Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

The public garden located within Christian A. Herter Park, in the Allston district of the city of Boston, shall be designated and known as the Mary Caroline Herter Memorial Public Garden in memory of the late widow of the former governor, Christian A. Herter, for whom the park is memorialized.

The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized to continue its assistance on a regular basis to care and maintain said garden in cooperation with friends of the Mary Caroline Herter Memorial Public Garden, and to establish an account entitled the Mary Caroline Herter Memorial Garden Fund to receive donations and contributions from citizens, corporations, associations, nonprofit foundations and other public agencies with said proceeds to be designated to underwrite the annual operating costs of providing perpetual care to the Mary Caroline Herter Memorial Public Garden.