Chap. 0592 An Act to authoeize the mount sugar loaf state reservation commission to grant locations to street railway companies.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Mount Sugar Loaf state reservation commission shall have authority, as hereinafter provided, to grant locations for the construction and operation on the roads, parks and reservations under its control, of street, inclined or other railways by companies incorporated in
this commonwealth and authorized to construct and operate such railways in any other part of the commonwealth.
Section 2. Said commission, upon petition of a street railway company, or other company described in the preceding' section, for a location as aforesaid, shall give a hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be given to all persons interested at least fourteen days before the hearing by publication in one or more newspapers published in each city or town in which the location petitioned for lies, and if none such is published then by publication in one or more newspapers published in each county in which the location petitioned for lies; and after the hearing, if in the opinion of the commission public necessity and convenience so require, it may grant such location, or any part thereof, upon such terms, conditions and obligations, and for such compensation, as the public interest and a due regard for the rights of the commonwealth may require. Such locations shall be void unless accepted in writing by the company under authority of the directors, within sixty days after receiving notice thereof.
Section 3. Within the limits of the Mount Sugar Loaf state reservation, the Mount Sugar Loaf state reservation commission shall, subject to the same approval and supervision of the board of railroad commissioners as are provided for by law with respect to railways in other places than said reservation, have full authority over the location of any such railway, and over the method and manner of its construction, and of its kind of motive power, and generally shall have such control of its operation and condition as said commission may deem reasonably necessary to insure the safety and convenience of the public.
Section L The share of the tax paid into the treasury of the commonwealth by any street or other railway company operating hereunder, which would, under other provisions of law, be apportioned to the city or town within which its tracks laid hereunder are situated, shall be apportioned to the commonwealth, and credited by the treasurer to defray the necessary expense for the care and maintenance of said reservation, and any excess thereof remaining shall be credited to the Mount Sugar Loaf State Reservation Fund.
Section 5. All street railway and other companies operating hereunder shall remain subject to the duties, lia-
bilitics and restrictions imposed by other provisions of law not inconsistent herewith.
Section G. The order of the selectmen of the town of Deerfield, dated September, nineteen hundred and nine, and describing a proposed location of the railway of thc Connecticut Valley Street Railway Company in said Sugar Loaf state reservation, is hereby ratified and confirmed as a valid location of said railway, provided that said Mount Sugar Loaf state reservation commission shall, by an order, approve the same, and provided further that the board of railroad commissioners shall certify the same to be consistent with the public interest.
Section 7.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved Jane 9, 1910.