Chap. 0506 An Act providing for the improvement of ware river in the town of palmer.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Subject to the conditions herein imposed, the department of public works is authorized and directed to protect from further erosion the southeasterly bank of the Ware river near Pattaquattic pond, so called, in the town of Palmer. In carrying out such work, said department and the town of Palmer shall have all power and authority granted by chapter five hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-nine and by chapter ninety-one of the General Laws; provided, that no work shall be begun until the town of Palmer has entered into an agreement with said department in accordance with the provisions of said chapter five hundred and thirteen and section twenty-nine of said chapter ninety-one, to assume liability for all damages that may be incurred hereunder nor until said town has paid into the treasury of the commonwealth the sum of five thousand dollars, which, together with such sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated by the commonwealth, shall constitute a fund for the improvement herein authorized; provided, that the total cost of such improvement shall not exceed ten thousand dollars; and, provided further, that, if any of the last mentioned sum remains after the completion of such improvement, one half of such remainder shall be paid to said town. Approved July 7, 1949.