Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Harbor Commissioners: January, 1871
The conditions of the mortgage to the Commonwealth pro vide not only for the payment Of the note of the Hartford and Erie Railroad Company for the purchase money for the flats sold to it, but also for the construction, on the border of all its flats on Fort Point Channel and the Main channel, of a sea-wall and the filling of these flats under the direction of the Harbor Commissioners, in accordance with the terms of the company's contract with the Commonwealth. This work was to be com plated within three years from the date of the contract (june 2lst, On the 8th day of December, 1869, this Board, with the executive approval, entered into an agreement with the Boston and Albany Railroad Company to convey to it fifty acres of South Boston flats adjoining those of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company for payable in three years from October lst, 1869. The company binds itself to fill these flats under the direction of this Board, and build in a specified manner a sea-wall on the line of these flats bordering on the Main channel, within six years, and is obliged to finish this work to entitle it to a conveyance.
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