provisions of an order passed by the city, council of said city, dated the ninth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, relating to the bridge over the Fitchburg Railroad on North Avenue in said city; said sum having been paid and received, and said order passed, and all Acts under it performed without any legal authority therefor. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. (June 21, 1886.) AN ACT to authorize the city of Cambridge to construct and maintain a dam across the entrance to Black's Nook in Fresh Pond. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Pond. SECTION 1. The city of Cambridge is hereby authorized City of Cambridge may to construct and maintain a dam in Fresh Pond across the construct and maintain a entrance to Black's Nook, so called, for the purpose of dam in Fresh preserving the purity of the water in said pond, and said city shall be liable for all damages sustained by any person by the construction and maintenance of said dam or by any injury caused thereby to any lands, waters, easements, or other property or rights of such person, and for all damages sustained by any riparian proprietor whose access to said pond is obstructed or interrupted by such construction and Proviso. maintenance; provided, said dam is constructed otherwise than with a suitable sluiceway and gates for floating ice through the same. If any person sustaining damages as aforesaid cannot agree with said city upon the amount thereof, either party, may, within three years after the construction of said dam, apply to the superior court for an assessment of said damages, and the same shall be assessed and the same proceedings shall be followed, as provided in sections five and six of chapter two hundred fifty-six of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred eighty-four, so far as the same may be applicable thereto. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. (June 29, 1886.) AN ACT in further amendment of an Act to authorize the cities of Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Charies River, SECTION 1. The mayor of the city or Boston for the time Bridge accross being, and the mayor of the city of Cambridge for the time between Cam being, and one discreet person to be appointed by them, who bridge and Boston. Boston may borrow money shall hold his office until removed by the concurrent action of both of said mayors, shall constitute a board of commissioners, and in case said mayors fail to appoint said third commissioner, upon request of either of them, the governor by and with the advice and consent of the council shall appoint said third commissioner, and said board is hereby authorized and required to construct a bridge and avenue across Charles River, between West Chester Park in Boston and Front Street extended in Cambridge, substantially in accordance with plans prepared by the city engineer of the city of Boston, dated December, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and approved by the city councils of said cities; subject, however, to the approval of said plans by the board of harbor and land commissioners, and subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and chapter one hundred and twenty-nine of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, except so far as said Acts are modified by this Act; and it shall be the duty of each of said cities to raise, and, upon the requisition of said commissioners, to pay one-half of the expenses incurred in building said bridge and avenue between the harbor lines as now established by law on said river, including the draw and draw-piers. SECT. 2. The city of Boston, in order to defray its share in excess of of the cost of building said bridge, is authorized to raise not limit allowed exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, by loan, in excess of the limit prescribed by law. by law. Plans of bridge may be changed. Running of street cars over bridge. SECT. 3. Said commissioners, with the approval of the boards of aldermen of the two cities, and of the board of harbor and land commissioners, and subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, may change, alter, and modify the plans of said bridge. SECT. 4. The boards of aldermen of said cities may, by concurrent vote, authorize the running of street-cars over said bridge, and may set apart a portion of said bridge for the special use of street-cars on such conditions, and subject to such regulations, as said boards may adopt. SECT. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. (May 18, 1887.) AN ACT relating to the board of registrars of voters in the city of Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. In the month of March or April of the pres ent year, the mayor of the city of Cambridge, in the manner Board of regis provided by section fourteen of chapter two hundred and trars of voters ninety-eight of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and ed eighty-four, shall appoint two able and discreet persons, qualified voters in said city, who shall hold no other office nor position by election or appointment in said city, to be members of the board of registrars of voters of said city. One of the registrars so appointed shall hold his office until the first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the other until the first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and in the same manner provided by said section fourteen of chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the mayor of said city shall in the month of March or April in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and in each year thereafter, appoint one person, qualified as aforesaid, to be a registrar of voters for the term of four years from the first day of May then next ensuing, and until another is appointed in his place; and the city clerk of said city shall cease to be a member of the board of registrars of voters on and after the first day of May in the present year. their number SECT. 2. During the month of May, in each year and be- To elect one of fore any other business is transacted, said board of registrars to act as clerk. shall choose one of their number to be and act as clerk, who shall keep a full and complete record of its proceedings, and perform all acts heretofore required by law of the city clerk, acting as clerk of the board of registrars of voters in said city. SECT. 3. Except as herein provided, the board of registrars Powers. of voters of the city of Cambridge shall do and perform all things required of registrars of voters of cities by said chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and by all acts and parts of Acts in addition thereto or in amendment thereof, and shall receive the same compensation, and shall equally represent the two political parties, as provided in said chapter. SECT. 4. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent here- Repeal. with are hereby repealed. SECT. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. (Feb. 29, 1888.) AN ACT to authorize the city of Cambridge to borrow money in excess of the limit allowed by law. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Cambridge, in order to defray its share of the cost of building the bridge over Charles May borrow money in ex- River, authorized and required by chapter two hundred and eighty-two of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is authorized to raise not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, by loan, in excess of the limit allowed by law. SECT. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage. (Feb. 29, 1888.) Reservoir and storage basin etc. AN ACT to provide a reservoir for the city of Cambridge, and to better preserve the purity of its water supply. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:— SECTION 1. The city of Cambridge having accepted the for Cambridge. provisions of chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and constructed an aqueduct conveying the waters of Stony Brook into and through said city by the way of Fresh Pond, as provided in the said Act, may, for the purpose of providing a reservoir and storage basin for the said city, and preserving the purity of the waters to be held in said Fresh Pond and distributed therefrom, and protecting and improving the May take land, shores and vicinity thereof, at any time within five years after the passage of this Act, take and hold by purchase or otherwise any part or the whole of the land and buildings. thereon which lie within the following-described boundaries: south-easterly by the Watertown branch of the Fitchburg Railroad, between land owned by the trustees of Jacob Hittinger and Concord Avenue; north-easterly by Concord Avenue; north-westerly by the boundary line between said Cambridge and the town of Belmont; and south-westerly by Cushing Street, Woodlawn Avenue, and the southerly side of a proposed new street called Fresh Pond Avenue, to the said branch of said railroad at the place of beginning, and outside of the present riprapped borders in the pond as they now exist; provided, however, that the two corporations, or their respective assigns, now owning ice-houses on said premises, if they or either of them so elect, and give written notice to the city clerk of said city, of their intention so to do, within sixty days after the filing and recording of the taking as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted to cut and remove ice from said pond, and to remain in possession of and use their buildings and premises for a period not exceeding two years from and after any taking of the same by virtue of this Act; but if said two corporations, or either of them, shall elect to hold and use ther premises as above, this fact shall be taken into the account in estimating the damages herein Proviso. after provided for. When possession is taken by said city of Cambridge under provisions of this Act, of the land and buildings of either of said corporations, the whole of its land and buildings within said boundary shall be taken, and not a part only thereof. scription of the land taken. SECT. 2. Said city shall, within sixty days after taking To cause to be any lands or buildings as herein provided, otherwise than by recorded in the purchase, for the purposes of this Act, file and cause to be deeds, a derecorded in the registry of deeds for the county and district in which said land and buildings are situated, a description thereof sufficiently accurate for identification, with a statement of the purpose for which the same was taken, which statement shall be signed by the mayor; and said city shall also cause notice of such taking to be sent by mail to the owners of record of the land so taken. Common Fresh Pond re SECT. 3. So long as Fresh Pond shall be used by the city Right of the of Cambridge as a reservoir, or until otherwise provided by wealth in statute, and in order that the said city of Cambridge may inquished to better guard and protect the waters to be stored, distributed, Cambridge. and used in said reservoir and storage basin from pollution and intrusion, all the right and control which the Commonwealth has in the great pond known as Fresh Pond in Cambridge is hereby granted and relinquished unto said city, said grant and relinquishment to take effect whenever said city, shall, by purchase or otherwise, become the owner of all the land abutting on said pond; and from the passage of this Act, said city shall have exclusive right in, and control over, the said pond, and power to prevent all persons and animals from entering in, upon, or over, the land and waters thereof, except that it shall not prevent the two corporations or their respective assigns before mentioned from cutting and removing ice. damages. SECT. 4. Said city shall be liable to pay all damages sus- City to pay tained in property by any person or corporation by reason of taking of any land, right, or easement, or by any other thing done by said city under the authority of this Act. If any one sustaining damage as aforesaid does not agree with said city upon the amount of said damage, he may within two years from such taking, and not afterwards, apply by petition for an assessment of the damage to the superior court in the county in which the property taken or damaged is situated. Such petition may be filed at any time within said two years in the office of the clerk of said court, who shall thereupon issue a summons to said city, returnable at the next return day after the expiration of fourteen days from the filing of the petition. The summons shall be served fourteen days at least before the day on which it is returnable by leaving a copy thereof, and of the petition, certified by the officer who served the same, with the clerk of said |