Chap. 0224 An Act for the supply of water to the state hospital for the insane, in danvers.

Be it enacted, &c, as follows :

Section 1. The board of commissioners appointed under the authority of chapter two hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
entitled "An Act to establish a hospital for the insane, in the north-eastern part of the Commonwealth," are hereby authorized and empowered, with the approval of the governor and council, to enter into contract with the water commissioners of the town of Danvers for procuring a permanent supply of pure water for the state hospital for the insane, located in Danvers ; such water to be furnished from the sources of supply which the said town is authorized to take and hold by the provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An Act to supply the town of Danvers with pure water."
Section 2. The authority granted to said board of commissioners in chapter twenty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An Act to authorize the commissioners on the state hospital for the insane, in the town of Danvers, to procure a supply of pure water from Ipswich River," is hereby extended so that said board of commissioners may, at their discretion, take water from Middlcton Pond, in the town of Middle-ton, for the purposes named in said act; and such taking shall be construed to confer upon said board of commissioners all the rights, powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the conditions, liabilities and requirements of said act, as fully as if the same were herein specifically set forth :' provided, however, that no action shall be taken by said board of commissioners under the authority granted in this section within thirty days after the passage of this act.
Section 3.   All expenses incurred by the said board of commissioners, under the provisions of this act, shall be defrayed from tho appropriations made or to be made for the establishment of said hospital in the town of Danvers. Section 4.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 28,1S7G.