Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Eight. AN ACT To amend Section Twenty-two of Chapter One Hundred and Thirty of the General Statutes, concerning Setoff. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 SECT. 1. Section twenty-two of chapter one hun2 dred and thirty of the General Statutes is hereby 3 amended by striking out all after the word "than," 4 and inserting instead thereof the words "three 5 hundred dollars debt or damage." 1 SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its pas2 sage. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. IN SENATE, March 14, 1878. The Committee on Water Supply and Drainage, to whom was recommitted the Bill to supply the Town of Brockton with pure water, report the same in a new draft. For the Committee, J. S. ROPES. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Eight. AN ACT To supply the Town of Brockton with Pure Water. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 SECT. 1. The town of Brockton is authorized to 2 supply itself and its inhabitants with pure water to 3 extinguish fires, generate steam, and for domestic 4 and other uses; to establish fountains and hydrants ; 5 to regulate their use, and re-locate or discontinue the 6 same; and to fix and collect rents for the use of said 7 water. 1 SECT. 2. Said town, for the purposes aforesaid, 2 may take, hold, and convey into and through the 3 town of Brockton the waters of Salisbury brook and 4 the tributaries thereof, the springs, brooks, and wa5 tershed of the meadows lying near said Salisbury 6 brook and its tributaries, in said town of Brockton 7 and in the adjoining town of Stoughton; and may 8 take and hold by purchase or otherwise such land in 1 |