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Excerpt from Proceedings: Before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, Upon the Petition of the City of Boston, for Leave to Introduce a Supply of Pure Water Into That City, From Long Pond The Committee of the City Council who were instructed to present to the Legislature the petition of the City praying for the grant of authority to introduce the water of Long Pond for the use of the inhabitants, and to take the necessary measures for promoting the success of that object, deemed it expedient, in addition to the able services of the City Solicitor, to engage other eminent counsel to assist in promoting their call, in the hearing before the Joint Special Committee of the Legislature to whom the petition was referred. The petition was accordingly entrusted to the charge of the Hon. John Pickering, Richard Fletcher, and Charles H. Warren, Esqrs. who gave a constant attendance during twenty-six laborious sessions of the Committee and ably presented the wants and wishes of the petitioners supported by such testimony as was necessary to establish the facts on which the claim of the city properly rested and replied to the objections of the remonstrants. In the course of the hearing it became necessary to go into a thorough investigation of facts and elaborate arguments in reply to testimony produced by the remonstrants and to the grounds assumed by them in opposition to the petition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.