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Page 38
Half a million dollars , gentlemen , is half the amount that the city appropriates , this year , for its two hundred miles of streets . It is about equal to the whole interest on the water debt . Well , gentlemen , I shall introduce a ...
Half a million dollars , gentlemen , is half the amount that the city appropriates , this year , for its two hundred miles of streets . It is about equal to the whole interest on the water debt . Well , gentlemen , I shall introduce a ...
Page 39
I have had a list made of the owners of more than a hundred thousand feet , and I find that but three of them are in the directory as residents of East Boston . ( To a question of Mr. Sweetser , ) — I suppose the forty million feet ...
I have had a list made of the owners of more than a hundred thousand feet , and I find that but three of them are in the directory as residents of East Boston . ( To a question of Mr. Sweetser , ) — I suppose the forty million feet ...
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We had the charter offered us for three hundred dollars ; they told us the road would take $ 20,000.00 a year out of us . " Very well , " I said , “ I suppose it will ; " and it did . “ But , " I said , “ if the railroad takes ...
We had the charter offered us for three hundred dollars ; they told us the road would take $ 20,000.00 a year out of us . " Very well , " I said , “ I suppose it will ; " and it did . “ But , " I said , “ if the railroad takes ...
Page 58
You might call it the business of East Boston if the Eastern Railroad brings up five hundred tons of freight , and it is carted over to the city of Boston ; but it is not any increase of the business of East Boston .
You might call it the business of East Boston if the Eastern Railroad brings up five hundred tons of freight , and it is carted over to the city of Boston ; but it is not any increase of the business of East Boston .
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Some eighteen hundred dollars . Q. ( By Mr. BROOKS . ) Do you know whether your teamster went to the ferry or not ? A. I can't swear to it . Q. You don't know whether he went there or stopped to take a drink ? A. No , sir .
Some eighteen hundred dollars . Q. ( By Mr. BROOKS . ) Do you know whether your teamster went to the ferry or not ? A. I can't swear to it . Q. You don't know whether he went there or stopped to take a drink ? A. No , sir .
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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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