Chap. 0410 An Act relative to the compensation of certain clerks in the boiler inspection department of the district police.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and twenty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words: - The salary of said four additional clerks shall increase by yearly increments of fifty dollars until it reaches the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars: provided, however, that such increase is approved, from year to year, by the chief of the district police for the efficiency and merit of said clerks or of any of them, - so as to read as follows: - Section 1. The governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint five additional members of the inspection department of the district police, who shall be not above forty-five years of age. Said age limit shall apply to all new appointments to said boiler inspection department, but shall not apply to any reappointment thereto. They shall be detailed for the inspection of boilers, and shall receive the same compensation now received by the present inspectors of boilers. The governor is also hereby authorized to appoint one clerk, at an annual salary of eight hundred dollars, to serve in the said department, and four additional clerks, at an annual salary .of six hundred dollars each, to serve at branch offices in the said department. The salary of said four additional clerks shall increase by yearly increments of fifty dollars until it reaches the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars: provided, however, that such increase is approved, from year to year, by the chief of the district police for the efficiency and merit of said clerks or of any of them.
Section 2.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 19, 1909.