The first annual report covers the period from Aug. 3 to Nov. 30, 1916, and includes the doings of the Directors of the port of Boston and of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners from Dec. 1, 1915 to Aug. 3, 1916, to whose powers and duties the Commission succeeded under the provisions of chapter 288 of the General acts of 1916. cf. First annual report, 1916, p. [3]