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319 MASSACHUSETTS AS A PHILANTHROPIC ROBBER. 319 Then, broadening the practice, the Legislature has granted the balance of salary due, had the officer served, to the widow of a Governor, to the widow of a member of the Governor's Council, and even to the widow of a councillor-elect, who had not served at all, his full prospective salary; to the widow of a judge of the Supreme or Superior Court ; to the widow or family of a judge of the Probate Court; to the widow of a judge of a Municipal Court in Boston ; ^ of an assistant register of probate ; of the controller of county accounts ; of the superintendent of the Massachusetts Re- formatory ; and of bank, insurance, and railroad commissioners.^ From officials of the State, the Legislature has extended its gifts to relatives of clerks and minor officials : thus to the widows of clerks in offices of Commissioner of State Aid, State Board of Agriculture, and other departments at the State House ; ^ to the widow of a clerk of the Senate ; * to the mother of a register of labor in the Civil Service Commissioner's office,^ and even to a brother of a page in the House of Representatives,^ and to the brothers of an employee in the office of Sergeant-at-Arms,'^ and to the widows of messengers in the office of Secretary of State, and elsewhere,^ and to the widow of a fireman at the State House.^ It has not only paid unearned salaries, but also " expenses in- curred on account of the last sickness and burial of Z. Y., an em- ployee of the Commonwealth, such sickness having been contracted while in the service of the Commonwealth." ^^ It has taken even further paternal care of its employees, by vot- ing to pay six hundred dollars for the funeral expenses of a mes- senger at the State House, and " all expenses incurred in the search for his person since his disappearance and the reward for informa- tion concerning him " ; ^^ and it has even voted to pay not only the balance of salary to which a man would have been entitled had he 1 1896, ch. 67 (5655914); 1894, ch. 5 ($187.10); 1897, ch. 68 ($525); 1893, c^- 3 ($800); 1888, ch. 56 ($4384.32); 1891, ch. 113 ($3433-33); 1891, ch. 47 ($4099.47); 1891, ch. 22 ($4323.66) ; 1892, ch. 25 ($205645); 1894, ch. 30 ($5x93.55); 1895, ch. 75 ($1376.25); 1889, ch. 37 ($1646); 1894, ch. 16 ($1225); 1896, ch. 7 ($2883.38); 1893, ch. no ($1636). 2 1893, ch 85 ($2076.67) ; 1895, c^- 76 ($42337) ; 1893, ch. 3 ($39772) ; 1887, ch. 80 ($1750) ; 1891, ch. 57 ($1173-39) ; 1896, ch. 4 ($1627.69) ; 1897, ch. 62 ($53473)- 3 1888, ch. 65 ($697.22) ; 1883, ch. 3 ($535.48) ; 1893, ch. 4 ($1122.58); 1894, ch. 9 3.06); 1894, ch. 23 ($1466.67). 6 1884, ch. 80 ($312). T ,898, ch. 119 ($240). 8 1889, ch. 66 ($657 50) ; 1895, ch. 78 ($1761). « 1897, ch. 3 ($58.06). M 1893, ch. 10 ($250). 11 1892, ch. 80 ($600).
 * 1886, ch. 47 ($2100). 5 1896, ch. 29 ($1860.22).