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325 MASSACHUSETTS AS A PHILANTHROPIC ROBBER. 32$ camp ground of the Commonwealth at Framingham," ^ and in 1888 when $200 were given to a man for injuries received " in assisting to save from fire one of the State Normal School buildings at Framing- ham." ^ It is difficult to see why the State should have compen- sated these men ; or on what principle " a naval cadet who was detached from the training ship * Enterprise ' on January 27 and placed on board steamer ' St. Louis ' on January 29 and was dis- abled for life by an accident occurring to him on said steamer " received $500 from the State.^ There is also a large class of gifts of the public money as com- pensation for injuries, loss of time, and expenses sustained by mem- bers of the militia while on duty at camp or on parade.* Wives of husbands and mothers of sons incapacitated from labor from in- juries at camp and fathers of sons killed at the armory have been compensated.^ This has been carried to such an extent that in 1892 a five-year annuity of ^1000 was given to a man for loss of time and expenses at camp in 1888 and " for disabilities which are the result of a cold which settled in the eyes, making him blind and unable to earn a livelihood."^ And in 1890 a corporal of the guard received $350 compensation for " a bayonet wound received from one of the guard in his leg, purely accidental, inflicting a most painful and dangerous wound, incapacitating him from labor for eight weeks." ''^ And a man in 1888 received ^218 for injuries while returning from camp.^ Then there is a class of cases of compensation by the State to private persons for loss or injury to their property (chiefly horses) in use by the militia, and to State servants and officers for loss of clothing and other property destroyed by fire in State buildings.® The last class of cases under this branch of gratuities consists of compensations for injuries sustained by citizens of the State at the 1 1891, ch. 20. 2 1888, ch. 20. 8 1896, ch. 55. ch. 23 ($300) ; ch. II ($300) ; 1886, ch. 62 ($200) ; 1887, ch. 10 ($92) ; 1890, ch. 32 ($115) ; 1891, ch. 23 ($150) ; 1894, ch. 26 ($300) ; 1897, ch. 7 ($175) ; 1898, ch. 67 {%i%) ; 1893, ch. 44 ($75); 1892, ch. 24 ($150); 1891, ch. 51 ($200); 1894, ch. 28 ($100); 1896, ch. 64 ($300) ; 189s, ch. 9 {$T,i) ; 1891, ch. 36 ($297) ; 1898, ch. 17 ($35.50). 37 ($150); 1895, ch. 78 ($500) ; ch. 80 ($500). 6 1892, ch. 81. T 1890, ch. 49. 8 1888, ch. 51. 9 1887, ch. 9 ($170); 1889, ch. 48 ($300); 1888, ch. 31 ($500); 1895, ch. 122 i52o88.o5); loss of horse, 1887, ch. 24 ($300); 1891, ch. 13 ($200); 1893, ch. 52 ($150) ; ch. 73 ($150) ; ch. 21 ($75) ; injury to horse, 1893, ch. 20 ($150) ; 1884, ch. 25 ($200); 1885, ch. 54 ($250); 1895, ch. 50(^75); 1898, ch. 38 (?4o); 1894, ch. 63 (56o).
 * 1873, ch. 63 ($300); 1876, ch. 37; ch. 38; ch. 39; ch. 40; ch. 41; ch. 44; 1882,
 * 1892, ch. 56 (annuity of I200); 1896, ch. 9 (a five-year annuity of $300); 1894, ch.