Chap. 668.   An  Act providing that certain  licenses  for the
PURPOSE OF PLACING AND MAINTAINING FILL AND OTHER STRUCTURES IN AND OVER CERTAIN TIDEWATERS IN OR ADJACENT TO THE SQUANTUM AREA OF THE CITY OF QUINCY BE IRREVOCABLE.
Beit enacted, etc., as follows:
All licenses and authority heretofore granted by the commission on waterways and public lands and by the department of public works to place solid fill, to maintain existing bulkheads, and to construct and maintain culverts in Dorchester bay, the Neponset river, Billings creek and other localities at Squantum in the city of Quincy, Norfolk county, as described in the following licenses, only insofar as they relate to land belonging to Jordan Marsh Company as described in Certificate of Title No. 81754, namely: License No. 162, dated February 11, 1918, to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited; except insofar as said license is applicable to Billings Creek Licenses Nosv4373, 4829 and 5186, dated respectively December 5, 1960, June 16, 1964 and .January 11, 1967, to Boston Edison: Company, and License No. 5307, dated October 25, 1967, to Jordan Marsh Company,
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shall, notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, be irrevocable; provided, however, that applicable provisions of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws are or have been complied with, and that if within ten years after the effective date of this act the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions shall take any land which has the benefit of such license, the damages recoverable by reason of such taking shall not exceed the actual cost of acquisition of said, land by the owner from whom said taking is made together with the cost to such owner of any buildings or improvements thereon, with interest at four per cent annually from the date any such cost was incurred.                                                         Approved July 18,1968.
Chap. 6S9.   An Act providing fob the appointment of additional
ASSISTANT    REGISTERS    OF    PROBATE    IN    NORFOLK    AND SUFFOLK  COUNTIES.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Section 24A of chapter 217 of the General Laws, as most recently amended by chapter 348 of the acts of 1947, is hereby further amended by striking out, in line 2, the words "and a fifth" and inserting in place thereof the words: — , a fifth and a sixth.
Section 2. Said chapter 217 is hereby further amended by striking out section 25A, as most recently amended by chapter 820 of the acts of 1967, and inserting in place thereof the following section: ¦—
Section 25 A. The judges of probate for the counties of Essex, Hampden and Worcester may appoint a third and fourth assistant register for their respective counties and the judges of probate for the county of Norfolk may appoint a third, fourth and fifth assistant register for said county, who shall hold office for three years unless sooner removed by the judges. They shall be subject to the laws relative to assistant registers.                                                         Approved July 18, 1968.
Chap. 670.   An Act amending the charter of portia law school. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Chapter 219 of the Special Acts of 1919 is hereby amended by inserting after section 1 the following section: —¦
Section 1A. Commencing on July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight Joseph S. Ayoub, Charles E. Barry, Anne G. Chaffee, Arthur V. Getchell, Bradbury Gilbert, Anna E. Hirsch, Helen A. Ross, A. Leavitt Taylor, Jerome P. Troy, Helen W. Robinson, the president of the Portia Law School Alumni Association shall be the members of said corporation at which time the term of those members of the corporation named in section one or their successors shall cease.
On July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight the corporation shall •consist of eleven members only. Any vacancy in the membership of said corporation shall be filled by vote of the Alumni of Portia Law School for a term of five years at an election to be held for that purpose on the first Monday in November of any year next succeeding any such vacancy except the president of Portia Law School Alumni Association who shall then serve as a member during his term of office.
Approved July 18, 1968.