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CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
DOCUMENTS
PRINTED BY THE ORDER
OF THE
CITY COUNCIL
OR OF Om OF THE BBANCHES THEREOF
DURING THE MUNICIPAL YEAR
1^47-8,
CHARLESTOWN:
HENRY S. WARREN PRINTER.
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EXTRACT FROM CITY ORDINANCES.
Sect. 3. x\ll reports and other documents which may
[)c ordered by either branch to be printed, shall under the
direction of the joint standing committee, be printed on
good paper and in uniform manner ; and in addition to the
number which may be ordered by either branch, there
shall always be printed fifty extra copies of each report
and document so ordered to be printed^ forty of which
may be sent by the Mayor, with a printed copy of this sec-
tion, to the Mayors of such other cities, and to such other
public institutions as he may designate, all documents
which may be sent to the Mayor in exchange therefor,
shall be by him preserved for the use of the city, and they
shall from time to time be arranged, bound and lettered
under his direction, in a suitable manner, and shall always
remain in the room of the Mayor and Aldermen \ and the
remaining ten copies shall be retained in the possession of
the City Clerk, who shall at the end of each year cause
the same to be bound and lettered in a uniform style, and
when bound one series shall be deposited in each of the
following rooms, namely : Of the Mayor and Aldermen,
of the Common Council, of the School Committee, of the
Overseers of the Poor, of the Engineers of the Fire De-
partment, of the Assessors, of the Treasurer, and the re-
mainder shall be safely kept by the City Clerk.
LIST OF DOCUMENTS.
Mayor's Inaugural Address.
City Register.
Report on Licenses.
Communication of the Mayor in relation to the Train-^
ingfield.
Opinion of C. P. & B. R. Curtis, as to the Laying out
of Streets.
Address of the Mayor at the laying of the corner stone
of the High School building.
Report of the Select Committee on the Petition of A.
R. Decoster and others.
Report of a Special Conunittee of the Common Coun-
cil on the subject of accepting Lynde and Second
streets.
Annual Report of the School Conmiittee.
Statement of Receipts and Expenditures of the City.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
THE
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
OF THE
MAYOR,
DELIVERED APRIL 26tH, 1847,
UPON THE FIRST ORGANIZATION OF THE
CITY GOVERNMENT
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
Published by Order of the two Branches of the City Council.
CHARLESTOWN :
PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE
1847.
ADDRESS.
Gentlemen of the Board of Aldermen and of the
Common Council : —
This is the day which has been selected by the
proper authority, for putting into operation the new
form of government adopted by our fellow-citizens.
The oath we have just taken, and the organization of
our respective Boards, which must immediately be
made, will complete all the pre-requisite arrange-
ments necessary to the establishment of the city of
Charlestown. The city charter, which the Legisla-
ture enacted over two months since, has been ratified,
after full deliberation, by the largest vote that has
ever been polled by the inhabitants of Charlestown,'
and by so decisive a majority, that every one feels
bound to be content with the result. Let it be our
constant care. Gentlemen, so to discharge our respec-
tive duties, and to make such discreet and adequate
provisions for the welfare of our constituents, that no
one will have cause from us to regret this important
change in our form of government.
One of the first subjects that will come before you,
after the necessary officers shall have been elected,
will be to prepare suitable accommodations for the
City Government. The sessions of the Common
Council must always be open to the public, and so
must be those of the Board of Aldermen, except
when engaged upon executive business. Both boards
will therefore require for their own use commodious
apartments. A large Hall must also be maintained ;
for there is reserved to the citizens at large, by the
express terms of the charter, (which, without any
such provision, would be deemed inalienable,) the
right to hold general meetings to consult together
upon the public good. Convenient rooms will also
be necessary for the various officers that may be ap-
pointed, as well as for the several standing commit-
tees of the City Council. It seems to me, that the
edifice in which we are now assembled may be easily
altered, so as to answer all these desired ends. It
was erected not quite thirty years ago for a Town
Hall and a Market, at a time when the territory of
the town extended to eight or nine miles in length.
It was a highly creditable undertaking for that
period ; it is a substantial and well proportioned
structure. It is, however, so constructed that it
could not conveniently subserve any private use, and
therefore could not be sold without loss. Should it
be disposed of, I apprehend there would be no little
difficulty in selecting a new site, and in deciding upon
the style and cOst of a new edifice. And, inasmuch
as all the voters of Charlestown have heretofore been
so generally satisfied with this location, it would seem
unwarrantable, for many years to come, to incur the
heavy expenditure of a new building, for the supposed
greater convenience of the different boards of public
officers, when there are wanted so many other things
more essential to the convenience of our fellow-citi-
zens at large. I therefore recommend, that under
the direction of a skilful architect, the jjroper altera-
tions be made in this building, in a plain but tasteful
manner, and that it hereafter be denominated the
City Hall.
Ward rooms will be necessary for Wards Two and
Three. These can probably be hired for the present.
Whenever it shall be determined to erect a new
school-house in either Ward, or to enlarge an old
one, a Ward room can be added with but little addi-
tional expense. There is a peculiar fitness in uniting
the school and the Ward room under one roof, for
thus our children may be perpetually reminded that
they are to qualify themselves at school, so that on
arriving at the age of manhood, they may exercise
with discretion the right of suffrage, the inestimable
boon to a free and intelligent citizen.
It will be the first duty of the City Council to ex-
amine the state of the finances, and to ascertain the
exact amount of the town debt which the city must
assume. The amount of the funded debt and known
liabilities is nearly ^80,000 00, which sum is exclu-
siye of the Surplus Revenue. This last is but a
nominal debt, as there is no probability that it will ever
be recalled by the National and State governments.
There are probably several arrearages in the various
departments of the town service, and several unliqui-
dated and contested claims. The whole amount of
these should be ascertained in the outset, in order
that measures may be taken for their immediate set-
tlement, and that no part thereof be attributed to tht^
city government. When our present municipal debts
and liabilities shall be accurately determined, 1 re-
commend that a system be devised and steadily pur-
sued for their gradual extinction. By raising for. this
purpose a specified sum annually, (which should not
be less than ^3000 00 and need not be more than
;^5000 00,) and by paying off so much of the float-
ing debt, or by scrupulously investing the sum raised
in a productive and safe sinking-fund, this compara-
tively small debt may be swept off in a few years.
The utility of well managed sinking-funds has been
conclusively demonstrated by Massachusetts and hy
Boston, both of which will soon by their aid, be freed
from, all pecuniary liabilities.
Whenever it shall be found to be advisable to incur
a heavy and extraordinary expenditure for an impor-
tant object, the necessary means should, at the same
time, be devised. The same vote or ordinance that
authorizes the undertaking, should provide for the
raising of a sufficient sum therefor, either during the
current year, or by equal instalments during each suc-
ceeding year, until the whole sum shall be obtained.
Blindly to incur a public debt, year after year, with-
out providing for its repayment, is impolitic and illib-
eral. The more important and valuable the object,
the more reasonable and equitable it is, that the gen-
eration which adopted it, should pay something each
succeeding year for its accomplishment. Posterity
will never thank an improvident ancestry for having
bequeathed a public debt, contracted for purposes,
from which the greatest benefit is generally derived
by the age which originated them. Each genera-
tion will find public objects and improvements enough
of its own to provide for, without having to pay the
debts of its remote predecessor.
The municipal authorities, as well as the inhabit-
ants, have heretofore suffered much from the want of
a correct and extended plan of Charlestown. 1 re-
commend that a thorough and accurate survey of the
whole city be taken at once, and that a plan and a
profile thereof be prepared upon a large scale, deline-
ating the streets and courts as they now are, and also
showing by dotted lines such alterations and improve-
ments as ought at some time to be made, the grade
to which the streets should be reduced or elevated,
and the course and depth of the common sewers,
which are or ought to be constructed. Lithographic
copies of such a plan, upon a diminished scale, would
find a ready sale amongst the owners of real estate
and other citizens. Persons intending to build may
then be able to know how they should set their foun-
dations, to conform to the permanent grade of their
respective streets ; but heretofore they have been
subjected to great trouble and perplexity, as well as
to needless expense.
A considerable annual outlay will be required, for
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several years to come, for the improvement of our
streets and side-walks. Whatever is found requisite
should be done in a thorough and scientific manner,
and by the employment of the best materials, so that
the same work may not require renewal. The city
government should receive, with prompt attention, ap-
plications for the laying out of new streets, and for
the widening and improvement of old ones, and
should evince a disposition to meet the advances of
proprietors with liberality — ever remembering that it
is the part of true policy to encourage the improve-
ment of vacant lots by the building thereon of perma-
nent and sightly structures, and the part of wisdom,
to regard in advance the interests and wants of com-
ing years. The City Government ought to do
every thing within the scope of its authority, toward
providing, or causing to be provided, passable side-
walks in all the inhabited streets of the city. Many
of our streets need to be furnished with edge stones,
with crossings, and also with paved gutters and com-
mon sewers ; and it is desirable that the work be im-
mediately prosecuted in a systematic, economical and
workmanlike manner. A small sum may be profita-
bly expended in the setting out of a few shade trees,
and in the care of those trees which a few years
since were set out in our streets from the judicious
legacy of a late distinguished inhabitant. A moder-
ate annual outlay towards rendering our public streets
and squares cleanly, agreeable and tasteful, will be
rejiaid an hundred fold, in promoting the health and
comfort of the citizens.
It is highly desirable that our streets should be suf-
liciently lighted in the night time. This subject de-
serves more attention than it has hitherto received.
It will be the duty of the city government to let the
city lights so shine in the streets, that the peo-
ple, who have occasion to be out during the night,
may see ; — in order that they may pass therein with
greater security, and that robbers and all mischievous
persons may be more easily detected.
Charlestown is not now so fortunate as some other
places of its size and importance, which own one or
more commons or squares, enclosed by durable fences
and ornamented with walks and trees, where the citi-
zens may enjoy an agreeable promenade and the
children may indulge in salutary exercise. There is
a small common without the neck, which was, during
the last year, improved, partly at the expense of
the town, and partly by the contributions of indi-
viduals. And there is also the common, known
immemorially as the training-field, which, unfortu-
nately, if not illegally, has for a long period been en-
cumbered by a heterogeneous assortment of public
buildings.
In the year 1 825 the town might have made a fa-
vorable arrangement with the Bunker Hill Monument
Association, by which, upon the payment of fifteen
hundred dollars to be raised by taxation, and by the
subscription, on the part of the inhabitants, of a cer-
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tain specified amount, a permanent right might have
been secured to the inhabitants, for the purposes of a
common, in all the lands originally purchased by the
Association. The arrangement was not carried into
effect, and subsequently the Association was obliged
to dispose of the largest portion of its lands, to re-
lieve itself from debt. But what the town has lost
by not securing a right in the original purchase, the
city will gain in the end, by the increase of taxable
property occasioned by the sale, on the part of the
Association, of eligible building lots, which, with the
buildings that will probably be erected thereon, will,
in a few years, be equal to half a million of dollars.
This consideration will somewhat reconcile us to the
loss of a spacious, open field or common, extending
from High to Bunker Hill streets, and will enable us
to keep in better order the two which remain to us.
I trust that the City Council will see to it, that no
further obstructions are permitted on the training-
field, and will, from time to time, as opportunity offers,
remove those that are now upon it, and will also pro-
vide that the grounds be kept in decent order. If a
different course be pursued, the time will soon come,
(when the population of the place shall be more
dense and compacted,) that it will be a matter ol
astonishment, that such parsimony and want of fore-
cast could ever have been exhibited.
The support of the poor is one of the duties in-
cumbent upon municipal bodies. It is alike the dic-
tate of humanity, and of sound policy, to make ample
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provisions for the indigent and disabled, who by mis-
fortune are bereft of the means of earning a liveli-
hood ; — and, at the same time, so to devise various
kinds of employment, for these recipients of the pub-
lic bounty, that the ruinous effects of idleness may be
spared to them, and that some equivalent be returned
for the amount expended in their behalf. Charles-
town has never been backward in fulfilling its duty in
its appropriations, but has uniformly granted such
sums of money, however large, which the Overseers
of the Poor have asked for. The expenses of our
Alms House have been increasing from year to year,
partly on account of its situation in the heart of our
population, and partly from the increase of the prices
of provision and other necessary articles, while, for
the same reason, the income derived therefrom, has
not been equal to what the public has a right to de-
mand. About a year ago, a special Committee was
raised by the town, to inquire if any alterations
should be made in the administration of its affairs. I
had the honor to be the chairman of the Committee,
and visited with them the establishment. All the
gentlemen who acted upon the Committee concurred
in the report which was made to the town, at a sub-
sequent meeting, recommending that the location of
the Alms House should be changed to a more se-
cluded and rural situation, that a new house be erect-
ed with reference to a better classification of the in-
mates, and that the present establishment be dis-
posed of, which, it was thought, could be sold for a
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sum, more than sufficient to pay all the expenses of
the removal. The report was accepted, and the
same Committee were charged with the further
duty to inquire and report what new site, either
within or without our territorial limits, could best
be obtained, and also to submit plans, and esti-
mates for new buildings. The committee have
wisely delayed making further progress, upon the
prospect of a change of our form of government.
The organization of the City Council on this day
discharges that committee ; but I recommend that
the measures proposed in their report, be immediate-
ly carried into effect. By so doing, an annual saving
may be made in the expenditure for the support of
the poor ; the poor themselves will be better provided
for ; while by the sale of the present Alms House
and lands, and the obtaining of a new establishment,
a handsome surplus will be realized, which will be
available for many useful purposes.
A prompt and efficient Fire Department is a safe-
guard and protection, indispensable to every populous
community. The members of the Charlestown De-
partment have often distinguished themselves by their
zeal and energy in this important service. Early
upon the first alarm at the scene of conflagration, and
contending with the fiery element with an ardor and
fortitude truly admirable, they have done much for
the protection of property and even of life. While
all have been ready to expose their limbs and their
health in the hour of danger, some have devoted their
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lives to the public welfare. Nor have the exer-
tions of the officers and members of our Fire Com-
panies been confined to our own limits, but they have
been beneficially extended to the neighboring cities
and towns. Not being myself acquainted in any re-
spect with the minute details of the affairs of this
Department, I can only, at this time, express my hope
and belief, that in the new relation to a city govern-
ment in which the members now find themselves, they
will receive that attention and liberality which their
services fairly demand, and at the same time, will
cheerfully comply with such general regulations, as
the city authorities may, upon careful examination,
decide to be essential to the public interest.
Our Charter imposes upon the Mayor and Alder-
men the duty of taking the necessary precautionary
measures for the preservation of the public health
and for the conservation of the public peace. They
will probably act upon the well established principle,
that it is far easier to arrest an obnoxious evil on its
first appearance, than to suppress it after it shall, by
a tacit indulgence, be permitted to attain to its full
strength. To abate nuisances of every description,
to enforce such wholesome regulations as may be
necessary for cleanliness and neatness in the streets,
in and about the premises of the city buildings, as
well as upon the lands of the proprietors, and more-
over to satisfy the numerous calls which good order
in a populous community absolutely requires, will be
the constant charge imposed by law upon the Mayor
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and Aldermen, as executive officers. To aid in ac-
complishing these objects, I recommend that the
office of a City Marshal, and also that of a Superin-
tendent of the Streets and Pubhc Buildings, be estab-
lished, with salaries sufficient to secure the services of
competent and energetic persons ; and that the means
be furnished for a suitable addition to the Police and
to the Night- Watch.
The highest public interest of a municipal body —
whether we regard the amount of money appropri-
ated, or the influence, for good, or for evil, which a
liberal appropriation, discreetly apphed, or the want
of it, may have upon the general prosperity, is that of
the Free Schools. These have, heretofore, been the
pride and boast of our town, and it is to be hoped
that, improving with the progress of the age, they will
continue to be the ornament and defence of our city.
While the School Committee are clothed, by the
terms of the Charter, with the same powers that were
formerly vested in the Board of Trustees, it will still
devolve upon the City Council to make adequate ap-
propriations for the support of schools and for the
alteration or building of school-houses, and to make
such other provisions as the town, in its corporate
capacity, has heretofore done.
There is one deficiency in our school system, in
consequence of which our community has suffered
much and will suffer more and more, until it be sup-
phed. That deficiency is a High School, commonly
so called, where our children may be instructed in the
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ancient and modem languages, and may have the
means of obtaining a more thorough knowledge of
the higher branches of English study than it is possi-
ble for them to acquire in any grammar school. I
will not stop to consider, whether Charlestown has of
late years come up to the letter of the law in this re-
spect, or whether she has not subjected herself to
heavy penalties for the breach thereof; this might be
a doubtful question for judicial decision. But certain
I am, that she has not brought herself within the true
spirit of the law, nor within the true spirit of an en-
lightened age, which both imperiously require the
best and the fittest education for the young, which
human sagacity can provide.
What was called a good and sufficient education
twenty years ago, is not thought to be so now ; and
each coming generation will advance the standard.
There are some who denounce a High School, and
call it aristocratic, but there is not the least reason for
applying to it that truly odious epithet. Others hon-
estly to beheve that a High School has an inju-
rious effect upon the Grammar Schools, by removing
therefrom some of the best scholars ; this idea is
also fallacious.
It may possibly happen, that where there is no
High School, a few scholars may remain in a Gram-
mar School longer than it would be necessary for
them to receive the instruction there imparted ; and
they may avail much to the teacher, for the purposes
of a showy exhibition. But the time for holiday
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exhibitions has gone by, and there has succeeded a
demand, for a rigid personal examination of all the
scholars, conducted by the school committee. The
true test of a faithful teacher nowadays, is not, wheth-
er he has trained up a few in his school, who stand
up like some tall trees, overshadowing the rest ; but
whether he has exhibited the patience, that is not the
word, but the fond desire, to cultivate the individual
mind of each of his pupils, and to instil into every
immortal being entrusted to his care, the germ and ac-
tive principle of progress. Besides, it is not always
the case, that the brightest and most showy scholars
turn out to be the most useful members of society ; —
certainly the chance is against them, if they have been
too much accustomed to be exhibited and flattered on
public school-days. Often it happens that minds of
the tardiest developement and of the hardest impres-
sion in youth, become at last the most mature, and
yield the richest fruit.
The removal of the most adv^anced scholars from
the Grammar to the Bigh school, is, in my opinion,
actually beneficial to the former, by giving its teach-
ers an opportunity to devote more time and attention
to the younger classes, which follow on in regular ro-
tation; and by making the principle of promotion ac-
cording to industrious merit a general and powerful
inducement to study. On the contrary the want of a
public High school occasions this sad and twofold
evil, that while some of the most promising children,
whose parents cannot conveniently afford any addition-
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al expense, do not. receive that education which their
natural talents deserve, the children of others, are re-
moved from the salutary influence of public instruc-
tion, and are placed in the less liberal atmosphere of
private schools. The office of private instructors will
probably never be wholly superseded, because there
will always be peculiar circumstances operating as ex-
ceptions in individual cases, which will sustain them
to a certain extent. But it cannot be denied as a
general principle, that it is the true policy of our re-
publican institutions to place all the children of the
Commonwealth in the same schools, which should be
the very best that the public can afford, and there to
let them grow up and learn together, imbibing a
knowledge of each others, traits, taught to treat each
other with mutual respect and kindness, and thus made
early to know and to share the common lot of human-
The Latin and High Schools of Boston, have done
more for the character and renown of that celebrated
metropolis, than all its stately structures, its wealth,
and its predominent influence, — of all which indeed
that is really desirable, its liberal provision for an ele-
vated education is the true origin. I know of no bet-
ter method by which we can celebrate the adoption
of our new form of government, by which we can
erect, as it were, an appropriate monument to denote
the foundation of our City, than by the establishment
of a High School for both sexes, upon a permanent
and liberal footing. A far worthier monument this
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would be, than the erection of a new, an ostentatious
and coniparativelj useless City Hall. Let the City
Council and the School Committee unite now in for-
warding this great object, and the City of Charles-
town, and the improved education of her children,
will be henceforth forever identified.
The Legislature has conferred upon the City Coun-
cil, the power to make all needful by-laws, and to an-
nex penalties for the breach thereof, " without the
sanction of any Court or authority whatever." This
is a high power, and should be exercised with the
greatest cautiousness and discretion. Such by-laws
should be few, clearly expressed, and adapted to the
acknowledged wants of the place ; due notice thereof
should be seasonably given to all the citizens, and then
they should all be alike required to yield their compli-
ance, for the sake of the general comfort of all.
It is made the duty of the Mayor and Aldermen,
amongst other things, to prepare correct lists of all the
voters of the city, and to issue warrants for calling
the meetings for the stated elections. The lime for
opening and closing the polls, at these elections, should
be determined with the view to the convenience of all
classes of voters ; and when the most convenient hours
have once been ascertained, they ought not to be va-
ried from one election to another.
I deem it important, that the state of the poll should
never be made known, until the time for closing the
polls has arrived. If its condition be communicated to
one portion of the citizens, and not to another, a gross
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injustice is suffered. But it is better, on principles
of sound policy, that it should not be published at
all during the canvass ; for the citizen, who deposits
his ballot during the last hour, should do so, without
being swayed by the knowledge of the condition of
the ballots previously deposited. I believe this to be
the true intention of the election laws of our Com-
monwealth ; and it was evidently for this reason that
Congress has lately passed a law, requiring that the
Presidential election shall be held on the same day
throughout the Union, in order that, on this most im-
portant question, one State may not be unduly influ-
enced by the vote of another.
There is a high moral dignity and grandeur in the
spectacle of independent citizens going to the polls to
exercise that most valuable of all rights, the right of
suffrage according to the dictates of their best informed
judgments. It is the sublimest, the god-hke act of
the sovereign authority of the popular voice. But
when reason is blinded, and ill-temper governs, when,
on the eve of an election, specious, exaggerated, and
agitating rumors are designedly sent forth, like so
many fire-brands among thickly-strewed combustible
materials, when false issues are raised before the
people, when vociferous and opprobious*^ language
is freely used at the polls, and voters publicly de-
ride each other for the particular votes which they
cast, then it is apparent that a disease is raging in the
body politic, which the good and reflecting men,
of all parties, would be glad to see thoroughly extex-
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minated. To prevent the spreading of so noxious a
disease, upon the first appearance of the famihar
symptoms, is the duty, as well as the true permanent
interest of every citizen, whether he may hold a pub-
lic or a private station.
Deeply impressed with the force of these senti-
ments, as applicable to every populous community,
and as especially applicable to this most excitable age,
T deem it to be my duty, during the year in which I
am to hold the chief executive office of this city, to
keep away from all political meetings and celebrations,
and to refrain from doing any thing which may serve
to identify myself with any party. 1 beheve, that the
principal officers of large communities can in no more
effectual manner be the conservators of the peace and
of the public tranquility, than by abstaining, for the
time being, from all political action and partizan effort.
Having the general superintendence of the elections,
they should content themselves with depositing their
ballots in the most quiet manner, and should divest
themselves of all interested and excited feeling, in
order that they may perform their official duties with
the strictest impartiality.
Our own community is divided into several parties,
not one of which may be said to have the majority of
all the voters. How necessary shall we find it to be,
and how truly desirable to us it is, that in the conduct
of our civic affairs, all partizan feelings should be laid
aside. The era must of necessity come, when all the
citizens, though differing in opinion upon matters of
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National and of State policy, will, for the sake of
their children, for the protection of all the common
local interests cordially unite, each successive year, in
forming a civic administration with reference only to
the common good. These sentiments, I doubt not,
are cherished by you. Gentlemen, who are to be asso-
ciated with me in the city government, for the first
year of its operation. Let us indulge the hope, that
in our official intercourse, we shall exhibit that mutu-
al respect, confidence and forbearance, which fellow-
citizens and neighbors owe to each other. By pur-
suing such a course, we shall do much to check the
growth of party spirit, which, when carried beyond
its proper limits, is the bane and disgrace of an inde-
pendent and enlightened people.
As I shall become more acquainted with the minute
details of our city affairs, it will be my duty to make
such suggestions to the City Council, or to either
branch thereof, as shall seem to me to be advan-
tageous to the public interest. Such suggestions will
not be made without due deliberation on my own
part, and they will receive, I doubt not, all the con-
siderations which they may deserve. Whatever may
be decided upon, in the City Council or by the Board
of Aldermen, acting by its exclusive authority, shall
be executed by me with fidelity and promptness. Let
us keep this single object in view, to provide in a sys-
tematic, economical, and eflfectual manner, for the
permanent interest of the city which we have chosen
for our habitation. Having myself no ulterior views.
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indulging no personal prejudices or preferences, but
intending to confine my official conduct within its
proper sphere, I shall devote the principal portion of
my time, for the year on which I now enter, to the
discharge of my official duty according to the best of
my humble abihty.
The Mayor has no vote in the Board of Aldermen,
nor in the City Council, except when those bodies may
be equally divided. The casting vote of a presiding
officer, on such a contingency, should not be given
without due consideration and judgment. It should
never be calculated upon in advance, by one side or
the other, any farther than the reasons it may urge
should justify such an expectation. Before exer-
cising this prerogative, I shall feel it incumbent upon
me to reconsider the question in controversy with
the greatest caution, and to weigh the arguments
submitted, with becoming deference to the opinions
of those who may advance them.
Gentlemen of the Board of Aldermen : —
You are also Executive Officers with me, besides
constituting one of the legislative branches of the
city government. All of you older than myself, and
having had, most of you, more experience in our
municipal affairs, I shall rely much upon your pru-
dence and sound judgment. In the intimate rela-
tions we must necessarily sustain toward each other,
I shall depend upon your frank and cordial co-opera-
tion.
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Gentlemen of the Common Council : —
You are the representatives of your fellow-citizens
residing in your respective Wards ; and you are so
chosen from and by your respective Wards, in order
that every section of the city may secure its proper
share of attention from your hands. To you and to
the other branch are entrusted all the power which
the inhabitants themselves, acting as a municipal
body, could heretofore have lawfully exercised.
There is a true dignity in delegated power, when
deliberately bestowed and honestly used. This hon-
orable trust imposes a high obligation. By this, and
still more by the oath you have taken, you are' bound
to give to your constituents the benefit of your sound-
est judgment and of your purest efforts.
Fellow-citizens of the City Council :
We owe it as a duty to our constituents to prove to
them that a City Government is not heedlessly ex-
travagant ; but on the contrary, that its essential
element and peculiar province is to demonstrate a wise
forecast and a sound economy, by protecting the
pubhc treasury from the waste of useless expenditure,
and the public property from the ruin of neglect, by
adopting a well-devised plan of needful improve-
ments, and the most practicable method of carrying
them into effect.
Remember, also, gentlemen, that the character of
the city of Charlestown is placed in our hands, to
stamp upon it the first impression ; let it correspond
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with the ancient character of the town. And, gen-
tlemen, how noble and imposing does that character
appear, as we trace it along through the wonderful
events of nearly two hundred and twenty years. The
soil on which we tread is indelibly marked with the
eloquent tales of the past. Each ward has its pecu-
liar glories. Ward One contains the spot where our
forefathers first landed, the site where the first church
was erected to the worship of God, and that Town
Hill, where were interred the remains of the earliest
settlers, who were swept ofi* by a sudden and dire
disease. Its whole territory was once covered with
the flames of that Revolutionary fire which burnt
down the homes of our fathers, but which could not
quench that patriotic fire of liberty, which warmed
their hearts during that memorable but disheartening
scene. Ward Two contains the celebrated battle-
field, nourished by the blood of heroes ; a portion
of which is setj apart forever, as consecrated ground ;
whereon stands up an imperishable monument,
which, in the sublimity of its holy silence, declares
the majesty of liberty protected by equal laws. From
the top of this monument, one may now behold, as
far as the aided eye can extend^its vision, the accumu-
lated evidences of a powerful, prosperous, and
church-going people. Ward Three contains the old
burial-ground, where have so long reposed, in peace-
ful solitude, the ashes of Harvard and of other worthy
men of that first generation, who left the luxuries
and blandishments of the old world — hedged around
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a.s they were by unpalatable restraints — for the un-
tried liberty of the new ; and where each succeeding
generation, even to our own, has deposited the re-
mains of those who, in their day, served well their
town and their country. This ward bears pn its
front that sightly eminence, the highest of all our
beautiful hills, the real Bunker Hill, which gave its
significant name to the most eventful battle which an-
cient or modern history has recorded.
Our whole territory is indeed classic ground. No
city on the face of the earth, in proportion to its ex-
tent and population, has so many features of such
attractive interest to the intelligent stranger. Thou-
sands, and tens of thousands, each year come to visit
our famous localities. May the character of our
citizens never be a reproach to the soil on which they
daily tread. But when the curious traveller, who
shall linger with admiration about these scenes —
which time will serve only to deepen with interest —
shall stop, also, to make pertinent inquiries like
these : " What sort of people are they who now dwell
on this goodly heritage ? Is their character in keep-
ing with the wide-spread fame which the place so
justly acquired in olden time ? Are they lovers of
justice, of order, and of equal laws ? Are they truly
grateful to a beneficent Providence for the peculiar
privileges vouchsafed to them ? " May there ever
come forth, from this vicinity, from this ancient Com-
monwealth, from our beloved Union, one harmonious
jesponse, in language like the following : " The men
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who inhabit this world-renowned city are, in all re-
spects, worthy of their sires ; they do still reverence
the God of their fathers ; they are a goodly people,
whose God is the Lord."
G. Washington Warren.
City of Charlestown,
April 26th, 1847
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RULES AND ORDERS
OP
THE CITY COUNCIL
AND A
LIST OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN,
1847.
