APPENDIX A. EXPENDITURES OF THE PARK DEPARTMENT. Amount appropriated October 5, 1875, $6,900 00 Amount expended to December 31, 1875, as per first report, $1,987 81 Amount expended to April 31, 1876, 3,421 57 5,409 38 Unexpended balance May 1, 1876, $1,490 62 The above amount of $3,421.57 was expended as fol AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT FOR THE LAYING OUT OF PUBLIC PARKS IN OR NEAR THE CITY OF BOSTON. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The Board of Park Commissioners for the City of Boston is hereby authorized and empowered to build a sea-wall on the Boston side of the basin of the Charles river between the angle in the present harbor line, at the north-westerly corner of Taylor and Sohier's wharf, and a point where the proposed line described below joins the present harbor-line, and to fill up the grounds enclosed by said wall for the purposes of a public park in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 1875, chapter 185. The lines of the said sea-wall shall be as follows: Beginning at the angle in the present harbor line at the north-westerly corner of Taylor & Sohier's wharf, and running southerly in a straight line, to a point westerly of and distant two hundred feet perpendicular from the said present harbor line, near Mt. Vernon street; thence running southwesterly, by a curved line of nine hundred feet radius, tangent to said straight line, to a point northerly of, and distant two hundred feet perpendicular from said present harbor line; thence running south-westerly again in a straight line, tangent to said curved line, and parallel to the straight part of said present harbor line to a point; thence running westerly, by a curved line of eighteen hundred and fifty feet radius, tangent to the last-mentioned straight line, to the said present harbor line, with which said curve is also tangent. The lines of the sea-wall aforesaid shall constitute the harbor lines beyond which no wharf, pier or other structure, and no filling in shall be extended into or over the tidewaters of the said basin, excepting such landing places, not exceeding ten in number and extending not more than twenty-five feet from said sea-wall, and of such shape as the Board of Harbor Commissioners shall approve. SECT. 2. This act is made subject to the following conditions and restrictions, namely: The grounds so enclosed and filled up shall be used solely for the purposes of a public park, facing and abutting upon the said Charlesriver Basin. And when the City of Boston, or the said Park Commissioners, shall have built the said sea-wall and fitted up the said grounds as a park as aforesaid, and so long as the same shall be used solely as said park, the Commonwealth will preserve the water-frontage of said park upon the Charles-river Basin, and will not authorize or permit any filling out or extensions or erections from, or contiguous to, the water-line of said park. But said park shall be subject to the right of the City of Boston or of the Commonwealth to construct and maintain a public sewer or sewers through and beneath said park for the convenient drainage and sewerage of the City of Boston and its neighborhood, and the filling up of the said grounds shall be of such grade as shall be best suited for such drainage and sewerage. Provided, also, that nothing in this act shall be construed as impairing the right of any person entitled to wharfage or flats which shall be cut off from tide water by the said sea-wall and filling up to demand and receive full compensation for any property, rights or interests taken by said Board of Park Commissioners for the purpose of said park. Columbia and Boston Streets in Dorchester Estimated effect of cost on taxes Names of parks, etc. Expenditures of Commissioners Draft of proposed act relating to Charles-river Flats 34 35 35 36 37 37 38 39 39 Map of Back Bay and Parker Hill Parks, with Parker Hill and 20 Map of Jamaica Park and Bussey Farm Park-way 26 28 30 Map of West Roxbury Park 32 Map of City of Boston showing proposed parks, park-ways and connections 34 City Document No. 43. METROPOLITAN RAILROAD, FORTY-SECOND LOCATION. IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, May 8, 1876. The Committee on Paving, to whom was recommitted the petition of the Metropolitan Railroad Company for a track on Pynchon street, near their estate, respectfully report the following order of location. For the Committee, A. O. BIGELOW, Chairman. Ordered, That, in addition to the rights heretofore granted to the Metropolitan Railroad Company to lay down tracks in several of the streets of the city of Boston, said company shall have the right to lay down a curved track on Pynchon street, opposite the foot of Roxbury street, to connect the track now laid down on said Pynchon street with the carhouse of said company; said curved track being shown on a plan drawn by Barbour and Hodges, civil engineers, dated March 15, 1876, and deposited in the office of the Superintendent of Streets. The right to lay down the track located by this order is upon the condition that the whole work of laying down the same, the form of rail to be used, and the kind and quality of material used in paving said track, shall be under the direction and to the satisfaction of the Committee on Paving and the Superintendent of Streets, and shall be approved by them. Also upon the condition that the said Metropolitan Railroad Company shall accept this order of location, and shall agree, in writing, to comply with the conditions herein contained, and file said acceptance and agreement with the City Clerk within thirty days of the date of its passage; otherwise it shall be null and void. |