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At such meeting all inhabitants'of said town heretofore qualified to vote in district affairs may-vote,and the proceed= ings at such meeting shall be`in accordance with-the Pro- visions of the act establishing the district of Marshpee. Section 4. The said town.shall .be and form a part I of the same representative, senatorial, councillor and congres- sional districts , as the town of Barnstable until legally i changed:. Section 5: The county commissioners -of 'the county of Barnstable may; upon application of the selectmen of the town of Mashpee, expend a sum not exceeding three hun- dred dollars in any one year, from the funds of the county, for the construction and repair of roads within said town, and the sum actually expended shall be reimbursed from the treasury of the Commonwealth. Section 6. Any justice of the superior court upon the application of the selectmen of the town of Mashpee, after such notice as the justice may direct to all parties interested and a hearing of the same, if he shall adjudge that it is for the interest of said parties that any or all of the common lands of said town, or of the people heretofore known as the Marshpee tribe of Indians, be divided, shall appoint three discreet, disinterested persons commissioners to make parti- tion of the same, and their award, being approved by the court, shall be confirmed by decree thereof; but if he shall adjudge that it is for the interest of said parties that the same, or a part of the same, .be sold, he shall direct the said commissioners, after they shall have given.such bonds as the court may require, to proceed to sell at public auction any or all of said lands, and to pay the proceeds of the same to the treasurer of said town; and the said justice shall direct the said commissioners to examine and define the boundaries of the lands rightfully held by individual owners, and to properly describe and set forth the same in writing, and the title and boundaries so set forth and described being ap- proved by the court, shall be confirmed by decree thereof; and the same, together with all deeds of partition, division or sale made by such commissioners, shall be recorded in the registry of deeds in the county, and the expenses of said com- missioners, including the cost of recording said deeds, the same being approved by the court, shall be paid out of the i treasury of the Commonwealth; the justice may receive the application aforesaid and order notice thereon in vacation as