Chap. 0436 An Act relative to compensation for damages occasioned in the town of boylston by the construction OF the metropolitan water system.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The owner of any real estate situated in that part of the town of Boylston on the southerly and southeasterly side of the metropolitan water basin known as the Wachusett reservoir, and within the limits of the Nashua river watershed, not taken but directly or indirectly decreased in value by reason of chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five and amendments thereof, entitled " An Act to provide for a metropolitan water supply ", or by the doings of the metropolitan water board or of the metropolitan water and sewerage board thereunder, shall have the same right to damages for such decrease in value, to be determined and recovered in the same way, as is provided for owners of certain real estate in the town of West Boylston by section fourteen of said ehapter: provided, that the petition required by said section is filed within two years after the passage of this act ; but no owner shall have the right to surrender his real estate to the Commonwealth in the manner provided in said chapter.
Section 2. The rules and regulations of the state board of health or of the metropolitan water and sewerage board now or hereafter in force for the sanitary protection of water or sources of water supply shall not constitute an element of damage within the meaning of this act.
Section o.   This act shall take elfect upon its passage.
Approved June 8, 1904.