positions of this division, with the exception of the head clerk, shall not be subject to chapter thirty-one of the General Laws; and, provided further, that the comptroller shall transfer to the Veterans' Services Fund the sum of eighty-three thousand dollars from the General Fund .... $166,348 00 Total, Department of Labor and Industries ......$166,348 00 Miscellaneous. 3530-17 For the representation of the commonwealth at the national convention of the Eighty-eighth Infantry Division Association, as authorized by chapter three of the resolves of the current year . .... $1,000 00 3530-18 To provide for the suitable commemoration of the decoration by the Republic of France during World War II, as authorized by chapter twenty-six of the resolves of the current year ..... 4,000 00 Total, Miscellaneous .... $5,000 00 Interest and Redemption of Debt. 3590-02 For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the commonwealth, for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and previous years, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2410-00, 2951-00 and 3180-02, and to be in addition to any amounts heretofore appropriated for the purpose .... $360,565 00 Item 3590-03 For certain serial bonds maturing during the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four, to be in addition to the amounts appropriated in items 2420-00, 2952-00 and 3180-01 . $13,600,000 00 Total, Interest and Redemption of Debt $13,960,565 00 APPROPRIATIONS PAYABLE FROM REVENUE CREDITED TO THE OLD AGE ASSISTANCE FUND. Service of the Department of Public Welfare. 3601-20 For reimbursement to cities and towns for old age assistance for the year nineteen hundred and fifty-four and previous years, and for payments made in accordance with section one C of chapter one hundred and eighteen A of the General Laws . $35,125,000 00 3601-30 Notwithstanding the provisions of section ten of chapter sixty-four B of the General Laws regulating payments from receipts under said chapter to cities and towns, heretofore made without appropriation, a sum not exceeding two million dollars is hereby appropriated from the Old Age Assistance Fund for such payments, and the total amounts to be paid by the state treasurer on or before November twentieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, from the sum herein appropriated, shall be not less than one million dollars..... 2,000,000 00 Total, Department of Public Welfare . $37,125,000 00 Service of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. 3604-01 For the service of the commission, including not more than sixty-five permanent positions .......$324,683 00 Total, Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission ......$324,683 00 Service of the State Racing Commission. 3605-01 For the service of the commission, including not more than eleven permanent positions; provided, that fees paid to veterinarians for services in connection with horse racing shall not exceed twenty-five dollars per diem, and in connection with dog racing, shall not exceed twenty dollars per diem $167,195 00 Total, State Racing Commission $167,195 00 APPROPRIATION PAYABLE FROM THE AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES FUND. Service of the Department of Agriculture. Division of Plant Pest Control and Fairs. Item 3809-21 For state prizes and agricultural exhibits, including allotment of funds for the 4-H activities, including not more than one permanent position .... $85,000 00 Total, Department of Agriculture . $85,000 00 APPROPRIATIONS PAYABLE FROM THE MOSQUITO CONTROL FUND. Service of the State Reclamation Board. 3901-00 For the maintenance and construction of drainage ditches, as authorized by chapter three hundred and seventy-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-five, to be assessed in the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-three......$60,457 00 3915-00 For the maintenance and construction of drainage ditches, as authorized by chapter four hundred and fifty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five, as amended by chapter seven hundred and thirty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty, to be assessed in the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-three . 52,640 00 Total, State Reclamation Board . . $113,097 00 APPROPRIATIONS PAYABLE FROM THE PARKS AND SALISBURY BEACH RESERVATION FUND. Service of the Department of Conservation. Division of Parks and Recreation. 4010-01 For the service of the division, including not more than eleven permanent positions . $154,709 00 4010-03 For expenses of recreational opportunities in state forests, including not more than thirteen permanent positions . . 170,840 00 4020-01 For the maintenance of Standish monument reservation, including not more than one permanent position .... 3,855 00 4030-01 For the maintenance of Salisbury beach reservation, including not more than two permanent positions ..... 89,144 00 Total, Department of Conservation . $418,548 00 APPROPRIATION PAYABLE FROM THE SMOKE INSPECTION FUND. Service of the Department of Public Utilities. Division of Smoke Inspection. Item 4311-01 For the service of the division, including not more than nine permanent positions . $44,315 00 Total, Department of Public Utilities . $44,315 00 APPROPRIATIONS PAYABLE FROM THE PRISON INDUSTRIES FUND. Service of the Department of Correction. 4901-01 For salaries of persons employed in the department of correction in certain supervisory and administrative work in prison industries, including not more than seven permanent positions; provided, that of the amount herein appropriated, the proportions properly chargeable to the prison industries fund at the Massachusetts reformatory, the reformatory for women, the state prison and the state prison colony shall be determined by the comptroller . $39,225 00 4910-02 For salaries of persons employed in industries at the Massachusetts reformatory, including not more than twenty-seven permanent positions...... 110,605 00 4920-02 For salaries of persons employed in industries at the reformatory for women, including not more than twelve permanent positions 47,435 00 4930-02 For salaries of persons employed in industries at the state prison, including not more than twenty-seven permanent positions . 106,520 00 4940-02 For salaries of persons employed in industries at the state prison colony, including not more than twenty-seven permanent positions ....... 