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CHAPTER 68 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TO TAKE CERTAIN LANDS IN THE TOWN OF UXBRIDGE BEING USED AS A KNOWN OR SUSPECTED AMERICAN INDIAN BURIAL PLACE AND TO RELOCATE SAID BURIAL PLACE.

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. The department of public works, acting in behalf of the commonwealth, is hereby authorized to take by eminent domain, in accordance with the provisions of chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, certain lands in the town of Uxbridge for the relocation of state highway route 146 and state highway route 146A, being used as burial places known or suspected to contain the remains of one or more American Indians and to relocate said remains or take other action relative thereto, whether American Indian or not, under the provisions of section six B of chapter thirty-eight of the General Laws and in conformance with the provisions of section thirty-eight A of chapter seven or paragraph (7) of section twenty-six A of chapter nine of the General Laws, whichever is applicable.

Said land is shown on a plan, entitled "Town of Uxbridge Plan of Land Showing Probable Burial Grounds April 16, 1985", which plan shall be kept in the office of the chief engineer of the said department, and which lands are more particularly described as follows:

1. A certain parcel of land in the town of Uxbridge, at or about Station 169 + 00 of the main baseline of relocated route 146, right about thirty (30) feet, and being a rectangular parcel of land approximately fifty (50) feet by seventy-five (75) feet.

2. A certain parcel of land, in the town of Uxbridge, at or about Station 14 + 50 of the Ramp F baseline of relocated route 146, left about twenty (20) feet, and being a rectangular parcel of land approximately ten (10) feet by twenty (20) feet.

3. A certain parcel of land, in the town of Uxbridge, at or about Station 15 + 25 of the Ramp F baseline of relocated route 146, right about twenty (20) feet, and being a rectangular parcel of land approximately five (5) feet by ten (10) feet.

4. A certain parcel of land, in the town of Uxbridge, at or about Station 15 + 50 of the Ramp F baseline of relocated route 146, right about one hundred and twenty (120) feet, and being a rectangular parcel of land approximately five (5) feet by ten (10) feet.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect as of February first, nineteen hundred and eighty-five.

Approved May 28, 1985.