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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

HARBOR COMMISSIONERS.

MADE TO THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

AT ITS

JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1888.

PROVIDENCE:

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

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REPORT.

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

The Board of Harbor Commissioners respectfully submit their Twelfth 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, appointed William C. Clarke of South Kingstown, to serve as Harbor Commissioner for a term of three years from the first of July.

HARBOR LINES.

A harbor line from Kettle Point to five hundred feet south of Nayatt Light, a distance of about six and three-eighths miles, upon which hearings had been held in 1886, was devised in January, 1887, and upon being reported to the Governor and Senate was approved in the Senate May 5, pursuant to Resolution No. 38, as attested on the plan by Joshua M. Addeman, Secretary of State-and approved on the same day by George Peabody Wetmore, Governor. The customary plans, in duplicate, are on file in the office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the Harbor Commissioners.

In their last annual report the Harbor Commissioners suggested that action be taken in relation to encroachments on the Pawcatuck river at Westerly. Subsequently a joint, or Inter-State, Commission was constituted by the Assembly of Rhode Island and by the State Government of Connecticut to consider and report upon the matter of encroachment, or harbor lines in the river, and the progress attained in their investigation will be made the subject of a special report.

ENCROACHMENTS AND DUMPING.

The usual need of supervision, by the Commissioners, to prevent injury by encroachments and dumping in public waters, has continued during the year. Permits for limited amounts of local dumping have been given under restrictions to C. W. Anthony, Joseph Provuncher, to C. W. Anthony on behalf of the City of Providence and again on behalf of the Providence and Worcester Railroad Corporation.

The Commissioners renew their suggestion that a fuller definition be made of their power to act in cases where the dumping of material above the limits of tide water makes it liable to be washed by freshets into the tide water channels and thus interfere with navigation.

The need for supervision to prevent the dumping of ashes from steamers, where it would be injurious, still continues.

LICENSES, ETC.

Licenses have been issued as follows:

No. 69. February 2, to Richard W. Comstock, to reconstruct, by piling, his wharf front, near South Water street below Gold street, in the City of Providence.

No. 70. March 9, to the West Providence Land Company, to fill lots numbered 323, 324, 325 and 356 on the What Cheer Plat, situated near Gano and Power streets, in the city of Providence.

No. 71. March 16, to Joseph Provuncher to dredge earth from the flats near his Marine Railway in East Providence, and deposit the same opposite the adjoining land of Robert Pettis, agreeably to assent given by said Pettis.

No. 72. April 20, to Sylvester G. Martin to extend his wharf, at Silver Spring, in the town of East Providence.

No. 73. April 20, to Jabez L. Harris to remove rocks and build a wall on the northerly side of his lots bordering on Pawtuxet river near the bridge, in the village of Pawtuxet, in the town of Warwick.

No. 74. April 30, to the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation to erect temporary supports under its bridge at India Point, in the city of Providence.

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