CommanlDcahlj nf |H;iS5;icIjusetts. 



Office of Metropolitax Park Commission, 



111 AND 112 Ames Buildixg, Bostox, Dec. 15, 1893. 



To the Honorable Senate and House of Bepresentatives in General Court 



assembled. 



The Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, appointed 

 under tlie provisions of chapter 407 of the Acts of 1893, present 

 the following report : — 



The members of the Board were appointed on the 8th of 

 July, and the Board organized immediately thereafter, upon 

 the 17th of July. On the 29th of July H. S. Carruth was 

 appointed secretary. His report for the portion of the year 

 which has since elapsed is herewith submitted. 



In the report of the temporary Board of Metropolitan Park 

 Commissioners submitted to the Legislature of 1893 (House 

 Document No. 150) a scheme of public reservations within 

 what was then referred to, and has since been incorporated, as 

 the Metropolitan District w^as set forth in detail. In accordance 

 with the recommendations contained in that report an act for 

 the appointment of a permanent Board of Metropolitan Park 

 Commissioners was reported and passed practically in the form 

 in which it was drafted by the Commission. 



Under these circumstances there would appear to be at this 

 time no especial occasion for any elaborate report setting forth 

 the purposes of the Commission, or a scheme of public reserva- 

 tions within the Metropolitan District. It is the understanding 

 of the Commissioners that they were appointed to carry into 

 effect the recommendations made a year as^o. The scheme of 

 reservations included in those recommendations was set forth 

 in the elaborate reports of the consulting landscape architect, 



