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The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

AN ACT RELATIVE TO CERTAIN LANDS IN THE COMMONWEALTH.

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


SECTION 1. The conservation commission of the town of Mashpee is hereby authorized to transfer to the board of selectmen of said town the care, custody, management and control of a certain parcel of land, designated as a town forest. Said board of selectmen is hereby authorized to change the use of said land from forest land to town cemetery use. Said parcel is shown on the Mashpee Assessors' records as Map 89, Block 1.

SECTION 2. Chapter 209 of the acts of 1997 is hereby amended by striking out section 1 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 30B of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the county commissioners of Norfolk county are hereby authorized to convey, without consideration, two parcels of conservation land to the town of Braintree. Said parcels are shown as Parcel 1 and Parcel 2 on a certain plan entitled "Plan of Land in Braintree, Mass., August 26, 1976, Alvah L. Downs, County Engineer", which plan is recorded with the Norfolk registry of deeds as Plan 1187 of 1978 (the "1978 Plan").

SECTION 3. Section 2 of said chapter 209 is hereby amended by striking out the second and third paragraphs and inserting in place thereof the following two paragraphs:-

Both parcels are shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Braintree, Mass., Owner: County of Norfolk, dated October 2, 1997", prepared by County of Norfolk Engineering Dept. and recorded in the Norfolk county registry of deeds, (the Plan).

The first parcel is labeled on said plan as County of Norfolk, Land Court Cert. No. 21516, Book 108, Page 116, and the second parcel is shown on said plan as Parcel B.

SECTION 4. Section 3 of said chapter 209 is hereby amended by striking out the second paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

Said parcel is shown as Lot C on the plan described in section 2, (the Plan).

Approved January 23, 1998.