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If the Committee desire to go on with a hearing which shall simply consist in calling the gentlemen , and asking them to express their views as to whether it is worth while to free the ferries , I can go on with that sort of hearing as ...
If the Committee desire to go on with a hearing which shall simply consist in calling the gentlemen , and asking them to express their views as to whether it is worth while to free the ferries , I can go on with that sort of hearing as ...
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I told the gentlemen who advocated that bridge corporation , that they did not mean a bridge , they meant free ferries . They denied it then . It has turned out as I then predicted , and they now come and ask that the city government ...
I told the gentlemen who advocated that bridge corporation , that they did not mean a bridge , they meant free ferries . They denied it then . It has turned out as I then predicted , and they now come and ask that the city government ...
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I shall claim , that freeing the ferries , so that a party may come across the water without paying two cents instead of paying it , will not fill your shipyards with mechanics , will not start up your foundries , or your blacksmith ...
I shall claim , that freeing the ferries , so that a party may come across the water without paying two cents instead of paying it , will not fill your shipyards with mechanics , will not start up your foundries , or your blacksmith ...
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Then , for the purpose of showing , as well as I may , that Boston ought not to run these ferries free for the benefit of East Boston , I shall endeavor to establish several propositions : First . That East Boston has no claim to free ...
Then , for the purpose of showing , as well as I may , that Boston ought not to run these ferries free for the benefit of East Boston , I shall endeavor to establish several propositions : First . That East Boston has no claim to free ...
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I say that East Boston has no right to free ferries , because the benefit that would accrue from free ferries would accrue mainly to private interests , and not to the interests of the mass of the inhabitants of East Boston .
I say that East Boston has no right to free ferries , because the benefit that would accrue from free ferries would accrue mainly to private interests , and not to the interests of the mass of the inhabitants of 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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