Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committees on Metropolitan Affairs and Harbors and Public Lands in joint session, voted yesterday morning to report the bill appointing a special commission to investigate and report upon the advisability of a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. The report is practically the same as the original petition presented to the committees March 29, the only change being that Governor Crane is to appoint the commissioners. The appointments will be made as soon as possible, and a report presented to the General Court early...
...feared that the project might meet with opposition from the War Department, but Secretary Root has written that he has no objection to offer. This removes all open opposition to the bill, and makes the prospect of its being passed appear very favorable. Up to the present time the joint commission, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands has made no report on the subject...
...joint committee of the Massachusetts Legislature which is to report on the Charles River Dam Bill spent yesterday forenoon in a tour of inspection at the basin. Their decision will probably be announced early next week...
...joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, gave a second and final hearing yesterday on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. At the first hearing a week ago, no opposition was offered, but yesterday members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and persons owning wharves on the river front objected to certain features of the bill. The principal speakers against the project were E. G. Prescott, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, J. F. Boyd of the Associated...
...seems desirable at this time to publish an authentic statement of just what this project consists. Its main feature, namely, to erect dam in the Charles River in the vicinity of Craigie Bridge is not new. In 1894, in a report made by a joint board consisting of the Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health, it was proposed to build a dam near Craigie Bridge. That the recommendation of the joint board were not then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection...