MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. MAGNUS W. ALEXANDER, Chairman. MRS. M. R. HODDER. F. SPENCER BALDWIN, Executive Secretary. ww RESOLVES. CHAPTER 127, RESOLVES OF 1907. RESOLVE TO PROVIDE FOR AN INVESTIGATION AND REPORT RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF A SYSTEM OF OLD AGE INSURANCE AND PENSIONS. Resolved, That the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized and requested to appoint a commission consisting of five persons, citizens of the commonwealth, one of whom he shall designate as chairman, to investigate and consider the various systems of old age insurance or old age pensions, or annuities, proposed or in operation in this commonwealth or elsewhere, and report upon the advisability of establishing an old age insurance or pension system in the commonwealth. Said commission shall report also statistics showing the probable expense to the commonwealth of the various systems considered, and of any system that they may recommend for adoption, together with any bills or other suggestions for legislation relating to this subject that they may deem wise. At least one of said commissioners shall be a prominent representative of employers, and at least one of said commissioners shall be a prominent representative of employees. Said commissioners shall serve without pay and shall not be authorized to travel outside of the commonwealth, but they may incur such expense for assistance or otherwise as may be allowed by the governor and council. The commission shall report the result of its investigations to the general court on or before the fifteenth day of January in the year nineteen hundred and nine, together with such drafts or bills, if any, as may be necessary to carry its recommendations into effect. The total expense to be incurred under the provisions of this resolve shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars. [Introduced in the House January 14, 1907, by Representative Bernard J. Ferber; approved June 26, 1907.] CHAPTER 131, RESOLVES OF 1908. RESOLVE TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE COMMISSION ON OLD AGE INSURANCE AND PENSIONS. Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended by the commission appointed by chapter one hundred and twenty-seven of the resolves of the year nineteen hundred and seven, to investigate and report upon systems of old age insurance and pensions, in carrying out the investigations prescribed by the said chapter. (The foregoing was laid before the Lieutenant Governor, Acting Governor, on the fourth day of June, 1908, and after five days it had "the force of a law", as prescribed by the constitution, as it was not returned by him with his objections thereto within that time.) CHAPTER 1, RESOLVES OF 1909. RESOLVE EXTENDING THE TIME FOR THE FINAL REPORT Of the ComMISSION APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF OLD AGE INSURANCE, PENSIONS AND ANNUITIES. Resolved, That the commission which was appointed under authorization of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven of the resolves of the year nineteen hundred and seven, to investigate and consider the various systems of old age insurance or old age pensions, or annuities, proposed or in operation in this commonwealth, or elsewhere, and report upon the advisability of establishing an old age insurance or pension system in this commonwealth, is hereby continued, and the time within which the commission shall present its final report is hereby extended to the fifteenth day of January, nineteen hundred and ten. [Approved January 18, 1909. |