Massachusetts Commission on Wate Lands
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 172
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Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, 1917: Consolidating Harbor and Land Commission and Directors of the Port of Boston Beginning with the discharge of its duties, which in 1879 were largely confined to dredging operations in Boston Harbor; the reclamation, improvement and development of the territory commonly known as the South Boston Flats; the sale, following reclamation, of the Back Bay lands in Boston; and other important transactions, the scope of this Board's work, by legislative enactments and otherwise has been considerably increased, and its jurisdiction, originally limited almost exclusively to projects previously defined above, extended, up to the establishment of the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, to the Connecticut River; to the non-tidal part of the Merrimac River; to great ponds belonging to the Commonwealth; to the allotment of funds placed at its disposal by the Legislature for river and harbor improvements, and to other matters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.