Looking for the text of Chapter 364 of the special acts of 1929 (Massachusetts)
SPUI
37 and 3 (now 53).
EskW...@spamblock.panix.com
The State House in Boston has a good law library. The set you are looking
for is called Acts and Resolves. It is divided into volumes by year.
It is possible that the reference librarian may even photocopy it and fax
it to you if you ask nicely.
In ne.transportation, SPUI <drsqu...@goinkmail.cmooom> wrote:
> Apparently this had something to do with the original Route 128 between
> 37 and 3 (now 53).
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John F. Carr
>Apparently this had something to do with the original Route 128 between
>37 and 3 (now 53).
Chapter 364 of the Acts of 1929
Section 1.
The department of public works is hereby authorized to lay out, construct
and improve ways for motor vehicles and other traffic in the city of Malden
and in the towns of Braintree, Weymouth and Hingham, substantially in the
following locations:
(a) Beginning at a point where the Malden-Everett boundary line crosses
Broadway in the city of Malden and extending along said Broadway northerly
to the southerly end of the state highway in said city, with such widenings
and relocations as the department shall deem desirable;
(b) Beginning at the intersection of Washington and Plain streets in the
town of Braintree and extending along or near Plain and Grove Streets in
said town including a crossing at grade of the tracks formerly of the Old
Colony Railroad Company, thence along or near Columbian Street including
necessary alterations to the bridge over the tracks formerly of the South
Braintree, Abington and Plymouth branch of said Old Colony Railroad
Company, and thence extending over public or private lands and along or near
Park avenue, Ralph Talbot street, and Park street in the town of Weymouth;
thence along or near Derby street to a point at or near its intersection
with Withing street in the town of Hingham. [text concerning improvements
to railroad bridges omitted]
[sections concerning financing omitted]
Section 8.
When the work authorized by hereby shall have been completed, said ways
shall become city or town ways and shall be kept in good condition and
repair by the city or town in which the way or part thereof is situated,
and the provisions of section twenty-five of chapter eighty-one of the
General Laws shall apply thereto.
Approved June 3, 1929
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John Carr (j...@mit.edu)
John F. Carr
SPUI <drsqu...@goinkmail.cmooom> wrote:
>Apparently this had something to do with the original Route 128 between
>37 and 3 (now 53).
The road described in that act (posted separately) is currently
an unnumbered state highway connecting Route 37 and Route 53.
If it was ever given to the towns, as required by the act, the
state took it back. It appears as Route 128 on the 1941 USGS map.
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John Carr (j...@mit.edu)
SPUI
> an unnumbered state highway connecting Route 37 and Route 53.
> If it was ever given to the towns, as required by the act, the
> state took it back. It appears as Route 128 on the 1941 USGS map.
Thanks. It appears that this was in fact given back to the towns, and
later taken over:
* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Hingham/Layouts/2604/ Hingham
September 3, 1929
* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Hingham/Layouts/4582/ Hingham
February 11, 1958 (related to 3)
* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Hingham/Layouts/4751/ Hingham
October 28, 1958 (the rest of it)
* Layout 2603 (Weymouth September 3, 1929) is missing
* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Weymouth/Layouts/3400/
Weymouth September 23, 1941
* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Weymouth/Layouts/4640/
Weymouth February 11, 1958 (relocation related to 3)
* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Braintree/Layouts/2602/
Braintree Seprember 3, 1929
* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Braintree/Layouts/3399/
Braintree September 23, 1941
John F. Carr
SPUI <drsqu...@goinkmail.cmooom> wrote:
> > The road described in that act (posted separately) is currently
> > an unnumbered state highway connecting Route 37 and Route 53.
> > If it was ever given to the towns, as required by the act, the
> > state took it back. It appears as Route 128 on the 1941 USGS map.
>
>Thanks. It appears that this was in fact given back to the towns, and
>later taken over:
>* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Hingham/Layouts/2604/ Hingham
>September 3, 1929
>* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Hingham/Layouts/4582/ Hingham
>February 11, 1958 (related to 3)
>* http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/LayoutsImages/Hingham/Layouts/4751/ Hingham
>October 28, 1958 (the rest of it)
Those layout plans are a surprisingly useful service
of an otherwise pointless web site.
I confirmed that Route 6 in Provincetown really was
discontinued as a state highway. I figured that must
have been an error in the GIS files.
They also answered another question I had about the
state highway status of River Road in Florida. (It
was given to the town.)
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John Carr (j...@mit.edu)