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Eng 1010.37

FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Harbor Commissioners,

MADE TO THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

AT ITS

JANUARY SESSION, 1880.

PROVIDENCE:

E. L. FREEMAN & CO., PRINTERS TO THE STATE.

FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Harbor Commissioners,

MADE TO THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

AT ITS

JANUARY SESSION, 1880.

PROVIDENCE:

E. L. FREEMAN & CO., PRINTERS TO THE STATE.

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HARBOR COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.

To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island,

etc.:

The Board of Harbor Commissioners respectfully submit their Fourth Annual Report.

APPOINTMENT TO THE BOARD.

At the May Session of this General Assembly, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, reappointed J. Herbert Shedd, whose term of service as Harbor Commissioner expired in June, for a further term of three years.

OFFICE.

The office of this Board is in the building at the corner of Market Square and Canal street, in Providence, where accommodations are obtained at a rent of two hundred dollars per year.

WORK WITH U. S. GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATION.

The scheme of improvement for Providence River and Narragansett Bay, projected by the Harbor Commissioners in 1877, and toward the realization of which Congress appropriated, by act approved June 18, 1878, a sum of $50,000, was explained in detail and with the aid of plans in the last annual report of the Board. Work with this appropriation was begun October 5, 1878, under the direction of Gen. G.

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