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HOUSE No. 370 Bill accompanying the petition of Russell S. Codman and others relative to the construction of stations on the Boylston Street sub- way in the city of Boston. Metropolitan Affairs. January 11. Cfte Commontuealtft of cpissactmsetts. In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen. AN ACT Relative to the Boylston Street Subway in the City of Boston and providing for Additional Stations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 Section 1. Section live, Part I, chapter seven 2 hundred and forty-one, of the acts of the year nineteen 3 hundred and eleven is hereby amended by inserting after 4 the word “ square ”, in the eighteenth line, the word 5 at or near the corner of Boylston and Arlington 6 streets, —• so that the fir,- d paragraph of said section 7 will read as follows : The commission shall con- 8 struct in the city of Bosk n a subway hereinafter called 9 the Boylston street subway, so designed as to be adapted 10 to contain two railway tracks, commencing with an open 11 cut at or near the junction of Commonwealth avenue 12 and Beacon street, thence continuing to, and under BOYLSTON STREET SUBWAY [Ja 3. 13 Commonwealth avenue, Charlesgate west, the Fenway, 14 Charlesgate east, Newbury street, crossing under Massa- -15 chusetts avenue; thence passing under or across private 16 land or land of the city of Boston to a point under 17 Bo}r lston street near Hereford street; thence under Boyl- -18 ston street to a point at or near its junction with 19 Arlington street; thence in and under public ways and 20 public or private lands by such route as the commission 21 shall determine, to a point at or near the junction of 22 Bovlston street and "Fremont street, and thence in or 23 under Tremont street and public lands to a point at or 24 near the Park street station of the Tremont street sub- 25 way, together with stations at Massachusetts avenue, at 26 Copley square, at or near the corner of Boylston and 27 Tremont streets, and at or near Park street. Instead of 28 constructing said subway in a continuous line from 29 Arlington street to Park street station, the commission 30 may connect said subway at or near the junction of 31 Bovlston street and Tremont street with the tracks of the 32 present -Tremont street subway, and between that point 33 and the Park street station, may either enlarge the 34 present Tremont street subway so as to provide for two 35 additional tracks, or may construct a separate subway 36 adapted to contain two railway tracks, connecting the 37 same with the present Tremont street subway and the tracks located therein. 1 Section 2. This act shall take etlect when accepted bjr the Boston Elevated Railway Company..

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