CHARLESTOWN :
HENRY S. WARREN CITY PRINTER.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
JOINT RULES AND ORDERS
CITY COUNCIL.
Art. 1 . At the commencement of the mu-
nicipal year, the following Joint Standing
Committees shall be appointed by the presi-
ding officer of each branch; provided, that
either branch may determine to choose them
by ballot, namely :
1 . A committee on Finance — to consist of
the Mayor, and the President, and two mem-
bers of the Common Council.
2. A committee on Accounts — to consist of
two Aldermen and three members of the Com-
mon Council.
3. A committee on Public Property — to
consist of two members of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, and three members of the
Common Council.
4 Joint Rules and Orders of the City Council.
4. A committee on Public Instruction — to
consist of the Mayor and one Alderman, and
the President and two members of the Com-
mon Council.
5. A committee on the Poor and Aims-
House — to consist of the Mayor, one Alder-
man, and the President and two members of
the Common Council.
6. A committee on Fuel, and Lighting the
Streets — to consist of the Mayor and two
members of the Common Council.
7. A committee on the Fire Department —
to consist of two members of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen and three members of
the Common Council.
8. A committee on Highways, Bridges and
Side Walks — to consist of the Mayor, one Al-
derman and three members of the Common
Council.
9. A committee on Main Drains and Com-
mon Sewers — to consist of the Mayor, one
Alderman and three members of the Common
Council.
10. A committee on the Square and Pub-
lic Commons — to consist of the Mayor and
Joint Rules and Orders of tlie City Council. 5
the President, and one member of the Com-
mon Council.
11. A committee on Printing — to consist
of one member of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen, and two members of the Common
Council.
On all Joint Committees, wherein it is pro-
vided that the Mayor shall be a member, in
case of non-election, decease, inability, or
absence of that officer, the Chairman of the
Board of Aldermen shall act ex officio.
The members of the Board of Aldermen
and of the Common Council, who shall con-
stitute the Joint Standing Committees, shall
be chosen or appointed by their respective
Boards.
The member of the Board of Aldermen
first named on every Joint Committee, of
which the Mayor is not a member, shall be its
Chairman ; and in case of his resignation or
inability, the other members of the same
Board,- in the order in which they are named,
and after them, the member of the Common
Council, first in order, shall call meetings of
the Committee and act as Chairman.
Art. 2. In every case of an amendment of
6 Joint Rules and Orders of the City Council.
an Ordinance, or Joint Order, or Joint Reso-
lution, agreed to in one Board and dissented
from by the other, a conference may be had
at the request of either ; and the committees
appointed by the respective Boards, for the
purpose, shall meet as soon as convenient,
and state to each other the reasons of their
respective Boards for and against the amend-
ment, confer freely thereon, and report to
their respective Boards.
Art. 3. When either Board shall not con-
cur in any Ordinance sent from the other,
notice thereof shall be given by written mes-
sage.
Art. 4. Either board may propose to the
other for its concurrence, a time to v\^hich
both Boards shall adjourn.
Art. 5. All By-Laws, passed by the City
Council, shall be termed "Ordinances," and
the enacting style shall be : — Be it Ordained
by the City Council of the City of Charles-
town.
Art. 6. In all votes, when either or both
branches of the City Council express any
thing by way of command, the form of ex-
pression shall be " Ordered ;" and when either
Joint Rules and Orders of the City Council. 7
or both branches express opinions, principles,
facts, or purposes, the form shall be " Re-
solved."
Art. 7. After the annual order of appro-
priations shall have been passed, no subse-
quent expenditures shall be authorized for
any object, unless provision for the same shall
be made by special transfer from some of the
appropriations contained in such annual order,
or by expressly creating therefor a City debt ;
in the latter of which cases, the order shall
not be passed, unless two-thirds of the whole
number of each branch of the City Council
shall vote in the affirmative, by vote taken by
yea and nay.
Art. 8. Joint Standing Committees shall
cause records to be kept of their proceedings,
in books provided by the City for that pur-
pose. No Committee shall act by separate
consultations, and no report shall be received,
unless agreed to in Committee actually as-
sembled.
Art. 9. It shall be the duty of every Joint
Committee, to whom any subject may be
specially referred, to report thereon within
one month, or to ask for further time.
8 Joint Rules and Orders of the City Council.
Art. 10. The Reports of all Committees,
whether by Ordinance, Order, Resolve, or
otherwise, shall be made to the Board in which
the business referred, originated.
Art. 11. Ordinary messages between the
two boards may be transmitted by their respec-
tiveClerks, or Messengers ; but all messages,
proposing or assenting to a convention of the
two branches shall be borne by some member
of the Board to be designated by the chair. All
messages of the two Boards shall be reduced
to writing by their respective Clerks.
Art. 12. All Reports and other papers sub-
mitted to the City Council, shall be written in
a fair hand, and no report or endorsement of
any kind shall be made on the Reports, Me-
morials, or other papers referred to the Com-
mittees of either branch. And the Clerks
shall make copies of any papers to be report-
ed by Committees, at the request of the re-
spective Chairmen thereof.
Art. 13. No Committee shall enter into
any contract with, or purchase, or authorise
the purchase of any articles of any of its
members.
Art. 14. No chairman of any Committee
Joint Rules and Orders of the City Council. 9
shall audit or approve any bill or account
against the City, for any supphes or services
which shall not have been ordered or author-
ised by the Committee.
Art. 15. Every Ordinance shall have as
many readings in each Board as its own Rules
shall require ; after which the question shall
be on passing the same to be enrolled ; and
when the same shall have passed to be en-
rolled, it shall be sent to the other Board for
concurrence ; and after its passage to be en-
rolled in concurrence, the same shall be en-
rolled by the Clerk of the Common Council,
and examined by a Committee of that Board ;
and on being found by said Committee to be
truly and correctly enrolled, the same shall be
reported to the Common Council, when the
question shall be on passing the same to be
ordained ; after its passage to be ordained, it
shall be signed by the President and sent to
the other Board, where a like examination
shall be made by the Committee on Enrol-
ment of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen,
and the same proceeding thereon shall be had
as in the Common Council; and when it shall
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have passed to be ordained in both branches,
it shall be signed by the Mayor.
Art. 16. No Enrolled Ordinance shall be
amended.
Art. 17. No vote by vt^hich a Joint Order
or Resolve, or an Ordinance has been passed
in its final stage, shall be reconsidered in
either Board, after the same has been finally
acted upon in the other Board, unless a mo-
tion for reconsideration be made, or notice
thereof be given at the same meeting at which
the vote to be reconsidered passed.
RULES AND ORDERS
OF THE BOARD OF THE
MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
Art. 1. The order of business shall be as
follows :
1. The journal of the previous meeting
shall be read.
2. Petitions shall next be called for, and be
disposed of by reference or otherwise ; and
also new business may be introduced by any
member of the Board.
3. Such nominations, appointments, and
elections as may be in order, shall be consid-
ered and disposed of.
4. The orders of the day shall be taken up,
meaning by the orders of the day, the busi-
ness remaining unfinished at the previous
meeting ; and such communications as may
have been subsequently sent up from the
Common Council.
Art. 2. Every Ordinance shall pass through
the following stages before it shall be consid-
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ered as having received the final action of this
Board, viz : First Reading, Second Reading,
Passage to be Enrolled, Passage to be Or-
dained ; and every joint resolution shall have
two several readings before the question shall
be taken on its final passage.
Art. 3. An Ordinance may be rejected at
either stage in its progress, but shall not pass
through all its stages in one day.
Art. 4. Standing Committees shall be ap-
pointed on the Police of the City, on Licen-
ses, on Laying Out and Widening Streets,
and on Enrolment ; each of said Committees
to consist of three members.
Art. 5. No member shall be interrupted
while speaking, but by a call to order, or for
the correction of a mistake ; nor shall there
be any conversation among the members while
a paper is being read, or a question stated
from the Chair.
Art. 6. All Committees shall be appointed
and announced by the Mayor, unless the
Board shall determine otherwise.
Art. 7. The above rules and orders of bus-
iness shall be observed in all cases, unless sus-
pended by a vote of two- thirds of the members
present, for a specific purpose.
RULES AND ORDERS
COMMON COUNCIL.
Rights and Duties of the President.
Art. 1 . The President shall take the chair
at the hour to which the Council shall have
adjourned ; shall call the members to order ;
and on the appearance of a quorum, shall
cause the minutes of the preceding meeting
to be read, and proceed to business. In the
absence of the President, any member pres-
ent can call the Council to order, and preside
until a President, pro tempore, shall be chosen
by ballot. If upon a ballot for President, pro
tempore, no member shall receive a majority
of the votes, the Council shall proceed to a
second ballot, in which a plurality of votes
shall prevail.
Art. 2. He shall preserve decorum and
order ; he may speak to points of order in
preference to other members; and shall de-
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cide all questions of order, subject to an ap-
peal to the Council, on motion of any mem-
ber regularly seconded.
Art. 3. He shall declare all votes ; but. if
any member doubt the vote, the President,
without further debate upon the question, shall
require the members voting in the affirmative
and negative, to rise and stand until they are
counted, and he shall declare the result ; but
no decision shall be declared, unless a quorum
of the Council shall have voted.
Art. 4. He shall rise to address the Coun-
cil, or to put a question, but may read sitting.
Art. 5. The President may call any mem-
ber to the chair ; provided such substitution
shall not continue longer than one meeting.
When the Council shall determine to go into
Committee of the Whole, the President shall
appoint the member vfho shall take the chair.
The President may express his opinion on any
subject under debate ; but in such case, he
shall leave the chair, and appoint some other
member to take it ; and he shall not resume
the chair while the same question is pending.
But the President may state facts, ^nd give
Kuks and Order.'! of the Vommuu Cuuncil.
J lis opinion on questions of order, without
leaving his place.
Art. 6. On all questions and motions, the
President shall take the sense of the Council
by yeas and nays, provided one third of the
members present shall so require.
Art. 7. In all cases the President may
vote.
Art. 8. He shall propound all questions
in the order in which they are moved, unless
the subsequent motion shall be previous in its
nature ; except that in naming sums and fixing
times, the largest sum and longest time, shall
be put first.
Art. 9. After a motion is seconded and
stated by the President, it shall be disposed of
by vote of the Council, unless the mover with-
draw it before a decision or amendment.
Art. 10. When a question is under de-
bate, the President shall receive no motion,
but to adjourn, to lay on the table, for the
previous question, to postpone to a day cer-
tain, to commit, to amend, or to postpone in-
definitely ; which several motions shall have
precedence in the order in which they stand
arranged.
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Art. 11. He shall consider a motion to
adjourn as always first in order ; and that mo-
tion, and the motion to lay on the table, or to
take from the table shall be decided without
debate.
Art. 12. He shall put the previous ques-
tion in the following form: ^^ Shall the main
question be now put?^^ — and all debate upon
the main question shall be suspended, until
the previous question shall be decided. After
the adoption of the previous question, the
sense of the Council shall forthwith be taken
upon amendments reported by a committee,
upon pending amendments, and then upon the
main question.
Art. 13. On the previous question no
member shall speak more than once without
leave ; and all incidental questions of order,
arising after a motion is made for the pre-
vious question, shall be decided without de-
bate, except an appeal, and on such appeal,
no member shall be allowed to speak more
than once without leave of the Council.
Art. 14. When two or more members
happen to rise at once, the President shall
name the member who is first to speak.
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Art. 15. All committees shall be appoint-
ed and announced by the President, except
such as the Council determine to elect by bal-
lot.
Rights and Duties of Members.
Art. 16. When any member is about to
speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the
Council, he shall rise in his place, and re-
spectfully address the presiding officer; shall
confine himself to the question under debate,
and avoid personality. He shall sit down as
soon as he has done speaking. No member
shall speak out of his place without leave of
the President.
Art. 17. No member, in debate shall
mention another member by his name ; but
may describe him by the ward he represents,
or such other designation as may be intelligi-
ble and respectful.
Art. 18. No member speaking shall be
interrupted by another, but by rising to call
to order, or to correct a mistake. When a
member is called to order, he shall immediate-
ly sit down, unless permitted to explain ; and
the Council, if appealed to, shall decide on
the case without debate ; and if the decision
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is against the member he shall not be permit-
ted to speak again on the question then in de-
bate, unless by way of excuse for the same,
until he has made satisfaction.
Art. 19. No member shall speak more
than twice to the same question, without leave
of the Council ;• nor more than once, until all
other members choosing to speak, shall have
spoken; and if on the "previous question," no
more than once without leave.
Art. 20. When a motion is made and
seconded, it shall be considered by the Coun-
cil, and not otherwise ; and no member shall
be permitted to submit a motion in writing,
until he has read the same in his place, audit
has been seconded.
Art. 21. Every motion shall be reduced
to writing, if the President direct, or any mem-
ber of the Council request it.
Art. 22. When a vote has passed, it shall
be in order for any member of the majority^
to move for a reconsideration thereof, on the
same or succeeding meeting, and if the mo-
tion is seconded it shall be open to debate ;
but if the motion to reconsider is not made
till the next meeting the subject shall not be
Rules and Orders of the Common Council. 19
reconsidered unless a majority of the whole
Council shall vote therefor. And no more
than one motion for the reconsideration of any
vote shall be permitted.
Art. 23. No member shall be permitted
to stand up, to the interruption of another,
w^hilst any member is speaking, or to pass un-
necessarily between the President and the
person speaking.
Art. 24. Every member who shall be in
the Council when a question is put, shall vote,
unless for special reasons excused.
Art. 25. The division of a question may
be called for, when the sense will admit of it.
Art. 26. When the reading of a paper is
called for, and the same is objected to by any
member, it shall be determined by a vote of
the Council.
Art 27. No standing rule or order of the
Council, shall be suspended, unless three-
fourths of the members present shall consent
thereto ; nor shall any rule or order be repeal-
ed or amended, without one day's notice be-
ing given of the motion therefor, nor unless
a majority of the whole Council shall concur
therein.
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Art. 28. Every member shall take notice
of the day and hour to which the Council may
stand adjourned, and shall give his punctual
attendance accordingly.
Art. 29. No member shall be obliged to
be on more than two Committees at the same
time, nor to be Chairman of more than one.
Of Communications, Committees, Reports, and
Resolutions.
Art. 30. All memorials and other papers
addressed to the Council, shall be presented
by the President, or by a member in his place,
who shall explain the subject thereof, and
they shall lie on the table, to be taken up in
the order in which they are presented, unless
the Council shall otherwise direct.
Art. 31. Standing Committees of this
Council shall be appointed on the following
subjects, viz : On Elections and Returns, and
on Enrolled Ordinances and Resolutions, each
to consist of three members.
Art. 32. No Committee shall sit during
the sitting of the Council, without special
leave.
Rules and Orders of the Common Council. 21
Art. 33. The rules of proceeding in Coun-
cil shall be observed in Committee of the
Whole, so far as they may be applicable, ex-
cepting the rules limiting the times of speak-
ing ; but no member shall speak twice to any
question, until every member choosing to
speak shall have spoken.
Art. 34. When Committees of the Coun-
cil, chosen by ballot, or Committees consist-
ing of one member from each ward, have been
appointed or elected, whether joint or other-
wise, the first meeting thereof shall be notified
by the Clerk, by direction of the President,
and they shall organize by the choice of
Chairman, and report to the Council ; and
when Committees, other than as above speci-
fied, are nominated by the President, the per-
son first named shall be Chairman, and in
case of the absence of the Chairman, the Com-
mittee shall have power to appoint a Chair-
man, pro tempore.
Art,. 35. All messages to the Mayor and
Aldermen, shall be drawn up by the Clerk
and sent by the Messenger.
Art. 36. All ordinances, resolutions, and
orders shall have two several readings before
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they shall be finally passed by this Council ;
and all ordinances after being so passed, shall
be enrolled.
Art. 37. No ordinance, order or resolu-
tion imposing penalties or authorising the ex-
penditure of money, shall have more than one
reading on the same day.
Art. 38. The seats of the members of the
Council shall be numbered and determined by
lot : and no member shall change his seat but
by permission of the President.
Art. 39. All special committees, unless
otherwise ordered, shall consist of three mem-
bers. And no report shall be received from
any Committee, unless agreed to in commit-
tee assembled.
Art. 40. The Clerk shall keep brief min-
utes of the votes and proceedings of the Coun-
cil,— entering thereon all accepted Orders and
Resolutions ; — shall notice Reports, Memo-
rials, and other papers submitted to the Coun-
cil, only by their titles, or a brief description
of their purport ; but all accepted Reports from
special committees of this board, shall be en-
tered at length in a separate journal, to be
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kept for that purpose, and provided with an
index.
Aelt. 41. All salary officers shall be voted
for by written ballot.
Art. 42. It shall be the duty of all stand-
ing committees of the Council, to keep rec-
ords of all their doings in books provided for
that purpose by the Clerk ; and it shall be the
duty of the Clerk to attend the meetings of
said committees, and make said records when
requested so to do.
Art. 43. No meeting of any committee
shall be called upon less notice than twenty-
four hours.
Art. 44. In all elections by ballot, on the
part of the Council, blank ballots, and all bal-
lots for persons not eligible, shall be reported
to the Council, but shall not be counted in
making up the returns, except in cases where
this Council have only a negative upon nom-
inations made by the Mayor and Aldermen.
Art.- 45. It shall be the duty of every
Committee of the Council, to whom any sub-
ject may be specially referred, to report there-
on within four weeks from the time said subject
is referred to them, or ask for further time.
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Art. 46. In any case, not provided for by
the rules and orders of the City Council, the
proceedings shall be conducted according to
"Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Prac-
tice."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
IN THE YEAR
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Seven.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE
' CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows :
Section 1. The inhabitants of the town of Charles-
town, shall continue to be a body politic and corpo-
rate, under the name of the City of Charlestown, and
as such shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights,
immunities, powers and privileges, and shall be sub-
ject to all the duties and obligations, now incumbent
upon and appertaining to said town as a municipal
corporation.
Sect. 2. The administration of all the fiscal, pru-
dential and municipal affairs of said city, with the
government thereof, shall be vested in one principal
officer, to be styled the Mayor ; one council of six to
be called the Board of Aldermen ; and one council
of eighteen, to be called the Common Council ; which
boards,, in their joint capacity, shall be denominated
the City Council, and the members thereof shall be
sworn to the faithful performance of the duties of their
respective offices. A majority of each board shall
constitute a quorum for doing business, and no mem-
ber of either shall receive any compensation for his
services.
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Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of the selectmen
of the town of Charlestown, as soon as may be, after
the passage of this act, and its acceptance by the in-
habitants, as herein after provided, to divide said town
into three wards, as nearly equal in number of inhab-
itants as may be consistent with convenience in oth-
er respects. And it shall be the duty of the city
council, once in five years, to revise, and if it be
needful, to alter said wards in such manner^ as to
preserve as nearly as may be, an equal number of vo-
ters in each ward.
Sect. 4, On the second Monday in March, an-
nually, there shall be chosen by ballot in each of said
wards, a Warden, Clerk and three Inspectors of Elec-
tions, who shall hold their offices for one year from
the first Monday in April following said second Mon-
day in March, and until others shall have been chosen
in their places. And it shall be the duty of such
warden, to preside at all ward meetings, with the
powers ofmoderator of town meetings. And if at any
meeting the warden shall not be present, the clerk of
such ward shall call the meeting to order and preside,
until a warden pro tempore shall be chosen by ballot.
And if at any meeting the clerk shall not be present,
a clerk pro tempore shall be chosen by ballot. The
clerk shall record all the proceedings and certify the
votes given, and deliver over to his successors in of-
fice all such records and journals, together wath all
other documents and papers held by him in said ca-
pacity. And it shall be the duty of inspectors of
elections, to assist the warden in receiving, assorting
and counting the votes. And the warden, clerk and
inspectors so chosen, shall respectively make oath or
affirmation, faithfully and impartially to discharge
City Charter. 2 7
their several duties, relative to elections, which oath
maybe administered by the clerk of such ward, to
the warden, and by the warden to the clerk and in-
spectors, or by any justice of the peace for the coun-
ty of Middlesex. And all warrants for meetings of
the citizens for municipal purposes, to be held either
in wards or in general meetings, shall be issued by
the mayor and aldermen, and shall be in such form,
and shall be served, executed and returned in such
manner, and at such times, as the city council may
by any by-law direct.
Sect. 5. The mayor and six aldermen, two al-
dermen to be selected from each ward, shall be elect-
ed by the inhabitants of the city, at large, voting in
their respective wards, and six common councilmen
shall be elected from and by each ward, being resi-
dents of the wards in which they are elected ; all
said officers shall be chosen by ballot, and shall hold
their offices for one year from the first Monday in
April, and the mayor until another shall be elected
and qualified in his place.
Sect. 6. On the second Monday in March, an-
nually, the qualified voters in each ward shall give in
their votes for mayor, aldermen and common coun-
cilmen, warden, clerk and inspectors, as provided in
the preceding sections ; and all the votes so given,
shall be assorted, counted, declared and registered in
open ward meeting, by causing the names of persons
voted for, and the number of votes given for each, to
be written in the ward records in words at length. —
The clerk of the ward within twenty four hours after
such election, shall deliver to the persons elected
warden, clerk, inspectors and members of the com-
mon council, certificates of their election^ signed by
28 City Charter.
the warden and clerk, and by a majority of the in-»
spectors of elections, and shall deliver to the city
clerk a copy of the records of such election certified
in like manner ; provided however, that if the choice
of warden, clerk, inspectors or common councilmen
cannot be conveniently effected on that day, the
meeting may be adjourned from time to time to com-
plete such election. The board of aldermen shall,
as soon as conveniently may be, examine the copies
of the records of the several wards, certified as afore-
said, and shall cause the person who may have been
elected mayor, to be notified in writing of his elec-
tion ; but if it shall appear that no person has receiv-
ed a majority of all the votes, or if the person elected
shall refuse to accept the office, the board shall is-
sue their warrants for a new election, and the same
proceedings shall be had as are herein before des-
cribed, for the choice of mayor, and repeated from
time to time until a mayor is chosen. In case of the
decease, resignation or absence of the mayor, or of
his inability to perform the duties of his office, it shall
be the duty of the board of aldermen and the com-
mon council in convention to order by vote, an en-
try of that fact to be made in their records, and then
to elect a mayor for the time being, to serve until an-
other is chosen, or until the occasion causing the va-
cancy is removed. And, if it shall appear that the
whole number of aldermen have not been elected,
the same proceedings shall be had, as are herein be-
fore directed for choice of mayor. And each alder-
man shall be notified in writing of his election, by the
mayor and aldermen for the time being. The oath
prescribed by this act shall be administered to the
mayor by the city clerk, or any. justice of the peace
City Char to-. 29
for the county of Middlesex. The aldermen and
common councilmen elect, shall, on the first Monday
of April, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, meet in con-
vention, when the oath required by this act, shall be
administered to the members of the two boards pres-
ent, by the mayor, or by any justice of the peace for
the county of Middlesex, and a certificate of such
oath having been taken, shall be entered on the jour-
nal of the mayor and aldermen and of the com-
mon council, by their respective clerks. And when-
ever it shall appear that no mayor has been elected
previously to the said first Monday in April, the
mayor and aldermen for the time being, shall make
a record of that fact ; an attested copy of which, the
city clerk shall read at the opening of the convention
to be held as aforesaid. After the oath has been ad-
ministered as aforesaid, the two boards shall separate,
and the common council shall be organized by the
choice of a President and Clerk, to hold their office
during the pleasure of the common council and to be
sworn to the faithful performance of their duties. In
case of the absence of the mayor elect, on the first
Monday in April, the city government shall organize
itself in the manner hereinbefore provided, and may
proceed to business in the same manner as if the
mayor were present, and the oath of office may be
administered to the mayor at any time thereafter, in
a conveiition of the two branches. In the absence
of the mayor the board of aldermen may choose a
chairman pro tempore, who shall preside at joint
meetings of the two boards. Each board shall keep
a record of its own proceedings, and judge of the elec-
tions of its own members; and in failure of election,
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or in cases of vacancy, declared by either board, the
mayor and aldermen shall order a new election.
Sect. 7. The mayor, thus chosen and qualified,
shall be the chief executive officer of said city. It
shall be his duty to be vigilant in causing the laws
and regulations of the city to be enforced, and to keep
a general supervision over the conduct of all subordi-
nate officers, with power to remove them for neglect
of duty. He may call special meetings of the boards
of aldermen and common council, or either of them
when necessary in his opinion, by causing notices to
be left at the places of residence of the several mem-
bers ; he shall communicate, from time to time, to
both of them, such information and recommend such
measures, as in his opinion the interests of the city
may require ; he shall preside in the board of alder-
men, and in convention of the two branches, but shall
have only a casting vote. The salary of mayor for
the first year in which this charter shall take effect,
shall be five hundred dollars, and no more ; his sala-
ry shall afterwards be fixed by the city council, but
neither increased nor diminished during the year for
which he is chosen, and he shall have no other com-
jjensation ; provided however, that the city council
shall have power to appoint the mayor, commissioner
of highways, when in their opinion such an officer is
necessary, and allow him a suitable compensation
therefor.
Sect. 8. The executive power of said city gen-
erally, and the administration of police, with all the
powers heretofore vested in the selectmen of Charles-
town, shall be vested in the mayor and aldermen, as
fully as if the same were herein specially enumerated.
And all other powers now vested in the inhabitants
City Charter. 31
♦ ^
of said town, as a municipal corporation, and all pow-
ers granted by this act, not herein otherwise provided
for, shall be vested in the mayor and aldermen and
common council of said city, to be exercised by con^
current vote, each board to have a negative upon the
other. And the mayor and aldermen shall have full
and exclusive power to appoint a constable and as-
sistants, or a city marshal and assistants, with the
powers and duties of constables, and all other police
officers ; and the same to remove at pleasure. And
the mayor and aldermen may require any person ap-
pointed a constable of the city, to give bonds with
such security as they may deem reasonable, before he
enters upon the duties of his office, upon which bonds
the like proceedings and remedies may be had as are
by law provided in case of constables bonds taken by
the selectmen of towns. And the mayor and alder-
men shall have the same power to grant licenses to
inn-holders, victuallers and retailers, within the city,
which is possessed by the mayor and aldermen of the
city of Boston. The city council, shall, annually,
as soon after their organization as may be convenient,
elect, by joint ballot in convention, a Treasurer and
Collector of taxes, and fix their compensations. They
shall also, in such manner as they shall determine,
appoint or elect all other subordinate officers, not
herein otherwise directed, define their duties and fix
their compensations. All sittings of the common
council, shall be public, and all sittings of the mayor
and aldennen, when they are not engaged in execu-
tive business. The city council shall take care that
no moneys be paid from the treasury unless granted
or appropriated ; shall secure a just and proper ac-
countability by requiring bonds with sufficient penal-
33 City Charter.
ties and sureties, from all persons trusted with the
receipt, custody or disbursement of money ; shall have
the care and superintendence of the city buildings,
with the power to let, or to sell what may be legally
sold ; and to purchase property, real or personal, in
the name and for the use of the city, whenever its in-
terest or convenience may in their judgment require
it. And the city council shall, as often as once in
a year, cause to be published, for the use of the in-
habitants, a particular account of the receipts and ex-
penditures, and a schedule of city property.
Sect. 9. In all cases in which appointments are
directed to be made by the mayor and aldermen, the
mayor shall have the exclusive power of nomination,
such nomination, however, being subject to be con-
firmed or rejected by the board of aldermen ; provid-
ed however, that no person shall be eligible to any
office of emolument, the salary of which is payable
out of the city treasury, who, at the time of such ap-
pointment, shall be a member of the board of alder-
men or of the common council.
Sect. 10. The City Clerk shall be clerk of the
board of aldermen, and shall be sworn to the faithful
performance of his duties. He shall perform such
duties as shall be prescribed by the board of alder-
men, and he shall perform all the duties and exercise
all the powers, by law incumbent upon or vested in
tbe town clerk of the town of Charlestown. He shall
be chosen for one year, and until another shall be
chosen and qualified in his place, but may be at any
time removed by the city council.
Sect. 11. The citizens, at their respective annu-
al ward meetings for the choice of officers, shall elect
by ballot two persons in each ward to be overseers of
city Charter. ,33
the poor, and the persons thus chosen, together with
the mayor, shall constitute the board of Overseers of
the Poor, and shall have all the powers and be sub-
ject to all the duties now by law appertaining to the
overseers of the poor for the town of Charlestown. —
And the citizens shall at the same time, and in the
same manner, elect five persons from the city at large,
and two persons from each ward to be members of
the school committee, and the persons thus chosen
shall constitute the School Committee, and have the
care and superintendence of the public schools ; and
said school committee shall have all the powers and
privileges and be subject to all the liabilities set forth
in an act passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and ninety-three, entitled an act to incorporate cer-
tain persons by the name of the Trustees of Charles-
town Free Schools, and all acts in addition thereto.
And the persons chosen by the city council as asses-
sors, shall constitute the Board of Assessors, and shall
exercise the powers and be subject to the duties and
liabilities of assessors in towns. All taxes shall be
assessed, apportioned and collected in the manner
prescribed by law relative to town taxes ; provided
however, that it shall be lawful for the city council
to establish further additional provisions for the col-
lection thereof. Should there fail to be a choice of
overseers of the poor, or members of the school com-
mittee, the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by
the city council in convention, in the same manner
that is provided for filling vacancies in the Senate of
this Commonwealth.
