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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition by the metropolitan park commissioners under St. 1899, c. 419, for the appointment of commissioners to determine and make award of the proportions in which each of the cities and towns within the Metropolitan Parks District shall annually pay money into the treasury of the Commonwealth for the first period of five years, to meet the interest and sinking fund requirements and provide for the expenses set out and referred to in § 1 of that act, filed March 26, 1900.…
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Petition by the metropolitan park commissioners under St. 1899, c. 419, for the appointment of commissioners to determine and make award of the proportions in which each of the cities and towns within the Metropolitan Parks District shall annually pay money into the treasury of the Commonwealth for the first period of five years, to meet the interest and sinking fund requirements and provide for the expenses set out and referred to in § 1 of that act, filed March 26, 1900. Under this petition apportionment commissioners wei'e appointed by a decree made by a single justice of this court. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This case came before a single justice of this court upon a motion of the Attorney General for the acceptance of the determination and award of commissioners appointed under St. 1899, c. 419, to determine the proportion in which the cities and towns of the Metropolitan Parks District shall pay money into the treasury of the Commonwealth, annually, until the next award five years later. There was a counter motion by the town of Brookline that the award should be recommitted with instructions to the commissioners to report the method adopted for the apportionment, and whether the apportionment…
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