Engineer reports concerning examinations of license projects, 1866-1950.

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Engineer reports concerning examinations of license projects, 1866-1950.

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As part of their function to oversee, protect, and develop the waterways of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function (the Board of Harbor Commissioners, to 1879, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, 1879-1916, and the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938), employed engineers to review license and permit proposals, examine work completed under licenses, determine volume of displaced tidewater for which compensation was required, make other investigations as authorized, and submit reports such as these on their findings.

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