Sect. 12, The city council shall have exclusive
authority and power to lay out any new street or
34 C'lfy Cliarter,
town way, and to estimate the damages any individ-
ual may sustain thereby, but all questions relating to
the subject of laying out, accepting, altering or dis-
continuing any street or way, shall first be acted up-
on by the mayor and aldermen. And any person
dissatisfied with the decision of the city council in the
estimate of damages, may make complaint to the
County Commissioners of the county of Middlesex,
at any meeting held within one year after such deci-
sion, whereupon the same proceedings shall be had
as are now provided by the laws of this common-
wealth in cases where persons are aggrieved by the
assessment of damages by selectmen, in the twenty-
fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes.
Sect. 13. All power and authority now by law
vested in the board of health for the town of Charles-
town, or in the selectmen of said town, shall be trans-
ferred to, and vested in the city council, to be car-
ried into execution in such manner as the city coun-
cil shall deem expedient.
Sect. 14. The city council shall have authority
to cause drains and common sewers to be laid down
through any street or private lands paying the own-
ers such damages as they may sustain thereby ; and
to require all persons to pay a reasonable sum for
the privilege of opening any drain into said public
drain or common sewer. And the city council may
make by-laws with suitable penalties for the inspec-
tion, survey, measurement and sale of lumber, wood,
coal and bark, brought into the city for sale.
Sect. 15. It shall be the duty of the city coun-
cil annually, in the month of October, to meet in con-
vention and determine the number of representatives
to be elected by the city to the General Court in
City Charier. 35
such year, which shall be conclusive, and the num-
ber thus determined shall be specified in the warrant
calling meetings for the election of representatives.
Sect. 16. All elections for County, State and
United States officers, who are voted for by the peo-
ple, shall be held at meetings of the citizens, quali-
fied to vote in such elections, in their respective
wards, at the time fixed by law for these elections re-
spectively ; and at such meetings all the votes, given
for said several officers respectfully, shall be assorted,
counted, declared and registered in open ward meet-
ing, by causing the names of all persons voted for,
and the number of votes given for each, to be written
in the ward record in words at length. The ward
clerk shall forthwith deliver to the city clerk, a cer-
tified copy of the record of such elections. The city
clerk shall forthwith record such returns, and the
mayor and aldermeh shall, within two days after eve-
ry such election, examine and compare all said re-
turns, and make out a certificate of the result of such
elections, to be signed by the mayor and a majority
of the aldermen, and also by the city clerk, which
shall be transmitted or delivered in the same manner
as similar returns are by law directed to be made by
selectmen of towns. And in all elections for repre-
sentatives to the General Court, in case the whole
number proposed to be elected shall not be chosen
by a majority of the votes legally returned, the may-
or and aldermen shall forthwith issue their warrant
for a new election, conformable to the provisions of
the constitution and the laws of the commonwealth.
Sect. 17. Prior to every election, the mayor and
aldermen shall make out lists of all the citizens of
each ward qualified to vote in such elections, in the
36 City Charter.
manner in which selectmen of towns are required to
make out hsts of voters ; and for that purpose they
shall have full access to the assessors' books and list,
and be entitled to the assistance of all assessors, as-
sistant assessors and city officers, and they shall de-
liver said lists, so prepared and corrected, to the
clerks of said wards to be used at such elections ; and
no person shall be entitled to vote whose name is not
borne on such list.
Sect. 18. General meetings of the citizens qual-
ified to vote, may, from time to time be held, to con-
sult upon the public good ; to instruct their represent-
atives, and to take all lawful measures to obtain re-
dress for any grievances, according to the right secur-
ed to the people by the constitution of this common-
wealth. And such meetings may and shall be duly
warned by the mayor and Aldermen, upon the requi-
sition of fifty qualified voters.
Sect. 19. For the purpose of organizing the sys-
tem of government hereby established and putting
the same into operation in the first instance, the se-
lectmen of the town of Charlestown, for the time be-
ing, shall, on some day during the months of March
or April of the present year, issue their warrants
seven days at least previous to the day appointed,
calling meetings of the said citizens at such place and
hour as they may deem expedient, for the purpose of
choosing a warden, clerk and inspectors for each
ward, and all other officers whose election is provid-
ed for in the preceding sections of this act ; and said
selectmen shall appoint for this first meeting a war-
den, clerk and three inspectors of elections for each
ward, which officers shall be sworn to the faithful
discharge of their duties, and the transcript of the
City Charter. 37
records of each ward, specifying the votes given for
the several officers aforesaid, certified by the warden,
and clerk of such ward, at said first meeting, shall be
returned to the said selectmen, whose duty it shall
be to examine and compare the same, and in case
said elections should not be completed at the first
meeting, then to issue new warrants until such elec-
tions shall be completed ; and to give notice thereof
in the manner hereinbefore directed, to the several
persons elected. And at said first meeting a list of
voters in each ward, prepared and corrected by the
selectmen for the time being, shall be delivered to
the clerk of each ward, when appointed, to be used
as hereinbefore directed. And the selectmen shall
appoint such time for the first meeting of the city
council, as they may judge proper, after the choice
of city officers as aforesaid, or a majority of the mem-
bers of both branches, not later than the first Monday
in May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
forty-seven, and shall also fix upon the place and the
hour of said first meeting, and a written notice thereof
shall be sent by said selectmen, to the place of abode
of each of the city officers chosen, as provided in this
section. And after this first election of city officers,
and this first meeting for the organization of the city
council, as in this section is provided, the day of hold-
ing the annual elections, and the day and hour for
the meeting of the city council, for the purpose of or-
ganization, shall remain as provided in the sixth sec-
tion of this act. And it shall be the duty of the city
council, immediately after the first organization, to
elect all necessary city officers, who shall hold their
offices respectively until others are chosen and quali-
fied. And at the meetings to be called as prescribed
38 City Charter.
in this section for the choice of ward and city officers,
the said inhabitants may, and shall also give in their
votes for county officers, which votes shall be record-
ed, certified and returned in the manner provided in
the sixteenth section of this act.
Sect. 20, The city council shall have power to
make all such salutary and needful by-laws, as towns,
by the laws of this commonwealth, have power to
make and establish, and to annex penalties not ex-*
ceeding twenty dollars, for the breach thereof, which
by-laws shall take effect, and be in force, from and
after the time therein respectively limited, without
the sanction of any court, or other authority whatev-
er ; provided however, that all laws and regulations
now in force in the town of Charlestown, shall, until
they shall expire by their own limitation, or be re-
vised or repealed by the city council, remain in force ;
and all fines and forfeitures for the breach of any by-
laws, or ordinance, shall be paid into the city treas-
ury.
Sect. 21. The annual town meeting for the town
of Charlestown, which by law is to be held in the
month of March, is hereby suspended, and all town
officers now in office, shall hold their places until this
act shall go into operation, and in case this charter
shall not be accepted in the manner and form as here-
inafter provided, then the selectmen shall issue their
warrant according to law, for holding the annual town
meeting of the inhabitants, in which all the proceed-
ings shall be the same, as if this act had not been
passed.
Sect. 22. All officers of the town of Charles-
town, having the care and custody of the records, pa-
pers or property belonging to said town, shall deliver
City Charter. 139
the same to the city clerk, within one week after his
entering upon the duties of his office.
Sect. 23. All such acts, and parts of acts, as
are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall
be and the same are, hereby repealed.
Sect. 24. Nothing in this act contained shall be
so construed as to prevent the Legislature from alter-
ing or amending the same, whenever they shall deem
it expedient.
Sect. 25. This act shall be void, unless the in-
habitants of the town ofCharlestown, at a legal town
meeting, called for that purpose, shall, by a vote ofa
majority of the voters present and voting thereon, by
a written ballot, determine to adopt the same within
twenty days from and after its passage, at which
meeting the polls shall be kept open not less than
six hours, and the presiding officer in receiving said
ballots shall use the check list, in the same manner
as they are used in elections.
Sect. 26. This act shall go into operation from
and after its passage.
House of Representatives, February 20th, 1847.
Passed to be enacted :
Eben. Bradbuky, Speaker.
In Senate, February 22d, 1847.
Passed to be enacted ;
W. B. Calhoun, President.
February 22d, 1847.
Approved : GEO. N. BRIGGS.
Secretary's Office, February 25th, 1847.
I certify the within to be a true copy of the
original Act. John G. Palfrey,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSAeHDSETTS*
In the year
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Seven,
AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO ESTABLISH
THE
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
Be it ENACTED by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows :
Section 1. The qualified voters of each ward at
their respective annual ward meetings for the choice
of officers, shall elect by ballot two persons, who
shall be residents of the ward for which they are
elected, to be overseers of the poor ; and the mayor,
together with the persons thus chosen, shall consti-
tute the Board of Overseers of the Poor. And at
the same time and in the same manner, the qualified
voters of the City shall elect five persons from the
city at large, and the qualified voters of each w^rd
shall elect two persons, who shall be residents of the
ward for which they are elected, to be members of
the school committee, and the eleven persons thus
chosen shall constitute the School Committee.
Sect. 2. The elections of overseers of the poor
and school committee made on the fifth and nine-
teenth days of April in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty-seven, under the provisions of the
act to estaWish the City of Charlestown, passed on
An Amendment to the City Charter 41
the twenty-second day of February in the year one
thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, are hereby
confirmed.
Sect. 3. Such parts of the eleventh section of
said act as are inconsistent Ijerewith are hereby re-
pealed.
Sect. 4. This act shall take effect from and af-
ter its passage.
House of Representatives, April 24th, 1847.
Passed to be enacted :
Eben. Bradbury, Speaker.
In Senate, April 24th, 1847.
Passed to be enacted :
W. B. Calhoun, President.
April 24th, 1847.
Approved : GEO. N. BRIGGS.
Secretary's Office, April 24th, 1847.
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the
original act. John G. Palfrey,
Secretary.
GOVERNMENT
OF THE
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
1847.
MAYOR.
GEO. WASHINGTON WARREN.
Monument Square.
ALDEKMEN,
Ward No. 1.
DEXTER BOWMAN, 29 Washington street.
EBENEZER BARKER, 4 Harvard Row.
Ward No. 2.
THOMAS HOOPER, 168 Main street.
PHINEHAS J. STONE, 25 Concord street.
Ward No 3.
PAUL WILLARD, 38 High street.
JOHN CHEEVER, 129 Main street.
COMMON COUNCIL.
CHARLES W. MOORE, President,
No. 3 Alston street.
City Officers
43
Ward No. 1.
Melvin Simmons,
Kendall Bailey 2d,
Jacob Caswell,
Henry A. Pierce,
Moses G. Cobb,
Edward Riddle,
11 Riclimond street.
12 Warren street.
3 Chestnut street.
9 Harvard row.
4 Bow street.
99 Main street
Ward No. 2.
P. S. Briggs,
John Sanborn,
Ichabod Lindsey,
Marshall Blanchard,
Philip B. Holmes,
Jesse Mann,
15 Adams street.
10 Tufts street.
4 Concord street.
7 Bunker Hill street.
Hancock street.
30 Bunker Hill street.
Ward No. 3.
David C. Willis,
James Damon,
Joseph Young,
Seth W. Lewis,
William S. Fretch,
21 Lawrence street.
Bunker Hill street.
237 Main street.
Cor. N. Pleasant and Bartlett st.
Salem street.
CITY CLERK.
DAVID DODGE, Cor. Austm and Richmond st.
CITY CLERK PRO TEMPORE.
ABRAHAM B. SHEDD, 15 Oak street.
CLERK OF COMMON COUNCIL.
PAUL WILLARD, Jr., 38 High Street.
Messenger to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
Nathaniel Pratt, No. 4 Call street.
Messenger to the Common Council.
George L Lindsey, No. 4 Concord street.
44 City Officers.
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.
ON FINANCE.
The Mayor and the President of the Common Coun-
cil, and Messrs. Pierce and Briggs.
ON ACCOUNTS.
Aldermen Hooper and Stone, and Messrs. Willis, -
Caswell and Fretch.
ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Aldermen Bowman and Cheever, and Messrs.
Simmons, Holmes and Damon.
ON PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
The Mayor and Alderman Willard, the Presi-
dent of the Common Council, and Messrs. Lindsey
and Pierce.
ON POOR AND ALMS HOUSE.
i The Mayor and Alderman Bowman, the Presi-
dent of the Common Council, and Messrs Sanborn
and Bailey 2d.
ON FUEL AND LIGHTING STREETS.
The Mayor, and Messrs. Briggs and Mann,
ON FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Aldermen Barker and Cheever, and Messrs. Lewis,
Blanchard and Lindsey.
ON HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND SIDEWALKS,
The Mayor and Alderman Stone, Messrs. Pierce,
Youns: and Damon.
City Officers. 45
ON MAIN DRAINS AND COMMON SEWERS.
The Mayor and Alderman Barker, Messrs. Briggs,
Lewis and Riddle.
ON THE SQ,UARE AND PUBLIC COMMONS.
The Mayor, President of Com. Council and Mr. Cobb.
ON PRINTING.
Alderman Willard, and Messrs. Holmes and
Caswell.
Joint Special Committee on alterations of City Hall.
The Mayor and Alderman Barker, and Messrs,
Lindsey, Pierce and Willis.
STANDING COxMMITTEES
OF MAYOR AND ALDEUMEX.
ON THE POLICE OF THE CITY.
The Mayor, and Aldermen Willard and Barker.
ON LICENSES.
Aldermen Willard, Cheever and Hooper.
ON LAYING OUT AND WIDENING STREETS.
Aldermen Barker, Hooper, and Stone.
ON ENROLLMENT.
Aldermen Bowman, Stone and Cheever.
ON BURIAL GROUNDS.
Alderman Hooper.
STANDING COMMITTEES
01' THE COMMON COUKCII..
ON ELECTIONS AND RETURNS.
Messrs. CasN^ell. Sanborn and Fretch.
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ON ENROLLED ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
Messrs. Briggs, Simmons and Lewis.
CITY TREASURER.
Amos Stone, 6 Salem street.
ASSESSORS.
Timothy Fletcher, 24 High street,
Thomas Greenleaf, 2 Adams street.
John Wesson, 14 Washington street.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Ward No. 1. The Mayor, Chairman Ex. OfF.
John Gregory, Washington street.
Alfred Carlton, Main street.
Ward No. 2.
Ichabod Lindsey, Concord street.
Richard C. Bazin, Cross street.
Ward No. 3.
Francis Turner, Neck Village.
Thomas Greenleaf, Sec'y-j 2 Adams street.
KEEPER OF THE ALMS HOUSE.
Albert Eaton.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
William. M. Edmands, Main street.
PUBLIC WEIGHER AND GUAGER.
Edward T. Thompson. Henley j)lace.
FIELD DUIVERS.
Asa B. Barker, Theodore T. Dearing and Joseph
Underwood.
WEIGHER or VESSELS.
John Wesson, 14 Washington .street.
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FUNERAL UNDERTAKERS.
Caleb SyjnmeSj 4 Joiner street.
Nathaniel Pratt, 4 Call street.
Patrick Denvir, Austin street.
SURVEYORS OF LUMBER.
Loammi Kendall, Stephen Fuller,
Thomas J. Elliott, J. B. Wilson 2d,
Edward A. Ward, Aaron Clarke 2d,
Joseph Burrell, George W. White,
Calvin Simonds, Jr., William Phipps,
Isaac Kendall, James M. Phipps,
Oliver Kimball, Joshua Magoun.
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK.
William Phipps, Nathan Josselyn,
Samuel Cutter, James M. Phipps,
Thomas J. Elliott, Godfrey B. Albee,
Abram Chamberlin.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
ENGINEERS.
Isaac Cook, Chief Engineer, Chestnut street.
Henry Conn, 1st Ass't. Henley street.
James M. Gardner, 2d Ass't. Edgarton street.
Stephen P. Kelley, 3d Ass't. Walker street.
ENGINES.
Hancock No. 1.
David S. Tucker, Foreman, Walker street.
BimJcer Hill No 2.
John Howard, Foreman, Mead street.
Hoivard No. 3.
Thomas Barker Jr, Foreman, Main street.
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Warren No 4.
James Poor, Foreman, Lawrence street.
Washington No. 5.
Samuel F. Tilden, Foreman, Chelsea street.
FranTclin No. 7.
Henry P. Gardner, Foreman, Edgarton street.
Warren HooTc and Ladder Co.
Robert Todd, Foreman, Washington street.
Hose Co.
E. W. Brackett Foreman, Austin street.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
CITY MAllSHAL.
Richard Nichols, Johnson Avenue.
DEPUTY CITY MARSHAL.
Adolphus J. Carter, Lawrence street.
CONSTABLES.
Richard Nichols, Abram Chamberlain, Charks
R. Knights, Charles Sanderson, Adolphus J. Carter,
and Theodore T. Dearing.
SUNDAY POLICE.
Adolphus J. Carter, Isaac Sargeant and Asa B.
Barker.
WATCHMEN OF THE NIGHT.
Watch No. 1.
Charles Sanderson, Captain; George Richardson,
Francis Powers, Charles Parkenson, John Sawtell,
and Moran Knights.
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Watch No. 2.
Adolphus J. Carter, Captain, Jonathan Bartlett,
Stephen Fosdick, A. L. Melvin, Joshua W. Lincoln,
and Judah Wetherbee,
TVatch No. 3.
Ebenezer Parker, Captain, Joseph Davis, Mo-
ses G. Flanders, Asa B. Barker, Ephraim Chandler,
and John W. Smith.
Watch No. 4.
Stephen Fuller, Captain, William Norton, John
C. Hutchinson, Harry Sanderson, Augustus Taylor,
and Nelson Cutter.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE AT LARGE.
Edward Thorndike, J. W. Bemis, Geo. Farrar,
John Sanborn, and James Adams.
Ward No. 1.
Seth J. Thomas and George A. Parker.
Ward No. 2.
N. Y. Culbertson and James Miskelly.
Ward No. 3.
Henry K. Frothingham and Joseph F. Tufts.
SCHOOLS.
Warren School,
CORNER OF SALEM HILL AND SUaiMER STREET.
Calvin S. Pennell, Grammar Master — salary ^900.
Residence — No. 11, Oak street
Joseph T. Swan, Writing Master— salary $900.
Residence— Bunker Hill street.
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Francis H. Clark, Emeline Brown, Sarah G. Hay,
and Sarah T. Chandler, Assistants.
Winihrop School.
Winslow Battles, Grammar Master — salary ^900,
"Stacy Baxter, Writing Master — salary $900.
Residence — Green street.
Mary L. Rowland, Elizabeth D. Moulton, Julia E,
Hinckley, aiid Evelina A. Flint, Assistants.
Harvard School.
ON HARVARD STREET.
Paul H. Sweetser, Grammar Master — salary $900.
Residence — South Reading.
Robert Swan, Writing Master — salary $900.
Residence — Dorchester.
Mary J. Whiting, Rebecca Drake, Frances T. Hol-
land, and Maria L. Thompson, Assistants.
Bunker Hill School.
AT THE NECK, ON BUNKER FILL STREET.
■Benjamin F. Tweed, Grammar Master — salary $900^
Residence — Cor. of Green and Bunlier Hill st.
Mary S. Lewis and Lucretia Foster, Assistants.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
LOCATION. TEACHERS' NAMES.
3\o. 1. Near B. H. school, Caroline Phipps.
2. Mead street, Malvina B. Skelton,
3. Rear 187 Main St., E. M, Sweetser,
4. Warren school house, M. A. Chandler.
5. Elm street, E. D. Pratt.
6. " " F. A. Sawyer.
7. Rear 162 Main st., S, L. Sawyer.
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Cross street,
Mary J. Chandler.
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S. F. Brown.
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Common street.
Elizabeth Ernes,
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Jane S. Putnam.
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Bow street.
J. M. Burckes.
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M. E. Lincoln.
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S. E. Smith.
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S. E. Clark.
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A. E. Hinckley.
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S. J. Bradbury.
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Moulton street.
M. M. Sanborn
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Common street.
M. A. C. Bodge,
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Sullivan street,
C. A. Goodridge.
WARD OrFICEES.
Ward No. 1.
John Wesson, Warden ; Lenthel W. Phillips, Clerk;
Caleb Rand, John B. Wilson and William W.
Pierce, Inspectors.
Ward No. 2.
Jonathan Locke, Warden ; E. D. Pierce, Clerk ;
P. S. Briggs, Jotham Barry Jr., and A. P.
Baxter, Inspectors.
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Ward No. 3
Timothy Fletcher, Warden ; E. P. Brigham, Clerk ;
Hu-am P. Remick, G. B. Albee and George E.
Edmands, Inspectors.
SURVEYOR OF MASON WORK AND MATERIALS,
Samuel L. Tuttle.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Mayor and Aldermen.
HEALH OFFICER.
Richard Nichols.
SUPPLEMENT.
Page 42 — Alderman Willard's name should be in Ward 2,
and Alderman Hooper's in Ward 3.
Page 47 — Surveyors of Lumber — in Addition.
Nathan Josselyn and Samuel T. Johnson.
Same page.
Nathan Josselyn, oot a Measurer of Wood and Bark.
CITY ORDINANCES.
(No. 1.)
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Forty-Seven.
AN ORDINANCE
Directing the form of Warrants, and the manner of
serving, executing and returning the same :
Be it ordained, by the City Council of the city
of Charlestown, as follows :
Section 1. The form of Warrants, for calling
meetings of the citizens of the several Wards, shall
be as follows, to wit :
"City of Charlestown.
[seal]
To either Constable of the City of Charles-
town, Greeting : In the name of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, you are hereby required, forthwith,
to warn the citizens of Ward No. — , qualified to vote
as the law directs, to assemble at , on
, the ■ day of , at 9 o'clock in the
forenoon, then and there to give in their ballots for
S4 City Ordinances.
Hereof fail not, and have you there this warrant
with your doings thereon.
Witness, — — , Mayor of our said city
of Charlestown, on this day of , in the-
year of our Lord orte thousand eight hundred and
By order of th^e Mayor and Aldermen,
— , City Clerk."
Sect. 2. The form of Warrants, for calling gene-
ral meetings of the citizens qualified to vote, shall be-
as follows, to wit :■
"City of Charlestown.
|seal]
To the Constables of the City of Charlestown y
Greeting : In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are hereby required forthwith tO'
warn the citizens of Charlestown, qualified to vote as
the law directs, to assemble in general meeting at the
City Hall, on the day of at
o'clock, — . M., then and there to
Hereof fail not, and have you there this warrant
with your doings thereon.
Witness, , Mayor of our said City
of Charlestown, on this day of , in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
By order of the Mayor and Aldermen,
, City Clerk."
Sect. 3. All warrants, whether for calling gene-
ral meetings or for calling meetings of the citizens of
the several wards, shall be issued by the Mayor and
Aldermen seven days at least before the time for
holding the same; they shall be signed by the City
Clerk, and shall be served by either constable of the
City Oi'dinanccs. 5S
'City, by leaving a copy thereof at the residence of
each citizen quahfied to vote at the meetings called
thereby, and by posting a copy thereof near the place
■of said meeting. And the constable to whom any
warrant shall be delivered for service, shall seasona-
bly return the same with his doings thereon, to the
Mayor and Aldermen, if it be for calling a general
meeting, otherwise to the Warden of the ward named
therein.
Sect. 4. For the election of all officers, except
Warden, Clerk and Inspectors, the polls shall be
^opened at nine of the clock in the morning, and clos-
•ed at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Passed, May 10, 1847.
(No. 2,)
An Ordinance authorising the appointment and pre-
scribing the duties of City Marshal.
Se it Ordmned, hy the City Council of the City of
Charlestown, as follows :
Sect. 1. The Mayor and Aldermen shall forth-
with, and hereafter, in the month of May, annually,
appoint a City Marshal — who shall remain in office
one year, unless removed as hereinafter provided.
Sect. 2. Said city marshal shall be also
'Constable ; and during his continuance in the office
of city Marshal, shall have precedence and command
•over the other Constables, whenever engaged
;in the same service, or when directed tiiereto by the
-Mayor and Aldermen.
Sect. 3. The said city marshal before entering
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upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath of of-^
fice as by law provided for Constables ; and
he shall give bond in the sum of Five Hundred
Dollars, with surety, to be approved by the Mayor
and Aldermen, for the faithful performance of his
said office.
Sect. 4. The City Marshal shall whenever au^
thorised by the Mayor and Aldermen, employ one or
more deputies, who shall be approved by the Mayor
and Aldermen, who shall in like manner, take the
oaths of office ; whereupon such deputy shall have
power and authority to assist the City Marshal, in the
execution of his office, or in his absence, to officiate
in his stead; the City Marshal being always responsi-
ble for his deputies.
Sect. 5. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal,
from time to time, as often as once a week, to pass
through all the streets, alleys and courts of the city,
to observe nuisances, obstructions and impediments
therein, to the end that the same may be removed or
prosecuted according to law ; to notice all offences
against the laws and orders in being, taking the names
of offenders, for the purpose of prosecuting them ; to
receive all complaints of the citizens against any
breach of the laws ; to obey and execute all com-
mands of the Mayor and Aldermen in relation to any
matter or thing concerning the city ; to superintend
the night watch and report their doings, once a week
or oftener to the Mayor, to institute all prosecutions
against offenders of the laws or City Ordinances, and
to attend regularly and punctually on all trials of of-
fenders prosecuted on behalf of the city, in any court
whate"'er;and for the convenience of the citizens having
business with the City Marshal, he shall attend daily at
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some stated hour, in some central and public office,
of which due notice shall be given ; and further to
perform all such other and additional duties, and to
comply with all such regulations as may at any time
be prescribed to him by the Mayor and Aldermen.
Sect. 6. The Mayor and Aldermen may at any
time, by vote, remove from office the said City Mar-
shal ; and thereupon appoint a successor, and in like
manner appoint, in case of death or resignation.
Sect. 7, The city marshal shall be compensa-
ted according to such ordinance as the City Council
may hereafter establish and ordain.
Passed, May 10, 1847.
(No. 3.)
An Ordinance concerning the Ordinances of the City;
the Orders of the Mayor and Aldermen, and the
printed documents of either Branch,
Be it Ordained, by the City Council of the City of
Charlesiown, as follows :
Sect. 1. All Ordinances which shall be passed
by the Mayor and Aldermen, and by the Common
Council of said city, shall be engrossed or recorded,
by the City Clerk, in a fair and legible hand, with-
out interlineation, or erasure, and in the order in which
they shall be passed, in a book to be kept for that
purpose, made of strong linen paper, with proper mar-
gins and index, and strongly bound, to be lettered
"Record of Ordinances of the City of Charlestown,"
which book shall be preserved in the office of the Ci-
ty Clerk, subject to the inspection of the citizens.
58 City Ordinances:
Sect. 2. All said ordinances, and also all the
orders of the Mayor and Aldermen shall be published
and promulgated by causing the same to be inserted
three weeks successively in such newspapers as shall
be printed and published in the city ; and the Mayor
may, in his discretion, cause any ordinance or order
to be printed and distributed by the Marshal or Con-
stables among the citizens.
Sect. 3. All reports and other documents which
may be ordered by either branch to be printed, shall
under the direction of the joint standing committee,
be printed on good paper and in a uniform manner ;
and in addition to the number which may be ordered
by either branch, there shall always be printed fifty
extra copies of each report and document so ordered
to be printed, forty of which may be sent by the May-
or, with a printed copy of this section, to the Mayors
of such other cities, and to such other public institu-
tions as he may designate ; all documents which may
be sent to the Mayor in exchange therefor, shall be by
him preserved for the use of the city, and they shall
from time to time be arranged, bound and lettered
under his direction, in a suitable manner, and shall
always remain in the room of the Mayor and Alder-
men ; and the remaining ten copies shall be retained
in the possession of the City Clerk, who shall at the
end of each year cause the same to be bound and let-
tered in a uniform style, and when bound one series
shall be deposited in each of the following rooms,
namely := — of the Mayor and Aldermen, of the Com-
mon Council, of the School Committee, of the Over-
seers of the Poor, of the Engineers of the Fire De-
partment, of the Assessors, of the Treasurer, and the
City Ordinances. 59
remainder shall be safely kept by the City Clerk.
Passed, May 24, 1847.
(No. 4.)
An Ordinance prescribing the mode of appointing
certain City Officers.
Be it Ordained, by the City Council of the City of
Charlestown, as follows :
The Mayor and Aldermen of the said city are
hereby authorized to appoint for the current and every
succeeding municipal year, the following city officers,
to wit : — Field Drivers, Fence Viewers, Health Offi-
cers, Fish Officers, Sealer of Weights and Measures,
Surveyors of Lumber, Measurers of Wood and Bark,
Hay Weighers, Sealers of Leather and Coal Baskets,
Pound Keepers, and such other officers as may be
necessary or convenient to the public, unless some
other provision for the time being shall be made by
the City Council.
Passed, May 31, 1847.
(No. 5.)
An Ordinance establishing the office of Superintendent
of Streets and Public Buildings, and pre-
scribing his duties.
Be it Ordained, by the City Council of the City of
Charlestown, as follows.
Sect. 1. There shall be chosen at the commence-
ment of each municipal year by the City Council in
convention, and by ballot, an able and discreet per-
60 City Ordinances.
son, to be styled the Superintendant of Streets and
Public Buildings, who shall hold his office at the
pleasure of the City Council, and shall receive such
compensation as said Council shall determine; when-
ever said office shall become vacant by death, resig-
nation, or otherwise, a successor shall be appointed
in the manner herein described.
