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CHAPTER 139 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF TAUNTON TO CONVEY A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND.

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

Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter thirty B of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the city of Taunton is hereby authorized to give, grant and convey to the Weir Economic Industrial Revitalization Corp., a corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth, a certain parcel of land located in said city, acquired for non-payment of taxes, more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at the junction of Staples Court with West Water Street thence by said street northeasterly about 83 feet; thence by land now or formerly of M. J. Martin N. 40 degrees 37' W. 67.10 feet; thence by said Martin land, and in prolongation of same, N. 37 degrees 34' W. 80.26 feet more or less to land now or formerly of the Narragansett Milling Company; thence by said Milling Company land S. 49 degrees 23' W. 97.27 feet, more or less to Staples Court; thence by said Court S. 40 degrees 37' E. 147.25 feet to the point of beginning.

Said property shall be utilized by said Weir Economic Industrial Revitalization Corp. as it deems appropriate for the purpose of revitalizing the Weir District, so-called, in said city of Taunton. Said Weir Economic Industrial Revitalization Corp. shall pay to said city the unpaid taxes due on the property and expenses incurred by the building department of said city as a condition precedent to the conveyance authorized herein.

Approved June 25, 1996.