In re Metropolitan Park Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on January 28, 1915, by the metropolitan park commissioners under St. 1899, c. 419, § 1, 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 annually shall pay money into the treasury of the Commonwealth beginning with January 1, 1915, and continuing until January 1 in the year in which the new award by such apportionment…
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Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on January 28, 1915, by the metropolitan park commissioners under St. 1899, c. 419, § 1, 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 annually shall pay money into the treasury of the Commonwealth beginning with January 1, 1915, and continuing until January 1 in the year in which the new award by such apportionment commissioners is made. The commissioners appointed were Robert O. Harris, Esquire, of Bridgewater, George S. Taft,…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The commissioners were appointed to apportion the expenses of the metropolitan parks district in such manner as they deemed just and equitable, and for this purpose they were to determine and make award for the succeeding five years of the proportion in which each of the cities and towns should annually pay money into the treasury of the Commonwealth, for the amount estimated to meet the interest and sinking fund requirements of the appropriations and loans authorized for the metropolitan park system; and for the Nantasket beach reservation and the Charles River basin as well as the amount…
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