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<br /> ten days thereafter, file with the Town Clerk of said Town an attested copy
<br /> of the instrument of acquisition and thereupon said real estate shall become
<br /> and be part of the District and shall be holden under this act in the same
<br /> manner and to the same extent as the real estate described in section one.
<br /> SECTION 13. Nothing in this act shall authorize the District to supply
<br /> water for domestic or other purposes to real estate being served with water
<br /> by the High Wood Water Company, Inc., a private water company, or its
<br /> assigns, on the effective date of this act, without first having acquired by
<br /> purchase, gift, lease, contract or by eminent dornain under chapter seventy-nine
<br /> or chapter eighty A of the General Laws, rights to or ownership of such
<br /> of the properties of said High Wood Water Company, Inc., or its assigns,
<br /> which are on said date located within that area included in the District and
<br /> which are served by said High Wood Water Company, Inc. or its assigns.
<br /> In case of any dispute by High Wood Water Company, Inc., or its assigns,
<br /> as to any real estate included in the District defined in section 1 of this
<br /> act or as added by the provisions of section 12, the Department of Public
<br /> Utilities, upon application of the District or of said High Wood Water Company,
<br /> Inc., or its assigns, shall conduct a hearing and issue an order of determination
<br /> to resolve the dispute.
<br /> SECTION 1+. The District may, for the purpose of creating a stabilization
<br /> fund, appropriate in any fiscal year an amount not exceeding ten percent
<br /> (10°'0) of the amount raised in the preceding fiscal year by taxation, of real
<br /> (. estate. Any interest accruing shall be added to and become a part of the
<br /> fund. The stabili=anon fund may be appropriated at an annual meeting by
<br /> j a two-thirds vote for any purpose for which the District ,veuld be authorized
<br /> to corraw money.
<br /> SECTION 15. The District .Assessors may create an overlay fund
<br /> by adding to rhe amount to be assessed in accordance .vith Massachusetts
<br /> General Lacs, Chapter 39, Section
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<br /> SECTION 16. The District ma�:;, by vote at a District ?Meeting, provide
<br /> for the levy of special assessments to meet the whole or part of the cost
<br /> thereafter incurred of laying pipes in public and private ways for the conveyance
<br /> ` or distribution of water to its inhabitants, in accordance with the provisions
<br /> Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter »0, Sections 42G, +2H, and IZI.
<br /> fSECTION 17. Upon acceptance of this act by the District at a meeting
<br /> held in accordance with the provisions of Section S and a subsequent majority
<br /> vote at the same meeting or a Tater meeting, and upon majorit,� vote of
<br /> a duiv called Mashpee Tow- ?Meeting authorizing the same, all assets, liabilities,
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<br /> contractual Eights, leases an .,d ocligationo[ the existing 'Vater Department
<br /> of the Town of Mashcee, shall be transferred to and assumed by the Mashcee
<br /> Water District, and the existing Water Department or the Town of Mashpee
<br /> shall be dissolved and cease to exisr, notwithstanding any prior Mashpee
<br /> Town Meeting acceptance of General Laws relating to water, ,eater distribution
<br /> systems, or in any way relating to the creation of a Town of Mashpee \Vater
<br /> Department, election of Water Commissioners, or any other provision of
<br /> law to the contrary.
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