Annual Report1898 |
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Acts approval of plans Avenue beach Board of Harbor Boston harbor build and maintain bulkhead Buzzards Bay Charles River city of Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Company for license completed Congress Street Congress Street bridge construction contract Contractor Cotuit cubic yards depth dredged Dredging Company dump East Boston easterly side Engineer England Railroad Company entrance excavated feet at mean feet wide fill solid Fort Point Channel Granted April Granted Dec Granted Feb Granted July Granted June Granted March Granted Nov Granted Oct Granted Sept Harbor and Land harbor line Hull Hull Bay hundred improvement Island jetties Land Commissioners land supposed license to build mean low water Mystic River navigation northerly one-hundredths Osterville Petition Point Channel portion proposed remove gravel sand Scorton sea wall Shirley Gut shore side line South Bay South Boston flats southerly stone Street bridge supposed to belong survey thence thereof tide water timber westerly width wreck
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Page 81 - ... that the said work, or any part thereof, Is unnecessarily or unreasonably delayed, or that the Contractor is...
Page 73 - Contractor is not present to receive them, they shall be received and obeyed by the superintendent or foreman who may have charge of the particular work in reference to which they are given.
Page 38 - That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to...
Page 95 - Contractor, or if this contract shall be assigned, or the work sublet by him, otherwise than as herein specified, or if at any time the Engineer shall be of the opinion, and shall so certify in writing to the...
Page 12 - ... stock and bonds, or the proceeds thereof, to be applied to the following purposes and to no other, to wit...
Page 84 - ... or any part thereof, and in case such expense is less than the sum which would have been payable under this contract, if the same had been completed by said contractor, then the said party of the second part shall be entitled to receive the difference...
Page 64 - In all operations connected with the work, the contractor shall comply with all laws or regulations affecting in any way the conduct of those engaged on the work, or the methods of doing the work, and persons employed in the performance of manual labor under this contract shall not be required to work more than nine hours in each day, and said nine hours shall constitute a day's work...
Page 82 - Its completion within the time specified, or if at any time the Engineer shall be of the opinion and shall so certify In writing to the said party of the first part that said work or any part thereof, is unnecessarily or unreasonably delaved.
Page 86 - ... orders will be given by the Engineer, and shall be received and obeyed by the superintendent or foreman who may have charge of the particular work in reference to which the orders are given.
Page 8 - Boston proper on the one side and the reclaimed and improved flats of South Boston on the other side. It connects the tidal basin of South Bay, which has an area of 250 acres, with Boston Inner Harbor; is fast becoming the center of the city's most extensive shipping trade, and is the most important branch of the main ship channel. Fort Point Channel is 1J miles long. Before improvement the least depth at mean low water was 12 feet at its 'entrance, and 17 feet above Congress Street Bridge.