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The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

AN ACT CHANGING A PART OF THE HARBOR LINE ON THE MERRIMACK RIVER ALONG THE WATERFRONT OF THE CITY OF HAVERHILL.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:


SECTION 1. The harbor line established by chapter 313 of the acts of 1902 along a part of the northerly waterfront of the city of Haverhill on the Merrimack river is hereby changed and established as follows:-

Beginning at the southeasterly corner of the stone abutment at the northerly end of the Boston and Maine railroad bridge in the line established by Chapter one hundred four (104) of the Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three (1883);

thence running S20<=04'16"E a distance of thirty-seven and fifty-two hundredths feet (37.52') to a point in the river;

thence turning and running N70<=26'49"E a distance of two hundred fifty-eight and six hundredths feet (258.06') to a point in the river being approximately forty feet south of the face of the concrete floodwall;

thence turning and running N67<=29'47"E a distance of three hundred seven and seventy hundredths feet (307.70') to a point in the river being approximately thirty feet south of the face of the concrete floodwall;

thence a turning and running N66<=38'40"E one thousand thirteen and thirty-four hundredths feet (1013.34') to a point in the river being approximately thirty feet south of the face of the concrete floodwall;

thence turning and running N72<=34'26"E a distance of seven hundred sixteen and ninety-nine hundredths feet (716.99') to a point in the river being approximately thirty feet south of the face of the concrete floodwall;

thence turning and running N67<=51'30"E a distance of four hundred forty and seventy-seven hundredths feet (440.77') to a point along the westerly line of Bridge Street and being approximately thirty feet south of the face of the concrete floodwall;

thence turning and running N10<=40'24"W a distance of twenty-five and fifteen hundredths feet (25.15') along the westerly line of Bridge Street to a point in the harbor line established by Chapter 313 of the Acts of nineteen hundred two (1902).

The above described line is shown on a plan on file with the Essex County Registry of Deeds titled "Plan of Relocated Massachusetts Harbor Line Merrimack River Haverhill, MA", scale 1"=100', May 9, 2000.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved January 1, 2003.