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Maintenance of ways in small towns  Section 26. There may be
expended for the repair and improvement of public ways, other
than state highways, in towns having valuations of less than
five million dollars, as established by the valuations made for
the purpose of apportioning the state tax as appearing in
chapter five hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of nineteen
hundred and forty-five and in which the proportionate amount
paid by such towns of every million dollars of such tax as
established and apportioned in said chapter five hundred and
fifty-nine, divided by the number of miles of such public ways,
hereinafter known as the road mileage ratio, is less than twelve
dollars, such sums not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars
per mile as the general court may appropriate therefor;
provided, that such towns shall contribute or make available for
use in connection therewith the following amounts for each mile
of public ways within their respective limit