Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![due or payable shall draw interest from the time the same become due or payable until the time of payment thereof. Sect. 6. Any assessment made under this act which is invalid by reason of any error or irregularity in the making thereof, and which has not been paid, or which has been recovered back, may be made by said state board of health to the amount for which the original assessment ought to have been made, and the same if made upon a wharf or laud shall be a lien upon such wharf or land and be collected in the same manner as re-assessed taxes are. Sect. 7. Any person aggrieved by an assessment made under this act may apply by petition to the superior court for the county of Suffolk, at any term thereof within one year after said assessment is made ; and after due notice to the city of Boston a trial shall be had at the bar of the court in the same manner in which other civil causes are there tried by jury. Sect. 8. If the jury shall not reduce the amount of the assessment complained of, the city of Boston as respond- ent shall recover costs against the petitioner, which costs shall be a lien upon said wharves and land and be col- lected in the same manner as the assessment, but if the jury shall reduce the amount of said assessment the peti- tioner shall recover costs from said citj of Boston, and all assessments shall be a lien upon said wharves and lands, for one year after the final judgment, in any suit or pro- ceeding where the amount or validity of the same is in question, and be collected in the same manner as original assessments. Sect. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- with are hereby repealed. Sect. 10. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 10, 1879. If assess- ment is in- valid, by error in making, it may be made anew. Person ag- grieved may apply to su- perior court within one year. Recovery of costs. ments to be lien upon lands, &c, for one year after final judg- ment. Repeal. When act takes effect. An Act to provide for the disposal of the sewage of the reformatory prison for women at sherborn. [Statutes of 1879, chap. 214.] -Section 1. The superintendent and board of com- Sewage of missioners of the reformatory prison for women in the Jwbedfs-11 town of Sherborn, are hereby prohibited from causing or chargedin- to Lake Co permitting the discharge, through any sewer or drain, of cintuate. any portion of the sewage of said prison into Lake Cochit- uate or any of its tributaries ; provided, that the effluent Proviso, waters of lands hereafter acquired and used for sewage irrigation purposes for said prison shall not be included in the provisions of this section unless at any time the}' shall, in the opinion of the state board of health, be- come of such nature as to constitute a pollution within the meaning of chapter one hundred and eighty-three of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
