additional land adjoins the tract already purchased by the United States in the block bounded by Devonshire, Water, Congress, and Milk streets, and is bounded and described as follows: beginning at the most north-westerly corner of said estate, at a point in the southerly line of Water street, said point being in the division line of property between land of the United States and land herein described, and also being the westerly corner of Water street and a common passage-way eleven feet wide; thence running eastwardly by Water street, there measuring eleven feet and one-third of an inch; thence southerly by land of the Merchants' Insurance Company, seventy-three feet and three inches; thence westwardly by land of the United States, eleven feet; thence northwardly by the same, seventy-two feet and eight and one-half inches to the point of beginning; containing eight hundred and twelve square feet, more or less, being a strip of land eleven feet wide, owned by said Merchants' Insurance Company, and over which the United States have a right of way: provided, always, that this commonwealth shall retain and State retains concurrent jurisdoes retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over diction. all the lands aforesaid so far that civil and criminal processes, issuing under the authority of this commonwealth, may be executed on said land and in any buildings thereon erected, or to be erected thereon, in the same way and manner as if jurisdiction had not been granted as aforesaid and provided, that the exclusive jurisdiction shall revert Proviso. to and revest in the commonwealth of Massachusetts whenever said land shall cease to be used by the United States for public purposes. : in secretary's SECT. 2. This act shall be void unless a suitable plan of the ad- Plan to be filed ditional land aforesaid shall be filed in the office of the secretary of office within one the commonwealth within one year after the title shall be acquired as year. aforesaid. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. March 8, 1871. 1871. CHAPTER 96. AN ACT IN RELATION TO WIDENING BEACON STREET AND ADJACENT Be it enacted, etc.: sioners may SECTION 1. The board of street commissioners of the city of Bos- Street commiston, with the concurrence of the city council of said city, may widen, widen certain within the limits of said city, the following named streets and high- streets. ways, viz.: Beacon street westerly from Gloucester street, Brighton avenue north-westerly from its intersection with Beacon street, and Brookline avenue south-westerly from its intersection with Beacon street, to such width as they in their judgment shall deem to be for the common benefit of the inhabitants of said city, and said city shall pay for the land and property so taken; which highways and streets said city of Boston shall not be obliged to complete sooner than the city council of said city may deem it expedient so to do. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1872, 242.] March 11, 1871. Water bonds of the city of Charlestown Proviso. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO "AN ACT FOR SUPPLYING THE CITY OF Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. For the purpose of defraying the cost and expenses incurred by the city of Charlestown in the construction and extension may be issued. of water works in said city, the city council of said city is hereby authorized to issue from time to time, scrip, notes, or certificates of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof, "Water bonds of the city of Charlestown," to an amount not exceeding one hundred and ten thousand dollars: provided, however, that the whole amount issued under this act and the acts to which this act is an addition, shall not exceed the cost of the construction and extension of said works. The said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and shall be redeemable at a period of time not less than ten nor more than thirty years from and after the issue thereof. And said city council may sell the same, or any part thereof, from time to time, at public or private sale, on such terms and conditions as said city council shall judge proper. May be sold at public or private sale. Net income to be applied to re debt. SECT. 2. The income derived from water rates, under the duction of water several acts authorizing the construction and extension of water works in said city, after deducting cost of maintenance, and interest on the water bonds, shall be applied to the reduction of the water debt, and shall not be used for any other purpose whatever. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. April 3, 1871. [1861, 105; 1863, 9; 1864, 176; 1865, 135; 1870, 216; 1872, 85.] Boston author ized to pay Charles Burrill $40,000. 124 Mass. 486. 1871. · CHAPTER 183. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO PAY CHARLES BURRILL Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to pay to Charles Burrill, of Brookline, the sum of forty thousand dollars, in satisfaction for all services rendered and money expended by him, in procuring credits upon the quota of volunteers of said city, during the war of the rebellion, in conformity to the order passed by the city council of said city, and approved September twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and may raise said sum by taxation or otherwise. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. April 14, 1871. Cochituate water board may lay new AN ACT IN ADDITION TO "AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized, by and through the agency of the Cochituate water board therein, to construct main pipes from an aqueduct, or to lay new main pipes from its reservoir constructed under the provisions of the one hundred and thirty-first chapter of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, through the reservoir. 1865, 131. etc. towns of Brighton and Brookline, to the city of Boston, and to continue the same into and through the city of Boston, in the manner provided in the one hundred and sixty-seventh chapter of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and forty-six; and for this purpose may May take lands, take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, any lands or real estate necessary therefor; and may construct said aqueduct, or lay said pipes, over or under any water-course, or any streets, turnpike roads, railroads, highways, or other ways, in such manner as not to obstruct or impede the travel thereon; and may enter upon and dig up any such roads, streets, or ways, for the purpose of constructing said aqueduct, or laying down said pipes beneath the surface thereof, and for maintaining and repairing the same; but always in such manner and with such care as not to render the roads, streets, and ways, unsafe or unnecessarily inconvenient to the public travel thereon. And said City of Boston to be subject to city of Boston, in performing said work, shall be subject to such reasonable regreasonable regulations as to time, place, and manner, of digging up ulations pr any streets or ways of public travel for the purpose aforesaid, and Brighton and the laying of said pipes, as shall be made by the selectmen of Brighton and of Brookline, within their respective limits, for the protection of their rights of drainage and sewerage therein. pre Brookline. restored to good imbursed by fects in high SECT. 2. Whenever the city of Boston shall dig up any street or Streets to be way, as aforesaid, it shall restore the same to as good order and con- order and condition as the same shall be in when such digging commenced; and dition. the city of Boston shall at all times indemnify and save harmless the Towns to be retown of Brighton and the town of Brookline, against all damage Boston for damwhich may be recovered against them, respectively, and shall reim- ages paid for deburse to them, respectively, all expenses which they shall incur by ways. reason of any defect or want of repair in any street or way, caused by the construction of said aqueduct or the laying of said pipe, or by the maintaining or repairing of the same: provided, that said city shall have due and reasonable notice of all claims for such damages or injury, and opportunity to make a legal defence thereto. SECT. 3. The city of Boston shall be liable to pay all damages that Liability of shall be sustained by any persons in their property by the taking of any land or real estate, or constructing of said aqueduct, or the laying land. of said pipe as aforesaid; and any person sustaining damage as aforesaid may have the same ascertained, determined, collected, and paid, in the manner which is provided in the sixth, seventh, and eighth sections of the one hundred and sixty-seventh chapter of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and forty-six. Boston for damages for taking constructed in request of se SECT. 4. The selectmen of the town of Brighton and the selectmen Hydrants to be of the town of Brookline may require the city of Boston, while con- Brighton and structing said aqueduct, or laying down said pipe, within their re- Brookline upon spective limits, to insert therein a number of hydrants, at points not lectmen. less than five hundred feet apart, to be used for the purpose of extinguishing fires, and no other purpose; and the town of Brighton and the town of Brookline shall pay the expenses of keeping in repair all such hydrants as shall be so inserted, upon their respective requisitions, after the same shall have been constructed. SECT. 5. This act shall not take effect until the same shall have been accepted by the city council of the city of Boston.1 April 14, 1871. Subject to ac ceptance by city council of Boston. [1846, 167; 1865, 131.] 1 Accepted June 16, 1871. Boston may take or purchase land for landing of East Boston ferry boats. Description of land taken to of register of deeds. 1871. CHAPTER 225. