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Department of Parks, ) 

 City of Boston, July 0, 1883. ] 



Samuel E. Saavyek, Esq. : 



8ir: — Your communication of June 8th was consid- 

 ered at a full meeting of the Board held this morning. 

 While the Commissioners regret the necessity of an 

 appeal to a jury, as you suggest, the}^ think that with 

 such difference of opinion as to the value of the land in 

 question, it Avill probably be the most satisfactory method 

 of settlement for both parties. 



Yours respectfully, 



Charles H. Daltox, Chairman. 



Still dreading, and with a strong disinclination to seek 

 redress by litigation, I again wrote on the 28th inst. the 

 following note, which shows conclusively how much I 

 regretted the necessity of being forced into court, and 

 the strenuous efforts I made to keep out of it. To the 

 Park Commissioners this was no bui»:bear, because thev 

 have the machinery of the Law Department, always in 

 good working order, constantly at hand. 



Brookbank, Gloucester, July 28, '83. 

 CuAiiLEs n. Dalton, Esq., 



Chairman Board of Park Commissioners: 

 Dear Sl7\' — I have now to own the receipt of your 

 note of the 9th inst. in reply to mine of June 8th. Since 

 receiving your note, I have made careful enquiries of 

 competent men from abroad, and of friends at home, and 

 gladly find but one opinion in regard to the exercise of 

 the arbitrary power of the right of eminent domain, the 



