Chap. 173. An Act authorizing the town of braintree to grant RETROACTIVE PAY RAISES TO EMPLOYEES OF THE WATER DEPARTMENT OF SAID TOWN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the town of Braintree is hereby authorized to raise and appropriate a sum of money, not to exceed six thousand three hundred dollars, for the payment of compensation to employees of the water department of said town for pay increases which were contained in a collective bargaining agreement entered into during the year nineteen hundred and seventy-one. Approved April IS, 1972. '