THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

By His Excellency 
Christian A. Herter
Governor

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 23

    WHEREAS, The fact has been brought to my attention that
many individuals have sustained the loss of licenses, per-
mits or certificates of registration issued by the Common-
wealth, its agencies and political sub-divisions resulting
from the hurricane of August 31, 1954, and

    WHEREAS, the replacement of these licenses, permits
and certificates of registration would ordinarily call for 
the payment of a fee, and

    WHEREAS, this added burden should be spared to those
who have been so heavily stricken by the disaster,

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, Christian A. Herter, Governor of
the Commonwealth, acting under section 4 and section 7,
paragraph (o), Chapter 639 of Acts of 1950 as amended,
hereby instruct the various state agencies, as well as
the officers of the cities and towns in the devastated areas,
that they are empowered by this Executive Order to re-
issue licenses, permits and certificates of registration
to those individuals, who can satisfy respective issuing
officers that they have lost the same by virtue of the hur-
ricane, without payment of the fee which would normally be
chargeable for such re-issuance by statute, ordinance, or
regulation.

GIVEN at the Executive Chamber in Boston, this
third day of September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, and of
the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and
seventy-ninth.

By His Excellency the Governor,
Christian A. Herter

Edward J. Cronin
Secretary of the Commonwealth

GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS