LAWS ch. 122. � 21: "Certain Persons To Be Deported." Section 21 authorizes a justice of the Superior Court to issue a warrant causing persons given general assistance and "not born or not having a settlement in the commonwealth. who may conveniently be removed. to be conveyed at the expense of the commonwealth to any state or. if not a citizen of the United States. to any place beyond sea. where he belongs." The section was reenacted as recently as 1958. In order to gain settlement in Massachusetts. one must have lived five consecutive years in any town in the commonwealth. MAss.
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