Sect. 2. The said Superintendent shall, under
the direction and control of the Mayor and Alder-
men, have the general care and charge of the high-
ways, streets, lanes, side walks and bridges of the ci-
ty ; and shall attend to the making, improving, and
alteration thereof, and shall cause the same to be
kept in good repair, so as to be safe and convenient
for travellers, with their horses, teams and carriages,
and for foot passengers, at all seasons of the year. —
He shall superintend the building and repairing of the
drains and common sewers of the city, and the enter-
ing of the same by private drains. He shall see that
the highways, streets and squares are kept in good
order ; that they are swept as often as may be requis-
ite for their cleanliness, and that all nuisances and
obstructions therein are forthwith removed, or give
notice thereof to the Mayor or Marshal. He shall
also see that the exterior of the buildings belonging
to the city, also the fences and grounds appertaining
to the same, and the square and public commons un-
der the direction of the standing committee on the
same, are kept in good order and not defaced in any
way ; and also, that the trees which now or may
be hereafter set out in the streets, or on the public
grounds are properly protected by posts and strips of
wood securely and neatly placed, and that said trees
be pruned or trimmed when necessary, and otherwise
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taken care of, and that they be replaced by other
trees when necessary. He may under the direction
of the Mayor make all necessary contracts for the
supply of any labor, or materials, which he may re-
quire in the discharge of his official duty ; and he
shall also perform such further duties as may be re-
quired by any future ordinance of the City Council.
Sect. 3. The said Superintendent shall, on the
morning of the first Monday in every month, present
to the Mayor a report in writing, stating minutely all
his doings during the preceding month ; the sums of
money by him expended ; the contracts made, and
the laborers by him employed, and describing the ac-
tual condition of the streets and public buildings at
the date of said report. He shall also give informa-
ton thereon, at any other time, when required by the
Mayor or by the Board of Aldermen.
Sect. 4. Whenever any highway, bridge or
street of the city, shall, from want of necessary re-
pair, or by reason of any alteration or repair thereof
being made, or for any other cause, be unsafe or in-
convenient for travellers or passengers, the said Super-
intendent shall forthwith put up a suitable fence
across such highway, street or bridge, and exclude
all travellers from passing the same ; or cause such
parts thereof as are unsafe or inconvenient to be en-
closed by a sufficient fence ; and he shall also fix one
or more lighted lanterns about the place, to be there
kept every night during twilight and dark, so long as
said fence shall be kept standing.
Sect. 5. The said Superintendent shall have: the
general care and control of the teams and carts which
may be furnished by the Overseers of the Poor; and
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may make any arrangement with said Overseers, for
a supply of labor and materials for the city, which
the mterest thereof may require.
Passed, May 31, 1847.
(No. 6.)
An Ordinance for the regulation of Hackney Car-
riages, Cabs, and other Carriages within the
City of Charlestown.
Be it Ordained, l)y the City Council of the City of
Charlestown, as follows :
Sect. 1 . No owner, or driver, of any Hackney
Carriage, Cab, or other Carriage, shall place such
Hackney Carriage, Cab, or other Carriage, in any pub-
lic street, lane, avenue, court, place or square, within
the City, to stand there to be employed, unless such
owner shall first obtain the consent of the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City, so to place them.
Sect. 2. Whoever shall offend against the pro-
visions of this Ordinance, shall forfeit and pay, for
each offence, a sum not less than one dollar or more
than ten dollars, to be recovered by complaint before
any Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex.
Passed, June 21, 1847.
(No. 7.)
An Ordinance to establish a Board of Health.
Be it Ordained, by the City Council of the City of
Charlestown, as follows :
Sect. 1 . All power and authority heretofore vested
in the Board of Health of the Town of Charlestown
Ciiy Ordinances. ©3
shall remain in and be exercised by the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen, who shall make such regula-
tions and may affix such penalties for the breach
thereof as they may from time to time deem expe-
dient, provided that the rules and regulations of the
late Board of Health shall be in force, until others
shall be duly made and published by the Mayor and
Aldermen.
Sect. 2. Whenever any emergency shall happen
likely to endanger the public health, or any conta-
gious disease break out requiring immediate action,
there being no order in force to meet the case, the
Ma3'or, by the advice of any three of the Aldermen,
may give such written directions in the premises as
may be deemed necessary, which directions shall have
the force of law for the time being, but the same
shall be reported at the next regular meeting of the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen, and may be by them
repealed or amended. --. —
Passed, June 23, 1847.
(No. 8.)
An Ordinance to establish a City Seal.
Be it Ordained, by the City Council of the City of
Charlestown, as follows : .
The following shall be the device of the Seal of
said City, to wit : In the centre thereof, a view of
the Bunker Hill Monument and Monument Square ;
on the outer circle around the same, the inscription
shall be, "Charlestown— Founded A. D. 1628. Es-
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tablished a City, A. D. 1847;" within a smaller cir-
cle as the city motto, shall be the words "Liberty —
a trust to be transmitted to posterity ;" — the whole
to be arranged according to the impression of the
seal hereunto annexed.
Passed, July 13, 1847.
(No. 9.)
An Ordinance concerning the Assessment and Col-
lection of Taxes.
Be it Ordained, hy the City Council of the City of
Charlestown, as follows :
Section 1. The City Treasurer shall be the Col-
lector of Taxes and of all rents and other sums pay-
able to the City, not otherwise specially provided for.
Sect. 2. The Assessors shall make their valua-
tion of estates, and complete the assessment of taxes
and place a list thereof in the hands of the Collector
on or before the first day of September in each year.
City Ordinances. fiS
Sect. 3. The Assessors if they shall abate any
tax wholly or in part, shall keep a record thereof in a
book to be provided for that purpose ; which record
shall contain the name of the person whose tax shall
be so abated, the amount of his tax as originally as-
sessed, the amount abated, and the reasons for such
abatement ; and they shall lay such record before the
City Council in the first week of February annually.
The Assessors shall decide fully upon all applications
for abatement on or before the thirtieth day of Oc-
tober in each year.
Sect. 4. The Assessors shall deliver to the Col-
lector a list of the taxes for all poll taxes assessed by
them on persons who shall be assessed for a poll tax
only, with a warrant for collecting the same as soon
as the amount of such tax in each year can be ascer-
tained, and such poll tax shall be paid on demand af-
ter legal notice; and, if not so paid to the Collector,
he shall forthwith proceed to collect the same in the
manner provided by law for the collection of taxes
from delinquents.
Sect. 5. The Collector shall, within thirty days
after the Assessors shall have placed any list of taxes
in his hands for collection, deliver to every person
on whom any tax other than a poll tax shall have
been assessed, or leave at his place of residence or
business a bill of such taxes, which shall be equiva-
lent to a special demand of payment thereof by the
Collector ; and in case any such tax shall be due and
unpaid on the first day of November in each year, the
Treasurer shall issue a summons to the person or cor-
poration from whom such tax shall be due, and if said
tax and the sum of twenty cents for said summons be
not paid within ten days after the delivery or service
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of such summons, a warrant shall be issued for the
collection of the same according to law.
Sect. 6. The Collector shall in every case exact
the payment of the sum of twenty cents for the sum-
mons when issued, and also the same fees for collec-
tion which are allowed by law on executions, togeth-
er with the interest from said first day of November^
when the tax is not paid within ten days after the ser-
vice of such summons. He shall keep a record of all
sums and fees so paid and of the persons by whom
they are paid, which record he shall lay before the
City Council during the second week in February in
each year, and all said sums and fees when received
by him shall be paid into the City treasury.
Sect. 7. The Collector shall, within the muni-
cipal year for which he was chosen, collect all taxes
committed to him from all persons against whom he
shall have any such tax, and who shall be resident
in or have sufficient goods or estate within the city ;
and he may for this purpose pursue any of the rem-
edies by law in such cases provided.
Passed, August 16, 1847.
SPECIAL LAWS.
An Act to Incorporate certain persons by the name of
The Trustees of Charlestown Free Schools.
Whereas the education of youth has ever been
considered by the wise and good as of the highest
consequence to the safety and happiness of a free
people ; and whereas sundry persons have bequeathed
real and personal property to the town of Charles-
town, the rents and profits thereof to be solely and
forever apphed to and for the use of the Free Schools
in said town ; and whereas many inconveniences have
arisen in the present method of executing their gene-
rous designs :
Sect. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives, in General Court as-
sembled, and by the authority of the same, That Rich-
ard DevenSj Nathaniel Gorham, Josiah Bartlett, Aar-
on Putnam, Esquires, Joseph Hurd, merchant, Na-
thaniel Hawkins, and Seth Wyman, gentlemen, all of
Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, be, and
they are hereby nominated and appointed Trustees of
the Free Schools in said town of Charlestown, and
they hereby are incorporated into a Body Politic by
the name of The Trustees of Charlestown Free
Schools.
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Sect. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That all the donations which have been
given to said town for the use and support of their
schools, whether real, personal or mixed, shall be,
pursuant to the consent and at the request of said
town, had in public town meeting on the fourth day
of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety*
three, and they are hereby confirmed unto the said
Richard Devens and others, and to their successors
in said office of Trustees of Charlestown Free Schools,
forever, for the sole use and benefit of said schools,
agreeable to the true intent and meaning of the do-
nors.
Sect, 3. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their succes-
sors shall have one common seal, which they may
make use of in any cause or business that relates to
the said office of Trustees of said schools ; and they
shall have power and authority to break, change and
renew the same from time to time as they shall see
fit ; and they may sue and be sued in all actions, real,
personal and mixed, and prosecute and defend the
same to final judgment and execution, by the name of
the Trustees of Charlestown Free Schools.
Sect. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the aforesaid Richard Devens and
others, and their successors in said office of Trustees,
be the Visitors, Trustees and Governors of the afore-
said Charlestown Free Schools, to be continued in
the way and manner following, viz : That the said
town of Charlestown, at their annual town meeting
in the month of May, shall have authority to elect by
ballot such persons, to the number of seven, as they
shall think proper, to the said office of Trustees of
Special LaiDs. 69
Charlestovvn Free Schools ; and that five of said Trus-
tees shall constitute a quorum for doing business ; and
the major part of the members present shall decide
all questions that shall come before them ; and that
the said Trustees shall have power and autliority to
elect a President, Treasurer and Secretary, and such
other officers as they shall judge necessary and con-
venient ; but no pecuniary compensation shall be al-
lowed the said Trustees without the consent of said
town of Charlestown ; and to make and ordain such
laws, rules and orders for the good government of said
schools, as to them the Trustees, Governors and Vis-
itors aforesaid, and their successors, shall from time
to time seem most fit and requisite ; all which shall
be observed by the officers and scholars of said school,
upon the penalties therein contained: provided not-
withstanding, that the said rules, laws and orders be
no ways repugnant to the laws of this Common-
Wealth.
Sect. 5. Be if further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the Trustees aforesaid be, and they
hereby are rendered capable in law to take and re-
ceive by gift, grant, devise or bequest, or otherwise,
any lands, tenements or other estate, real and person-
al, which may in future be granted for the benefit
of said Charlestown Free Schools : provided, the an-
nual income thereof shall not exceed the sum of Six
Hundred Pounds, to have and to hold the same un-
der such provisions and limitations as may be ex-
pressed in any deed or conveyance to them made by
the donor or donors ; and that all deeds and instru-
ments which the said Trustees shall lawfully make,
shall, when made in the name of said Trustees, and
signed and delivered by the President, and sealed
70 Special Lmffs.
with their common seal, bind the said Trustees and
their successors, and be vahd in law.
Sect. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the aforesaid Trustees shall have full
power and authority to determine at what times and
places their meetings shall be holden, and upon the
manner of notifying the Trustees to convene at such
meetings ; and the said Trustees shall have full pow-
er and authority to determine and prescribe from time
to time the powers and duties of their several offi-
cers, and to fix and determine the tenures of their re-
spective offices.
Sect. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the said Trustees shall, at the annu-
al meeting of said town of Charlestown in the month
of May, previous to the election of Trustees, lay be-
fore said town the particulars of their proceedings
and the state of their funds.
Sect. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That Richard Devens be, and he is au-
thorized and empowered to fix the time and place
for holding the first meeting of said Trustees, and to
certify them thereof. Passed, March 27, 1793,
An Act authorizing the Town of Charlestown to es-
tablish a Board of Health.
Sect. 1 . Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and
by the authority of the same, That the inhabitants of
the town of Charlestown, qualified to vote for town
special Law?. 71
officers, may, in the month of March, annually, in
town meeting assemble, elect, by ballot, seven able
and discreet persons, being freeholders and residents
in said town, to be a Board of Health, whose duty it
shall be, when notified by the Town Clerk, of their
election as aforesaid, to meet within six days after
such notice, and organize themselves by electing a
President and Secretary. The Secretary thus cho-
sen, to be sworn to the faithful discharge of the du-
ties of said office ; which oath shall be entered and
subscribed by such Secretary, on the records of said
board, and attested by the person administering the
same ; and a certificate from the records of said board,
shall be received and admitted as evidence in all
cases relating to the proceedings of said board. —
On the death or resignation of any member
of the said Board of Health, such vacancy shall
be filled by election, by ballot, at the next town,
meeting which may be holden after such vacancy ex-
ists ; and a majority of the board shall be competent
to transact any business which the whole board could
transact.
Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said
Board of Health shall have power, and it is hereby
made their duty, to examine into all causes of sick-
ness, nuisances, and sources of filth, that may be in-
jurious to the inhabitants of the town of Charlestown,
which do or may exist within the limits of said town,
or in any vessel at any wharf within the limits there-
of; and the same to destroy, remove, or prevent, as
the case may require ; and all the expenses attending
the same, to be paid by the person or persons, who caus-
ed such nuisance to exist, if known, and if not known,
such expense to be paid by the town : and in all cases,
I ft
72 (Special Laws.
where such nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sick-
ness, shall be found on private property, the owner or
occupier thereof on being notified by the authority of
this board, and ordered to destroy or remove the same,
shall forthwith destroy or remove such filth or nui-
sance ; and in case said owner or occupier shall re-
fuse or neglect to remove such filth, nuisance, or
cause of sickness, from his, her, or their property,
within the time specified by said board, he, she, or
they, so offending, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not
less than one dollar, or more than one hundred dol-
lars, to be sued for and recovered by said Board of
Health, in manner hereafter directed. And any two
members of this board may cause the same nuisance
to be removed or destroyed, as the case may require;
and all costs or expenses, incurred in removing or des-
troying the same, shall be paid by such owner or oc-
cupier, on whose premises, or in whose possession
such cause of sickness, nuisance, or source of filth
may be found. And the said board may have pow-
er to appoint scavengers when necessary, to carry
into effect the requirements of this act, and the same
to remove, and substitute others at the pleasure of
the board.
Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That tha said
Board of Health shall have power to seize, take, and
destroy, or to remove to any safe place within the
limits of the town, or cause the same to be done, any
unwholsome and putrid, or tainted meat, fish, bread,
vegetables, or other articles of the provision kind, or
liquor, which in their opinion (first consulting some
respectable physician of the town of Charlestown,)
shall be injurious to the health of those who might
use them ; and the cost of seizing, taking, destroying,
special Laws. 7^
or removing, shall be paid by the person or persons,
in whose possession the same unwholesome, putrid
or tainted article shall or may be found ; and when-
ever said board shall think it necessary for the pres-
ervation of the lives or health of the inhabitants of
said town, to enter forcibly any building or vessel,
having been refused such entry by the owner or oc-
cupier thereof, within the limits of the town of
Charlestown, for the purpose of examining into, des-
troying, removing or preventing any nuisance, source
of filth, or cause of sickness aforesaid, which said
board have reason to believe is contained in such
building or vessel ; any member of said board, by or-
der of said board, may apply to any Justice of the
Peace, within and for the county of Middlesex, and on
oath complain and state, on behalf of said board, the
facts, as far as said board have reason to believe the
same, relative to such nuisance, source of filth, or
cause of sickness aforesaid ; and such Justice shall
thereupon issue his warrant directed to the Sheriff of
the county of Middlesex, or either of his Deputies, or
any Constable of the town of Charlestown, therein
requiring them, or either of them, taking with them
sufficient aid and assistance, and also in company
with said Board of Health, or any two members of
the same, between the hours of sun rise and sun set,
to repair to the place where such nuisance, source of
filth, or cause of sickness, complained of as existing
■ as aforesaid, and there if found, the same to destroy,
remove or prevent, under the directions and agreeably
to the order of said Board of Health, or such mem-
bers of the same as may be present for such purpose :
provided however, that no Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, or
Constable, shall execute any civil process, either by
74 Special Lmcs.
arresting the body, or attaching the goods or chat-
tels of any person under color of any entry made for
the purpose aforesaid, unless such service could by
law be made without such entry ; and all services, so
made under cover of such entry, shall be utterly void ;
and the officer making such service shall be consider-
ed a trespasser to all intents ah initio ; and in all
cases where such nuisance, source of filth, or cause
of sickness, shall be removed as aforesaid, the costs
arising in such proceedings shall be paid by the per-
son or persons who caused or permitted the same
nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness to exist,
or in whose possession the same may be found.
Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said
Board of Health shall have power to make such rules,
orders and regulations from time to time, for the pre-
venting, removing or destroying of all nuisances,
sources of filth and causes of sickness within the lim-
its of the town of Charlestown, which they may think
necessary ; which rules, orders and regulations, after
having been posted up in three or more public places
within the town, shall continue in force and be obey-
ed by all persons until altered or repealed by said
board, or by the town ; and any person or persons
who shall disobey or violate any such rules, orders or
regulations so as aforesaid made, shall severally for-
feit and pay for such offence a sum not less than one
dollar, nor more than fifty dollars, according to the na-
ture and aggravation of such offence.
■ Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That the pow-
ers and duties which are given to, or required of tlie
Selectmen of the town of Charlestown, by law of this
Commonwealth, passed on the twenty-second day of
June, in the year of cur Lord one thousand seven
Special Lazes. 75
hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to pre-
vent the spreading of contagious sickness," and by
the several acts in Addition thereto, shall be, and
they hereby are transferred to, and made the duty of
the Board of Health of the town of Charlestown, from
and after the election of said board, any thing in the
said laws to the contrary notwithstanding. And for
all expenses, which may arise in the execution of
their duty, the said Board of Health shall be author-
ized to draw upon the Town Treasurer of the town
of Charlestown ; and the accounts of said board, in-
cluding all receipts and expenditures of money, shall
be examined annually, and reported to the town by
a committee chosen for that purpose ; and the same
shall be paid by the Town Treasurer of the said town
of Charlestown.
Sect. 6. Be it further enacted, That all fines,
forfeitures, and sums to be paid, arising under any
of the provisions of this act, shall be prosecuted for,
by and in the name of the Board of Health of the
town of Charlestown, in the same manner within the
county of Middlesex, as is pointed out by the twelfth
section of an act passed on the twentieth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled
"An act to empower the town of Boston to choose a
Board of Health, and to prescribe their power and
duty for the recovery of all fines and forfeitures aris-
ing under said act in the county of Sufiblk :" and all
. moneys, arising by fines, forfeitures or sums to be
paid trider any of the provisions of this act, shall
enure to the use of the inhabitants of the town of
Charlestown, and shall be accounted for by said
board to the Treasurer of said town.
Approved by the Governor, June 12, 1818.
76 Special Laics.
An Act in addition to "An Act authorizing the town
of Charlestown to establish a Board of Health."
Sect. 1. Se it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and
by the authority of the same. That the selectmen of
the town of Charlestown be, and they hereby are au-
thorised and empowered, from time to time, to make
and establish rules, orders and regulations for the in-
terment of the dead in said town, to establish the po-
lice of the burying grounds, appoint and locate the
places where the dead may be buried in said town,
to make regulations for funerals, and appoint all nec-
essary officers and persons to carry the same into ef-
fect, and to prescribe their duties and fees. And the
said selectmen may establish such penalties for the
violation of any such rules, orders and regulations, as
they may think proper : provided, that the penalty
for any one such violation shall not exceed the sum
of fifty dollars : and provided, further, that before any
such rule, order or regulation shall go into effect, the
same shall be approved by the inhabitants of said
town, at a legal meeting thereof for that purpose call-
ed, and shall be published in one or more newspapers
printed in Charlestown or Boston.
Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That all fines,
forfeitures, and sums, to be paid, arising under any of
the provisions of this act, shall be prosecuted for, by
and in the name of the selectmen of the town of
Charlestown, in the same manner, and under the same
provisions within the county of IMiddlesex, as are
Special Laws. 77
provided for the recovery of similar fines, forfeitures,
and sums, vv^ithin the county of Suffolk, by the tv/elfth
section of an act, entitled "an act to empower the
town of Boston to choose a Board of Health, and to
prescribe their power and duty," passed the twentieth
day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixteen. And all fines, forfeitures,
or sums, to be paid under any of the provisions of this
act, shall enure to the use of said town of Charles-
town, and shall be accounted for by the said select-
men to the Treasurer thereof.
Passed, March 20, 1832.
An Act establishing a Fire Department in the town
of Charlestown.
JBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows :
A Fire Department is hereby established in the
town of Charlestown, subject to the duties and liabil-
ities, and with the powers and privileges, and govern-
ed by the provisions of the act entitled "an act to
regulate fire departments," passed on the ninth day
of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty nine. [Passed, Feb. 15, 1840.]
78 Special Laws.
An act to regulate the Side-walks in the town of
Charlestown.
Sect. 1 . Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and
by the authority of the sawie, That in all streets which
shall hereafter be paved in the town of Charlestown,
the side-walks shall be made according to the follow-
ing regulations, viz : the foot-path or side-walk en
each side of the street, shall be of a breadth not ex-
ceeding one sixth part of the whole width of the
street, and shall be paved with brick or flat stone,
and shall be secured with good and sufficient hammer-
ed edge stone on the outside of the same.
Sect. 2. He it further enacted, That whenever
the town shall direct the paving of any public street
as aforesaid, each and every owner or owners of a lot
or lots of land adjoining the same, shall without de-
lay, at his or her own expense, cause the side-walk
in front of his or her land, to be paved with brick or
fiat stone, and supported by hammered edge stone,
and kept in repair, the same to be done under the
direction, and to the acceptance of the surveyors of
the highways. And il the owner or owners of such
lot or lots, shall neglect or refuse to pave and sup-
port the side-walk as aforesaid, for the space of twen-
ty days after he or she, or the tenant of such lot or
lots, or the attorney of such owner or owners, shall
have been thereto required, by any of the surveyors
of highways, then it shall be lawful for said survey-
ors; and they are hereby enjoined and required to
Special Laws. 79
pave and support the same in the manner aforesaid,
or to repair the same, and shall recover the whole
amount of the expense thereof, by action of the case.,
to be brought by the surveyors of highways before
any court proper to try the same : provided, never-
theless, that vvhenever in the opinion of the select-
men, any owner or owners of any lot on such street,
shall be unable to comply with the foregoing requisi-
tions, the said selectmen may direct the surveyors of
highways to cause such side-walk to be made at the
expense of the town : provided, also, that when there-
are any vacant lots of land on any such street, the
surveyors of highways may, at their discretion, allow
the owner or owners thereof, to cover the side-walk
with plank, and support the same with timber, which
shall be removed, and the edge stone, and brick or
fiat stone pavement be completed, whenever in the
judgment of said surveyors, it shall become necessary.
Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That no canopy,
balcony, portico, or door-steps, hereafter erected in any
street, lane, or alley, in the town of Charlestown, shall
project into such street, lane, or alley, more than one
twelfth part of the width thereof, and in no case more
than three feet, and all cellar doors hereafter made or re-
paired, shall be built with upright cheeks, which shall
not project from the line of the house, into the street,
lane, or alley, more than nine inches, nor shall the
platform of the same rise above the level of the side-
walk. And if any proprietor, owner, or owners, shall
erect any canopy, balcony, portico, cellar-door, door-
step, or other obstruction, contrary to the provisions
of this act, and shall refuse or neglect to remove or
take down the same, v^dthin five days after having been
directed and required thereto, by any of the survey-
80 Special Latvs.
ors of highways, such proprietors, owner or owners
shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars for each
and every day the same shall remain after the expi>
ration of the said five days.
Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That all forfei-
tures and fines which may be recovered in pursuance
of this act, shall go and be destributed, one moiety
thereof to the poor of the town of Charlestown, and
the other moiety to the surveyors of highways.
Passed, June 12, 1824.
An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Poors' fund
in the town of Charlestown.
Sect. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and
by the authority of the same. That James K. Froth-
mgham and others, selectmen of the town of Charles-
town, and Thomas Miller, Amos Tufts, and Matthew
Skilton, deacons of the First Congregational Church,
William Arnold and James Fosdick, deacons of the
Baptist Church, Moses Hall, Daniel Tufts and Jo-
seph Gould, deacons of the Universalist Church, Jo-
seph Phipps and Elias Phinney, deacons of the New
Church, all of said Charlestown, for the time being,
and their successors in the said offices of selectmen
and deacons, for the time being, be, and they hereby
are, made a body politic and corporate forever, by
the name of the Trustees of the Charlestown Poors'
Fund, for the purpose of managing certain donations,
given and bequeathed at different periods of time, by
special Laws. 8"!.
Richard Russell, Esq., Captain Richard Sprague,
Mr. Thomas Call, and Richard Devens, Esq., all
formerly inhabitants of the said Charlestown, and
such other funds as may come into their hands for
like purposes ; and the said trustees, by the name
aforesaid, may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend
suits, with power of substitution, and may have a
common seal, and the same may alter and renew at
pleasure ; and the two senior deacons of all regularly
organized religious churches, which may hereafter be
constituted in said town of Charlestown, shall be con-
sidered as members of said board of trust : Provided,
that, whenever any new society shall be constitut-
ed in said town, the board of trust shall be composed
of the selectmen and two senior deacons from each
church, for the time being, and their successors in
said offices.
Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said
trustees may choose a treasurer and other necessary
officers, and may adopt all needful by-laws and reg-
ulations for the government of the corporation, not
repugnant to the constitution and laws of this Com-
monwealth, and the same may alter as they may find
expedient and necessary.
Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said
trustees shall have full power to receive and hold all
money, secureties, and other estate, real or personal,
. now constituting the said Poors' Fund, and also to
receive and hold all gifts, grants and donations, real
and personal, that may hereafter be made to increase
the said fund, and the same to manage and put on
interest, and to apply the income thereof, annually,
for the relief of the poor of said town forever, con-
formable to the true intent and meaning' of the sever-
82 Special Laws.
al donors : provided, however, that the annual in-
come of said fund, shall not exceed the sum of two
thousand dollars.
Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said
trustees shall have power to make sale of any of their
property, real or personal, purchased or given, as they
shall judge most for the interest of their said trust, un-
less that which shall be given, be expressly other-
wise appropriated by the donor ; and all moneys aris-
ing from such sale and the subsequent income, shall
be applied to the same use to which the property sold
and the income thereof were respectively applicable,
and all deeds, conveyances, contracts and other in-
struments, duly authorized by the board at a regular
meeting, and signed by the president and attested by
the secretary, shall be good and valid.
Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That James K.
Frothingham be, and he hereby is authorized to call
the first meeting of the trustees, at such time and
place as he shall think proper.
Passed, June 18, 1825.
An Act authorizing the Selectmen of Charlestown to
appoint a Company of Hook and Ladder Men,
and additional Engine Men.
Sect. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and
by the authority of the same, That the selectmen of
the town of Charlestown, in the county of Middle-
sex, be, and they hereby are, authorized and era-
Special Laws. 83
powered to appoint a company of hook and ladder
men, consisting of not more than forty, whose duty
it shall be, under the direction of the firewards in
said town, to attend fires therein with fire-hooks, fire-
sails and ladders, and to be subject to such further
duties, and organized and provided in such manner,
as the said selectmen shall, from time to time, direct.
Sect. 2. Be it farther enacted, That the said
selectmen be authorized and empowered to appoint
any number of engine men, not exceeding thirty-five,
in addition to the number they are authorized to ap-
point by existing laws ; and the engine men so ap-
pointed may be attached to any new engine compa-
ny, which may be hereafter formed, or apportioned
among any of the engine companies of said town, at
the discretion of the selectmen ; and all persons ap-
pointed to any company, pursuant to the provisions
of this act, shall continue in office during the pleas-
ure of said selectmen, and be entitled to all the priv-
ileges and exemptions to which engine men now are,
or may hereafter be by law entitled.
Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That the resolve
authorising the selectmen of Charlestown to appoint
additional engine men, passed December seventh, one
thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the same
is hereby repealed. [Passed, June 20, 1826.]
ERRATUM IN CITY CHARTER.
On the 31st page, at the 11th line from the bot-
tom and after the word "taxes," the following words
should be inserted — "Engineers of the Fire De-
partment, A City Clerk, three Assessors of
Taxes,"
€:oMTEr«'T,^,
Joint Rules and Orders of the City Council, page 3
Rules and Orders of the Board of Mayor and Aid., 11
" " " Common Council, ... 13
City Charter, 25
" " Amendment of 40
Members of City Government and other Officers, 42
Ordinance, concerning the form of Warrants, . . 53
The City Marshal, 55
" Printing and publication of
" Ordinances and Orders, . . 57
" Appointment of certain Ci-
ty Officers, 59
" Superintendent ofSts,,&c., "
" Carriages, Cabs, &c., ... 62
Board of Health,
City Seal, 63
^* Assessment and Collection
ofTaxes, . 64
An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Pree
Schools, 67
" " Authorising the Town of Charlestown to
establish a Board of Health, 70
•' " In addition thereto, 76
" " Establishing a Fire Department in Town, 77
" " To regulate Sidewalks, &c., 78
•• "'•To incorporate the Trustees of Poors' Fund, 80
" " Authorizing Selectmen to appoint a Cora-
... pany of Hook and Ladder men, 82
•^ ■ uKrraturn in City Charter^ .,.,.,... 82
(JTitg 0f €l)axltBtown.
