Approved—The 24th day of July, A. D. 1913.
JOHN K. TENER.
The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Act of the General Assembly, No. 456.
Robert McAfee,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
FOOTNOTES:
[166] See page [248] of this Appendix for the amendment which passed in 1913.
APPENDIX B
EXTRACTS FROM REPORT ON ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL SYSTEMS OF TAKING LAND FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
From Massachusetts Documents, 1904. House No. 288 of 1904 and House No. 1096 of 1904
THE REPORT OF COMMITTEE
It has clearly appeared, from the evidence submitted to us, that the present system of laying out new streets or widening or altering existing ones, under which only the land actually required for the street is taken, is, especially in those parts of cities which are covered with existing buildings, productive of serious public disadvantages; and a brief consideration of the matter is sufficient to show that this difficulty is inherent in the system itself, and must persist unless some modification of that system can be devised.