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necessary to conserve health and to protect persons and property; to 

 establish, maintain, and equip training fields; to purchase military equip- 

 ment and supplies; and for the purpose of conserving the food supplj^ to 

 do such things as they may deem necessary to assist in the raising and 

 distribution of food products. The expenditure of all money appropriated 

 under authority of this act shall, in cities, be under the direction of the 

 mayor and city countU or commission, and in towais, of the selectmen, or 

 of committees appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council 

 or commission, in cities, and by the selectmen in towns. A report in detail 

 of all such expenditures shall be made and included in the annual report 

 of the proper financial officers of the city or town. 



Section 2. For the purpose of meeting expenditures herein authorized, 

 a city or town may raise such sums as may be necessary by taxation or 

 may incur debt and issue bonds or notes therefor for a period not exceeding 

 five years. All debts incurred under authority of this act shall be payable 

 in accordance with the pro\asions of section fourteen of chapter seven 

 hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, 

 and amendments thereof. 



Section 3. If a city or town, acting under the authority herein 

 granted, shall plough or harrow or furnish other aid in the cultivation of 

 private land situated in such city or town upon application of the owner 

 of such land and for his benefit, the cost of such work shall be paid by 

 the owner and bills shall be rendered to the owner therefor, and if not 

 paid on or before the first day of April of any year, the amount so due 

 and unpaid may be assessed on the land upon which the work was done, 

 and shall be a lien on the said land enforceable in the same manner and 

 with the same effect as is provided in the case of assessments for the 

 suppression of the gypsy and brown tail moth. 



Section 4. This act shall take efi"ect upon its passage, and shall, except 

 as herein otherwise expressly pro\dded, cease to operate on the termina- 

 tion of the said state of war. [Approved May 17, 1917. 



CULTIVATION OF LAND BY PRISONERS. 



General Acts, Chapter 129. 

 An Act relative to the employment of prisoners in recl.\iming and 



cultivating l.\ni>. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter six hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the 

 year nineteen hundred and thirteen, as amended by chapter one hundred 

 and eighty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and by 

 (;hapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the General Acts of the year 

 nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended by adding after 

 section two the following new section to be numbered three: — Section 3. 

 The director of prisons may purchase or lease land, wath funds specifically 



