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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, for the Year 1903 A lighthouse of granite, with a light Of the first order, is building at the outer Graves to mark the entrance to Broad Sound, on a location ceded to the United States by the Commonwealth at the last session of the Legislature. The Congress of 1902 approved the project for another channel through Broad Sound, 35 feet deep at mean low water and feet wide, to President Roads, and for deepening the main channel from President Roads to the Charlestown and Chelsea bridges to 35 feet at mean low water and broadening it to feet where possible, at an expense of about and authorized contracts to the amount Of for beginning and prosecuting the work. Contracts have been let, and the work is progress ing. The summary of work done by lieut.-col. W. S. Stanton, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., on page 56 of this report, shows the present condition of the project. A comparison between the tonnage entering the principal ports of the world, according to a table prepared by the Department of Commerce and Labor at Washington, and the port of Boston, may be interesting. The coastwise trade is excluded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
