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Bridges , between Charlestown and Boston , and Cambridge and Boston . An Ordinance in Relation to the Care and Maintenance of . May 8 , 1871 . DOCUMENT NO . 32 . Public Institutions . Fourteenth Annual Report of the Directors for the ...
Bridges , between Charlestown and Boston , and Cambridge and Boston . An Ordinance in Relation to the Care and Maintenance of . May 8 , 1871 . DOCUMENT NO . 32 . Public Institutions . Fourteenth Annual Report of the Directors for the ...
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time a member of the City Government , and at another time had occasion to discuss the question somewhat in the legislature upon the question of incorporating a Bridge Company from East Boston over to the main .
time a member of the City Government , and at another time had occasion to discuss the question somewhat in the legislature upon the question of incorporating a Bridge Company from East Boston over to the main .
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As a member then of the City Government , and as a member of the legislature , I believed the idea of a bridge was utterly idle and futile ; 1 believed that the General Government never would permit a bridge to be built across the ship ...
As a member then of the City Government , and as a member of the legislature , I believed the idea of a bridge was utterly idle and futile ; 1 believed that the General Government never would permit a bridge to be built across the ship ...
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men could be found who would construct a bridge that would satisfy the wants of the people of East Boston ; and accordingly , I took ground in the legislature against it , but unavailingly ; because in the legislature , as elsewhere ...
men could be found who would construct a bridge that would satisfy the wants of the people of East Boston ; and accordingly , I took ground in the legislature against it , but unavailingly ; because in the legislature , as elsewhere ...
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... not become mainland , nor does she gain the same elements of prosperity with the mainland , after you have made the ferries free . You cannot bridge from here to Last Boston ; you cannot lay a railroad from here to East Boston .
... not become mainland , nor does she gain the same elements of prosperity with the mainland , after you have made the ferries free . You cannot bridge from here to Last Boston ; you cannot lay a railroad from here to East Boston .
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| Title | Documents of the City of Boston, Volume 2 |
| Author | Boston (Mass.). City Council |
| Published | 1872 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Oct 2011 |
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