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City Document. — No. 11.
PURE WATER.
In Common Council, March 15, 1838.
The following Resolutions submitted by Mr. Shat-
tuck, were read, laid on the table and ordered to be
printed for the use of the Council.
Attest, _ Richard G. Wait, Clerk C. C,
Resolved, That it is expedient that William Sulli-
van, Daniel P. Parker, Caleb Eddy, and their associ-
ates, incorporated by the name of the Boston Hy-
draulic Company, by an act passed April 1 6th, 1836,
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should be authorised and requested to bring pure and
wholesome water into the Citj of Boston, according
to the provisions of their charter, and that it is inex-
pedient for the city, in its corporate capacity, to do it.
Provided the foregoing resolve be not adopted,
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stitute.
then the following resolves are submitted as a sub-
Resohed, That the plan for supplying the City of
Boston with a sufficient quantity of pure and whole-
some water, for the use of the inhabitants, from Long
Pond, as described by the Water Commissioners, in
their report of November 23, 1837, be and the same
is hereby approved, subject however to such variation
in the mode of constructing the conduit as may be
determined upon.
Resolved, That it is expedient for the City Coun-
cil to make application to the Legislature for an Act
authorizing the City of Boston, for the purpose of ex-
ecuting the plan proposed in the foregoing resolution,
to take possession of any ponds, water rights, or land
in the county of Middlesex ; to borrow money, and
create such a city debt as will be necessary to pay
the cost of said work ; to tax the consumers and in-
habitants for the annual interest and expenses attend-
ing the same ; to create a sinking fund for the final
redemption of the said debt ; and for such other pow-
ers and restrictions as may be thought expedient, to
carry forward and complete this great work ; and al-
so providing for the acceptance of said act by the cit-
izens, as specified in the following resolves.
Resolved, That after said act is obtained, it shall
be printed and furnished to all the legal voters of the
city, accompanied with a statement, prepared and
approved by the City Council after the most careful
investigation ; containing a detailed account of the
plan by which the water is to be furnished, the esti-
mated cost of the same, how the money is to be rais-
ed to pay for it, and also how it is proposed to pay
the annual interest and expenses of the same, and
how the debt is finally to be extinguished ; and con-
taining also questions embracing the foregoing propo-
sitions to be submitted to the legal voters ; to the
end that the said legal voters may express their as-
sent or refusal to the said act, and to the plan pro-
posed, and also to allow the City Council to proceed
in raising the money necessary to construct said
work ; by depositing their ballots in their respective
wards in the same manner as at the municipal elec-
tions, at such time as shall be agreed upon and pro-
posed to them by the City Council.
Resolved^ That after said poll is closed, if it shall
appear that two thirds of the whole number of votes
given in are in favor of said act, plan, and of author-
iszng the raising of the said money ; thereby conform-
ing to the sixth joint rule of the City Council, requir-
ing in creating a city debt, " that two thirds of each
branch of the City Council to vote in the affirma-
tive ;" then the City Council shall proceed forthwith
in the construction of said work.
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