Commonwealth of Massachusetts. REPORT. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of law, respectfully submits its annual report for the year 1895, covering a period of twelve months, from Nov. 30, 1894. HEARINGS. The Board has held one hundred and seventy-seven formal sessions during the year, at which two hundred and sixteen hearings were given. One hundred and seventy-five petitions were received for licenses to build and maintain structures, and for privileges in tide waters, great ponds and the Connecticut River; of these, one hundred and sixty-one were granted and fourteen denied. On May 17, 1895, a hearing was given in Chatham on the petition of Rufus Smith and others for license to draw water from Lovers' Lake. On July 29, 1895, the Board, sitting with the Railroad Commissioners as a joint board, under the provisions of chapter 464 of the Acts of 1895, gave a hearing on the petition of the Massachusetts Ship Canal Company for the approval and certification by said joint board of the issue of stock and bonds by said company. On Sept. 20, 1895, a hearing was given in the city of Springfield on the petition of said city for license to build sewer outlets on the Connecticut River. |