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. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the town of Topsfield, acting by and through its conservation commission, may transfer the care, custody and control of a certain parcel of land located off Haverhill street in the town of Boxford described in section 2 to the board of selectmen of the town of Topsfield for the purpose of sale, and the board of selectmen may convey the parcel to the town of Boxford for conservation purposes.

SECTION 2. The land to be conveyed under section 1 is described as follows:

The land shown as Lot C on "Plan of Property Bordering Pye Brook, Topsfield, compiled for the town of Topsfield from old surveys and aerial photograph, C. Lawrence Bond, Registered Surveyor, December 1970, scale 1 in.= 200 feet" recorded with deeds to lots A and B to the town of Topsfield in the Essex south district registry of deeds in Book 5742, Page 607 and 608.