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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Medford's water supply. (search)
e and exhaustive report which was read by the chairman of the committee, Eleazar Boynton, Jr. Although the committee was instructed to investigate the Charlestown water scheme, the report was strongly in favor of taking the Spot Pond water, stating that Malden had already voted to take from Spot Pond, and that Melrose probably would later. In the meantime the following prominent men, Samuel E. Sewall, Daniel W. Gooch and George W. Heath of Melrose, Elisha S. Converse, J. H. Abbott and George P. Cox of Malden, and James O. Curtis, Charles V. Bemis and Benjamin F. Hayes of Medford, had secured an act of the Legislature of 1867, incorporating them as the Spot Pond Water Company. The end in view was, to quote Judge Hayes, saving the pond for the use of the towns, if within any reasonable time they should desire, as municipalities, to utilize its waters. By this act the right was reserved to the three towns to purchase the franchise and corporate property, by paying therefor the amoun