1843-09-14_WaterfromFreshPond-Report-p5_1831_034_008

It is probable that the land, on the right of
passage, between Mount Auburn & Fresh pond
could now be obtained from its present proprietors
upon more favorable terms, thus it may be
hereafter. Moreover the excavations and new
deposits of earth which it will be necessary to
make, will at the present time interfere less
with the rights of private proprietors, then they
would do a few years hence, when lots & monuments
shall be mostly laid about the water courses.

Lastly - In case the Trustees
should not think it expedient to undertake
the whole work at the present time, the
committee recommend that measures be taken
to ascertain the depth of the hard? bottom in
Meadow & Garden ponds, and if this is found
not to be below the level of tide water, that a
suitable trench or channel be dug from Charles
river marsh into, or through, Meadow & Garden
ponds, to test the practibility of draining these
parts of Mount Auburn & redeeming them from their
present useless state -

For the committee

Jacob Bigelow, chairman
Boston Sept 14, 1843