HOUSE No. 382

Bill accompanying the petition of Benjamin F. Pitman and others for legislation in amendment of the act providing for legislation in amendment of the act providing for the construction of additional subways and tunnels in the city of Boston. Metropolitan Affairs. January 6.

Clje Commontoealtf) of €oassactmsetto.

In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirteen.

AN ACT To provide further for the Construction of Subways and Tunnels in the City of Boston. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and hy the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Section 1. Section five of Part lof chapter seven 2 hundred and forty one, of the acts of nineteen hundred

3 and eleven is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 4 The commission shall construct in the city of Boston a 5 subway (hereinafter called the Boylston street subway) 6 so designed as to be adapted to contain two railway 7 tracks, commencing with an open cut at or near the 8 junction of Commonwealth avenue and Beacon street; 9 thence continuing to, in and under Commonwealth avo- id nuc, Charlesgate west, the Fenway, Charlesgate east, 1 SUBWAYS AND TUNNELS. [Jan.

11 Newbury street, crossing under Massachusetts avenue; 12 thence passing under or across private land and land of 13 the city of Boston to a point under Boylston street near 14 Hereford street; thence under Boylston street to a point 15 at or near its junction with Arlington street; thence in 1(5 and under Boylston street and under the Tremont street 17 sub-subway and under the Washington street tunnel, so- ld called, in and under Washington street; thence in and 19 under Washington street making a suitable reverse 20 curve to, into and under Essex street; thence in and 21 under Essex street and in and under Atlantic avenue 22 and under the proposed Atlantic avenue station of the 23 Cambridge-Dorchcster tunnel to the line of the South 24 Terminal property, together with stations at Massachu- -25 setts avenue, at or near Exeter street, at or near Berke- -26 ley street, at Park square, at or near the corner of 27 Tremont and Boylston streets, at or near the corner of 28 Washington and Essex streets and at or near the corner 29 of Essex street and Atlantic avenue. 30 The cost of extending the Boylston street subway to 31 Washington street, thence through Washington street to 32 Essex street and through Essex street to Atlantic ave- -33 nue and the South Terminal property shall be included 34 in the cost of the Boylston street subway. 35 Any tunnel or subway construction under, or within 36 one hundred feet of, Boston Common shall be made, so 37 far as is practicable, water tight, and the work shall be 38 so done as to avoid the drainage of moisture from the 39 surrounding soil, or other injury to the trees; and the 40 commission may construct a suitable system of subsoil 41 irrigation above or near the line of any section of said 42 subway constructed under the Common, or may take 43 any other measures which it may deem expedient for the 44 preservation of the trees, to be paid for as a part of the 1913.1 HOUSE — No. 382. 3

45 cost of the subway. The commisi iion shall not erect 46 any additional permanent structure; above the surface 47 of the common. 48 Section nine of said chapter seven hundred and forty- 49 one is hereby amended by adding, in the sixth line there-

“ 50 of, after the word act ”, the following words : —or any 51 acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto.