The said commission shall further ascertain the cost of the removal of the bodies from each of said lots and the cost of securing the new site and the cost of such disinterment and reinterment, and this cost shall be a first lien against the value of the lots or plots in the abandoned burying ground or cemetery as appraised, and the said municipality or board of education as the case may be shall pay to the owners of each lot or plot the difference, if any, between the value of the lots in the abandoned burying ground or cemetery as appraised and the cost of removing the said bodies and reinterring them in a new cemetery.

L.1948, c. 80, p. 471, s. 11, eff. May 21, 1948.