Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred G of chapter forty-one of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Templeton is hereby authorized to pay the reasonable expense not exceeding five thousand dollars of the funeral and burial of Roger Houghton, captain of the Templeton fire department, who died while in the performance of his duty.