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CHAPTER 186 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE EAST BOSTON DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 1 of chapter 218 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the sixth paragraph under the caption "Suffolk" and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

The East Boston district court, held at East Boston in Boston; Winthrop and wards one and two of Boston as they existed on March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; provided that said court shall have territorial jurisdiction in matters that arise in the Sumner tunnel, so-called, and Lieutenant William F. Callahan, Jr. tunnel including any property, toll plazas and approach roads thereto under the ownership, care, custody and control of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority as provided by chapter five hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.

Approved July 19, 1985.