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the Commissioners feel little apprehension lest additional power 

 and the means requisite to carry the entire scheme into early 

 effect will not readily be given them. 



It is possible, however, that the proceedings now being taken 

 may have so far developed before the adjournment of the 

 present Legislature that the Commissioners will desire to 

 submit a supplementary report. This will be a matter for 

 the landscape architects of the Board to decide upon. Their 

 reports, rather than the formal official reports of the Board or 

 of its secretar}^ shall, it is proposed, hereafter set forth in a 

 continuous series, illustrated by maps, diagrams and plates, 

 the gradual development of the great and beneficent scheme 

 they have conceived. Of this series the admirable report of 

 Mr. Charles Eliot, submitted a year ago, will constitute the 

 initial number, and it is upon the lines set forth in that report 

 the Commissioners are now working; to that report, therefore, 

 the Legislature is referred for information. Should further 

 developments in the immediate future call for it, a second 

 report of the series will be forthcoming before summer. 



Full detailed information as to the course otherwise pursued 

 by the Board will be found in the accompanying reports of its 

 secretary and of the landscape architects. 



All of which is respectfulh^ submitted. 



CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. 

 PHILIP A. CHASE. 

 WILLIAM B. DE LAS CASAS. 

 ABRAHAM L. RICHARDS. 

 WM. CHASE. 