REPORT
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
BOARD OF THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN ON THE
SUBJECT OF
GKANTING LICENSES
TO SELL WINE AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
MAY, 184 7.
CHARLESTOWN:
PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE.
1847.
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CITY OF CHAHLESTOWN:
In Board of the Mayor and Aldermen,
Mat 17, 1847.
Ordered, That the several Petitions of 0. C. Cutter, &c., be referred
to the Standing Committee on Licenses, to consider and report thereon
as soon as practicable, and that the Mayor be added to the Committee for
this purpose.
David Dodge,
City Gkrh
REPORT.
The Committee to whom were referred the several
petitions of O. C. Cutter and others, praying to be
licensed as Innholders, and the petitions of Andrew
Sawtell and others, praying to be licensed as Retailers,
and of Seth Sawyer and others, praying to be licensed
as Victuallers, and all of them with authority to sell
wine and other spirituous liquors, under the restrictions
of law, have attended to the duty, and ask leave to
REPORT.
To the Board of the Mayor and Aldermen is entrusted
the same authority, on the subject of Licenses, which the
County Commissioners exercise in the towns within
their jurisdiction. It is a subject which has excited
great attention, and upon which public opinion is di-
vided. It belongs to that class of subjects, upon which
honest and well-meaning citizens may be expected to
differ widely ; while at the same time it is desirable, for
the sake of the public peace, for the promotion of that
scrupulous observance of just laws, and of that respect
for legal authority, which ought to characterize a free
and happy people, that a greater harmony of public sen-
timent should be brought about. It is due from this
Board to our fellow-citizens, that we should look at this
much-vexed question, of License or no License, hon-
estly in the face ; that we should not undertake to evade
it, or to act upon it in a spirit of a time-serving policy ;
but that we should decide it as rational men, who are able
to give a reason for what we do ; as Christians, aware of
our accountability in every station in life ; and as ma-
gistrates, bound by a solemn oath to discharge our du-
ties impartially, and to see that the laws are faithfully
executed.
The first inquiry that arises is, What are the laws of
the Commonwealth upon this subject ? and the second
inquiry will naturally suggest itself, What is the state of
facts in the case to which these laws are to apply ?
I. The Law. The 47th chapter of the Revised Stat-
utes is devoted wholly to the subject of licensing the
sale of wine and spirituous liquors. Assuming that
these are articles which every one has a right to buy,
under such conditions as public policy may pre-
scribe, the statute permits every one to buy or to sell
twenty-eight gallons of wine, or any spirituous liquor, at
any one time, which the purchaser must carry away
at once. Before any one can sell either of these articles
in less quantities, the government requires that he
should obtain a license from the constituted authority,
under certain restrictions, which license, by limitation of
law, expires on the first day of April in each year ; and if
any one "presumes" to sell any less quantity without such
license, he is subjected to the severest penalties, while
the purchaser, who often buys to betray the seller, is
allowed to escape without legal censure. It is provided
by the 47th chapter that these licenses may be given to
retailers, innholders, and common victuallers. Retail-
ers may be either grocers or apothecaries ; these are
prohibited from selling any quantity to be used in or
about their respective premises ; the law intending that
they should sell only what might be wanted by the
citizens in their business to be used in the arts, or in
their families for various domestic purposes. Licensed
innholders are to furnish these articles, if wanted, to
strangers and travellers, and to the permanent inmates
of their houses; so that these persons, who for the time
being have no other home, may receive the same ac-
commodations which housekeepers may enjoy within
the sanctuary of their domestic circles, — the latter hav-
ing these articles sent to their houses by their grocers
and apothecaries. Victuallers may also be licensed to
furnish these articles, with their meals, to their custom-
ers. Innholders and victuallers are strictly prohibited
from having, or from allowing to be used, about their
premises any unlawful game or sport, from selling any
intoxicating drink on any part of Sunday, or on any
evening of the six working days after ten o'clock. They
are also liable to a penalty, if they suffer any person on
or about their premises to drink to excess. In addition
to these restrictions upon those who may be hcensed to
sell such articles, persons who purchase them are liable
to the law for the abuse of them. Intoxication is made
a crime, punishable in every case; and the proof of
three instances of intoxication in a single individual is
sufficient to convict him as a common drunkard, and
to commit him to the House of Correction or Refor-
mation.
These are all the leading provisions of law, which the
soundest wisdom of legislators and the experience of
centuries have been able to devise upon this subject, for
the security of good order, and for the promotion of the
common good.
A law, upon a different principle, was enacted by the
legislature of Massachusetts in 1838, commonly known
as the fifteen-gallon law. It permitted every one to buy
or sell fifteen gallons of wine, or spirituous hquors,
to be purchased and carried away at one time ; and it
prohibited every one from selling any less quantity, ex-
cept hcensed apothecaries (and no more of them were
to be licensed than one to every two thousand inhabit-
ants), who were to sell only for medicinal purposes, or
for purposes connected with the arts. This law was
passed on the 19th of April, 1838 ; but, in order to pre-
pare the people for the great change proposed, its opera-
tion was postponed to the 1st of July, 1839 ; and on the
11th day of February, 1840, it was absolutely repealed,
without a saving clause. Although it was undoubtedly
passed with the best intentions, and with the sincere
desire, on the part of the legislature, to promote the
public good, large numbers of citizens from every part
of the Commonwealth having signed petitions in favor
of it, yet its provisions proved obnoxious and unpalat-
able to the people ; and the experiment, after an ac-
tual trial of it for seven months and ten days, signally
failed.
II. The Facts in the Case. Wines and spirits are
articles of merchandise and sale. They are imported
into this country in large quantities every year, and are
also extensively manufactured or distilled here. It is con-
tended that, so far as they are articles of import, the
sale of them is authorized by the national government,
and that the local government has no authority to pro-
hibit such sale, but merely to regulate it, in accordance
with the well-known principles of internal police regu-
lations. It is also insisted upon, that individuals have
the natural and inalienable right to purchase these arti-
cles in some mode or other, under such general forms
and restrictions as the proper local authorities may
deem it necessary to establish, and to use the same
upon their own private premises as they may see fit ;
taking care that they do not incommode or injure their
neighbors, and being liable to the municipal power
solely for the abuse of this, in precisely the same way
in which they are liable for the abuse of all other un-
questioned rights.
These articles are used in various ways : they are
used in the arts, in the preparation or preservation of
medicines or specifics, in external applications, or bath-
ing, and for many other purposes of a domestic charac-
ter. They are freely used in culinary preparations, and
as an ingredient, to a greater or less extent, in various
kinds of drinks. Probably there is not an individual in
this Commonwealth, who has ever passed the period of
a single year without partaking of some food or medi-
cine, of which wines or spirits are not ingredients, and
without using them in some form or other — even though
he may ordinarily abstain from using them as a drink —
so multiform and various are the uses to which they
are put. Wine, especially, is used by a considerable
portion, if not by a large majority of the people, as a
drink at some season of the year. It is also provided
by most of the churches, for the Communion service.
The attempt, indeed, was at one time made to abolish
it from Christian altars; but the proposition did not
comport with the good sense of the age, for it seemed
too much like " straining at a gnat " to meet the gen-
eral sanction of the churches.
It must also be admitted that these articles are grossly
and shockingly abused ; and it is because of this abuse
that so much difficulty and perplexity are involved in
the settlement of this question. A few years ago, in-
temperance was rife in the land. Drunkenness came
to be a common crime, and the source and attendant of
many other crimes ; the cause of wretchedness, of pov-
erty, and of disorder. Public attention was attracted to
this alarming state of things. People saw that intem-
perance was a social vice, and that many young men,
and men in middle hfe, were brought to the brink of
ruin by habits which were contracted, in frequent in-
stances, at pubHc places of resort. It was found that
there were many bar-rooms and drinking-shops, far out-
numbering in several communities the churches and
school-houses ; and by the popular judgment these tip-
pUng places were justly condemned as nuisances. To
suppress these nuisances, and to compel all persons
holding licenses to keep themselves within the legal
restraints of the statute, was and now is the proper duty
of all magistrates and executive officers.
Societies were formed for the suppression of intem-
perance. Much good has been effected by these volun-
tary associations, by the force of example, by persua-
sion, and by individual effort. Not satisfied with the
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progress of their favorite cause induced by these means,
a portion of the community established a new class or
order of societies, called Total Abstinence Societies;
which made it the duty of their members to abstain in
every way from the use of all kinds of drink, which, if
taken to excess, may intoxicate. Others, equally as
good friends of temperance, have declined to join this
new order ; insisting that there is as wide a difference
between the principle of Temperance and that of Total
Abstinence, as there is between a Christian citizen who
lives in the world pure and unspotted, and a rigid her-
mit who lives secluded and remote from the tempta-
tions and trials of mortality. But this is a matter of
individual opinion, which each citizen must for himself
make clear to his own conscience. The Committee
allude to these efforts and movements, only as a part of
the statement of the facts in the case.
No one will probably dispute the assertion that a
great majority of our own fellow-citizens, probably nine-
tenths of them, do in some form or other, and upon some
occasion or another, make use of wine or spirituous
liquors, and must therefore purchase them. The books
of our grocers and apothecaries, and the testimony of
their porters, could probably substantiate this statement.
If, then, licenses be indiscriminately refused, all these
sales will be made in the known violation of the law. For
it is hardly to be supposed that any individual, whether
he be clergyman, magistrate, or officer of a church, or
however worthy may be his motive, would be so scru-
pulous and thoughtful as to be at the expense and trou-
ble of buying and carrying away at one time twenty-
eight gallons of an article, when half a gallon, or less,
would suit his purpose. But if the purchaser buys and
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takes away less than the twenty-eight gallons, he causes
his seller to violate the law ; and though the former may
escape the ignominy of a conviction, in point of morals
he is equally culpable with the latter. And yet it is not
probable that the most visionary reformist, to whom
may be left any modicum of soundness, would seriously
ask the legislature to impose the same severe penalties
cipon the purchaser, which by law now impend over
the seller. Nor could any one seriously believe that, if
such an act should be passed by the legislature, it would
receive the popular approbation.
From this review of the law and the facts in the case,
the question comes up, What shall this Board do, to
whom the legislature has committed for the first time
the power of granting and withholding licenses? At
first sight, one would suppose, that, it being admitted
that there was an extensive and legitimate demand for
wine and spirituous liquors for private use, some pro-
vision should be made for the lawful sale of them, under
such restrictions and by such persons as a regard for
the public good may require ; and that no one could be
found to be so " guiltless " as to " cast the first stone "
against such a provision, who has ever had occasion to
make use of any of these articles in any form or for any
purpose.
There are, however, many persons in our community,
who are opposed to the granting of any licenses. Some
are so opposed, because they distrust the ability of the
licensing power to discriminate with proper judgment
in favor of the public good. Others are opposed, be-
cause they believe that the whole system of licenses is
an unjust and odious monopoly. These persons insist
(and their number is greater than the most forward
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friends of temperance imagine), that the sale of every
article of merchandise ought to be unrestricted, and
they believe that the refusing to grant any licenses
will have the ultimate effect to bring about the unqual-
ified repeal of all license laws.
With this latter class of objectors, we, as a Board,
have nothing to do : we must administer the law as
we find it. It may be said, however, on this head,
that if, in the discharge of our duty, a very limited
but adequate number of licenses should be granted with
proper conditions, and if the persons licensed should
obtain thereby an advantage over other citizens who
may wish to follow the same calling, still that advan-
tage is but incidental to the great end proposed. It is
like the establishment of an important office, which it
is necessary that some one should fill, although he may,
in fining it, obtain a comfortable livelihood, which others
may envy.
But to those who, from their strenuous zeal for the
cause of temperance, desire that licenses may be in-
discriminately refused, these serious questions should
be solemnly ptit : Do you expect that, by the withhold-
ing of licenses altogether, the use of wine and of spirit-
uous liquors — for any and every purpose whatever, and
in every form whatsoever — will be abolished from the
land? Or will the compulsory purchase of twenty-
eight gallons, when only half a gallon is wanted, by
those citizens who may be disposed to respect the law,
have the tendency to promote the cause of temperance,
or to diminish the traffic ? To such questions it may
be replied — and we do not see what other answer a
consistent objector could make — " Let all licenses be
refused; but if respectable men buy of respectable traders
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a reasonable quantity, and for proper purposes, these
traders need not be prosecuted ; the officers of the law-
need not see them violate the law ; but when others
follow their example in such violations, then prosecute."
In other words, " Refuse to administer the license laws ;
but let the penalties of such laws be enforced upon one
class of the community, and not upon another."
Such a policy, upon careful examination, must appear
to every intelhgent and candid mind, both hazardous
and iniquitous. It is hazardous, because it strikes at the
foundation of all law and order ; it undermines in the
popular mind, that respect for legal authority, that will-
ingness to yield implicit obedience to a law, while it
remains on the statute-book, because it is a law, which
is so essential to the salvation of a republic. It is also
iniquitous, because it tends to nullify the sacredness of
that official oath which is imposed upon executive offi-
cers, who, from the moment they are inducted into office
to the time that they yield it to their successors, are
bound to see that the laws are faithfully executed. It
is not for them to decide whether a particular law is
judicious or expedient, or whether the motives of the
violator of it are more or less worthy. It is their sole
province to enforce it.
Your Committee believe, that, so far as public officers
are legally entrusted by the legislature with discretion-
ary powers on this subject, they can best subserve the
cause of temperance by making such provisions for the
public accommodation under the law, as will prove
generally acceptable. In this way, the cause itself will
be placed upon a firmer footing ; it will be rescued from
its present somewhat equivocal position ; and the license
laws, by being judiciously administered and then im-
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partially enforced, will receive from the community the
same respect which is yielded to the other laws.
In conclusion, your Committee, after mature reflec-
tion, are of the opinion, that, in a case like the present,
where the legislature has conferred upon us, as the prin-
cipal executive officers of a City, the authority to discrim-
inate, to declare what licenses may be granted as an
enlarged view of the common good may require, it is
our bounden duty, — instead of refusing to do any thing,
and thereby to suffer the good and the evil to fall under
the same legal condemnation, — to draw the line with a
firm and impartial hand ; so that the use of these articles,
which, to a certain extent and for certain purposes, are
conceded to be necessary, salutary, or at least a matter
of right, may be made under the sanction of legal au-
thority ; and that the abuse of them may, on account of
this just discrimination, with greater consistency and far
greater efficiency, be restrained. They therefore recom-
mend the adoption of the following Order.
Per order of the Committee,
G. Washington Warren,
Chairman,
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CITY OF CHARLESTOWN,
IN BOARD OF THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
Ordered,
That licenses to sell spirituous liquors be granted to Apoth-
ecaries who will stipulate that they will sell them only for medicinal
purposes.
That licenses to sell wine and spirituous liquors be granted to
Retailers, of good moral character, who will stipulate that they will
not sell in any case less than one half of a gallon thereof, to be carried
away at one time.
That not exceeding three licenses be granted to Victuallers of good
moral character, who will stipulate to sell only to those persons for whom
they may provide meals.
That not exceeding three licenses be granted to Innholders, of
good moral character, who will stipulate that they will furnish wine
and spirituous liquors only to their inmates and boai'ders with their
meals, or at their private rooms ; and who will further stipulate, that
they will keep a correct register of their inmates and boarders, which
shall at all times be open to the inspection of any member of the Board
of the Mayor and Alderman.
That all applications for licenses be referred to the Standing Commit-
tee on Licenses, who shall make careful inquiry as to the character of
the applicants, and report thereon to the Board, sitting in Executive
Session.
In Board of the Mayor and Aldermen, Mat Vlth., 1847.
Read and accepted ; adopted unanimously, and ordered to be printed,
with the Report.
Attest, Ebenr. Barker,
GlerTi pro tern, to the Board.
Citg JDommmt, No. 3.
COMMUNICATION FEOM THE MATOE.
To the Board of Aldermen and the Common Council.
Gentlemen, — My attention has been frequently-
called, since I have entered upon the duties of my
office, to the encroachments which have been made,
within the last twenty years, upon the plot of ground
anciently appropriated for a public square, and known
as the Training Field. From a careful examination
of the subject, I am convinced that these unsightly
encroachments have been hitherto suffered to exist,
contrary to law, and against the rights of the citizens ;
and that they ought to be removed at once.
In our earliest records, mention is made of the
Training Field. More than two centuries ago, this
land was set apart for a public common ; for this pur-
pose it was probably given by some public-spirited
inhabitant. But whether the title of Charlestown
was originally derived by gift or by purchase, it is
wholly immaterial : in either case, immemorial usage
had given to each and every inhabitant a right in the
whole of the Training Field, as a public and unob-
structed Common, long before a single building was
erected thereon. This is a right which no majority,
however large, can take away from a dissenting mi-
nority.
In 1825, a highly respectable Committee was ap-
pointed by the town, to consider the expediency of
selling the Training Field, and applying the proceeds
of the sale in aid of the Bunker Hill Monument
Association. That Committee, on mature delibera-
tion, reported that the town had no right to sell or
alienate the ground. If it could not then have been
legally sold, the placing of the diflferent buildings
thereon afterwards was clearly unlawful.
At the time that the largest building, the Winthrop
School House, was erected on the Training Field,
sites of land, equally eligible, could have been pur-
chased for less than one quarter of the price per foot
which is now asked. This fact should be a signifi-
cant warning to us who now compose the city gov-
ernment, and should teach us that it is our duty to
provide seasonably, and in an adequate and suitable
manner, for the well-known wants of a flourishing
city, so that our successors hereafter may not discover
in our conduct of public affairs the traces of improv-
idence, and of neglect of the public interest.
By the sixty-first and sixty-third sections of the
twenty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, it is
provided that any fences, buildings, or other incum-
brances, on "any training field, highway, or other
land appropriated for the general use or convenience
of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth, or of any
town or parish," " they may, upon the presentment
of a grand jury, be removed as a nuisance ; " and when
so adjudged, "the materials may be sold at auction,
to pay the expenses of the prosecution and removal."
It has come to my knowledge, that some of the citi-
zens intend to avail themselves of this legal remedy,
and to assert, before the courts of law, their right to
enjoy, with their fellow-citizens, the whole of the
Training Field, as a public Common. The only
wonder is, that the grievance has been so long en-
dured.
In order to prevent, if possible, the misfortune and
waste incident to such suits at law, and also to ac-
complish an object which would be highly desirable,
even if the law did not imperiously require it of us,
I have taken pains to ascertain the probable amount
of the cost of abating all the nuisances upon the
Training Field. I find that a commodious lot can be
purchased upon Common or Fayette Street, for the
reception of the main building of the Winthrop
School House, and of the Engine House, which can
both be removed thereon without injury ; that the
buildings can all be removed or disposed of; and that
the Training Field can be enclosed by a permanent
fence, and put in order, for ten thousand dollars.
The increase of taxes, from the enhancement of the
real estate in the vicinity, which would inevitably
follow so great an improvement, would in a short
time pay the annual interest on this expenditure.
But it will not be necessary to increase any taxes for
this purpose.
In my opinion, the present is also a favorable op-
portunity to accomplish this end, in view of the new
arrangements generally conceded to be requisite for
the public schools. It is understood that the School
Committee are about to adopt the policy of placing
the boys and girls in the same schools ; and it is also
known that a large section of Ward Two is not at
present very well accommodated by the Harvard and
Winthrop schools. A petition, signed by many citi-
zens of that Ward, has been already sent to the City
Council, praying for the establishment of a new
Grammar school therein. If, therefore, the Winthrop
School House were not illegally located where it is,
it is most likely that it would in a short time be aban-
doned for the purpose for which it is now used. The
main portion of this building, when removed to a
neighboring lot, can be easily divided into four large
and convenient rooms, for as many Primary schools.
It could then accommodate the three Primary schools
now wrongfully upon the Training Field, and also
the one upon Harvard Street. The erection of the
new porch to the City Hall will render the removal
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of the building for the last-named school very desira-
ble, if not absolutely necessary.
By following out this plan, there would remain to
be disposed of four Primary school-houses, which are
built of wood, and are only one story high; the
Gun-house, which is the property of the Common-
wealth ; and the side building, which now presents
an unpleasant excrescence to the Winthrop School
House. I understand that two or three Primary
school-houses are much needed in other parts of the
city. Two of those upon the Training Field, and the
one on Harvard Street, are nearly new, or in good
repair, and can be removed at trifling expense ; the
third one upon the Training Field is an old building,
and, with the materials of the side building to the
Winthrop School House, can be disposed of by sale,
on condition that they are removed. It is thought
that the Commonwealth would unite with the city
in building a new Gun-house, on a lot to be furnished
by the city ; and that a drilling-room for the Artillery
Company, and also a Ward-room, might be added,
with but Uttle additional expense.
In connection with this project, and as suggesting
the means of carrying it into effect without increas-
ing the taxes, or even the permanent debt of the city,
I recommend that authority be given to the Joint
Standing Committee on the Poor and the Alms
House to purchase a farm, of not exceeding one
hundred acres, in some town on the line of the Fitch-
burg Railroad, or one of its branches, for our pauper
establishment, and with the view of selling the pres-
ent one. The convenience and cheapness of trans-
portation by this railroad, having a passenger depot
in our city, renders the distance of a few miles
more or less of trifling importance ; and the farther
we should go to make such a purchase, the less
costly and the more healthy will be the situation se-
lected. By this removal, the Poor, whom our city
may become liable to support, will be provided with
profitable labor, they will be more comfortably accom-
modated, and our own community will be free from
that constant liability to contagious disease, which the
collection of a great number of the sick and disabled
induces amid a dense population.
The appropriation made for the support of the Poor
for the past year was $7,000, and it was supposed to
be ample ; but it was over-run by the late Board of
Overseers by about $3,500, or fifty per cent. The
benefit which has been realized from the labor of the
Poor is quite small ; that upon our highways is
merely nominal. While at work in the public
streets, they are exposed to many temptations, and,
at the same time, they must feel more sensibly their
dependence and comparative degradation, than they
would if employed on an extensive farm, secluded
from observation. They would then become produ-
cers of more than would be sufficient for their own
support, and would in time make some return
towards paying the interest on the outlay. The ap-
preciation of the farm would, in a few years, be
another source of profit to the city, and would fur-
nish an additional inducement in favor of this pro-
ceeding.
There are at present appropriated for our Alms
House, about two and a half acres of land, between
Bunker Hill and Medford Streets, in the most thickly
settled part of the city ; and there is also appur-
tenant to this estate, a solid wharf, on Mystic river,
with a considerable area of flats. The land may be
sold for a large sum, if judiciously laid out in build-
ing lots, upon wide streets ; a handsome square being
also reserved. Experience has proved that it is a
matter of pecuniary profit, as well as of permanent
utility, even for individuals having extensive lands to
dispose of, to lay out wide streets and squares ; the
lots bounding thereon always bringing more money
than the whole area would if divided off upon nar-
row lanes and courts. It is certainly the true policy
of a city, in disposing of its own lands, to set the ex-
ample of providing liberally, in this way, for the pub-
lic accommodation.
From the most careful estimates which I have
been able to make, I believe that the Alms House
estate can be so laid out as to make eligible building
lots, which would be sold for enough to accomplish
all the objects suggested in this communication (the
new Grammar School included). All these impor-
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tant improvements may be effected at the same time,
and not a single citizen would feel the least addi-
tional burden on account thereof
Fully persuaded that these objects ought to be un-
dertaken at once, I earnestly commend them to the
immediate attention of the two branches of the City
Council ; and I trust that, on mature consideration,
it will be decided to carry them into effect, with all
the promptness consistent with sound economy, and
with a due regard to law and to the comfort of the
citizens ; — and that a temporary loan of a sum suffi-
cient to supply the necessary means, be negotiated
for three or five years, to be repaid from the proceeds
of the Alms House and lands, when sold as above
recommended.
All which is respectfully submitted,
G. WASHINGTON WAKREN, Mayor,
1 •
City of Charlestown,
June 7, 1847.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, >
June 7th, 1847. ]"
Read and referred to the several Joint Standing Committees on the sub-
jects herein mentioned, and 500 copies ordered to be printed, for the use of
the City Council. A. B. Shedd, City Clerk pro tempore.
In Common Council, \
June 7th, 1847. ^
Concurred. Paul Willard, Jr., Clerk C. C.
\J
City Document.—No. 4.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
REPORT or JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE
ON STREETS, &c.
In Board of the Mayor and Aldermen. — October 18, 1847.
Read, laid on the table, and 200 copies ordered to be
printed for the use of this Board.
G. Washington Warren, Mayor.
CHARLESTOWN:
HENRY S. WARREN CITY PRINTER.
1 S47.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
IN BOARD OF THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
September 6th, 1847.
Ordered, — That the Mayor and Alderman Willard,
with such as the Common Council may join, be a Com-
mittee to consider and report what course should be pur-
sued, conformably to the provisions of the Charter, in the
laying out, widening, or discontinuing of streets, with
authority to consult eminent counsel in relation to the
whole subject.
Passed, and sent down for concurrence :
G. Washington Warren, Mayor,
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
October itJi, 1847.
Concurred, — and Messrs. Cobb, Bailey and Wilhs were
joined.
Charles W. Moore, Pres, C. C.
THE JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE
Appointed by an order passed on the 4th instant, to con-
sider and report what course should be pursued, conform-
ably to the provisions of the Charter, in the laying out,
&c., of streets, with authority to consult eminent counsel,
have attended to the duty, and ask leave to report :
That they have applied to Charles P. and B. R. Cur-
tis, Esquires, eminent Counsellors at Law, to consider the
whole subject, who have, after due consideration, given
the annexed opinion, which the Committee believe to be
of sufficient authority to govern the City Council.
Respectfully submitted.
Per order of the Committee :
G. Washington Warren, Chairman.
Ochber, 18, 1847.
OPINION
At the request of the Mayor and Aldermen of Charles-
town, we have examined the questions below, growing
out of the provisions of the Charter of that city in rela-
tion to the laying out of streets and ways.
If the Mayor and Aldermen in the first instance lay out
a new street, has the Common Council authority to alter
or amend the location ? Have they power to confirm and
adopt the location in part, and to reject or dissent from it
in part, and what is the proper course to be pursued by the
City Council in the premises ? Is there a right of appeal
from the decision of the city government to any other tri-
bunal, except on the question of damages ?
By Sect. 12 of An Act to establish the City of Charles-
town, it is provided, that the City Council shall have ex-
clusive autliority and power to lay out any new street or
town way, and to estimate the damages any individual
may sustain thereby ; but all questions relating to the sub-
ject of laying out, accepting, altering, or discontinuing
any street or way, shall first be acted upon by the Mayor
and Aldermen. And any person dissatisfied with the de-
cision of the City Council, in the estimate of damages,
may make a complaint to the County Commissioners of
the County of Middlesex, at any meeting held within one
year after such decision, whereupon the same proceedings
shall be had as arc provided, when persons are aggrieved
by the assessment of damages by the Selectmen, in the
24th Chapter of the Revised Statutes.
All the authority and power heretofore possessed and
exercised by the Selectmen and Inhabitants of Charles-
town, touching the laying out, accepting, altering or dis-
continuing of streets and ways, are vested in the City
Council ; and like all the other powers conferred on that
body, are to be exercised by concurrent vote, each board
having a negative upon the other, — In most cases
either branch of the City Council may act on propositions
in the first instance, but in relation to streets and ways, the
initiative is expressly given to the Mayor and Aldermen,
who are first to act on all questions concerning those sub-
jects,— ihc Common Council however mubt concur m the
o
order of the Mayor and Aldermen before it will be efiect-
iial ; when they do so, the street or way is laid out, alter-
ed or discontinued definitely, supposing that proper no-
tice is given to parties interested, and the proceedings to
be otherwise regular.
If the Common Council refuse their assent to the act
of the Mayor and Aldermen, it becomes inoperative ; but
suppose the Common Council to be wilhng to assent to
the location of a street or way for a portion of the extent
of it, but not for the whole ; or to concur in the whole
with an alteration in some part of it ; can they lawfully
propose amendments to the order of the Mayor and Al-
dermen, or must it be simply rejected or adopted by the
City Council ?
Our opinion is that the Common Council may propose
amendments to an order of the Mayor and Aldermen,
for laying out, altering or discontinuing streets and ways,
which if concurred in by the latter become incorporated
in, and parcel of the original order. Without this power
we do not see how the two boards, in case of a difference
of opinion as to a street, not going to the rejection of it
altogether but only affecting it partially, could be legally
brought to a concurrence. If the common council are
dissatisfied with some of the details of the location and may
not offer amendments to it, they must either adopt that
which their consciences do not approve, or reject it in
whole. The Mayor and Aldermen may learn out of doors
the cause of the rejection, and the wishes of the other
Board, and may then pass a new order approximating to,
or adopting the views of the majority of the Common
Council ; but in the mean time those views may have
changed, or the absence of some and the presence of oth-
6
er members may have altered the relative numbers for oi*
against the measure, and the new order may be rejected
for the want of the very provisions which were fatal to its
predecessor. We think the Legislature could not have in-
tended to embarrass the action of the government of the
city, on a subject of so much consequence to the daily
comfort of the inhabitants, as the having of convenient
streets and ways, by the mere requirement in the 12th
Section of the Charter, above cited. The object of that
requirement we think was, to prohibit the Common Coun-
cil from instituting proceedings concerning streets, but
not from dealing with such subjects after they are intro-
duced by the Mayor and Aldermen, in the same manner
as they are authorized to act on other matters to which
their concurrence is necessary. The "question" which by
the Charter is first to be acted on by the Mayor and Al-
dermen, is, the location or discontinuance of a street, be-
tween certain termini and running in a certain direction,
and though in strict logical accuracy the identity of the
question may be destroyed by an amendment to the order
for location, yet by parliamentary laws and usage this ef-
fect is avoided — A Bill which orginates in one branch of
the Legislature or of Congress, is not the less the bill of
that branch, though it may be entirely changed in its de-
tails— (and even in its character) — by amendments made
in the other branch. If the Legislature had intended to
confine the authority of the Common Council to the sim-
ple adoption or rejection of the act proposed by the May-
or and Aldermen, we think they would have used lan-
guage analogous to the provision in Section 9th, respect-
ing appointments to office made by the Mayor and Alder-
men, in which it is declared that "the Mayor shall have
tJic exclusive power of nominations, such nominations
however being subject to be confirmed or rejected by the
Board of Aldermen," This clearly excludes all right of
amendment by the latter ; they cannot strike out the name
of the person nominated by the Mayor and insert another ;
if not satisfied with the nomination they must reject it.
