CHAPTER 528. [2413] AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO H 687. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Pawtucket authorized to hire $110,000 construction. for water works SECTION 1. The city of Pawtucket is hereby City of authorized and empowered, in addition to authority previously granted, to hire, from time to time, not exceeding one hundred ten thousand dollars, and to issue its notes and bonds therefor, or either of them, and to renew such notes from time to time, or any of them, as the same become due. All monies raised by the authority hereof shall be exclusively used and expended for any necessary extension and improvement of the system of water works of said city. issued, etc. sinking fund. SEC. 2. The city council shall cause any bonds Bonds, how issued by the authority of this act to be issued for such time and in such amounts, and under such terms and conditions, as shall be fixed by said city council, and after the issue of any such bonds, said city council shall annually appropriate, so long as Interest and any such bonds are outstanding, besides a sum to pay the interest thereon, a sum to be placed as a sinking fund sufficient for the redemption of said bonds when due; and all obligations of said city which may be created under the authority of this act shall be excepted from the operation of section 22 of chapter 47 of the general laws. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. H 730 Quartermaster general authorized on behalf of the state to convey certain land to the city of Pawtucket. Description. CHAPTER 529. [2414] AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CONVEYANCE OF LAND It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The quartermaster general is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver to the city of Pawtucket, on behalf of and in the name of the state of Rhode Island, a deed of all the right, title and interest the state has or of right ought to have in and to that certain parcel of land, situated at the northeasterly corner of Exchange and Front streets, in said city, needed by the city for the widening of Exchange street and the making of improvements contemplated by said city, and bounded and described as follows, viz: Beginning at the intersection of the northerly line of Exchange street with the westerly line of Fountain street, thence running westerly with the present northerly line of Exchange street one hundred seventy-eight and twelve hundredths feet, more or less, to the easterly line of Front street; thence turning and running northeasterly with the easterly line of Front street ten and ten hundredths feet; thence turning and running easterly ten feet northerly from and parallel with the present northerly line of Exchange street one hundred seventy-nine and eighty-four hundredths feet, more or less, to the westerly line of Fountain street; thence turning and running southwesterly with the westerly line of Fountain street ten and forty-nine hundredths feet to the point or place of beginning. And beginning at a point on the easterly line of Front street ten and ten hundredths feet northerly from the present northerly line of Exchange street, Description thence running northeasterly with the easterly line of Front street two hundred two and seventy-one hundredths feet, more or less, to the southwesterly corner of land of said city of Pawtucket; thence turning and running easterly bounded northerly by said city of Pawtucket land seventy-two and thirty-one hundredths feet; thence turning and running southwesterly one hundred fifty feet from and parallel with the westerly line of Fountain street two hundred forty and eighty-five hundredths feet to the new northerly line of Exchange street; thence turning and running westerly with said new northerly line of Exchange street twenty-two and fiftythree hundredths feet to the point or place of beginning; Provided, the mayor of said city of Pawtucket shall enter into the agreement prescribed in section 2 of this act; and provided, that said deed and said agreement be approved in form by the attorneygeneral. hereby Quartermaster written of the SEC. 2. The quartermaster general is authorized and directed to enter into a agreement, on behalf of and in the name state of Rhode Island, with the mayor of the city of Pawtucket, on behalf of and in the name of said city, said mayor being first thereto authorized and empowered by the city council of said city, that said city, in consideration of the conveyance of the above described land shall pay to the general treasurer the sum of three thousand dollars and shall cause the state armory on said premises to be cut off to the extent necessary to remove it from the parcel conveyed and shall also cause another front to be placed on said building to conform to the present style and appearance of said building, said city to pay the expenses of such removal and re general authorized to enter into written agree ment on behalf of the city of state with the Pawtucket. building and the services of an architect chosen by the quartermaster general and to save the state harmless from any cost or liability which may be occasioned by such conveyance, removal or rebuilding, such removal and rebuilding to be performed to the satisfaction of the quartermaster general. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. CHAPTER 530. [2415] H 747. City of Pawtucket authorized to appropriate $15,000 annually for support of hospitals. "AN AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT ENTITLED It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 1286 of the public laws, passed May 5, 1905, entitled "An act authorizing the city of Pawtucket to appropriate money for the support of hospitals," as amended by chapters 1318 of the public laws of 1915, and 2141 of the public laws of 1921, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "Section 1. The city of Pawtucket is hereby authorized and empowered to make appropriations for the support of hospitals within its municipal limits: Provided, however, that no appropriations shall be made in any one year exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for such year. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 531. [2416] AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE RECON- H 1006. TON UPON THE CONDITION THAT SAID TOWN PAY Approved State board of expend construction of way in town public roads authorized to $20,000 for certain high Tiverton. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to be expended by the state board of public roads for the purpose of constructing or reconstructing a certain highway in the town of Tiverton beginning at the boundary line between Massachusetts and Rhode Island on the Stafford road, so-called, and extending southerly for a distance of one mile; and the state auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of said sum or so much thereof as may from time to time be required upon receipt by him of vouchers approved by the chairman and secretary of the state board of public roads; provided, however, that no Town of part of the sum herein appropriated shall be avail- pay $10,000 able for expenditure until the town of Tiverton shall have paid to the general treasurer for the use of the state the sum of ten thousand dollars. Tiverton to into the treasury. become a part highway SEC. 2. When said highway shall have been Highway to constructed by the state board of public roads it of the state shall become a state highway and thereafter shall be system. maintained by the state as a part of the constructed system of state highways. balance to be SEC. 3. Whenever said board shall complete the Unpaid construction or reconstruction of said highway, recovered into said board shall certify to the state auditor that town of said highway has been completed, and any balance reimbursed. treasury and Tiverton |