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<br /> service, and does not receive aid from any other state, or marry after the passage of this act, no aid shall be paid on
<br /> from any other town under the provisions of this act. account of his wife. If the widow of any officer, soldier
<br /> SECT. 2. The treasurers of cities and towns shall, under or sailor, receiving aid under the second section of this act,
<br /> the direction of the city council, or selectmen thereof, pay shall marry again, the aid shall be discontinued to her. No
<br /> monthly, for a period not exceeding three years from and aid shall be paid on account of any children over fourteen
<br /> after the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and years of age. If any person to whom the aid is paid, shall
<br /> sixty-six, to the widow, children, father or mother, being in be convicted of any criminal offence at common law or
<br /> necessitous circumstances,(having a residence in said city or under the statute of this Commonwealth, said aid shall be
<br /> town, and now residing in this state,) of any person upon �� discontinued to said person unless or until the municipal
<br /> whom they were dependent, who served in the army or navy authorities shall, in their, discretion, otherwise determine.
<br /> of the United States as an officer or as an enlisted or drafted Aid, except as provided in section twelve of this act, shall
<br /> man,to the credit of the state of Massachusetts,between the be paid only to persons having a residence in some city or
<br /> nineteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and town in this Commonwealth.
<br /> sixty-one and the first day of September in the year eighteen SECT. 4. All aid furnished under the provisions of this
<br /> hundred and sixty-five, and was killed.or has died by,reason act shall be solely for the benefit of the person for whom it
<br /> of wounds or disease incurred in said service, or who,being is intended, and shall be paid to said person directly or upon
<br /> at the time of his enlistment, an inhabitant of this state, his or her order; and it shall not be subject to trustee
<br /> served as aforesaid to the credit of any other state between process nor assigned. And no transfer of said aid hereto-
<br /> the said nineteenth day of April and the eighteenth day of fore made shall be recognized in settlement of the same.
<br /> March in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and was SECT. 5. The auditor, the adjutant-general, and the
<br /> killed or has died by reason of wounds or disease incurred, surgeon-general of the Commonwealth, shall constitute a
<br /> in said service, or to the wife, father, children, or mother commission to decide upon all questions which may arise in
<br /> being in necessitous circumstances (living or having a resi- ' the payment of aid, between the municipal authorities and
<br /> dence in said city or town, and now residing in this state,) the persons ,claiming the aid; and in all cases their decision
<br /> of any person upon whom they were dependent, who has : shall be final.
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<br /> served as aforesaid, who is wholly or partially disabled by SECT. 6. On or before the fifth day of January in each
<br /> reason of wounds received in said service, or by sickness or year, there shall be deposited in the office of the auditor of
<br /> disability contracted therein, the sum of four dollars : the Commonwealth, by each town and city raising and
<br /> provided, that the whole amount paid to the said relatives of applying money as aforesaid, a full and particular report,
<br /> one officer, soldier or sailor shall not exceed eight dollars per setting forth the names of the officers, soldiers and sailors
<br /> month, and provided that such wife, children, father, or for the aid of whom and for the aid of whose families
<br /> mother, do not receive aid from any other state, or from any money has been applied as aforesaid, the name of the com-
<br /> other town under the provisions of this act. pany and regiment and the name of the vessels in which
<br /> SECT. 3. If a wounded or disabled officer, soldier or such officers, soldiers and sailors respectively enlisted, and
<br /> sailor, receiving aid under the first section of this act, shall in which they last served, and the names and ages of the
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