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his keepers, under the supervision and direction of the state forester, shall 

 be charged with the duty of enforcing all such regulations and of perform- 

 ing such labor therein as may be necessary for the care and maintenance 

 thereof; and within such pubhc domain shall have the powers of con- 

 stables and police officers in towns. 



Section 3. Said chapter twenty-eight is hereby further amended by 

 striking out section twenty-six and inserting in place thereof the follow- 

 ing : — Section 26. Any such city or town may lease any building on a 

 public domain, and shall apply all sums derived from rents or from the 

 sale of the products of any such domain, so far as may be necessary, 

 to the management thereof. 



Section 4. Said chapter twenty-eight is hereby further amended by 

 striking out section twenty-seven and inserting in place thereof the follow- 

 ing: — Section 27. Any city or town in which such pubhc domain is 

 situated may erect thereon any building for public instruction or recrea- 

 tion : 'provided, that if such public domain has been placed under the super- 

 vision and control of the state forester, under the provisions of this act, no 

 such building shall be erected unless Ms approval shall first be obtained. 



Section 5. Said chapter twenty-eight is hereby further amended by 

 striking out section twenty-nine and inserting in place thereof the follow- 

 ing : — Section 29. For the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred 

 under the provisions of the six preceding sections any city or town may 

 issue from time to time, and to an amount not exceeding the sum actually 

 expended for the taking or purchase of lands for such pubhc domain, bonds 

 or notes. Such bonds or notes shall be denominated on the face thereof. 

 City or Town of , Public Domain Loan, Act of 1913; 



shall be payable by such annual payments, beginning not more than one 

 year after the date thereof, as will extinguish each loan within thirty years 

 from its date; and the amount of such annual payment of any loan in any 

 year shall not be less than the amount of the principal of said loan payable 

 in any subsequent year. Each authorized issue of bonds or notes shall 

 constitute a separate loan. The bonds or notes shall bear interest at a 

 rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum, paj'able semi- 

 annually; and shall be signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the 

 mayor of the city or, in the case of a town, shall be signed by the treasurer 

 and countersigned by the selectmen. The city, by its mayor and treasurer, 

 and the town, by its selectmen and treasurer, may sell such bonds or 

 notes at public or private sale, upon such terms and conditions as they 

 may deem proper, but the bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than 

 their par value; and the proceeds shall be used only for the purposes 

 herein specified. 



Section 6. The city or town shall at the time of authorizing said loan 

 or loans provide for the payment thereof in accordance with the foregoing 

 provisions of this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed by 

 the city council, or at any annual town meeting, a sum which will be suf- 

 ficient to pay the interest as it accrues on the bonds or notes issued as afore- 

 said by the city or town, and to make such payments on the principal as 



