Waterways licensing correspondence, 1962-1975.

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Waterways licensing correspondence, 1962-1975.

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The Division of Wetlands and Waterways through its waterways regulation and enforcement programs administers the rights of the Commonwealth in tidelands, rivers, streams, harbors, and great ponds. It licenses construction on waterfront properties or in waterways under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. This series was created by the division's predecessors to monitor the licensing process.

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Massachusetts. Division of Wetlands and Waterways.

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State oversight and regulatory functions relating to waterways of the Commonwealth have been exercised successively by the following: the Board of Harbor Commissioners (1866-1879); the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners (1879-1916) and the Directors of the Port of Boston (1911-1916); the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands in the Department of Public Works (1919-1927); the Department of Public Works as a whole (1927-1938); the Division of Waterways, within that department (1938-1974) an...

Massachusetts. Division of Waterways

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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 ...