Excerpt from Annual Report of the Harbor Commissioners: Made to the General Assembly, at Its January Session, 1896 The work of the Harbor Commission is steadily increasing in amount and importance. Constant attention is required to regu late and control the matter of dumping in tide waters and to pre vent unauthorized encroachments which might become serious obstructions to their public use. 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.