[Cuar. 442.] 
An ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET TO TAKE THE ISCANL or 
MUSKEGET OR CERTAIN PORTIONS THEREOF FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES. 
Be tt enacted, etc., as follows : 
Section 1. The town of Nantucket, by its selectmen acting asia board 
in this behalf, on being authorized so to do by a vote of said town at any 
annual town meeting or a meeting specially called for the purpose, may at 
ee time within six months after the passage of this act enter upon and 
ales by purchase or otherwise any part or the whole, if deemed advisable 
oe a board of selectmen, of the land not held by a elear title, of the 
island of Muskeget, for a public park. 
Section 2. When said land is entered upon and taken otherwise than 
by purchase said board of selectmen shall, within thirty days of said enter- 
ing upon and taking, cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds in the 
district where said land lies a description of the same as certain as is re- 
quired in a common conveyance of land, with a statement of the purpose 
for which the same is entered upon and. taken, which description shall be 
signed by a majority of said board of selectmen ; and the fee to the land 
so entered upon and taken shall vest in the town of Nantucket. 
Section 8. The town of Nantucket shall pay all.damages sustained by 
any person or corporation by reason of such entering upon and taking, 
such damages to be agreed upon by said board of sefectmen and the person 
or corporation injured; and if the parties cannot agree a jury may be had 
to determine the same, in the same manner as a jury is had and damages 
are determined in the case of persons dissatisfied with the estimate of dam- 
ages sustained in the laying out of highways: provided, that no suit for 
such damages shall be brought after the expiration of three years from the 
date of the; recording of the entering upon and taking of such land; and 
provided, further, that such jury shall not be chosen from the county of 
Nantucket. 
Section 4. Said town, upon request of the secretary, treasurer or gen- 
eral superintendent of the life saving service, may set off to the United 
States a portion of the land so taken “tor the establishment and mainten- 
ance of a life saving station. 
Section 5. The town of Nemnclet shall, upon the acceptance of this 
act, appoint a special police officer whose compensation shall be paid from 
the treasury of the town, and who shall reside upon the island of Muskeget 
from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of August, and who shall 
enforce the provisions of-all existing laws for the protection of birds, their 
egos and young, during said period. [Approved June 1, 1895. 

