Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners

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Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers, 1896

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Page 71 - Loan, shall be countersigned by the governor, and shall be deemed a pledge of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth...
Page 71 - ... may have his damages assessed by a jury of the superior court in the same manner as is provided by law with respect to damages sustained by reason of the laying out of ways.
Page 69 - ... such attorneys, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees as it may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of its duties and as may be from time to time appropriated for by Congress.
Page 74 - ... in the name and behalf of the Commonwealth and under its seal, to an amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars, for a term not exceeding forty years.
Page 72 - ... shall annually pay money into the treasury of the Commonwealth, for the term of five years next following the year of the first issue of...
Page 71 - States or its equivalent ; and said scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall be sold and disposed of at public auction or in such other mode and at such times and prices and in such amounts and at such rates of interest, not exceeding the rate above specified, as shall be deemed best.
Page 61 - ... consider the advisability of laying out ample open spaces for the use of the public .... in such county...
Page 86 - The police appointed or employed by said commission in accordance with the provisions of chapter four hundred and seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three and chapter two hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninetyfour...
Page 75 - Said scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall be issued as registered bonds or with interest coupons attached, and shall bear interest not exceeding four per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually on the first day of April and of October in each year.
Page 65 - Within sixty days after any street, way, land or right therein is acquired or taken under this act, the board shall file and cause to be recorded in the proper registry of deeds, a description thereof sufficiently accurate for its identification, with a statement of the purpose for which the same is acquired or taken, which description shall be signed by a majority of said board.

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