Resolves, 1946. — Chaps. 47, 48, 49. 777
to such office hours, and its recommendations for further
action by rule or legislation with respect thereto, by filing
the same with the clerk of the house of representatives on or
before the first Wednesday of December in the current year.
Approved June 4, 1946.
Resolve providing additional funds to cover the cost Qhav. 47
OF THE PREPARATION OF A REPORT RELATIVE TO THE DIS-
POSITION OF SEWAGE IN THE MERRIMACK RIVER VALLEY.
Resolved, That the joint board, composed of the Merri-
mack River Valley Sewerage Board and the department of
pubUc health, created by chapter sixty-two of the resolves
of nineteen hundred and forty-five, is hereby authorized to
expend for the purposes of said resolve an additional sum of
fifteen thousand dollars; and be it further
Resolved, That said joint board is hereby authorized to
seek and accept a federal grant of funds as an assistance to
carrying on the duties set forth in the provisions of said
resolve, and to enter into such agreement incident thereto
as may be required to obligate the commonwealth to reim-
burse the federal government in the event that a construc-
tion project is later authorized by it.
Approved June 4, 1946.
Resolve providing for an investigation by the state nhnr) 48
PLANNING BOARD RELATIVE TO PROVIDING FOR THE ^'IM-
PROVEMENT of THE NEPONSET RIVER VALLEY BETWEEN
HANCOCK STREET IN QUINCY AND GREEN LODGE STREET
(route 128) IN CANTON FOR RECREATIONAL AND OTHER
PURPOSES.
Resolved, That the state planning board is hereby author-
ized and directed to investigate the subject matter of current
house document numbered nine hundred and sixty-two,
relative to providing for the improvement of the Neponset
river valley between Hancock street in Quincj' and Green
Lodge street (Route 128) in Canton for recreational and
other purposes. Said board shall report to the general court
the results of its investigation, and its recommendations, if
any, together with estimates of cost and drafts of legislation
necessary to carry its recommendations into effect, by filing
the same with the clerk of the house of representatives on
or before the first Wednesday of December in the current
year. Approved June 5, 1946.
Resolve in favor of william j. groves of Gloucester, r*/,^^ 40
Resolved, That, for the purpose of discharging a moral
obhgation of the commonwealth and of promoting the public
good, and after an appropriation has been made therefor,
there be allowed and paid out of the state treasury, in
monthly instalments from November first, nineteen hundred