Excerpt from The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Report of the Attorney General for the Year Ending November 30, 1936 The devastating floods of March, 1936, of both the Connecticut and Merrimac rivers, called immediate attention to the urgent need for controlling the waters of both rivers, especially in times of freshets. Congress passed an act which, in co-operation with the States, would permit the erection of the necessary dam structures and other works and appurtenances to control the flow of the waters of these rivers and to protect the lives, health and safety of the inhabitants in the vicinity, and probably permit the use of these waters for the generation of electrical energy. It will be necessary to secure legislation in Massachusetts creating a statutory board to represent the State in negotiating with the other New England States for the purpose of agreeing upon the terms, especially the proportion of the cost of the erection of flood relief structures. This commission should also be authorized to Sign compacts in behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with the other States interested in this common problem. The undertaking of such an extensive program could then be commenced in accordance with the compacts agreed upon by the various States. I have prepared a draft of legislation to create a board of commissioners to represent the State and to authorize this board to sign compacts with the other interested States, and have also drafted a form of an interstate compact to be entered into by these States in accordance with the aforesaid act of Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.