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Department of Public Works: Perambulation notebooks of state boundary lines

Part of: Massachusetts Department of Public Works

Perambulation notebooks of state boundary lines, 1920-1930.

4 volumes in 1 document box
Call no.: TC4/376X

Scope and Content: As part of its function to maintain boundary lines of the Commonwealth, the Department of Public Works (specifically, until 1927, its Division of Waterways and Public Lands) was required to perambulate state boundary lines every five years to insure that markers and monuments defining them were in place (GL 1921, c1, s4).  Notebooks contain rough notes taken during perambulations in 1920 (1 v.), 1925 (1 v.), and 1930 (2 v.).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by state boundary
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