Record of the Joint Standing Committee on Public Health : legislature of 1881.

  • Massachusetts. General Court.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Record of the Joint Standing Committee on Public Health : legislature of 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    13 otherwise any lands or real estate necessary there- in for, situate in the cities of Boston or Newton, or in 15 the town of Brookline, and lay said aqueducts and 16 pipes over or under any water-course or any streets, 17 turnpike roads, railroads, highways or other ways, 18 in such manner as not to unnecessarily obstruct or 19 impede the travel thereon ; and may enter upon and 20 dig up any such roads, streets or ways, for the pur- 21 pose of laying down said pipes beneath the surface 22 thereof, and for maintaining and repairing the same; 23 but always in such manner and with such care as 24 not to render the roads, streets and ways unneces- 25 sarily unsafe or inconvenient to the public travel 26 thereon. And said city of Boston in performing 27 said work shall not unnecessarily interfere with any 28 existing sewers, water or gas pipes, and shall be 29 subject to such reasonable regulations as to time, 30 place and manner of digging up any streets or ways 31 of public travel for the purposes aforesaid, and the 32 laying of said pipes, as shall be made by the city 33 council of the city of Newton or the selectmen of 34 the town of Brookline, within the limits of said 35 city or town, for the protection of their rights of 36 drainage and sewerage therein and the public rights 37 of passage thereon. 1 Sect. 2. Whenever the city of Boston shall dig 2 up any street or way as aforesaid, it shall restore 3 the same to as good order and condition as the same 4 shall be in when such digging commenced ; and the 5 city of Boston shall at all times indemnify and save 6 harmless the city of Newton and the town of Brook-