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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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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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