. Annual report of the Street Dept. of the City of Boston. ible by the passage of legislation (Chapter 426 of the Actsof 1897) giving the city of Boston the right to borrow annually$1,000,000 for the construction of sewerage works, these worksto be assessed on all estates benefited. The act also pro-vided that a rental charge should be made for the use ofsewers of a sum equal to the amount required for their main-tenance and care. In former years it has been necessary forthe City Council to pass in detail, appropriations for sewers,and as a result many great improvements which have beenneeded
. Annual report of the Street Dept. of the City of Boston. ible by the passage of legislation (Chapter 426 of the Actsof 1897) giving the city of Boston the right to borrow annually$1,000,000 for the construction of sewerage works, these worksto be assessed on all estates benefited. The act also pro-vided that a rental charge should be made for the use ofsewers of a sum equal to the amount required for their main-tenance and care. In former years it has been necessary forthe City Council to pass in detail, appropriations for sewers,and as a result many great improvements which have beenneeded for years have been neglected owing to the difficultyof securing sufficient appropriations. Under the new act, thisis done away with, and the most necessary work has beenundertaken at once. The expenditures under the new actfor construction for the first few years will be very consider-able, but at the end of that time many of the large pieces ofconstruction work will be accomplished, and the amountrequired will become less from year to year. The problem. EET DEPAETME 11 of surf a icli has so long troubled the depart- ment, is also solved by this legislation, and the most import-ant brook channels have been taken in hand, and the workalready commenced. A general study of the sewerage systemof the entire city is being made, and the development hence-forth will be on established and scientific lines, instead offollowing what has been the custom in the past— to con-struct, not according to the needs, perhaps of the near future,but as allowed by the limitations of the appropriation. A great amount of work which has been done in recent yearsfor the necessary relief of certain territories has not been de-signed to meet or connect with the future developments ofsewers, and in many cases this has brought up a very seriousproblem of rebuilding sewers of quite recent construction. Already much has been accomplished which gives very greatrelief to certain sections where the sewers were
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