Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1872, c 236, as part of their function licensing waterways and tidelands construction, the Board of Harbor Commissioners and its successor from l879, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners notified the selectmen or mayor and aldermen of the municipality in which petitioner for license proposed to work of a hearing on the petition.  This series consists of copies of notices to muncipalities, each signed by the board chair and accompanied by a certified statement that original notice had been served, signed by the board clerk and attested to by a justice of the peace.
Arrangement: 1896-1902, l902-1907: Arranged chronologically in reverse order. Arranged within each sequence alphabetically by first letter of petitioner surname, thereunder chronologically in reverse order
Notes: Returns missing for 1877-1878, 1883-1891, 1895
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