Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. 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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![An Act in relation to the discharge of sewage into the roxbury canal. City may divert sew- age now discharged into Rox- bury Canal. May con- struct and maintain a storm over- flow. Canal to be dredged by the city whenever so ordered by the state board of health. Expense of dredging to be assessed upon abut- ters. Assess- ments to be a lien upon wharves and lands so assessed. [Statutes of 1879, chap. 98.] Section 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to divert by temporary structures the sewage now discharged into the Roxbury Canal west of the easterby line of East Chester Park, so that it shall discharge into said canal east of said easterly line ; and said diversion may continue until the system of improved sewerage now being constructed in said city shall be in practical operation, but no longer. Sect. 2. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a storm overflow from said system of improved sewerage, the said storm overflow to empty into said Roxbury Canal east of the easierl}- line of East Chester Park. Sect. 3. Whenever in the opinion of twenty or more property tax payers of the city of Boston, resident within the ward or wards in which that portion of Roxbuiy Canal east of Chester Park lies, that part of the canal used as a storm overflow canal or basin shall require cleansing or dredging, they shall state the fact in writing to the state board of health who shall within thirty days after re- ceipt of such notice inspect such canal or basin, and if in their judgment it shall require cleansing or dredging they shall direct the cit}T of Boston so to cleanse or dredge within thirt}T days after the receipt of such notice, and when so directed the city of Boston shall within the time specified cleanse or dredge such basin or channel in a manner satisfactory to the state board of health, who shall upon the completion of the work indorse upon the order directing the same to be done, its approval thereof, with the date of said indorsement. Sect. 4. Upon the completion of said cleansing or dredging by the city of Boston, and the receipt of the approval of the state board of health thereon, the city of Boston may submit to the state board of health sworn itemized statements of the costs thereof with vouchers therefor, of which sum the board of health shall then proceed to assess such portion or portions as the}' shall deem just and equitable, upon the wharves and lands ad- joining or abutting upon said canal or basin ; but they shall have power to make assessments upon the several wharves and lands, onby for the expense of removing de- posits caused by the owners or occupants thereof respec- tively. Sect. 5. All assessments made under this act shall constitute a lien upon the wharves and lands so assessed for one year after the assessment is made and as provided in section four of this act, and may be enforced in the same manner with like charges for cost and interest as provided by law for the collection of taxes ; and all said assess- ments which shall remain unpaid after the same become](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
