REPORT OF THE CAMBRIDGE WATER BOARD. CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 8, 1865. IN accordance with the requirement of the "Ordinance providing for the care and management of the Cambridge Water Works," the Cambridge Water Board would respectfully present their first Report. The Cambridge Water Works came into possession of the City by purchase on the 28th of April of the present year, and continued, by vote of the City Council, in the care of the Mayor until the organization of this Board on the 9th of June, 1865. The purchase included all the real and personal property of the Cambridge Water Works, with the exception of the sinking fund which had been provided for the ultimate payment of the bonds of the Company, and included cash and claims due the Company in the hands of the Superintendent to the amount of one thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-five cents, which deducted from the sum paid by agreement, two hundred and ninety-one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars, makes a cost of two hundred and ninety thousand and sixty-eight dollars and five cents. To this should be added two hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty cents, the amount due to sundry persons for street mains put in by them and payable in water, making a grand total of two hundred and ninety thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents. As soon as this Board was organized, Mr. George W. Fifield was appointed Superintendent; and his Report to the Board is herewith transmitted. |