On the whole therefore, we are of opinion that the Com-
mon Council are not restricted by the Charter to the mere
acceptance or rejection of the orders of tlie Mayor and
Aldermen for the location &ac., of streets and ways, but
may adopt them with amendments ; which, if assented to
by that Board, become incorporated with the order, — An
order so amended should be then passed witli the usual
forms, by the Mayor and Aldermen.
One of the questions proposed to us relates to the right
of appeal from the adjudications of the City Council to
another tribunal: — We are of opinion that the right of ap-
peal, technically speaking, is confined to the estimate of
the damages caused by the location, &c., of streets and
ways ; from the judgment of the City Council when it has
been exercised according to the law, on the expediency or
-necessity of laying out, accepting, altering or discontinu-
ing a way, there is no appeal to any other court or tri-
iaunal.
C, P. & B. R. CURTIS.
October, 1847.
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CITY DOCUMENT— No. 5.
€ttB of €l)arle0toron.
ADDRESS
DELIVERED BY THE MAYOR,
OCTOBER 7, 1847,
AT THE
LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE
OF A
BUILDING FOE A HIGH SCHOOL
ON MONUMENT SQUARE.
CHARLESTOWN:
PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE.
1847.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN:
In Board of the Mayor and Aldermen^
October 18, 1847,
Resolved, That, His Honor, the Mayor, be respectfully requested to furnish
to this Board a copy of his appropriate address, delivered on the occasion of
the laying of the corner stone of the new building designed for the High
School, in order that the same may be published. Read, and adopted.
The Mayor then replied, that, in pursuance of the Resolve of the Board, he
would furnish for its disposal a copy of the address.
Ordered, That the Committee on Printing on the part of this Board, be
instructed to cause Two Thousand and Five Hundred copies of the address of
His Honor, the Mayor, delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the
edifice for the High School, to be printed in neat pamphlet form, for general
distribution among the citizens. Read, and passed.
Attest, A. B. Shedd, City Clerk, pro tempore.
ADDRESS.
Gentlemen of the City Council, and
Fellow Citizens:
We are assembled this morning to lay, with appro-
priate ceremony, the corner stone of an edifice, designed
for a public High School. The City Government has
fully admitted the obligation imposed upon it by law,
and by the dictates of a wise policy, to provide liberal
means for the education of the young. Having decided
to make new arrangements for the better accommodation
of the present schools, by the erection of two new
Grammar School Houses with the conveniences adapted
to the increased numbers, it has also resolved to wipe
out the stain which has hitherto rested upon Charles-
town in her neglect to establish a High School for
furnishing to the advanced scholars the means of a
finished and complete education.
Hitherto it has been considered by us sufficient to
provide instruction for children in reading, penmanship
and the bare rudiments of practical knowledge. We
have only Primary and Grammar Schools. The first
are for children firom four to eight years of age, who
are there taught the Alphabet, a few tabular forms, and
reading and spelling. On leaving the Primary, the
children are sent to the Grammar Schools, there to
remain until they are sixteen years of age — if they can
stay there so long to any advantage — and are further
instructed in reading and spelling, and also in pen-
manship, arithmetic, grammar, geography, and a few
other branches of English study.
For eight years — more than one tenth part of the
ordinary standard of the longest lives, and these years
the most valuable and the most precarious of all — the
children are made to spend their days in the same
school-house, and to go through a constant routine of
exercises and lessons, which in a very short time become
familiar. This long continued familiarity — this monot-
ony of scene must have the effect to repress the ardor
and enthusiasm of youth, to stifle that curious spirit of
inquiry, that thirst after knowledge, which nature has
implanted within them for the development of their
intellectual powers, and to induce a spirit of dulness
and apathy calculated to encourage the formation of
indolent and vicious habits.
Four years constitute a term long enough for one
class of schools. It is the term generally allotted to
primary instruction ; it is also the full term of a colle-
giate course. The important intervening period of
eight years — from the age of eight to sixteen — ought to
be divided into the Grammar and the Academic or
High School.
The human faculties require constant exercise and
renewed motives for action. Unless they are in early
life suitably tasked, they lose their vigor. If they are
not made to advance, they will of themselves recede.
If they do not gain strength from being constantly
nerved to vigorous exercise, they will lapse into deteri-
oration and decay. Discipline and severe tasks are as
necessary to the vigor of mind, as exercise and labor
are to bodily health and strength. For a complete and
thorough education there should be planned a regular
series of appropriate studies, properly classified and
various, each in turn being more difficult than the pre-
ceding, and all of them interesting and useful. The
Languages, ancient and modern, the Sciences, History,
Philosophy and Rhetoric, the means for thorough in-
struction in all these should be furnished in the High
School. Whatever is inculcated, should be earnestly
and clearly presented to the youthful mind with all the
attractions that naturally belong to the subject, and
with the apt and copious illustrations of skilful and
devoted teachers. The mind thus addressed will seize
hold of, and thoroughly master the subject. As in
erecting an imposing edifice — like the one now in con-
templation— the foundation must first be carefully
prepared, and each course of masonry must be laid in
a workmanlike manner, the beams and frame-work
securely placed, and the ornament and finish well ad-
justed ; — ^so in the rearing of the mind, each successive
course of study must be appropriate to the understand-
ing, a substantial foundation must be laid with the
solid rudiments, and by the training of one faculty after
another, a superstructure must be formed in which the
useful, the practical and the ornamental are gracefully
blended, until at last an intellectual character is built
up which will exhibit the mental poAvers developed in
full strength and beautiful proportion.
In our Commonwealth the public has taken upon
itself the whole charge of the education of the young,
and has designated for this purpose a period of twelve
years. Our State laws have so devolved upon the
public this educational care of the young, not by any
means that it should do less than parental affection
would dictate, but that in the forming of a compre-
hensive system of public instruction, and by embracing
all the children of the Commonwealth within its range,
the great work of preparation for life might be done
better than it could be accomplished by individual
effort. Recognizing the doctrine of American Inde-
pendence, that " all are born free and equal," the laws
of our Commonwealth intend that all her children shall
receive the same facilities of public instruction, so that
in the mind and character, which are the essential ele-
ments of the true dignity of life, they may aU have, in
proportion as they improve the advantages offered, a
fair opportunity to live equal. This is the theory of
our laws upon the support of public schools. True
indeed it is, that the principle has never been carried
out into perfect operation. Here, as everywhere else, a
vast amount of natural talent has remained dormant.
Minds of strong natural capacity there have been in
every age, which from neglect and from the want of
proper culture in youth have failed of accomplishing
the beneficial results, which they might and ought to
have done. The talents and native energies of thou-
sands have been wasted or misguided ; and their mental
force and moral power, which should have been devel-
oped for the benefit of the race, have been unfortunately
lost to the world.
The momentous importance of this consideration can-
not be fully appreciated by the public. There is but
one youth to a life. If in a single instance that season
is neglected, then is one human life crippled of its
proper means of usefulness and enjoyment. But if a
whole community is at fault, if in the seed-time, it hesi-
tates and delays to perform its duty, if it deals out the
seeds of knowledge in a partial, parsimonious or unskil-
ful manner, then in the next generation will the harvest
be blighted, and a desolating famine will fall upon the
land.
It has been said to be too much the characteristic
of our people to look backward into the history of
their past. We are prone to glorify ourselves for the
deeds of our fathers ; we love to extol the heroes of the
revolution ; we praise their deeds, and by our unstinted
praise would adopt them as our own. This retrospect
is indeed pleasant, but as we frequently indulge our-
selves in taking it, we should at the same time contrast
the plans and labors which we are extending for the
benefit of those who are to come after us with the toils
and hardships which our fathers endured for us. We
should turn our eyes forward and look to the prospect
of coming years. We should provide for the future
destinies of our country. As the most effectual means
to this end we should devote our time and treasures to
the improvement and support of a sufficient number of
public schools, of the various grades, with the same
spirit of duty and patriotism with which our fathers
pledged " their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor" for the sake of gaining liberty for them and for
us. Thankful ought we to be, that it is our duty only
to preserve and secure what our fathers struggled with
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countless sacrifices to obtain. The City Council lias
adopted for the motto of our new city, " Liberty — a trust
to be transmitted to posterity," and in no more certain
way can this trust be transmitted than by devising and
maintaining a complete system of public education.
The liberal expenditures which we are this year incur-
ring for the erection of this and other school houses
will be repaid to our City an hundred fold in the im-
proved intellectual condition of her children. Although
the outlay in the first instance is necessarily large, still,
by laying aside a moderate sum each successive year,
the burden of which no one will feel, a fund will in a
short time be accumulated sufiicient to pay the whole
cost; and while we are every day reaping the reward,
we shall also be able to present to the next generation
as an unincumbered legacy these bulwarks and de-
fences which we have set up in our City coeval with
her establishment to preserve inviolate this sacred trust.
The High School to be established on this spot is
designed for Girls as well as for Boys. It is a republi-
can and a Christian doctrine, that although in some
slight respects difi'erent branches of study may properly
be pursued by the two sexes as adapted to their respec-
tive spheres, equal advantages of public instruction
ought to be afforded to both. Relying upon intelli-
gence and virtue as the foundation of our free institu-
tions, our whole social and political fabric depends
much for its stability and order upon the cultivated
talent and moral excellence of woman. The sister and
the mother have an immeasurable influence upon the
conduct of the boy and the man. Discipline and
strengthen the mind, cultivate and direct the moral and
intellectual faculties of the female sex, and you elevate
the whole race. In our land of liberty this principle
should be distinctly recognized. By the decree of
Providence woman is to be the companion of man
through the journey of life. In the hour of sickness
she is to solace him, in the time of perplexity and
temptation to counsel and sustain him, and amid all the
toils and cares, the joys and sorrows of every day life to
assist and relieve, to rejoice and sympathize with him.
How strongly is man bound by every obligation of duty
and by every consideration of interest to place the
standard of female education on the highest ground,
and to determine that, so far as the means are furnish-
ed at the public charge, the daughters of our free Com-
monwealth shall be as well qualified for their duties as
the sons shall be for theirs !
A prejudice has heretofore existed in some minds
against a public High School from the vague and
unfounded suggestion that none but the children of
wealthy parents can readily avail themselves of its ad-
vantages. Nothing can be more at variance from the
truth than this idea. By our State law the public
schools are open to all without distinction. There is
not the least danger that any favoritism will be exhib-
ited by any persons having authority over the difierent
schools, either in the mode of applying the general
rules of admission, or in the mode of governing the dif-
ferent pupils. That strong respect for personal right,
that vigilant jealousy with which it is guarded in all
places, and especially in the latitude of Bunker Hill,
would put down such a disposition whenever and by
whomsoever manifested.
Nor is it true that parents who are not wealthy,
are regardless of the importance of having their chil-
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dren attend the public schools of the first grade, to re-
ceive the benefit of all the instruction that may be af-
forded. Go into any of the High Schools in the neigh-
boring cities, and in the first rank you will find some of
the most promising pupils to be those whose only capi-
tal or dowry which they will have to start with in life,
will be a good education and a good character. Many
of the most eminent men and women of our State were
children of poor parents, and they owe their present
favorable position to the free schools. In them they
learned the history of our country and were taught to
compare it with the history of the republics of ancient
days, and with that of other nations of the present time.
In them they first imbibed a reverence for our republi-
can institutions, and acquired the requisite qualifica-
tions by which they are now able to sustain and perfect
what in youth they were taught to admire.
Raze from the land our free school system, or what is
about as disastrous, neglect to provide the means of sus-
taining the schools in an adequate manner, but keep them
at so low a level, that every parent who can possibly af-
ford it, will take his child away from them, and you
strike at the foundation of a free government. It is
quite unnecessary to enforce this sentiment here where
its justice is so generally acknowledged. The lightning
in some furious storm may shiver that shaft into the
separate masses of which it is constructed, the earth in
some violent convulsion of nature may shake it from its
solid foundation ; but it cannot be, that the men who
shall dwell beneath its lofty summit will ever prove
recreant to the principles which it proclaims, will ever,
by slighting the demands of popular education, show
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themselves unworthy of their inheritance and reckless
of the real welfare of their children.
It has been wisely determined to erect on this site a
building of a permanent character, which will be
adapted to the wants of a flourishing and intelligent
community, a building tastefully designed according to
the rules of a classic architecture, one which will stamp
an impression of dignity upon our City, which will be
appropriate to its object and to the consecrated ground
on which it is to stand. Such an edifice will inspire
the minds of the pupils who from time to time shall be
assembled within its walls with ideas of taste and beauty,
with a salutary feeling of just pride that they belong
to such a school, and with a corresponding spirit of
emulation to strive to become worthy members of it.
The character of the man is moulded by the early
and impressive influences and associations of his youth.
Whatever is then presented to him that is seemly,
agreeable and consonant with correct taste will always
have a purifying influence upon his mind and heart.
The more such influences can be made to operate upon
the young, the more likely are they to grow up intelli-
gent and virtuous. This consideration ought never to
be disregarded in the construction and arrangement of
school houses. If the school room be confined and ill-
ventilated, the seats uncomfortable and crowded close
together, the form or bench unsuited to the youthful
frame, if the building itself be awkward, disfigured and
scarcely kept in decent repair, if the grounds around be
neglected and resemble the frightful neighborhood of a
pest house, then will the school and its legitimate pur-
suits be repulsive, and while the children are detained
there, they will think of little else on each day than of
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the hour when they shall be dismissed to breathe pure
air and to unfetter their limbs in open space. Surely
the place, where in every age, the rising generation are
to be qualified for the serious duties and responsibili-
ties of life, ought of all others to be rendered attractive.
It is one of the great means of success in the
business of instruction, it is indeed the very first step
to be taken, to make the children feel desirous of
learning, to convince them that it is a high privilege
which they have, to be allowed to attend the public
schools. Let the teacher instil such a feeling in the
minds of the young, and above all, let the people by
their constituted agents make the outward and internal
arrangements of all the schools so fitting and appropriate
that the discerning youths will see that we are in earnest
when we talk of the importance of education, and they
will greedily take hold of the instruction offered ; they
will grow up with a profound respect for parental and
civil authority and for that system of government which
is every day developing their capacities of pure enjoy-
ment.
Fellow Citizens, not one of us can truly estimate the
beneficial consequences that are likely to flow from this
important undertaking. Its immediate effects will be
visible in the improvement of our grammar schools. The
pupils who attend these will have presented before
them a more powerful inducement to apply themselves
assiduously to the preparatory studies and exercises in
order to be seasonably qualified for admission to the
High School. The Teachers of the Grammar Schools
will naturally feel a stronger incentive to exertion, as
iaiiother public test will obviously offer itself for com-
paring their different merits. So by the united efforts
13
of teachers and pupils an enthusiastic spirit of study, a
love of correct knowledge will be cultivated, which will
wake up the minds of our youth and give them a new
start. I believe that the High School will also have
the effect to induce among the young a more correct
and orderly deportment ; for in every place, as you ele-
vate the standard of education you also will elevate the
standard of character.
May the Gentlemen of the School Committee, whose
honored province it is to control and govern all our
schools, be fortunate from the first in the introduction
and proper arrangement of the various branches of
learning that ought to be pursued in this High School,
in the framing of judicious regulations for its internal
government, and in the selection of competent and
devoted instructers. And, fellow citizens, when all of
us shall have passed away from the stage of life, when
there shall not be one of the present generation living
to inform the men of the twentieth century of the
doings of these times, may the Institution this day
planted yield its own good fruit and be ever fondly
cherished by the people. May there annually proceed
from it the young of both sexes, who, having been well
disciplined and thoroughly instructed, will by the aid
here received sustain the reputation of this memorable
place. And as from year to year, by the discovery of
new truths and principles in science and of improved
methods of illustrating and enforcing them, additional
knowledge shall be imparted, may the attachment of
its pupils grow stronger and stronger to our country
and all her free institutions, to this City which will
have so nobly performed her duty to the young, and to
the faithful teachers who shall have labored for their
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advancement. "When under the benign influences of
this most improved form of municipal government, the
population of Charlestown shall be multiplied, her pros-
perity increased, and her good name still more exalted,
it will not be forgotten, that during the first year of a
City Organization, this corner stone was laid and a
permanent foundation secured for the more liberal and
improved education of the young. As long as this
Monument shall commemorate the successful contests
of our fathers for National Independence, may the High
School, standing up proudly by its side, serve, by its
generous and ennobling influences, to perpetuate and
guaranty the blessings of that Independence to our
children's children unto the remotest generation.
INSCEIPTION UPON THE PLATE DEPOSITED
UNDER THE CORNER STONE.
CHAELESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
This Corner Stone laid October 7, A. D. MDCCCXLVII.
Joint Committee of the City Council on Public Instruction. — G Washington
Warren, Mayor; Paul Willard, Alderman; and C. W. Moore, President, H.
A. Pierce and I. Lindsey, Members of the Common Council.
School Committee. — H. K. Frothingham, President; Geo. Farrar, Secre-
tary ; Joseph F. Tufts, Treasurer ; James Adams, J. W. Bemis, N. Y. Culbert-
son, James Miskelly, George A. Parker, John Sanborn, Edward Thorndike
and Seth J. Thomas.
Architect. — Ammi B. Young.
Builders. — James Tuttle and A. S. Tuttle, Masons.
John B. Wilson and Charles Wilson, Carpenters.
[O'There were also deposited in a leaden box with the plate, the documents
printed by the City Government, including the City Register, several Docu-
ments printed lately by the Town, including the last two annual reports of
the School Committee, and the Report of the Committee of the Town upon
obtaining a City Charter, «fcc. Also, a copy of the Bunker Hill Aurora, and of
the Middlesex Freeman, and a few coins.
/
CITY DOCUMEIVT— No. 5.
(JEttj) of €l)arlcston)n.
ADDEESS
DELIVERED BY THE MAYOR,
OCTOBER 7, 1847,
AT THE
LAYING OF THE COENER STONE
OF A
BUILDING FOR A HIGH SCHOOL
ON MONUMENT SQUARE.
CHARLESTOWN:
PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE.
1847.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN :
In Board of the Mayor and Mdermen,
October 18, 1847.
Resolved, That, His Honor, the Mayor, be respectfully requested to furnish
to this Board a copy of his appropriate address, delivered on the occasion of
the laying of the corner stone of the new building designed for the High
School, in order that the same may be published. Read, and adopted.
The Mayor then replied, that, in pursuance of the Resolve of the Board, he
would furnish for its disposal a copy of the address.
Ordered, That the Committee on Printing on the part of this Board, be
instructed to cause Two Thousand and Five Hundred copies of the address of
His Honor, the Mayor, delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the
edifice for the High School, to be printed in neat pamphlet form, for general
distribution among the citizens. Read, and passed.
Attest, A. B. Shedd, City Clerk, pro tempore.
ADDRESS.
Gentlemen of the City Council, and
Fellow Citizens:
We are assembled this morning to lay, with appro-
priate ceremony, the corner stone of an edifice, designed
for a public High School. The City Government has
fully admitted the obligation imposed upon it by law,
and by the dictates of a wise policy, to provide liberal
means for the education of the young. Having decided
to make new arrangements for the better accommodation
of the present schools, by the erection of two new
Grammar School Houses with the conveniences adapted
to the increased numbers, it has also resolved to wdpe
out the stain which has hitherto rested upon Charles-
town in her neglect to establish a High School for
furnishing to the advanced scholars the means of a
finished and complete education.
Hitherto it has been considered by us sufficient to
provide instruction for children in reading, penmanship
and the bare rudiments of practical knowledge. We
have only Primary and Grammar Schools. The first
are for children firom four to eight years of age, who
are there taught the Alphabet, a few tabular forms, and
reading and spelling. On leaving the Primary, the
children are sent to the Grammar Schools, there to
remain until they are sixteen years of age — if they can
stay there so long to any advantage — and are further
instructed in reading and spelling, and also in pen-
manship, arithmetic, grammar, geography, and a few
other branches of English study.
For eight years — more than one tenth part of the
ordinary standard of the longest lives, and these years
the most valuable and the most precarious of all — the
children are made to spend their days in the same
school-house, and to go through a constant routine of
exercises and lessons, which in a very short time become
familiar. This long continued familiarity — this monot-
ony of scene must have the eiFect to repress the ardor
and enthusiasm of youth, to stifle that curious spirit of
inquiry, that thirst after knowledge, which nature has
implanted within them for the development of their
intellectual powers, and to induce a spirit of dulness
and apathy calculated to encourage the formation of
indolent and vicious habits.
Four years constitute a term long enough for one
class of schools. It is the term generally allotted to
primary instruction ; it is also the full term of a colle-
giate course. The important intervening period of
eight years — from the age of eight to sixteen — ought to
be divided into the Grammar and the Academic or
High School.
The human faculties require constant exercise and
renewed motives for action. Unless they are in early
life suitably tasked, they lose their vigor. If they are
not made to advance, they will of themselves recede.
If they do not gain strength from being constantly
nerved to vigorous exercise, they will lapse into deteri-
oration and decay. Discipline and severe tasks are as
necessary to the vigor of mind, as exercise and labor
are to bodily health and strength. For a complete and
thorough education there should be planned a regular
series of appropriate studies, properly classified and
various, each in turn being more difficult than the pre-
ceding, and all of them interesting and useful. The
Languages, ancient and modern, the Sciences, History,
Philosophy and Rhetoric, the means for thorough in-
struction in all these should be furnished in the High
School. Whatever is inculcated, should be earnestly
and clearly presented to the youthful mind with all the
attractions that naturally belong to the subject, and
with the apt and copious illustrations of skilful and
devoted teachers. The mind thus addressed will seize
hold of, and thoroughly master the subject. As in
erecting an imposing edifice — like the one now in con-
templation— the foundation must first be carefully
prepared, and each course of masonry must be laid in
a workmanlike manner, the beams and frame-work
securely placed, and the ornament and finish well ad-
justed ; — so in the rearing of the mind, each successive
course of study must be appropriate to the understand-
ing, a substantial foundation must be laid with the
solid rudiments, and by the training of one faculty after
another, a superstructure must be formed in which the
useful, the practical and the ornamental are gracefully
blended, until at last an intellectual character is built
up which will exhibit the mental powers developed in
full strength and beautiful proportion.
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In our Commonwealth the public has taken upon
itself the whole charge of the education of the young,
and has designated for this purpose a period of twelve
years. Our State laws have so devolved upon the
public this educational care of the young, not by any
means that it should do less than parental affection
would dictate, but that in the forming of a compre-
hensive system of public instruction, and by embracing
all the children of the Commonwealth within its range,
the great work of preparation for life might be done
better than it could be accomplished by individual
effort. Recognizing the doctrine of American Inde-
pendtence, that " all are born free and equal," the laws
of our Commonwealth intend that all her children shall
receive the same facilities of public instruction, so that
in the mind and character, which are the essential ele-
ments of the true dignity of life, they may all have, in
proportion as they improve the advantages offered, a
fair opportunity to live equal. This is the theory of
our laws upon the support of public schools. True
indeed it is, that the principle has never been carried
out into perfect operation. Here, as everywhere else, a
vast amount of natural talent has remained dormant.
Minds of strong natural capacity there have been in
every age, which from neglect and from the want of
proper culture in youth have faded of accomplishing
the beneficial results, which they might and ought to
have done. The talents and native energies of thou-
sands have been wasted or misguided ; and their mental
force and moral power, which should have been devel-
oped for the benefit of the race, have been unfortunately
lost to the world.
The momentous importance of this consideration can-
not be fully appreciated by the public. There is but
one youth to a life. If in a single instance that season
is neglected, then is one human life crippled of its
proper means of usefulness and enjoyment. But if a
whole community is at fault, if in the seed-time, it hesi-
tates and delays to perform its duty, if it deals out the
seeds of knowledge in a partial, parsimonious or unskil-
ful manner, then in the next generation will the harvest
be bhghted, and a desolating famine will fall upon the
land.
It has been said to be too much the characteristic
of our people to look backward into the history of
their past. We are prone to glorify ourselves for the
deeds of our fathers ; we love to extol the heroes of the
revolution ; we praise their deeds, and by our unstinted
praise would adopt them as our own. This retrospect
is indeed pleasant, but as we frequently indulge our-
selves in taking it, we should at the same time contrast
the plans and labors which we are extending for the
benefit of those who are to come after us with the toils
and hardships which our fathers endured for us. We
should turn our eyes forward and look to the prospect
of coming years. We should provide for the future
destinies of our country. As the most effectual means
to this end we should devote our time and treasures to
the improvement and support of a sufiicient nimiber of
public schools, of the various grades, with the same
spirit of duty and patriotism with which our fathers
pledged " their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor" for the sake of gaining liberty for them and for
us. Thankful ought we to be, that it is our duty only
to preserve and secure what our fathers struggled with
countless sacrifices to obtain. The City Council has
adopted for the motto of our new city, " Liberty — a trust
to be transmitted to posterity," and in no more certain
way can this trust be transmitted than by devising and
maintaining a complete system of public education.
The liberal expenditures which we are this year incur-
ring for the erection of this and other school houses
will be repaid to our City an hundred fold in the im-
proved intellectual condition of her children. Although
the outlay in the first instance is necessarily large, still,
by laying aside a moderate sum each successive year,
the burden of which no one will feel, a fund will in a
short time be accumulated sufficient to pay the whole
cost; and while we are every day reaping the reward,
we shall also be able to present to the next generation
as an unincumbered legacy these bulwarks and de-
fences which we have set up in our City coeval with
her establishment to preserve inviolate this sacred trust.
The High School to be established on this spot is
designed for Girls as well as for Boys. It is a republi-
can and a Christian doctrine, that although in some
slight respects different branches of study may properly
be pursued by the two sexes as adapted to their respec-
tive spheres, equal advantages of public instruction
ought to be afforded to both. Eelying upon intelli-
gence and virtue as the foundation of our free institu-
tions, our whole social and political fabric depends
much for its stability and order upon the cultivated
talent and moral excellence of woman. The sister and
the mother have an immeasurable influence upon the
conduct of the boy and the man. Discipline and
strengthen the mind, cultivate and direct the moral and
intellectual faculties of the female sex, and you elevate
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the whole race. In our land of liberty this principle
should be distinctly recognized. By the decree of
Providence woman is to be the companion of man
through the journey of life. In the hour of sickness
she is to solace him, in the time of perplexity and
temptation to counsel and sustain him, and amid all the
toils and cares, the joys and sorrows of every day life to
assist and relieve, to rejoice and sympathize with him.
How strongly is man bound by every obligation of duty
and by every consideration of interest to place the
standard of female education on the highest ground,
and to determine that, so far as the means are furnish-
ed at the public charge, the daughters of our free Com-
monwealth shall be as well qualified for their duties as
the sons shall be for theirs !
A prejudice has heretofore existed in some minds
against a public High School from the vague and
unfounded suggestion that none but the children of
wealthy parents can readily avail themselves of its ad-
vantages. Nothing can be more at variance from the
truth than this idea. By our State law the public
schools are open to all without distinction. There is
not the least danger that any favoritism will be exhib-
ited by any persons having authority over the different
schools, either in the mode of applying the general
rules of admission, or in the mode of governing the dif-
ferent pupils. That strong respect for personal right,
that vigilant jealousy with which it is guarded in all
places, and especially in the latitude of Bunker Hill,
would put down such a disposition whenever and by
whomsoever manifested.
Nor is it true that parents who are not wealthy,
are regardless of the importance of having their chil-
dren attend the public schools of the first grade, to re-
ceive the benefit of all the instruction that may be af-
forded. Go into any of the High Schools in the neigh-
boring cities, and in the first rank you will find some of
the most promising pupils to be those whose only capi-
tal or dowry which they will have to start with in life,
will be a good education and a good character. Maiiy
of the most eminent men and women of our State were
children of poor parents, and they owe their present
favorable position to the free schools. In them they
learned the history of our country and were taught to
compare it with the history of the republics of ancient
days, and with that of other nations of the present time.
In them they first imbibed a reverence for our republi-
can institutions, and acquired the requisite qualifica-
tions by which they are now able to sustain and perfect
what in youth they were taught to admire.
Eaze from the land our free school system, or what is
about as disastrous, neglect to provide the means of sus-
taining the schools in an adequate manner, but keep them
at so low a level, that every parent who can possibly af-
ford it, will take his child away from them, and you
strike at the foundation of a free government. It is
quite unnecessary to enforce this sentiment here where
its justice is so generally acknowledged. The lightning
in some furious storm may shiver that shaft into the
separate masses of which it is constructed, the earth in
some violent convulsion of nature may shake it from its
solid foundation ; but it cannot be, that the men who
shall dwell beneath its lofty summit will ever prove
recreant to the principles which it proclaims, will ever,
by slighting the demands of popular education, show
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themselves unworthy of their inheritance and reckless
of the real welfare of their children.
