Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volume 8

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Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1922 - Massachusetts
 

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Page 27 - If the employee leaves dependents only partially dependent upon his earnings for support at the time of his injury, the association shall pay such dependents a weekly compensation equal to the same proportion of the weekly payments for the benefit of persons wholly dependent as the amount contributed by the employee to such partial dependents bears to the annual earnings of the deceased at the time of his injury. When...
Page 97 - ... shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or in a jail or house of correction for not less than one year nor more than two and one half years.
Page 91 - The school committee of every town shall annually ascertain, under regulations prescribed by the department and the commissioner of mental diseases, the number of children three years or more retarded in mental development in attendance upon its public schools, or of school age and resident therein.
Page 9 - Permanent partial disabilities are all injuries less than permanent total, which result in the loss of any member of the body, or part thereof, or in the permanent impairment of any function, as included in the specific injury table. Temporary total...
Page 12 - To this group should be assigned every accident, disease, or injury (less than permanent total disability) which results in the loss of any member of the body or part thereof, or in the permanent impairment of any function of the body.
Page 3 - It shall be the duty of the committee to employ such methods, subject to existing laws as, in its judgment, will tend to bring into sympathetic and mutually helpful relations the state and its residents of foreign origin, to protect immigrants from exploitation and abuse, to stimulate their acquisition and mastery of the English language, to develop their understanding of American government, institutions, and ideals, and, in general, to promote their assimilation and naturalization.
Page 97 - Norfolk state hospital, any female, who is subject to dipsomania or inebriety either in public or private, or who is so addicted to the intemperate use of narcotics or stimulants as to have lost the power of self-control...
Page 95 - ... price as he may finally determine, but not less than such price as may be approved by the governor and council and in no event less than fifty thousand dollars, and subject to such conditions and restrictions for the benefit of said hospital as may seem to him advisable. Said parcel is bounded and described as follows : — Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Mill river with the northerly line of West street, thence running southwesterly along the northwesterly side of said West...
Page 167 - ... that such body shall be used only for the promotion of anatomical science within this commonwealth, and in such manner as in no event to outrage the public feeling, that, after having been so used, the remains shall be decently buried, that it shall not be so used for fourteen days after death and that it shall, during said fourteen days, be kept in a condition and place to be viewed by any person, at all reasonable times, for the purpose of identification.

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