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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. The first Board of Commissioners for the survey of Boston Harbor was appointed by Governor Davis, under authority of a resolve of the Legislature, passed March 5, 1835. "To cause a survey to be taken of such portions of the Harbor of Boston as are comprised between Boston South Bridge and the dam of the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, including the wharves and flats of East Boston and of Charlestown, and to define upon a plan or plans, such lines as they shall think it expedient to establish, beyond which no wharves shall be extended into and over the tide-water of the Commonwealth, on either side of said harbor, and report their doings to the Governor and Council." This Board consisted of Messrs. Loammi Baldwin, S. Thayer, and James Hayward, all engineers of eminent scientific attainments. The Report, submitted by them January 30, 1837, is distinguished by the minuteness and accuracy of the survey, soundings and other scientific details. Several lines were recommended by the Commissioners; they say, in reference to them,--"They intend only to mark on one side, the extent to which wharves, either solid or on piles, may be built into and over the tide-water from the shore. But they do not decide, in any case whatever, the relative rights of individuals within it, or give by the survey and plans the boundary or breadth of any wharf or other property situated between it and the shore. We leave all legal rights as we found them, only prescribing limits we think it expedient to establish, beyond which they cannot go further into the channel or tide-water, for the general good and preservation of the harbor." By Res. 1835, Ch. 85, (April 6th,) $5,000 were appropriated to carry out the provisions of the Kesolve of March 5th. By Ees. 1836, Ch. 62,...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217318266
- ISBN 13 9780217318266
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages50
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