It has been wisely determined to erect on this site a
building of a permanent character, which will be
adapted to the wants of a flourishing and intelligent
community, a building tastefully designed according to
the rules of a classic architecture, one which will stamp
an impression of dignity upon our City, which will be
appropriate to its object and to the consecrated ground
on which it is to stand. Such an edifice will inspire
the minds of the pupils who from time to time shall be
assembled within its walls with ideas of taste and beauty,
with a salutary feeling of just pride that they belong
to such a school, and with a corresponding spirit of
emulation to strive to become worthy members of it.
The character of the man is moulded by the early
and impressive influences and associations of his youth.
Whatever is then presented to him that is seemly,
agreeable and consonant with correct taste will always
have a purifying influence upon his mind and heart.
The more such influences can be made to operate upon
the young, the more likely are they to grow up intelli-
gent and virtuous. This consideration ought never to
be disregarded in the construction and arrangement of
school houses. If the school room be confined and ill-
ventilated, the seats uncomfortable and crowded close
together, the form or bench unsuited to the youthful
frame, if the building itself be awkward, disfigured and
scarcely kept in decent repair, if the grounds around be
neglected and resemble the frightful neighborhood of a
pest house, then will the school and its legitimate pur-
suits be repulsive, and while the children are detained
there, they will think of little else on each day than of
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the hour when they shall be dismissed to breathe pure
air and to unfetter their limbs in open space. Surely
the place, where in every age, the rising generation are
to be qualified for the serious duties and responsibili-
ties of life, ought of all others to be rendered attractive.
It is one of the great means of success in the
business of instruction, it is indeed the very first step
to be taken, to make the children feel desirous of
learning, to convince them that it is a high privilege
which they have, to be allowed to attend the public
schools. Let the teacher instil such a feeling in the
minds of the young, and above all, let the people by
their constituted agents make the outward and internal
arrangements of all the schools so fitting and appropriate
that the discerning youths will see that we are in earnest
when we talk of the importance of education, and they
will greedily take hold of the instruction ofiered ; they
will grow up with a profound respect for parental and
civil authority and for that system of government which
is every day developing their capacities of pure enjoy-
ment.
Fellow Citizens, not one of us can truly estimate the
beneficial consequences that are likely to flow from this
important undertaking. Its immediate effects will be
visible in the improvement of our grammar schools. The
pupils who attend these will have presented before
them a more powerful inducement to apply themselves
assiduously to the preparatory studies and exercises in
order to be seasonably qualified for admission to the
High School. The Teachers of the Grammar Schools
will naturally feel a stronger incentive to exertion, as
another public test will obviously offer itself for com-
paring their different merits. So by the united efforts
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of teachers and pupils an enthusiastic spirit of study, a
love of correct knowledge will be cultivated, which will
wake up the minds of our youth and give them a new
start. I believe that the High School will also have
the effect to induce among the young a more correct
and orderly deportment ; for in every place, as you ele-
vate the standard of education you also will elevate the
standard of character.
May the Gentlemen of the School Committee, whose
honored province it is to control and govern all our
schools, be fortunate from the first in the introduction
and proper arrangement of the various branches of
learning that ought to be pursued in this High School,
in the framing of judicious regulations for its internal
government, and in the selection of competent and
devoted instructers. And, fellow citizens, when all of
us shall have passed away from the stage of life, when
there shall not be one of the present generation living
to inform the men of the twentieth century of the
doings of these times, may the Institution this day
planted yield its own good fruit and be ever fondly
cherished by the people. May there annually proceed
from it the young of both sexes, who, having been well
disciplined and thoroughly instructed, will by the aid
here received sustain the reputation of this memorable
place. And as from year to year, by the discovery of
new truths and principles in science and of improved
methods of illustrating and enforcing them, additional
knowledge shall be imparted, may the attachment of
its pupils grow stronger and stronger to our country
and all her free institutions, to this City which will
have so nobly performed her duty to the young, and to
the faithful teachers who shall have labored for their
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advancement. "When under the benign influences of
this most improved form of municipal government, the
population of Charlestown shall be multiplied, her pros-
perity increased, and her good name still more exalted,
it will not be forgotten, that during the first year of a
City Organization, this corner stone was laid and a
permanent foundation secured for the more liberal and
improved education of the young. As long as this
Monument shall commemorate the successful contests
of our fathers for National Independence, may the High
School, standing up proudly by its side, serve, by its
generous and ennobling influences, to perpetuate and
guaranty the blessings of that Independence to our
children's children unto the remotest generation.
INSCRIPTION UPON THE PLATE DEPOSITED
UNDER THE COENER STONE.
CHAELESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIELS.
This Corner Stone laid October 7, A. D. MDCCCXLVII.
Joint Committee of the City Council on Public Instruction. — G Washington
Warren, Mayor; Paul Willard, Alderman; and C. W. Moore, President, H.
A. Pierce and I. Lindsey, Members of the Common Council.
School Committee. — H. K. Frothingham, President; Geo. Farrar, Secre-
tary ; Joseph F. Tufts, Treasurer; James Adams, J. W. Bemis, N. Y. Culbert-
son, James Miskelly, George A. Parker, John Sanborn, Edward Thorndike
and Seth J. Thomas.
.Architect. — Ammi B. Young.
Builders. — James Tuttle and A. S. Tuttle, Masons.
John B. Wilson and Charles Wilson, Carpenters.
[CrThere were also deposited in a leaden box with the plate, the documents
printed by the City Government, including the City Register, several Docu-
njents printed lately by the Town, including the last two annual reports of
the School Committee, and the Report of the Committee of the Town upon
obtaining a City Charter, «fec. Also, a copy of the Bunker Hill Aurora, and of
the Middlesex Freeman, and a few coins.
REPORT
OP THE
SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL,
TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE
PETITION OF i R. DECOSTER 11 OTHERS.
ON THE SUBJECT OF
WARD TWO BEING DEPRIVED OP ITS
LEGAL EEPEESENTATION.
CHAELESTOWN, FEBRUARY 14, 1848.
BOSTON:
PRINTED BY DAMRELL & MOORE. ...52 WASHINGTON ST.
1848,
To the Common Council of the City of Charlestown,
Jan. 24, 1848.
Whereas, it being not only a fundamental principle
in our form of Government, but a constitutional and
lawful right guaranteed in our City Charter, that every
portion of the people shall have a fair and equal repre-
sentation in each branch of our City Council; and
Whereas, one of the constitutional and lawful repre-
sentatives of Ward two having been unconstitutionally
and unlawfully deprived of his right to speak and vote
again for the remainder of the current municipal year,
which is depriving said Ward of one-sixth part of its
constitutional and lawful representation, therefore,
We, the undersigned, legal Voters of Ward two, res-
pectfully petition that the Order passed by your Board,
depriving Ichabod Lindsey of his right to speak or vote,
be repealed. And the Petitioners further ask to be
heard, by themselves or counsel, upon the consideration
of this Petition.
A. K,. Decoster. Royal Underwood.
Alonzo Corey. Jacob Foss.
Aura S. Tuttle. Wells Chase.
Joseph Hayne. Jacob L. Schwartz.
Cyrus Towle. William Hennessy.
J. W. Wentworth. Charles Lang.
James Tuttle. James Wiley, Jr.
Samuel L. Tuttle. Jerome B. Wallace,
Charles P. Brooks. Edward Miskelly.
Gilbert D. Cooper. Nelson Cutler.
J. B. Norton. James Miskelly.
E. L. Norton. James S. Mahony.
Aaron Clark. George J. Barrell.
Isaac S. French. Henry Grines.
Zenas C. Howland. C. S. Waldin.
Samuel F. Tilden. Samuel Williams.
Henry Howland.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWR
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
Jan. 24, 1S48.
Oedered, That the Petition of A. R. Decoster and
others, (relative to "Ward two being deprived of its con-
stitutional and legal representation,) be referred to a
Special Committee, consisting of Messrs. Holmes, Bai-
ley, 2d, and Lewis.
PAUL WILLARD, Jr.,
Clerk of Common Council,
City of Charlestown.
In Common Council, Feb. 14, 1848.
Ordered, That the Special Committee to whom was
referred the Petition of A. R. Decoster and others, pro-
cure the printing of one thousand copies of the Report
upon said Petition, and that a copy be sent to each of
the petitioners.
Passed.
C. W. MooRE, Fres. C. C
A true copy.
Attest,
Paul Willard, Jr.j Cierk C. C
REPORT.
The Committee to whom was referred the Petition
of A. R. Decoster and others, "relative to Ward two
being deprived of its constitutional and legal represen-
tation," having heard the petitioners upon the matter of
their petition, and having fully considered the subject,
beg leave to submit the following
MAJORITY REPORT.
The Committee conceive that the only question in-
volved in a full consideration of the petition referred to
them, is the right of this Board, as a constituent branch
of the city government, to make and enforce rules "for
its regular and satisfactory proceeding."
Much was said at the hearing in behalf of the peti-
tioners that the Committee deemed wholly irrelevant,
and, under other circumstances, might have refused to
hear ; they were, however, constrained by the novelty
of the case, as well as the delicacy of the duty assigned
them, to hear the petitioners patiently and fully.
Every deliberative assembly, if it desires to effect the
purpose of its creation, must necessarily have the power
to make and enforce rules and forms of proceeding. It
was upon this principle, that the rules and orders of
both branches of the City Council were adopted, among
the first acts in the organization of the city government.
In the language of Mr. Justice Story, commenting
upon the fifth Section of Article 1st of the Constitution
of the United States, which gives to each House of
Congress the power to determine the rules of its pro-
ceeding, " The humblest assembly of men is under-
stood to possess this power."
Mr. Cushing, also, in Sections 10 and 20, of his Par-
liamentary Practice, lays down the same fundamental
principle. " Every deliberative assembly, by the mere
fact of its being assembled and constituted, does there-
by necessarily adopt and become subject to those rules
and forms of proceeding, without which it would be
impossible for it to accomplish the purposes of its crea-
tion." There is not a State Legislature in the Union,
that does not expressly recognize this power, by the
adoption, at the beginning of every session, of rules and
orders for its legislative proceedings ; and this, in many
of the States, without any authority for so doing ex-
pressly given in their Constitution.
The power exists in every deliberative assembly, at
common law, " which furnishes principles equally, for
civil and criminal justice, for public privileges and pri-
vate rights."
It is a singular fact, that the Constitution of the
United States does not give any power to punish for
contempts committed against either House of Congress,
and yet, the Supreme Court of the United States has
decided, that this remarkable power belongs inciden-
tally to both Houses of Congress at common law, and,
by parity of reasoning, to both branches of State Leg-
islatures ; so that, as expressly decided by the Supreme
Court of the United States, the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, by their order, may issue his warrant
to the proper officer of that body, authorizing him to
arrest and imprison in any State in the Union, any per-
son or persons declared guihy of contempt against that
body. If such a remarkable power as this — the power
to arrest and punish persons not members of a delibe-
rative assembly — can be derived incidentally to such
bodies, for a still stronger reason does the power exist
to make rules of proceeding to punish the members
themselves for a breach of their rules. And within the
last month, the House of Representatives of Louisiana,
for some breach of its rules, ordered that one of its
members be imprisoned twelve hours in the parish jail;
and yet, the Constitution of Louisiana gives no such
power to that body, in express terms.
Towns throughout New England are a sort of inde-
pendant republics, in all matters of local concern, where
the humblest individual has a hand and A^oice in all
town affairs, where the rights of speech are free and
unrestricted as could be desired ; and yet, the Legisla-
ture of this Commonwealth have enacted, that the
Moderator of town meetings may order any person
who shall persist in conducting himself disorderly at
such meetings, " to withdraw from the meeting ; and on
his- refusal, may order the constable or any other person
to take him from the meeting, and confine him in some
convenient place until the meeting be adjourned," and
this without any constitutional authority. It may well
be argued, on the principles urged in behalf of the pe-
titioners, that no Legislature can thus limit the inalien-
able rights of the individual, without the power so to
do expressly granted in the Constitution. But town
meetings are in fact as much deliberative assemblies as
the Common Council of this city ; and indeed a large
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part of what is now done by both branches of the City
Council in concurrence, was formerly done by the in-
habitants in town meeting. They deliberated — they
legislated ; and in the opinion of the Committee, the
Moderator of a town meeting duly assembled, would
Lindoubtedly, at common law, which is the united com-
naon sense of all preceding ages, and without any au-
thority of the Legislature, have the power to expel from
the meeting or put into custody any refractory member
of the meeting, in order to preserve the decency, dignity,
and character thereof Of the same nature is the
power to pimish for contempt, possessed by every court
of justice in this and every other country, from the very
organization of its tribunals. There is not, the Com-
mittee believe, a Constitution in this country, that ex-
pressly gives the power to their judicial tribunals, and
yet, there is not a common-law court in any State in
this Union, that has not exercised this power, time and
again, unquestioned and undenied.
The general principle plainly to be inferred from
what has been said, is, that whenever and wherever,
any assembly, tribunal, or body corporate, is created for
a certain express purpose, such assembly, tribunal, or
body corporate, must possess all the incidental powers
necessary to effect that purpose.
This Board, by the act incorporating the City of
Charlestown, is made a constituent branch of the city
government, having certain legislative and judicial
powers, requiring much careful and judicious delibera-
tion, and involving largely the property and interest of
others, in their execution. It is therefore the duty, and
privilege, of every member of this Board, to do all in
his power to promote the end for which it was estab-
lished. If, on the contrary, one or more members of
the Board do all in their power to frustrate the purposes
of our incorporation, it is undoubtedly, in the opinion
of the Committee, the duty and privilege of the rest to
put down such impertinence as summarily and effect-
ually as they can, consistently with the dignity and
character of the Board.
It only remains for the Committee to consider, in this
connection, the kind and degree of punishment deliber-
ative assemblies may inflict upon its members. It was
argued to the Committee, in behalf of the petitioners,
that the Common Council was precluded from exer-
cising any other mode or degree of punishment than
that prescribed by the 18th Article of the Hules and
Orders of the Common Council, which provides, that if
a member is decided to be out of order by the Council,
he shall not " be permitted to speak again on the ques-
tion then in debate, unless by way of excuse for the
same, until he has made satisfaction." The Committee
do not understand, even if the case of the member of
Ward two came expressly within the terms of the ISth
Article, that the punishment prescribed there is the only
punishment they may inflict. They have only to sup-
pose a very probable state of things to show the un-
soundness of this view of the petitioners. Suppose the
member from Ward two should refuse to comply with
the Article in question, if decided to be out of order as
there prescribed ; if^ as contended in behalf of the pe-
titioners, that is the only mode and the maximum of
punishment in the power of the Board, the member
from Ward two might effectually defy their influence.
But the Committee are of opinion that the Council
may resort to any kind and degree of punishment
known to deliberative assemblies, and sufficient to avert
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the mischief complained of. If not, — if a degree of
punishment be prescribed inadequate to stop the dis-
order, — then all the rules of this Board are entirely nu-
gatory.
But then again; if the construction contended for
by the petitioners be correct, it can at best only apply
to the case expressly provided — that is, where a member
is called to order in debate. It is obvious to every one
at all familiar with parliamentary proceedings, that
very many gross misdemeanors, calling for exemplary
punishments, are committed in deliberative assemblies,
and not necessarily in debate. If in the course of de-
bate a member violate some rule of debate, and at the
same time commits some breach of decency or good
breeding, or otherwise insults the assembly of which he
is a member, ever so grossly — according to the construc-
tion of the petitioners, the offending party can only be
prohibited, by way of punishment, to speak again on
the question then in debate. A member of this Board
has only then to spring a debate upon some subject,
and commit any indignity he pleases upon the assem-
bly, or the members of the assembly, — spit in a mem-
ber's face, — or lay down upon the floor of the assembly-
room, — and yet the Board can only punish him by
passing an order, that " he shall not speak again upon
the question then in debate ;" and even then, according
to the petitioners, if the refractory member does not
obey, the Board have no power to compel a submis-
sion.
The Committee believe that the mere statement of
the practical results of this construction by the petitioners,
is enough to show its unsoundness.
Much was said to the Committee in behalf of the
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petitioners, relative to the mode of punishment adopted
by this Board — a punishment virtually depriving Ward
two of one sixth of its representation. The Committee
are of opinion, that the order, as already construed by
this Board, does not deprive Ward two of its represen-
tation. The suspended member has still a right to
speak and vote before all Committees of which he is
or maybe a member; to make reports; to introduce
orders, and present petitions, memorials, and other
papers to the Council.
But the Committee go further, and contend that if
the order had received a strict construction, and the
member been entirely cut off from the privilege of vot-
ing and speaking in Committees and before this Board,
it would have been clearly parliamentary, and this on
the ground already discussed in the Report, that every
deliberative assembly possesses the power incidentally
to make rules for its proceeding, and compel its mem-
bers to observe them.
But on the score of the injustice thereby done
to the inhabitants of Ward two, the Committee would
suggest : — which is the greater hardship, for one-sixth of
the constituents of Ward two to be deprived of their
representation by the punishment of their representative,
or for the remaining seventeen eighteenth's of the whole
city to be deprived of their representation, if the offend-
ing member go unpunished 1 If the punishment work
a hardship upon his constituents, then let it rest where
it belongs — on the refractory member himself He is the
individual who has infringed upon the rights of repre-
sentation. The sovereignty of the people, — :the right of -
representation has been variously qualified by the peo-
ple themselves, in adopting their constitutions and
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fundamental laws. In Massachusetts, the right to vote
is qualified by prescribing that voting shall be performed
on a particular day, in a particular place, and the voter
shall not, in the exercise of the prerogative, infringe
upon the rights of others. The people's sovereignty be-
ing thus qualified, in its primary exercise by themselves
— it is not, in the opinion of the Committee, enlarged,
by being delegated to a representative, and that he can-
not exercise more powers and prerogatives than the
people who delegated it exercised themselves.
"The rules of parliamentary proceeding in this coun-
try," says Mr. Gushing, "are derived from, and are es-
sentially the same with those of the British Parliament."
In regard to the modes of punishment this body have
from time to time inflicted upon its members — the Com-
mittee find, in the representative portion of that body,
the most common punishments to be, the committing
the refractory member to the Tower, for an uncertain or
a specified time — expelling him from the House — com-
mitting him to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, to be
confined during the pleasure of the House; and the Com-
mittee beheve that within a year, Mr. Smith O'Brien, an
Irish member of the House of Commons, was put into
the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, and kept in confine-
ment the whole session of Parliament — one or two
months — for refusing to act upon a committee ; and yet
the Magna Charter of British Hights provides, that
"every freeman shall be adjudged of life, liberty, or
property, only by his peers or by the law of the land."
In this country the same punishments have been
frequently inflicted upon their members, by legislative
and deliberative assemblies. The House of Represen-
tatives of this Commonwealth (and the Committee
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deem it unnecessary to go further) have frequently sus-
pended its members for misdemeanors committed in
and out of that body.
In 1784 Jeremiah Leanard, a member of the House
from Oxford, was suspended from exercising the duties
of a member, because he had been indicted for opposing
the collection of Taxes, and was under recognizance to
appear to take his trial at a future day.
In 1800, Elisha Fuller, a member of the House from
Ludlow, " was excluded from a seat in the House," be-
cause he had been indicted and convicted of forging, in
1791, a certificate of his character, for sober life and
conversation, in order to get a license to sell spirituous
liquors.
In 1808, John Waite, a member of the House from
Falmouth, was suspended from exercising the duties of
a member, until the House should take further order
upon the report of a Committee, appointed to investi-
gate the truth of a charge against said Waite, of having
been convicted of forgery. These summary powers are
those assumed and exercised by the House of Repre-
sentatives of this Commonwealth, although the Massa-
chusetts Bill of Rights provides, that no person shall
" be despoiled or deprived of his property, immunities, or
privileges, but by the judgment of his peers or the law
of the land."
Reprimanding, exclusion from the Assembly, a prohi-
bition to speak or vote for a specified time — and expulsion —
are enumerated among others, in Section 42, of Cush-
ing's Manual, as modes of punishment inflicted by de-
liberative assemblies, upon their members.
One other fact in this connection, which operated
somewhat to satisfy the Committee that the course
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adopted by this Board towards the member from Ward
two, is perfectly in accordance with parliamentary prac-
tice, as understood by our House of Representatives, is
that the Xlllth Article of Chap, ii, of the Rules and Or-
ders of the present House of Representatives of this Com-
monwealth, provides, that if any member of that body
shall " be guilty of a breach of either of the Rules and
Orders of the House, he shall not be allowed to speak
or vote, until he has made satisfaction." And this
article the Committee believe has been among the rules
and orders of that body, near twenty years.
From general reasoning and from authority, the Com-
mittee are of opinion, that the order passed by the
Council, Jan. 10th, 1848, and referred to by the peti-
tioners, was clearly demanded at the time, by the ex-
igences of the case ; and that there is not, in the con-
siderations urged in behalf of the petitioners, before
the Committee, any substantial reasons why the order
should be repealed ; and the Committee, therefore, re-
commend that the petitioners have leave to withdraw
their petition.
The Committee cannot close the foregoing report,
giving, as it does, their approval of the order complained
of^ without expressing to the Board the unpleasant na-
ture of the duty they have had to perform. There is
not a member of the Council, the Committee are sure,
that does not regret the occasion that ever subjected
the member from Ward two to their censure or pun-
ishment.
The Committee cannot forget, that all the members
of this Council are sent here, not to censure or punish
each other, but to consult for the interest of the city, as
representatives, under a degreee of accountability to
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their constituents, or their words and actions — and, as
men and citizens, under a degree of accountabiUty to
society for decent speech, decorum, and behaviour.
Any occasion, therefore, caUing for the censure or
punishment of a member, for a breach of decorum, re-
flects more or less upon the character of the whole
Board. At the same time, however gross the misde-
meanor of the individual, — the members cannot be
wholly regardless of the circumstances and feelings of
the guilty member, in the punishments they are com-
pelled to inflict.
All of which is respectfully submitted, by
P. B. HOLMES.
KENDALL BAILEY, 2nd.
REPORT
THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
€)f tl)c €omintin Council,
UPON THE SUBJECT OF
LYNDB AND SECOND STREETS.
CHARLESTOWN :
PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE.
1848.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, ?
March 24, 1848. ^
Ordered, That the Report of the Special Committee on the
subject of Lynde and Second Streets, be taken from the files,
and four hundred copies printed, for distribution, and that a
copy be furnished to each of the petitioners.
The vote relative to printing four hundred copies of the
Report, as above, v^^as reconsidered, and amended by adding,
" That the Special Act referred to in the Report of the above
named Committee be printed vi^ith the Report."
The Order, as amended, was read and adopted ; any rule in-
consistent with its passage being first suspended.
A true Copy of Record.
Attest PAUL WILLARD, Jr. Clerk, C. C.
The Special Committee to whom was re-
ferred the papers on Lynde Street, and
the Order relative to Second Street, hav-
ing considered the subject matter of the
Papers and Order referred to them, and
having viewed the said Streets, beg leave
to submit the following
EEPORT.
The Committee are of opinion, that Lynde
Street is not properly graded, and if accepted as
it now is, the City must incur, to make the same
safe and passable, an expense greatly dispropor-
tionate to the importance of the Street, as in ad-
dition to the actual cost of labor and material of
filling up or digging down one side or the other
of this Street, to make the grade as it should be,
proprietors of lots also abutting the Street, nearly
all of which on both sides are built upon, could,
if the Street were properly graded, be undoubt-
edly entitled to some compensation for damages.
The Committee entertain the same opinion
with regard to Second Street, that it is not prop-
erly graded, and, if accepted, would subject the
City to an unnecessary and unjust expense.
They therefore recommend that the petitioners
for the acceptance of Lynde and Second Streets,
respectively have leave to withdraw.
The attention of the Committee, while having
the subject matter of this Report under conside-
ration, was called to a special act concerning
Streets and Ways in the City of Boston, passed
March 26, A. D. 1845, which ])rovides that, be-
fore accepting Streets laid and dedicated to the
public over private lands, the Mayor and Alder-
men may cause the same to be graded in such
manner as the safety and convenience of the pub-
lic, in their opinion, may require, and may assess
the expense thereof upon the owners of the
abutting lots.
The Committee believe that it was too fre-
quently the case under the late town govern-
ment, that Streets laid out over private lands,
were accepted as public Streets, before they were
properly graded, and the town then compelled
to put them in a safe and passable condition, at
an expense greatly disproportionate to their im-
portance, and often to no other effect or purpose
than to benefit and enhance the property of in-
dividuals.
It often happens also, that a Street is laid out
over private lands, which, if made safe and passa-
ble, would convene and benefit the public very
much, and at the same time greatly enhance the
value of the adjoining land ; but the authorities
having no power to compel the proprietors to bear
a proportionate share of the expense of properly
grading the same, are forced, for a comparatively
little public convenience, to grade the same at the
public cost, and thus give an advantage to indi-
viduals which they ought not to have. There
are several Streets in this City now within the
knowledge of the Committee, in the same situa-
tion with Lynde and Second Streets, awaiting the
acceptance of the City as public Streets, but
which cannot be accepted, in the opinion of the
Committee, without becoming a burden upon the
City, as they are not, and never have been prop-
erly graded.
In view, therefore, of the foregoing considera-
tions, and in order to correct and prevent what
may be termed a public abuse, the Committee
recommend the adoption of the accompanying
Order.
M. G. COBE, )
P. B. HOLMES, i Committee.
MARSHALL BLANCHARD^ )
An Act concerning Streets and Ways in
the City of Boston.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, in General Court assembledi and by
the authority of the same, as follows :
Section 1. When any Street or Way, which
now is, or hereafter shall be opened in the City
of Boston, over any private land, by the owners
thereof, and dedicated to, or permitted to be used
by the public, before such Street shall have been
accepted and laid out according to law, it shall
be the duty of the owners of the lots abutting
thereon, to grade such Street or Way at their
own expense, in such manner as the safety and
convenience of the public shall, in the opinion of
the Mayor and Aldermen of said City, require ;
and if the owners of such abutting lots shall, after
reasonable notice given by the said Mayor and
Aldermen, neglect or refuse to grade such Street
or Way in manner aforesaid, it shall be lawful for
the said Mayor and Aldermen to cause the same
to be graded as aforesaid, and the expense thereof
shall, after due notice to the parties interested, be
equitably assessed upon the owners of such abut-
ting lots, by the said Mayor and Aldermen, in
such proportions as they shall judge reasonable ;
and all assessments so made shall be a lien upon
such abutting lands, in like manner as taxes are
now a lien upon real estate ; provided, always,
that nothing contained in this Act shall be con-
strued to affect any agreements heretofore made
respecting any such Streets or Ways as aforesaid,
between such owners and said City : provided,
also, that any such grading of any Street or Way
by the Mayor and Aldermen as aforesaid, shall
not be construed to be an acceptance of such
Street or Way by the City of Boston.
Sect. 2. No Street or Way shall hereafter be
opened as aforesaid, in said City, of a less width
than thirty feet, except with the consent of said
Mayor and Aldermen, in writing, first had and
obtained for that purpose.
Sect. 3. This Act shall take effect in thirty
days from the passing thereof, unless the City
Council of said City shall, within that time, vote
not to accept the same.
[Approved by the Governor, March 26, 1845.]
SCHOOL REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRTTf RY 1, 1848.
The School Committee of Charlestown, in compli-
ance with the Statutes of the Commonwealth,
. herewith present their Annual Report of the Pub-
lic Schools of Charlestown.
The Annual Reports of the " Trustees of Charles-
town Free Schools," have usually been made up to
the first of April, and printed and distributed imme-
diately after that date ; but the change which has
taken place in the Municipal relations of Charles-
town, during the past year, makes it necessary for
the School Committee to present their Report earlier
than has been the practice in former years : — conse-
quently, the present Report must be understood to
cover only a period of ten months.
We presume the present act of the Committee
will be justified, and that hereafter, the Annual Re-
ports of the Schools will be made up to the period
of the year at which this Report is closed ; espec-
ially, as it does not conflict with the Statute of the
Commonwealth, and as the old Committee will con-
tinue in office long enough each year, to enable them
to make the annual return required by law, to enti-
tle the City to its portion of the School Fund, from
the Treasury of the Commonwealth.
The School Committee, as has been customary for
a long series of years, made up their estimate of the
pecuniary wants of the Schools for the current School
year, and instead of submitting their estimate to the
citizens, as has been the practice of the " Board of
Trustees " of the Public Schools, it was presented to
the City Government, to whom the citizens have
delegated the power of administering " the fiscal,
prudential and municipal affairs " of the City. This
estimate embraced the sums required for the salary of
the Teachers, for the Fuel, Stoves, sweeping School
Houses, and other contingent expenses of the Schools,
— also, for sundry small repairs of buildings, and for
instruction in Music in the Grammar Schools ; -,—
amounting, in the whole, to seventeen thousand
dollars.
The Committee also asked the sum of seventeen
hundred and twenty-five dollars, for purchasing land
and erecting a new Primary School House above the
Canal Bridge, — for finishing the second story of the
Primary School House at the corner of Bartlett and
Sullivan Streets, and for furnishing the above School
Rooms,
Of the above sums, ^17,000 was appropriated,
" subject to the order of the School Committee," to
be disbursed by them for the current expenses of the
Schools for the municipal year.
This sum has been expended as follows, viz : —
For salaries of the Teachers, ^14,086.73
" the contingent expenses, &c,, as
stated above, 2,750.92
Total, ^16,837.65
Leaving the sum of ^^1 62.35 of the appropriation
made for the support of Schools, unexpended.
