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Chapter 600 amended Section 5 of Chapter 55 of the General 

 Laws. This was an act limiting the exemption from taxation of 

 certain real estate owned by agricultural societies. It provides 

 that incorporated agricultural societies, which were previously 

 exempt from taxation, shall be taxed for any real estate that is 

 used for agricultural exhibition purposes, if the society derives 

 any income from such use. 



Chapter 638 was a special act relative to the basis for the 

 annual assessment for the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project. 

 This act, as in the case of Norfolk and Plymouth, changed the basis 

 for assessment. 



Chapter 677 was an act directing the Water Resources Commission 

 to make certain flocd control improvements for the protection of 

 "the Towns of Avon, Eraintree, Holbrook and Randolph, and directing 

 the Metropolitan District Ccnimission to -ransfer certain land in 

 the Blue Hills Reservation to the Town of Braintree.- 



Chapter 679 was a special act relative to the basis for the 

 annual assessment for the Essex County City of Revere and Towns of 

 Winthrop and North Reading Mosquito Control Project. This act 

 changed the basis for assessment as was the case with Bristol, 

 Norfolk and Plymouth. 



Chapter 690 is an act further regulating the filing of bonds 

 or other securities to protect dairy farmers from milk dealers 

 for loss of payment for milk and providing that in hearings to 

 revoke a niilk dealer's license, the decision of the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture shall be final. This act updated the milk bonding 



