Chap. 0105 An Act making appropriations for sundry charitable expenses.

Be it enacted, etc, as follows:
Section 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, to meet expenses for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to wit: -
state board of charity.
For expenses of the state board of charity, including travelling and other necessary expenses of members, and salary and expenses of the elerk and auditor of said board, a sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses in the division of state adult poor, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses in the division of state minor wards, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars.
For travelling and other necessary expenses of the auxiliary visitors of the state board of charity, a sum not exceeding fourteen hundred dollars.
miscellaneous charitable.
For transportation of state paupers under charge of the state board of charity, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars.
For the support and relief during the present and previous 3'ears of state paupers in state hospitals and asylums for the insane, and the reimbursement of expenses incurred by certain towns in the maintenance of the insane, a sum not exceeding two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For the care and maintenance of indigent and neglected children and juvenile offenders, a sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty-live thousand dollars.
For the support of state paupers in the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded and the Hospital Cottages for Children, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars.
For expenses during the present and previous years in connection with smallpox and other diseases dangerous to the public health, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars.
For the education in the public schools in any city or town in the Commonwealth during the present and previous years of children boarded or bound out by the state board of charity, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars.
For the support of sick state paupers by cities and towns during the present and previous years, the same to include cases of wife settlement, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-rive thousand dollars.
For the burial of state paupers by cities and towns during the present and previous years, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
For temporary aid for state paupers and shipwrecked seamen by cities and towns during the present and previous years, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
For the support and transportation of unsettled pauper infants in this Commonwealth, including infants in infant asylums, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars.
Section 2.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 28, 1899.