The aldermen or selectmen may license any person to run a steamboat or other boat propelled by power other than muscular power for the conveyance for hire of passengers on lakes, ponds or waters not within the maritime jurisdiction of the United States.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 191
Grant of license for power propelled boats
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