Chap. 0012 An Act to amend an act to incorporate the dedham water company.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section ten of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of the }-ear eighteen hundred and seventy-six is hereby amended so as to read as follows : -
The town of Dedham shall have the right at any time during the continuance of the charter granted to the Dedham Water Company to purchase the corporate property and all the rights and privileges of said company, at a price which may be mutually agreed upon between said corporation and the said town of Dedham ; and the said corporation is authorized to make sale of the same to said town. In case said corporation and said town are unable to agree, then the compensation to be paid shall be determined by three commissioners to be appointed by the supreme judicial court, upon application of either party and notice to the other, whose award when accepted by the said court shall be binding upon both parties; and this authority to purchase said franchise and property is granted on condition that the same is assented to by said town by a two-thirds vote of the voters present and voting thereon at a legal meeting called for that purpose; the number of meetings called for that purpose in any one year not to exceed two.
Section 2.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 7, 1S82.