Chap. 0166 An Act to authorize the city of brockton to lay out and construct a street or way through a PORTION of ThE thayer bURIAL ground.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of widening and straightening Pleasant street in the city of Brockton, the said
city may take, b}r purchase or otherwise, a strip of land from the northerly side of the Tha3rer cemetery, so-called, not exceeding in area six hundred thirty-seven and four tenths feet, in accordance with the plans now on file in the city engineer's office of said city : provided, that no burial lot in which are buried the remains of the dead shall be entered upon under the provisions of this act until such remains shall have been removed and duly interred, with all headstones as they now exist, transferred so as to mark their appropriate graves, without expense to the owner of or persons interested in such burial lot.
Section 2. Said city shall be liable to the owners of and all parties interested in said burial ground, to pa}r all damages sustained in their property by the taking of any lands under the provisions of the preceding section. If said owners or any party interested as aforesaid cannot agree with the city upon the amount of said damages, such owners or party may have said damages assessed in the same manner as is provided in case of taking of land for highways : provided, that any application for a jury to assess said damages shall be made within one year after said damages are sustained.
Section 3.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 4, 1893.