Chap. 0258 An Act to authorize the boston, winthrop and shore railroad company to relocate portions of its railroad in The town of winthrop.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The Boston, Winthrop and Shore Railroad Company is hereby empowered to discontinue and abandon such portions of its present railroad route and location in the town of Winthrop and to make such new location or locations of its road in said town or of any
part or parts thereof as may be approved in writing by the selectmen of said town, and, upon obtaining such approval in writing, shall thereupon tile with the aldermen of the city of Boston such new location or locations as herein authorized, prepared and certitied as required by section eight}T-nine of chapter one hundred and twelve of the Public Statutes, and shall also simultaneously tile with said aldermen such statements and descriptions in writing, with such plans, as shall accurately show the portions of its railroad route and location abandoned as herein authorized, which said filing shall be conclusive evidence of the discontinuance and abandonment of the portions of said railroad route and location so described as aforesaid from and after the date of such tiling : provided, that said Boston, Winthrop and Shore Kailroad Company shall construct and complete its road to Point Shirley by its present location or by a new location on the west side of Great Head on or before the first day of June in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
Section 2. The manner in which the railroad of said company as herein authorized to be relocated shall cross highways and other ways shall in each instance be determined exclusively by the board of railroad commissioners ; and no portion of said railroad shall be constructed across navigable or tide-waters without the consent in writing of the board of harbor and land commissioners, and in such manner as said board shall prescribe.
Section 3. All persons sustaining injury by the relocation or relocations of said railroad as herein authorized or by the discontinuance and abandonment of any part or parts of the existing location of said railroad shall have the same rights and remedies for the assessment and recovery of damages therefor as are now provided by law in relation to damages occasioned by the laying out and maintaining of railroads.
Section 4.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 24, 1888.