Section 1. The aldermen, selectmen or road commissioners shall cause permanent bounds to be erected at the termini and angles of all ways laid out by them. Such bounds shall be of stone, Portland cement or concrete not less than three feet long, two feet of which at least shall be set in the ground, or of stone not less than three feet long with holes drilled therein and filled with lead placed a few inches below the traveled part of the way, or if stone, Portland cement or concrete bounds are impracticable, a heap of stones, a living tree, a permanent rock, or the corner of a building, or such other permanent bounds as said officers may determine.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XIV - Public Ways and Works
Chapter 86 - Boundaries of Highways and Other Public Places, and Encroachments Thereon
Section 1 - Erection of Monuments
Section 2 - Buildings or Fences as Boundaries
Section 3 - Encroachment on Public Ways
Section 4 - Removal of Encroachments
Section 5 - Removal of Gates, Rails, Bars or Fences Upon or Across Ways
Section 6 - Barbed Wire Fences
Section 7 - Removal of Unused Poles, Structures, Etc. From Public Ways