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO TAKE AND HOLD Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized and empowered to take and hold, by purchase or otherwise, so much of the land, flats, docks, and wharves, lying easterly of Atlantic avenue, and between Commercial wharf and India wharf, as it may deem necessary for the purposes of a landing for the East Boston ferry boats, for the erection of such buildings and other structures as may be necessary or suitable to such landing and for convenient access thereto : provided, that so much of said property as cannot be obtained by purchase, shall be taken by said city of Boston within two years from the passage of this act. SECT. 2. The city of Boston shall, within sixty days from the be filed in office time when it shall take any parcel or parcels of land, flats, docks, or wharves, under this act, file in the office of the register of deeds for the county of Suffolk, and cause to be recorded, a description of the property so taken, as certain as is required in a common conveyance of land, with a statement of the purpose for which it is taken, which description and statement shall be signed by the mayor of the city; and the city of Boston shall be liable to pay all damages that shall be sustained by any person or persons by reason of the taking of the property aforesaid; such damages to be ascertained and determined in the manner provided for ascertaining and determining damages in case of laying out, altering, or discontinuing, ways within the said city of Boston. SECT. 3. Liability for damages. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1869, 155.] April 27, 1871. Shoal to be dredged oppo site draw-way of West Boston bridge. 1871. — CHAPTER 250. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT RELATING TO WEST BOSTON AND Be it enacted, etc.: SECTION 1. The commissioners designated in the sixth section of chapter three hundred and two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy, are hereby authorized, for the purpose of preparing the location of a new draw in the West Boston bridge to cause to be dredged away a shoal opposite the south-westerly opening of the present draw-way in said bridge, to such an extent as the harbor commissioners shall prescribe, the expense of which dredging shall be borne in the same manner as the expense of constructing said new Boston and Cam- draw; and the cities of Boston and Cambridge shall maintain the depth of water secured by such dredging, in the same manner and according to the same terms and proportions as they are required by said act to maintain, support, manage, and keep in repair, the bridges and draws therein mentioned. bridge to maintain depth of water obtained by such dredging. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [1870, 302.] May 5, 1871. 1871. CHAPTER 259. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO EXTEND ATLANTIC Be it enacted, etc. AVENUE. avenue over tide SECTION 1. The city of Boston, through its proper authorities for Boston may exlaying out and altering streets, is hereby authorized to lay out and tend Atlantic build a street or streets over tide-waters between the southerly end waters. of Atlantic avenue at Rowe's wharf, as now laid out, following_the curve in Broad street from said Rowe's wharf to Packard's or Fort Hill wharf, and from thence across the wharves and docks to Federal street bridge on the easterly side thereof, or to such other points north of the aforesaid bridge as said authorities may determine; with liberty to widen said Federal-street bridge to a sufficient width for the additional travel over the same: provided, that said avenue shall Proviso. be so constructed that the outer line thereof shall be at least three hundred feet distant from the commissioners' line on the northerly side of Fort-point channel. extend wharves SECT. 2. The owners of wharves crossed by the said extension of Owners may Atlantic avenue may extend their said wharves to the commissioners' to commisline: provided, they so build out within two years from the laying sioners' line. out of said addition to Atlantic avenue. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BOSTON TO CONSTRUCT A WHARF Be it enacted, etc.: IN SOUTH BOSTON. 13. SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to construct City of Boston may construct a solid wharf on its flats between M and O streets extended, on the a wharf. P.S. 19, §§ 8, 12, northerly shore of South Boston, within such limits and in such manner as the board of harbor commissioners shall prescribe; subject to section four of chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and chapter four hundred. and thirty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixtynine, so far as the same may be applicable. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. May 9, 1871. 1871. CHAPTER 280. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION AND INSPECTION OF BUILD- Be it enacted, etc.: survey and in created. SECTION 1. There is hereby created in the city of Boston an ex- Department for ecutive department, to be known and designated as the department spection of for the survey and inspection of buildings, which shall have charge buildings of enforcing the several provisions of this act. And the said department shall be provided with office room and all the necessary supplies for the proper transaction of its business. SECT. 2. In the construction of this act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them: |