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<br /> several persons for the aid of whom money has been applied herein, from the date that payments to them ceased under
<br /> as aforesaid ; the relation such persons severally bear to the prior act.
<br /> such officers, soldiers or sailors ; the sums paid to each of SECT. 9. Persons applying for aid under this act shall
<br /> such persons, and the time when the same were paid; and state in writing, under oath, the age and residence of the
<br /> such report shall be sworn to by a majority of the selectmen party for whom such aid is claimed; the relation of the
<br /> of such town, or by the mayor and a majority of the alder- claimant to the party who rendered the service for which
<br /> men of such city ; and after it has been examined and aid is claimed; the company and regiment or the vessel in
<br /> approved by said auditor, there shall be reimbursed which the officer, soldier or sailor enlisted, and that in
<br /> annually, to said city or town, from the treasury of the which he last served; the date and place of such enlist-
<br /> Commonwealth, on or before the first day of December in ment, when known; the duration of such service ; and the
<br /> the year in which the report is made, the amount legally reason upon which the claim for aid is founded. And it
<br /> paid as aforesaid, in accordance with the provisions of this shall be the duty of the auditor to furnish, from time to
<br /> act ; but none of the expenses attending the payment of 'time, to each city and town, a sufficient number of suitable
<br /> said aid shall be reimbursed. The auditor of the Common- blank forms for the use of applicants for aid under this act.
<br /> wealth shall before the first day of January in each year, SECT. 10. The provisions of this act shall apply to the
<br /> furnish to the several cities and towns suitable blanks for wife; children, father or mother (having a residence in some
<br /> the returns required by this section. city or town of this Commonwealth, and now residing
<br /> SECT. 7. When applicants for aid have their residence therein,) of any person who served in the army or navy of
<br /> in a city or town to which they are not credited, notice of the United States between the nineteenth day of April,
<br /> their application shall be forthwith sent by such town to eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the first day of Sep-
<br /> the place to which said applicants are credited; and if an tember, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, as an officer or
<br /> answer to such notice, setting forth all the facts touching enlisted or drafted man, to the credit of the state of Massa-
<br /> the application necessary to be known by the town to which chusetts, and who appears on the rolls of his regiment or
<br /> application is made, is not sent by mail within seven days company, in the office of the adjutant-general, to be miss-
<br /> from the receipt of the same, the city or town in which ing, or to have been captured by the enemy, and who has
<br /> such applicants reside may recover in action of contract not been exchanged, or has not returned from captivity, or
<br /> against the town or city so neglecting to answer, all such who is not known to be alive : provided, that aid shall not
<br /> sums as they may advance to such applicants not reimbursed be paid to the said relatives of such officer, soldier or sailor,
<br /> by the state. if the municipal authorities have good and sufficient reasons
<br /> SECT. 8. Persons receiving aid under chapter two hun- to believe that he deserted from the service, or that he is
<br /> dred and thirty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred still living and wilfully absent from his family, or if said
<br /> and sixty-five, shall not be entitled to aid under this act; relatives receive said aid from any other state, or from any
<br /> but-when the aid ceases to be paid under said chapter two other town under the provisions of this act.
<br /> hundred and thirty-two, then such persons entitled under SECT. 11. Any town or city may raise money by taxation
<br /> the provisions of this act; shall receive the aid provided or otherwise, and, if necessary, apply the same for the pur-
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