Chap. 0286 An Act to authorize the city of boston to pay a certain sum of money to mary steele.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to pay to Mary Steele, mother of Walter P. Steele, deceased, late an employee in the department of public grounds of that city, a sum not exceeding one half of his annual salary : provided, that the sum hereby authorized to be paid shall not exceed the amount to which the said Steele would have been entitled if he had lived and continued to serve as such employee until the fourteenth day of November next succeeding the date of his death.
Section 2.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 30, 1903.