114,548 00 Total, Department of Correction . . $418,333 00 APPROPRIATIONS PAYABLE FROM THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION FUNDS. The following appropriations are to be assessed upon the several districts in accordance with the methods fixed by law, unless otherwise provided, and to be expended under the direction of the Metropolitan District Commission: Metropolitan Parks, General. Special: 8601-02 For certain repairs to the police station barn, Blue Hills Division .... $4,500 00 Item 8601-04 8601-05 8602-55 8601-06 8601-07 Special: For certain plumbing repairs at Houghton's Pond, Blue Hills Reservation . Special: For the reconstruction of Kelley's Landing, William J. Day Boulevard From the amount appropriated in item 8602-55 of section two or chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two, the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby transferred and made available for the purposes of the following item: - Special: 8601-06 For sanding beaches, William J. Day Boulevard. Special: For certain repairs to bathhouses in the Old Colony Division ..... Special: 8601-08 For the construction of a water line in the Whip Hill area, Middlesex Fells Division . Special: 8601-11 For removing certain trees infected with Dutch Elm disease, Middlesex Fells Divi- Special: 8601-18 For certain repairs to the float at Riverside . Special: 8601-20 For the reconstruction of walks and rails in the Riverside section .... Special: 8601-22 For the reconstruction of ramps to the boat landing, Community House, Charles River Lower Basin ...... Special: 8601- 23 For expenses in connection with certain rec- reation programs and projects 8602- 551 From the amount appropriated in item 8601-24 J 8602-55 of section two of chapter six hun- dred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby transferred and made available for the purposes of the following item: - Special: 8601-24 For certain plumbing repairs at Nahant and Revere Police Stations. Special: 8602- 22 The unexpended balance remaining in appro- priation item 8602-22 of section one of chapter five hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. $4,500 00 25,000 00 12,000 00 30,000 00 10,000 00 8,000 00 4,500 00 4,800 00 25,000 00 Item 8602-27 For the cost of suppressing gypsy moths, in- eluding certain equipment 8602-37 For the expenses of holding band concerts . Special: 8602-38 For the construction and equipment of certain play areas, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose ...... 8602-55 \ From the amount appropriated in item 8602-44 J 8602-55 of section two of chapter six hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two, the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby transferred and made available for the purposes of the following item: Special: 8602-44 For the sanding of Tenean Beach, William T. Morrissey Boulevard. Special: 8602-78 The unexpended balance remaining in appropriation item 8602-78 of section one of chapter five hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is hereby reappropriated. Special: 8602-99 For the sanding of the South Boston beaches, and the erection of fences and railings along the new causeway at City Point (Head House) and for the construction of benches and shelters thereon . Total, Metropolitan Parks, General $5,000 00 25,000 00 25,000 00 50,000 00 $233,300 00 Metropolitan Sewerage, North System. 8702-00 For the maintenance and operation of a system of sewage disposal for the north metropolitan sewerage district, including retirement of veterans under the provisions of the General Laws, and including not more than three hundred and sixteen permanent positions for the north and south systems, partly chargeable to this item and to item 8807-00 ...... Special: 8702-31 For the construction of certain coal handling equipment at the East Boston pumping station ....... Special: 8702-32 For the purchase and installation of certain equipment, East Boston pumping station Total, Metropolitan Sewerage, North System ..... $997,565 00 15,000 00 20,000 00 $1,032,565 00 Metropolitan Sewerage, South System. 8807-00 For the maintenance and operation of the system of sewage disposal for the south metro- politan sewerage district, including retirement of veterans under the provisions of the General Laws, and including certain permanent positions as enumerated in item 8702-00 .....$999,355 00 Total, Metropolitan Sewerage, South System......$999,355 00 Metropolitan Water System. 8902-00 For the maintenance and operation of the metropolitan water system, including the retirement of veterans under the provisions of the General Laws and including not more than five hundred and eighty permanent positions ..... Special: 8902-22 For emergency repairs to water mains, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose Special: 8902-34 For the construction of additions and improvements to certain supply and distribution mains, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . Special: 8902-36 For the purchase of certain pipe and valve stock, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . Special: 8902-37 For certain roof repairs at pumping stations Special: 8902-38 For the replacement of certain water meter registers ...... Special: 8902-39 For the purchase of tractors and hydraulic equipment ...... Special: 8902^40 For the replacement of certain boilers and heating systems ..... Special: 8902-43 For the replacement of chlorinating equipment, Norumbega Reservoir . Special: 8902-75 For the leveling of the Forbes Hill Reservoir Basin, to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose Special: 8902-76 For repairs at the Wachusett Power Station Total, Metropolitan Water System $2,769,675 00 30,000 00 230,000 00 25,000 00 12,500 00 16,000 00 21,000 00 4,000 00 17,500 00 4,000 00 25,000 00 $3,154,675 00 Section 3. Wherever, in section two of this act, it is provided that transfers shall be made from a fund, account or receipts, of a specific sum, a percentage of payments, or a sum equivalent to payments, such transfers of a specific sum shall be made upon the effective date of this act, and all others shall be made quarterly unless otherwise provided; except, that at the close of a fiscal year, the amount equivalent to payments in a continuing account shall be construed to mean the amount of such appropriation. Section 4. No moneys appropriated under this act shall be expended for reimbursement for the expenses of meals for persons while traveling within or without the commonwealth at the expense thereof, unless such reimbursement is in accordance with rules and rates which are hereby authorized to be established from time to time by the commission on administration and finance. Section 5. The allowance to state employees for expenses incurred by them in the operation of motor vehicles owned by them and used in the performance of their official duties shall not exceed seven cents a mile. No payment