Beginning with the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight there shall be printed annually four thousand copies
of the report of said commission, and each member of the
general court shall be entitled to receive ten copies.
Approved June 11^ 1897.
No. 54.] APPENDIX J. 101



Appendix J.
Tables showing Yaluations or Cities and Towns

THROUGHOUT THE StATB, WITH AMOUNTS AP-
PROPRIATED FOR Repair and Construction op
Roads and Bridges, in 1897.
The following tables, shoT^ing the valuation of the different cities
and towns throughout the State, together with the amounts appro-
priated for the repair and construction of roads and bridges, are as
complete as can be prepared from the data secured by correspondence
with the officials of the various municipalities, and have been pre-
pared in accordance with the following order, passed by the Legis-
lature April 9, 1897 : —

Ordered, That the Massachusetts Highway Commission be requested to
give in its next annual report a tabulated statement of the appropriations
made by the various towns and cities of the State for the repair and con-
struction of roads and bridges during the year 1897.
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