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20 BEACON STREET arch Boston abutment Boston approach Boston Elevated Railway Boston side Boston Transit Commission bottom built cars Carson CHARLES RIVER BRIDGE Charlestown abutment Charlestown approach CHARLESTOWN BRIDGE Chief Engineer chute city of Boston clay coffer-dam concrete foundation construction contract contractor cost CROCKER curbing DEAR SIR deposited depth diameter draw channel draw span EAST BOSTON TUNNEL Elevated Railway Company excavation Expenses feet fender pier Field supplies Fitchburg railroad fixed spans floor planking GEORGE G girders grade granite gravel Haverhill street Honor the Mayor inches JOSIAH QUINCY June June 15 June 28 Labor laid layer of concrete lease Lewis street masonry Mass Maverick square passageway paving piles were driven plans portion pumped quarter's rental respectfully roadway sand SECTION sidewalks Skilled service spiking strip Stationery and printing subway surface thickness track Transit Commissioners Travers street Tremont street trusses tube walls Water street Width
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Page 8 - States is hereby prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structure in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War...
Page 9 - War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 9 - That the dumping and all operations connected therewith shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the Engineer officer of the United States Army in charge of the locality, who may temporarily suspend the work at any time if in his judgment the interests of navigation so require.
Page 9 - States, is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not 'be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures, in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War...
Page 9 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established...
Page 17 - ... presence of the Board that they would grant permission to take water from this pond, if applied for. While the Board disclaimed any authority or attempt to determine the title to this pond, it concluded it would be better to issue the license, which contains the following usual clause in all licenses : " Nothing in this license shall be so construed as to impair the legal rights of any person.
Page 9 - July 1, 1920, as recommended by the Chief of Engineers ; Now therefore, This is to certify that the Secretary of War hereby authorizes the said work of...
Page 59 - US 1. The city has no greater interest in the lease than it has in the tunnel. Its interest in the lease is as much public property and as subject to legislative control as its interest in the tunnel. No part of the proceeds go to its private uses, (St. 1894, c. 548, § 38 ; Mahoney v. Boston, 171...
Page 58 - Mount Hope Cemetery v. Boston, or that supposed of an act requiring a transfer of the city hall to a railroad company for a station. This is not a transfer, but only a temporary and quasi experimental lease for a not unreasonable time. The property of the city in the tunnel, assuming it to have a property, is not of a half private sort, as in case of a cemetery, but is merely the control of a public agency.
Page 37 - ... feet. If the bank is made too high, or if the bottom (or the top of the preceding course) is very uneven, or if the piles interfere with the motion of the chute, or if the chute is moved along or raised too rapidly, the concrete is likely to run out so fast as to empty the chute entirely before the flow can be checked. In this event the "charge" is said to be "lost," and the chute must be lowered again to the bottom and refilled.