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 sections seven, eight and twenty of chapter forty-four of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Easton is hereby authorized to appropriate a portion of the balance remaining from a prior bonding, under the provisions of clause (24) of said section eight of said chapter forty-four for the purpose of constructing a landfill, to the clean-up of ground contaminated by a gas leak in said town; provided, however, that the amount so appropriated shall not exceed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.