Massachusetts. Division of Waterways

In 1916 the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and the Directors of the Port of Boston were abolished and responsibility for the general care and supervision of the harbors, flats, tidewaters, including Boston Harbor, and the rivers and great ponds of Massachusetts was transferred to the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands (St 1916, c 288). With the reorganization of government agencies in 1919, however, the commission was abolished and its duties transferred to a Division of Waterways and Public Lands in the Dept. of Public Works (St 1919, c 350, ss 111-116)

In 1927 the division was absorbed along with the Division of Highways into the main body of the Dept. of Public Works (St 1927, c 297). However, it was reestablished as the Division of Waterways in 1938 (St 1938, c 407). Authority over Boston Harbor was transferred to the Port of Boston Authority in 1945 (St 1945, c 619)

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