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vote for a Person, mark a Cross X in the Square at the V % JTo vote on the following, mark a Cross X in the Square V right of the. Party Name or Political Designation. I at the right of YES or NO. I, DISTRICT ATTORNEY Southern District Vote for ONE MAURICE M. LYONS - of New ®edlord�Defnogratic 1q1 FRANK E. SMITH-ofTaunto Republican CLERIC OF COURTS Barnstable County Vote for ONE DONALD G. TRAYSER-of Bamstahle-Republican )// REGISTER OF DEEDS Barnstable District Vote for ONE DEAN S. SEARS - of Dean Republican I f / 1 f- uo COUNTY COMMISSIONER Barnstable County Vote for ONE WALTER R. NICKERSON-o1 Oennis-�Republican To vote on the following mark a Cross X in the square at the right of YES or NO: — QUESTION NO. 1. LAW PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION. Shan this measure, which by amendments of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.); provides for payment by the Commonwealth of adequate pensions to deserving citizens sixty-five years of age or over in need of relief or support, who shall have resided in the Commonwealth not less than five years immediately pre- ceding the date of application for such pension, and who shall have resided in the Commonwealth continuously for one year immediately preceding said date of application, which is further described as follows: — The measure, by amendments of General Laws (Ter. Ed.), e. 6, provides for an old age pension commission of three persons, one to be a qualified physician, another to be an attorney at law and a third to be a non-professional person, who are to be appointed and may be removed for cause by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Council, and are to serve under the Governor and Council. Not more than two members of said Commission shall be members of the same political party. Original appointments of members shall be for one, two and three years respectively, and thereafter appointments are to be for three years. Such members are to devote their whole time to the work of the Commission during business hours and be engaged in no other business, occu- pation or profession. One of their number is to be designated as chairman by the Governor and shall receive a salary of $6,000, and each other member 95,500 per year, with their necessary expenses. The commission is empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations as it may deem necessary in the performance of its duties and as may be approved by the Governor and Council. The measure strikes out chapter 118A of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.), and inserts in its place a new chapter entitled " Adequate pensions for certain aged citizens." It is provided that pensions hereunder shall be paid from the date of applica- tion therefor, but in no event before the applicant reaches the age of sixty-five. The Commission shall render a decision in not less than thirty days from the date of application for a pension or a request for an increase of the amount thereof. Such pension shall, wherever practicable, be paid to the aged person in his own home or in lodgings or in a boarding home, which for the purposes hereof shall include any institution providing shelter, care and treatment for aged persons which is not supported in whole or in part by public funds; pro- vided, that no inmate of such a boarding home or institution shall be eligible for a pension under this chapter while being cared for under a contract. Such pension shall be paid by check or in cash which shall be delivered to the pen- sioner at his residence, if he so requests, and shall be paid semi-monthly unless the pensioner prefers less frequent payments. Such pension shall be on the basis of need and the amount thereof shall be determined in accordance with budgetary standards established by the Commission. Budgetary standards shall be such as to enable an individual pensioner to maintain a standard of living compatible with decency and health. Such pensions, except as herein- after provided, shall be at the rate of not less than 948.00 monthly. The pen- sioner's budget at such times as may be required shall include medical care, if recommended by a recognized physician, eye -glasses, if recommended by a recognized optician, dental care and false teeth, if recommended by a recog- nized dentist. In computing the pensioner's payment under this chapter, the Commission shall deduct from the pensioner's budget or the minimum payment, which- ever is greater, the amount of income the person paid or to be paid a pension hereunder may be receiving from any source, and may deduct therefrom such reasonable amount as may be deemed to represent the financial value of board, lodging or other assistance which is being furnished to such persons from any source. Upon the death of a person drawing a pension, whose funeral cost does not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars and in whose estate there are insufficient assets to cover the full cost of the funeral, the Commission shall pay to the funeral director the difference between the assets and the cost of the funeral, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Expenses for medical, hospital and other services rendered to a pensioner, which remain unpaid at the time of his death or commitinent to an institution as as insane person, shall be paid directly to the person rendering such services. No pension under this chapter shall be discontinued nor shall the amount thereof be -decreased until the expiration of fifteen days after notice has been given by the Commission to the pensioner. Provision is made by which a person receiving a pension may be absent from the Commonwealtb on a visit without having such pension suspended. It is provided that General Laws (Ter. Ed.), c. 273, § 20, which relates to the support of parents by children, shall not apply when parents are eligible to receive a pension. Provision is made that there shall be set up in the Commission a subdivision of appeals under the jurisdiction of a supervisor of appeals. Any person ag- grieved by the failure of the Commission to pay an adequate pension under this chapter, or by the failure of the Commission to approve or reject an appli- cation for a pension or a request for an increase in the amount thereof, within thirty days after receiving such application or request, shall have a right to a fair hearing, after due notice, upon appeal to the subdivision of appeals in the form and manner prescribed by the commission; provided that such appeal is received by the subdivision of appeals within sixty days after official notice of the action taken by the Old Age Pension Commission has been received by the applicant or pensioner. The decision of the subdivision of appeals shall be final and binding upon the Commission. The Commission.or any interested person aggrieved by any decision in any proceeding before the subdivision of appeals may obtain judicial review of such decision by filing, within twenty days of the date of mailing of such deci- sion, a petition for review thereof in the district court within the judicial dis- trict wherein the pensioner or the applicant for a pension lives. In any proceeding for review the findings of the subdivision of appeals as to facts shall be conclusive, such proceedings shall be heard in a summary manner and given precedence over all other civil cases. From the decision of a district court upon review an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Judicial Court. The possession by an applicant for pension under this chapter of assets con- sisting of cash, active securities or inactive securities, or any combination of such assets, shall not disqualify him from receiving such pension; provided, that the total of such assets, figuring the present cash value of such inactive securities at the sum determined by the Old Age Pension, Commission, does not exceed the sum of 9300. A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pension because of the ownership of an equity in vacant land from which there is insufficient income