shall be made or obligation incurred for the garaging of any passenger vehicle owned by the commonwealth and operated by an employee thereof as transportation from his place or places of employment to the vicinity of his residence. Section 6. Amounts included for permanent positions in sums appropriated in section two for personal services are based upon schedules of permanent positions and salary rates as approved by the joint committee on ways and means, and, except as otherwise shown by the files of said committee, a copy of which shall be deposited with the division of personnel and standardization, no part of sums so appropriated in section two shall be available for payment of salaries of any additional permanent position, or for payments on account of reallocations of permanent positions, or for payments on account of any change of salary range or compensation of any permanent position, notwithstanding any special or general act to the contrary; provided, that no vacancy occurring in any permanent position included in said schedules of permanent positions, excepting in the services of the legislature or the judiciary, or of institutions under the jurisdiction of the departments of mental health, correction, public welfare and public-health, and the youth service board, the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts and the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, and excepting positions which are subject to appointment by the governor, with or without the consent of the council, may be filled in any manner without approval by the commission on administration and finance. Section 7. In addition to the payment of regular salaries, sums appropriated for personal services in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-four shall be available for the payment of such other forms of compensation as may be due under existing statutes, or under the provisions of rules and regulations made in accordance with said statutes. Section 8. All federal subventions and grants available to the commonwealth under any act of congress and not otherwise authorized to be received shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth; provided, however, that applications for such subventions and grants, and for transfers within such subventions and grants, shall be subject to the approval of the commission on administration and finance. All federal subventions and grants received by the commonwealth may be expended without specific appropriation if such expenditures are otherwise in accordance with law. All income, including federal subventions and grants, received by the commonwealth from or on account of veterans in payment for veterans' services, shall be credited to the veterans' services fund. Section 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of section fifty-one of chapter thirty of the General Laws, or any other provision of law, the state purchasing agent is hereby authorized during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-four to incur liabilities and incidental expenses for the purchase of supplies, as provided by said section fifty-one, including material to be disposed of as surplus, so called, by the federal government through agencies of the federal government, in an amount not exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to any amount heretofore provided for the purpose, and the comptroller may certify for payment such incidental expenses and liabilities so incurred to an amount not exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to any amount heretofore provided for the purpose. Section 9A. No agency of the commonwealth receiving an appropriation under section two of this act shall make any expenditure for any bulletin regularly printed, mimeographed or prepared in any other way, whether for outside or interdepartmental circulation unless publication of such bulletin shall have been approved by the state purchasing agent. Section 10. The effective date of the appropriation accounts, subsidiary accounts and authorizations in this act shall be July first, nineteen hundred and fifty-three. However, beginning June first, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, obligations may be incurred against these appropriation accounts or subsidiary accounts, if any, thereunder, for items to be delivered or for services to be rendered on and after July first, nineteen hundred and fifty-three; provided, they are in accordance with law and the amounts thereof do not exceed the amount of the appropriation account or subsidiary account. Where the allotment of an appropriation account or subsidiary account is a condition precedent to expenditure, the obligations shall not exceed the amount allotted for said appropriation account or subsidiary account. The certified copies of the schedules as provided for in section twenty-seven of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws shall be filed with the comptroller and the budget commissioner to permit the effective operation of this section on June first, nineteen hundred and fifty-three. Where the allotment of an appropriation account or subsidiary account is required by law, allotments shall be made to permit the effective operation of this section on June first, nineteen hundred and fifty-three. Section 11. Notwithstanding the provisions of resolve fifty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-three and subsequent resolves and appropriations relating to the subject matter thereof, wrhich require the assessment of the sum of sixty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty-seven cents, the comptroller is hereby authorized to write off said amount on the control accounting records of the commonwealth, and the provisions relating to apportionment and assessment in said resolves are hereby cancelled. Section 12. As of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, the comptroller shall charge the surplus account of the General Fund with the amount of the deficit in the Port of Boston Fund. Section 13. As of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, the comptroller shall charge the surplus account of the General Fund with the amount of the deficit in the Old Age Assistance Fund. Section 14. The budget commissioner is hereby directed to send a copy of sections three to fifteen, inclusive, of this act to each departmental, divisional and institutional head immediately following the passage of this act. Section 15. Sections one to nine, inclusive, of this act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred and fifty-three; sections ten and fourteen shall take effect upon the passage of this act. Approved June 16, 1958.