Chap. 0062 An Act relative to appropriations by the town of yarmouth for municipal advertising purposes.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The town of Yarmouth may, by a majority vote, appropriate each year a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for advertising the advantages of the town; provided, that before any such appropriation is made a sum at least equal to the amount thereof shall previously have been contributed by public subscription or by donation or legacy, and paid into the town treasury to be expended for the aforesaid purposes. The money so appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the selectmen.

Section 2. So much of the action of said town at its annual meeting in the current year, in pursuance of article forty-nine of the warrant therefor, as would have been valid had section one been in force when the warrant for said town meeting was posted, is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the entire sum appropriated thereunder may be expended for the purposes specified in section one, subject to the provisions thereof.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 14, 1947.