Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the City Engineer, for the Year 1884 The usual annual examination (required by Section 5 of the ordinance relating to the City Engineer's department) of all bridges within' the city limits, open to team and foot travel, has been made, and the results of this examination respecting the condition of the bridges as to safety and need of renewal or repairs, are given in the succeeding pages. The following is a list of the bridges inspected. The total number is two more than last year: three additions have been made, viz. - the Franklin street foot-bridge, over the Boston Albany Railroad at Allston station, the bridge on Beacon street, and the bridge on Brookline avenue, over the same railroad; one has been taken from the list, the Muddy River bridge on Brookline avenue, which has been removed and the opening spanned by it tilled with earth. 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.