The above amount covers the School expenses for
one year to the 1st of March, 1848, as it includes all
the disbursements v^hich have been made by the
Committee, since the last Tov^^n Statement was pub-
lished, and which was made up to the 1st of March,
1847.
The balance, ^1,725.00, it was decided by the
City Council, would be more appropriately disbursed
by them ; to whom is delegated " the care and super-
intendence of the City Buildings."
They authorized the Joint Committee on Public
Instruction, from the two branches of the City Coun-
cil, to carry out these objects ; — consequently, the
School Committee have been relieved from the care
and responsibility of what has heretofore been con-
sidered an appropriate part of their duties.
The following table exhibits a statistical view of
our schools on the 31st of January, 1848.
Primary Schools 23 I 23 1 4,61604 I 1,521 I 1,164 I 357
Grammar do. 4 | 22 | 9,471.69 j 1,283 | 1,021 \ 262
, The number of children in this City between the
ages of 4 and 16 years, is 3,500.
The members of the School Committee have made
507 visits to the Primary Schools, and 337 to the
Grammar Schools, during the past ten months.
PRIMAEY SCHOOLS.
The upper room of the Primary school house
erected in 1846, on the corner of Bartlett and Sulli-
van streets, has been finished and is now occupied.
The school was organized and placed under the
charge of Miss Mary J. Underwood, on the 1st of
November last. The Primary school house which
was located in rear of the City Hall, has been re-
moved to a central location above the Canal bridge,
and is occupied by a school formed from a part of
Primary No. 1, on the 1st of November last; and is
under the charge of Miss Sarah J. Bradbury. In
May last. Miss M. Peabody resigned the charge of
Primary No. 16, and Miss Abby E. Hinckley was
appointed to her place. In August last, Miss S. E.
Clark resigned the charge of Primary No. 15, and
Miss C. A. Goodridge,of No. 21. Miss S. Eliza F.
"Watson has the charge of No. 15, and Miss Eme-
line Brown, 2d Assistant in the Grammar depart-
ment of the Warren school, has been appointed to
No. 21.
On the 1st of November, Miss E. W. Butts was
appointed teacher of Primary school No. 17, in
place of Miss S. J. Bradbury, transferred to Primary
No. 23 ; and Miss S. E. Sanborn was appointed
teacher of Primary No. 19, in place of Miss M. E.
Sanborn, resigned. In the same month. Miss Mar-
tha A. Chandler was transferred from No. 4 Primary,
to the position of Assistant in the upper division of
the Bunker Hill school, and Miss M. H. Eice, has
the care of Primary No. 4. Miss E. D. Pratt, having
resigned the charge of Primary No. 5, this school is
now in the care of Miss M. H. Farnsworth. Miss
Mary J. Chandler was also, in November, transferred
from Primary No. 8, to the position of 1st assistant
in the writing department of the Warren school, and
Miss E. A. Thorndike was appointed to fill her
place.
The following table gives a view of the number,
attendance, &;c.j in our Primary Schools, at the last
examination, which closed on the 31st of January,
1848.
Caroline Phipps,
M. B. Skillon.
E. M. Sweetser,
M. H. Rice, . .
M. H. Farnsworth,
P. A. Sawyer,
S. L. Sawyer,
A. E. Thorndike,
S. F. Brown,
Elizabeth Ernes,
S. S. Putnam,
J. M. Burckes, .
M. E. Lincoln, .
S. E. Smith, , .
S. E. F. Watson,
A. E. Hinckley,
E. W. Butts, . .
C. Brockett, . .
S. E. Sanborn, .
M. A. C. Bodge,
Emeline Brown,
M. J. Underwood,
S.J. Bradbury, .
Near B. Hill School House.
Mead street.
Rear 187 Main street.
Warren School House,
Elm street.
Rear 162 Main street.
Corner Cross and Bar'lett streets,
Common street,
Bow street.
Common street.
Bunker Hill street, at Point.
Moulton street.
Winlhrop street.
jCorner Sullivan and Bartlett sts.
Corner Kingston st. and Medford
I roada
52 44
5941
6o!4l
39,37
■24 28
24 30
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Jos. F. Tufts.
Jos. F. Tufts.
H. K. Frothingham.
J. W. Bemis.
E. Thorndike.
N. Y. Culbertson.
E. Thorndike.
N. Y. Culbertson.
John Sanborn.
G. A. Parker.
James Adams.
George Farrar.
S. J. Thomas.
S. J. Thomas.
George Farrar.
G. A. Parker.
John Sanborn.
J. Miskelly.
J. Miskelly.
James Adams.
J. W. Bemis.
H. K. Frothingham.
H. K. Frothingham.
The salary of the Primary School Teachers is
;5f210, each, per annum.
The course of study in the Primary Schools, which
now, as a general rule, is pursued by children from
four to eight years of age, is one of no little impor-
tance to their future success and attainments.
The Teachers of these Schools should well under-
stand the elements of the English language, and pos-
sess a thorough knowledge of the vowel and conso-
nant sounds and their combinations, and a tact in
imparting such knowledge to their pupils. They
should be good readers, that they may be able to
teach those under their charge, to read naturally, in-
telligibly, and with the proper intonations of voice ;
that they may enter into the meaning and spirit of
what they are reading. Much oral information can
also be communicated to the children upon common,
though important matters. In some of our Pri-
mary Schools, this method of instruction is pursued
with much tact, and awakens in the children a lively
interest in the subjects presented to their minds.
The bodily movements and manual exercises, as
well as the daily practice of singing resorted to by
most of our Primary Teachers, as a relaxation from
the too rigorous confinement of the School Room,
are aids, rather than hindrances to good order in
School, and their ha|)py influences combine to make
the School Room a pleasant resort to the young.
This Primary Schools are generally in a flour-
ishing condition, and, with very few exceptions,
under the charge of skilful and devoted Teachers,
who labor assiduously and faithfully, to promote the
best interests of those intrusted to their care and in-
struction. With Teachers who have an " aptness to
teach," and minds devoted to the responsible calling
which they have chosen, our Primary Schools cannot
remain stationary; and as the character and useful-
ness of these Schools are advanced, in like proportion
will their influence be felt upon our higher Schools.
VACATIONS, EXAMINATIONS, AND PROMOTIONS
TO GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
The Committee have thought it advisable, that the
vacations of our Grammar and Primary Schools should
be permanently established ; therefore, they have ar-
ranged them as follows, viz : — Fast day ; — the first
day of May ; — from the last Wednesday in May to
the first Wednesday in June, both inclusive ; — the
seventeenth day of June ; — fourth day of July ; — the
three weeks preceding the first Wednesday in Sep-
tember ; — Thanksgiving day and the two following,
and Christmas day. When either of the single days
named above as a vacation shall occur on Sunday,
the vacation will take place on the next following
day.
The semi-annual examinations of all the Schools
will take place during the fifteen days next preceding
the August vacation, and during the last twenty days
of January, in each year, — and the exhibitions in the
Grammar Schools shall be held during the last fifteen
days of January, in each year.
In consequence of the great interruptions to which
three of our Grammar Schools have been subjected
during the past term, and from the want of suitable
rooms and conveniences, the Committee have thought
it best to omit the public exhibition which has usu-
ally taken place in these Schools after their examina-
tions in the Spring ; — the usual examination of them
by the Committee, however, has been as thoroughly
made as in former years.
With a view of securing a more uniform practice
in promoting the children from the Primary to the
Grammar Schools, the School Committee have adopt-
ed the rule, that all such promotions shall be made
on the first day of February, and the first Wednes-
day of September, in each year. This arrangement
will enable the Teachers of both Primary and Gram-
mar Schools, to make up their classes for the semi-
annual terms of our Schools, at one and the same
time, — thereby preventing the interruption and em-
barrassments which formerly attended the practice of
admitting scholars to the upper Schools, for the first
two or three weeks of each term.
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
The Board have had under consideration for sev-
eral months past, the subject of establishing one or
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more Intermediate Schools in some central location
in the City, to supply the wants of a class of pupils
who are always to be met with in all populous
places. This is a class of scholars who are too old to
be continued in the Primary Schools, without wound-
ing their ambition or self-esteem, or interfering with
the arrangements and methods of discipline and in-
struction pursued in these Schools.
There will be found in many of our Primary
Schools, children who have not reached those at-
tainments and habits of study, either from irregular
attendance in these Schools, or a want of opportu-
nity to attend any School, which is requisite to
qualify them to enter the classes in the Grammar
Schools composed of children of a corresponding age,
or even the classes younger than they. It would
promote the interests of both the Primary and Gram-
mar Schools, if a School of this kind were estab-
lished for this class of scholars ; — they appear to be
out of place in a Primary School, and they are a
dead weight, when hung upon any class in the
Grammar Schools.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
WARREN SCHOOL.
FOR CHILDREN OF BOTH SEXES, BUT OCCUPYING SEPA-
RATE ROOMS.
In August last. Miss Emeline Brown, second As-
sistant Teacher in the Grammar department of this
School, was appointed Teacher of Primary School
No. 21, and Miss Augusta M. Hayes was appointed
to fill her place ; and in November following. Miss S.
G. Hay, first Assistant in the Writing department,
having received an appointment in one of the Gram-
mar Schools in Boston, was succeeded by Miss Mary
J. Chandler. These are the only changes which
have occurred in this School during the past year.
" There has been evident improvement in this
School during the past year," and it " seems to have
been the object with the Teachers, to be thorough
with their pupils." " There are many of them that
seem to be well grounded in the studies they have
gone over," and possess an intelligent view of the
subjects they h^-ve been pursuing. " That there are
exceptions, however, to this," may be clearly seen,
but " these are found in almost every instance, among
those children who are irregular in their attendance "
at School.
Both departments of this School appear to be
making successful progress, and the Teachers, to be
devoted and faithful in their endeavors to advance
the interests of the School.
WINTHROP SCHOOL.
FOR BOYS ONLY.
The change of Teachers in the Grammar depart-
ment of this School, during the past year, has been
very frequent. In May last, Mr. Aaron Walker, Jr.,
Principal of this department, retired from the School,
and Mr. Winslow Battles was appointed to fill the
vacancy. In September last, Mr. Battles was elected
sub-Master in the Mayhew School in Boston ; — he
was succeeded by Mr. William C. Bradlee, who is
now the Principal of this department of the School.
In October last. Miss E. D. Moulton, having received
an appointment as Assistant in the Mayhew School
in Boston, resigned her place as second Assistant in
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this school, and her place was filled by the appoint-
ment of Miss Anna M. Bradley. In November, Miss
M. L. Rowland was also appointed as an Assistant
in one of the Boston Schools, and her position as
first Assistant is now filled by Miss Rebecca T. Ames.
In the Writing department, there has been no
change of Teachers for the past year.
In the first division of the School, under Messrs.
Bradlee and Baxter, there has been "decided im-
provement in the reading and other studies " in the
Grammar department; and the proficiency of the
scholars in Arithmetic and Algebra, together with
the specimens of penmanship which were exhibited,
were highly creditable to them, and also to the abil-
ity and fidelity of their Teacher. " The Assistant
Teachers are faithful," and under the circumstances in
which the School has been placed for several months,
as successful as we could have a right to expect.
Many of the obstacles to the entire success of their
labors will be removed, when the scholars are trans-
ferred from their present inconvenient and badly ven-
tilated rooms, (the only ones which could be obtained
for temporary use,) to the new School House now in
progress of erection.
HARVARD SCHOOL.
EXCLUSIVELY FOB, GIRLS.
There has been but one change of Teachers in this
School the past year. Miss H. L. S. Teel, in May
last, resigned her office of first Assistant Teacher in
the Writing department, and Miss Frances Holland
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Taking all the interruptions and " inconveniences
into the account," under which this School has been
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placed for several months past, the expectations of
the Committee would be thought unreasonable, if
they were not " satisfied with the progress made by
the scholars." The Teachers appear assiduous and
faithful in their endeavors to promote the interests
of the School, and with the disadvantages under
which the pupils have labored, they give evidence of
unremitted devotion and industry, which is credit-
able to themselves and those under whose charge
they are placed.
BUNKER HILL SCHOOL.
FOR BOTH SEXES, WHO MEET IN THE SAME ROOM IN
EACH DEPARTMENT.
This School has experienced several changes dur-
ing the last year. In October last. Miss Mary A.
Lewis resigned her situation, having been appointed
an Assistant in one of the Grammar Schools in Bos-
ton, — Miss M. A. Stover was appointed second As-
sistant to fill her place. On the 29th day of Novem-
ber last, this School was organized by forming it into
two divisions — a Senior and Junior division; the
first occupying the upper room (recently finished) in
the Building, and under the charge of Mr. B. F.
Tweed, as Principal, with Miss Martha A. Chandler,
from Primary School No. 4, as Assistant ; — the sec-
ond division, under the charge of Miss L. Foster,
assisted by Miss M. A. Stover, occupies the lower
room. In January last. Miss Foster resigned her
situation, in consequence of having received an ap-
pointment as Principal of one of the Public Schools
in Medford ; — she was succeeded by Miss Lydia A.
Hanson, who is now in charge of this division of the
School.
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The " Teachers in this School are all devoted to
their work, and with general success." The upper
division of the School, under the charge of Mr.
Tweed, assisted by Miss Chandler, " exhibits evi-
dences of a judicious and thorough training, and
both Teachers and Scholars are deserving great
credit." The appearance and attainments of the
Junior division were creditable to the Teachers and
JPupils, and gave evidence of the fidelity and devo-
tion of the Teachers in this division, to the trust
committed to them.
Instruction in Music has been given twice each
week, in our Grammar Schools, for about five months,
by Mr. John E. Gould, a skilful and efficient Teach-
er; and the sub-Committees have been present on
some of these occasions, to witness the exercises of
the pupils in this delightful art. We cannot with-
hold our united approbation of the practice of this
science by the children in these Schools. " It exerts
a wholesome influence upon the spirits of the Schol-
ars, and the discipline " of the Schools, and we
" have so much confidence in its beneficial results,"
both mentally and physically, that we strongly urge
its continuance in our Schools, upon the attention
of those who may hereafter have the care and re-
sponsibility of managing them.
The practice of map drawing, either on the black-
board, slates or paper, in connection with the study
of geography, is highly important and useful ; as
the eye will do much by this means, in fixing upon
the mind, the location and boundaries of countries.
States and towns — • the course of rivers, &c. &c.
These and other means which by the eye carry knowl-
edge to the mind, should be found among the ar-
rangements of every well regulated school, as they
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tend to awaken early in life, a careful observation of
objects which, address the eye and mind, and create
a spirit of self-culture, which will prove available in
securing knowledge from reading and experience,
after school education shall have been finished.
At the last examination, the number of children
in the four Grammar Schools, was as follows, viz. :
In the Warren School, 349
" " Winthrop, " 359
" " Harvard, " 340
" " Bunker Hill," 235
Total, - 1,283.
During the past year, the average daily absence in
the Grammar Schools has been as follows, viz. :
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It is gratifying to find, that in all these schools,
there has been some improvement in the attendance,
since the last school report was made up. Yet, we
do not think that parents ought to feel fully satis-
fied that all has been done that is practicable, to rem-
edy this — one of the greatest of inflictions upon
the prosperity of our schools, and their usefulness
to those for whose especial benefit they are sustained.
If a young man were placed under the charge of
a competent person, to be taught some mechanical
art or trade, or qualified as a ready and skilful ac-
countant, and he should be found wasting one fifth
of the time which ought to be devoted to gaining a
14
knowledge of his trade or art, in the pursuit of friv-
olous objects, or in absenting himself for unimpor-
tant engagements or amusements, or in any manner
wasting his time, all would conclude at once, that
he would never become very proficient in the em-
ployment for which he had undertaken to qualify
himself; nor would the parent of such a young man
be very likely to feel satisfied with such a state of
things, or with the teacher or master who would al-
low them to exist.
If some trifling errand or visit, or some moment-
ary pleasure or recreation, which could, without in-
convenience, be attended to at another time, is often
allowed to interfere with the school obligations of
children, is it to be wondered, that these will be con-
sidered by them, as of paramount importance to the
claims of school upon their attention and interest 1 —
and is it not often the case, that the ability and de-
votion of teachers are called in question, for a want
of interest and progress in their scholars, when the
principal cause of their sluggish indifierence may be
traced to their frequent absence from school, and a
lack of proper influence at home ?
Such a state of things is also a fruitful source of
truancy — a pernicious and demoralizing habit ; and
we cannot but appeal to parents, to make this a sub-
ject of individual interest, not only for the moral and
intellectual well-being of their children, but for their
own happiness and peace.
In this connection, the committee make the follow-
ing quotation from the report of the Board of
Trustees for the year ending April, 1841 ; as the
subjects to which it refers, are of no less importance
now to the welfare of our schools, than at the time
that report was made.
15
" The Board again advert to the great cooperation
Parents can render in promoting the efficiency of
our schools. Let them be arrayed against the teach-
er, and but little hope can be entertained of prog-
ress ; let them act with him, and it is a great step
toward it. Many are the ways in which this co-op-
eration can be rendered. Parents can prevent ab-
sences ; they can enjoin confidence on the part of the
scholars towards the teacher; they can encourage
pupils in their lessons ; they can promote a love of
school duties ; they can insist for their children up-
on the principle of entire obedience to the rules of
the school ; they can visit the school rooms. And
they can, at least, practise the negative duty of re-
fraining from the injustice of judging the teacher on
the sole testimony of their children. The Board
have encountered many cases of the latter descrip-
tion. Violation of well-known rules of the school
subjects a scholar to discipline — to corporal punish-
ment, or to checks, or to the loss of place in the
class. The corrected and disappointed child becomes
a swift witness, and finds in the parent a willing ear.
On this partial testimony the parent forthwith con-
demns the teacher, and this too in severe, round-
about language — language which the excited child
takes care shall lose none of its severity by repeti-
tion. It is retailed among playmates and goes
through the school. This, it may be thought, would
be bad enough. But this is by no means all. The
parent, in a temporary fit of excitement, sometimes
rushes to the school room, and in the presence of the
school, abuses the teacher in words that would do no
discredit to a Persian Satrap lashing his subordi-
nates. What possible effect can both these methods
of reform produce than to weaken the moral author-
16
ity of the teachers, to lay a foundation for a renewal
of the scholar's punishment, to injure permanently
the school ; in fine, to produce unmitigated evil ? Be-
sides: there is no necessity for this. The Board
have made it a rule to investigate promptly, fully,
every case of complaint. They have no modest re-
serve in their intercourse with the teachers. In this
matter frankness is kindness. If complaints are
abroad, a teacher should know them, in all their
length and breadth ; if unreasonable, the sooner they
are contradicted the better — if well-founded, reform
should be applied at once. The Board, then, earn-
estly recommend to parents the practice of suspend-
ing their judgment in relation to cases of discipline,
to be chary of their words of displeasure, and to
apply directly to one of its members when they feel
aggrieved — confident, as they are, that such a course
would be of great advantage to our schools."
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The Grammar Schools in Charlestown, do now,
and have for many years, ranked high in the estima-
tion of our citizens, as well as in the estimation of
the Board of Trustees of our Schools. The Report
of the Trustees for April, 1839, (our Hon. Mayor
then being President of the Board,) says, in speaking
of these Schools, " They have generally been termed
Grammar Schools, but they would be better denoted
by the name of Upper or High Schools, as in them,
all the high branches of English study are taught to
the first classes." These Schools are now no less
deserving this high commendation, than they were at
that period, and as an evidence that the pupils who
have attended them, have not been confined to the
" elementary and a few other branches of English
study," as has been stated, we have only to refer to
the statistical tables of these Schools for the past
eight years ; where we find, that in addition to
" Reading, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar
and Geography," studies which have been attended
to by all who have been members of these Schools
during this period, — 1,847 have pursued the prac-
tice of writing Composition, — 985 have attended to
Declamation, — 1,362 to History, — 1,189 to Natural
Philosophy and History, — 217 to Chemistry, — 47
to Astronomy, — 685 to Algebra, — 69 to Geometry,
— 170 to Book-Keeping, — 43 to Rhetoric, — 969
to Drawing, — 85 to Languages, and 106 have pur-
sued a course of studies in the Political Class Book.
There is, therefore, truth in the assertion made in
the Report of 1839, that these Schools "would be
better denoted by the name of Upper or High
Schools," for they are equal to most of those which
are termed High Schools in this Commonwealth;
and we are gratified in being able to state as an evi-
19
dence of their efficiency, that of the number who
have graduated from them during the past eight
years, (from 1840,) upwards of 50 have become
Teachers ; most of them having enjoyed no other in-
struction than that furnished to them in the Public
Schools of Charlestown. Many of these persons are
now engaged in teaching, and some of them have
been called from the care of our Schools by oifers of
a higher salary than we are paying our Teachers, to
fill responsible positions as Teachers in Boston,
Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, Lexington, and
other neighboring towns ; — others are engaged in
teaching beyond the limits of this Commonwealth.
"With such facts before us, we cannot but feel, that
our citizens have cause to be proud of what their
Public Schools have accomplished, and that such re-
sults will encourage them to continued efforts to sus-
tain these Schools, and to provide for the more
thorough education of the young in the higher
branches of study, than have yet been attained to in
our Public Schools ; and for furnishing them the
means of acquiring a knowledge of the ancient and
modern languages, and the higher branches of math-
ematics and science,
"The City Government, by the erection of a Build-
ing for a High School, have takei> one step towards
securing to the young these advantages ; and if, after
the experiment has been fairly tried, it should prove
successful, (as we have no doubt it will, if judiciously
managed,) the citizens of Charlestown will congratu-
late themselves, that they have in their midst an In-
stitution which furnishes, if rightfully improved, a
thorough and complete education to the children of
all classes of our citizens who will avail themselves
of its privileges.
20
The establishing of a High School in Charlestown,
is a subject that has long occupied the thoughts and
interests of its citizens. In 1831, the subject was re-
ferred to the " Trustees of the Schools, who reported
the cost of its establishment, and after a discussion
of the matter in Town Meeting, it was indefinitely
postponed." Again in 1836, the subject having been
committed to the Trustees of the Schools to report
upon the same, they say, " the present state of public
education in this Town has nearly approximated to
all we could hope or wish ; but if the Town see fit
to add another School for the instruction of youth in
the higher branches of knowledge, and thereby ena-
ble them to take a more exalted part in the duties
of life, then indeed our system and means of instruc-
tion would be complete."
The subject was then referred to the Trustees
again, with instructions ; and at a meeting of the
citizens in November 1836, they reported, " that af-
ter a full consideration of the subject," and the fact,
that " instruction in the higher branches" is provid-
ed for in " one of our present excellent free schools, it
is inexpedient and unadvisable for the present, to pro-
vide for the establishment of an additional School."
This report was not accepted, but the matter was
again referred to 1;he Trustees, with instructions to
report at the next March meeting ; when, on the
sixth of March, 1837, a report was made in favor of
establishing a High School, " furnished with suitable
apparatus, &c., for the pursuit of the higher branches
of English study ;" — which report, after being read,
was referred to the next annual meeting in the month
of March, at which time, this subject does not ap-
pear to have been acted upon by the citizens, nor do
21
the Trustees make any reference to it in their print-
ed report of May 7th, 1838.
In the report of the Trustees of Schools, made in
April, 1839, to which allusion has already been made,
it is recommended that another School be established
in addition to the three " Upper or High Schools," viz.
the Winthrop, Harvard and Bunker Hill, in which
the " pupils receive a thorough instruction in all the
common and higher branches of English study," this
recommendation was carried out in the erection of a
building in 1840, now known as the Warren School.
Our citizens are well aware, that the City Govern-
ment, have, during the past year, been making per-
manent arrangements for the establishment of a
higher School in Charlestown, than any which has
heretofore existed.
The design of this High School, is not to make
our Grammar Schools any less elevated in their char-
acter, than they have heretofore been ; such a result
could not but be a source of regret to all who have
at heart the usefulness and prosperity of our schools.
The standard of admission to the High School,
should be placed high, and should be rigidly adhered
to ; — not only for its own well-being and usefulness,
but for the good of our Grammar Schools, that they
may preserve their present high standing and con-
tinue to be instruments of good to those, whose cir-
cumstances in life make it necessary for them to
withdraw from School at nearly the age when they
become qualified for admission to the High School,
or for those who may never be able to attain to the
standard of admission to this School. There need
not be any conflict of interest or usefulness between
these two classes of our Schools. If the character
of our High School is one of superior rank, and ad-
22
mission to it is made a motive to exertion with the
pupils of our Grammar Schools, its effect in stimulat-
ing them to powerful effort, cannot but have an im-
portant influence on these Schools, and greatly aid
the teacher in his labors to qualify his pupils for pro-
motion to the higher School ; — a result, in which
his interest as well as that of his pupils, is at stake.
The examination of candidates for admission to the
Upper School, will, and always should be, free from
all partiality, and be made to depend, not upon what
the pupil may be able to do, but upon what he has
already done — upon the state of his knowledge.
This will depend somewhat upon the ability and in-
dustry of the pupil, and as scholars are more or less
faithful to the opportunities afforded them, under an
able and efficient teacher, (and the general result of
an examination may to some degree become evidence
of the ability of the teacher) the time will be more
or less protracted, of their making the preparation
required for admission to the High School. Having
reached the point of his present ambition, the pupil
is now to be carried forward in a more comprehen-
sive and thorough knowledge of some of the studies
which he has been pursuing, among which, are the
English language. Writing, History, Algebra, Draw-
ing, Music and Geometry, with their applications,
and with such of the following studies as the School
Committee may hereafter determine, viz : —
Mathematics, — Natural Philosophy, Natural His-
tory, — Chemistry, — Astronomy, — Surveying, —
Drafting, — Navigation, — Mental and Moral Sci-
ence, — Natural Theology, ■ — Physiology, — Politi-
cal Economy, — the Constitution of the United States,
and the Latin, Greek and French languages. The
studies to be modified according to the sex and ad-
23
vancement, and, in some degree, the future destina-
tion of the pupils. To every young man, should be
given a thorough English education, with high moral
principles, preparing him for the pursuit of Agricul-
ture, Trade, Manufactures, Commerce, or the Me-
chanic Arts, and for College, if it may be desirable or
advisable : — and to every young v^oman, the culti-
vation of an elevated and well disciplined mind, high
moral aims, practical views of the duties and obliga-
tions of life, and a knowledge of those resources of
purity of thought, manners and conversation, which
stamp with beauty every station in life, and make
true virtue, not only valuable to its possessor, but an
object of loveliness wherever it is found.
Scholars may be formed by books alone ; but yet,
it is desirable to give them some practical knowledge
also, and to this end, a suitable supply of apparatus
for illustrating the study in Mathematics, Natural
Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, &c., should be
furnished to every high school. A small appropria-
tion annually, for the above object, would, in a few
years, secure to our school this desirable end, and
would not be felt in the aggregate expense of sup-
porting the school.
RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
The establishing of the High School, together
with the change made in the location of the Gram-
mar School House in Ward 2, and the rebuilding of
that in Ward 1, renders it necessary that an altera-
tion be made in the limits of the School districts.
In view of this fact, the Committee have devoted
much time and thought to the subject of re-organi-
zing the Grammar Schools, They are aware of the
24
importance of this measure, and while they have
availed themselves of the opinions of many vrhose
practical knowledge of school organization is worthy
of much consideration, they have not been unmind-
ful of the opinions and wishes of the large class of
our own citizens, who feel deeply interested in all
matters connected with the educational interests of
their children, and the prosperity and usefulness of
our public schools. No subject of equal magnitude
has been presented to the consideration of this Board,
and there is none upon which they have bestowed so
much careful investigation.
Their conclusions have been deliberately formed,
and with a full conviction that if parents generally
will second the measures decided upon by the Com-
mittee, these schools will be placed in a higher sphere
of usefulness to the children, of both sexes, than
they have heretofore sustained.
We have in Charlestown, nearly all the varieties
of school organization ; — the Primary Schools, for
children of both sexes, — a Grammar School, with
children of both sexes in the same room and under
the same teacher, — a school for both sexes, (double
headed) each sex occupying separate rooms, and
alternating from one room to the other each half
day ; — - one school for boys only, and one for girls
only, (both double headed) and alternating from one
room to the other, in the same building each half
day. That there has been an opportunity for wit-
nessing the operation, and contrasting the results of
these several systems of organization, no one will
deny ; — their different merits have been fully dis-
cussed in the Committee, — their claims upon the
confidence and support of our citizens have been
considered — the intellectual and moral influence
25
exerted by them upon the young has received that
careful deliberation which the importance of the sub-
ject appeared to demand ; and in view of all the
facts, as presented to your Committee, they have been
irresistibly led to the conclusion, that our schools
should be organized as distinct and separate schools,
each embracing the children of both sexes, and un-
der the charge of one Principal teacher, one sub-
master, and two female assistants.
The separate school system for each of the sexes
appears to be entirely at war with the whole social
organization of society. Where is the separation of
the sexes tolerated, except in some of the Public or
Private schools'?
We do not find it in the organization of Sunday
schools or Primary schools. In all social gatherings
of the young, whether in the domestic circle, in par-
ties of pleasure, or in rural and other excursions, it
is desired and expected that both sexes will be
brought together to participate in, and add to the
enjoyments of the occasion. The same practice is
almost invariably pursued by young ladies and gen-
tlemen, and by adults, in all their social gatherings ;
under all circumstances, and in all conditions of civ-
ilized life, female influence is recognized, and its
power to refine and soften the feelings of man and
promote his welfare and happiness, is acknowledged.
Shall, then, our schools be the only places where
this influence is to be excluded, and school days, the
happiest in human existence, be marked as the only
period in life, at which the bringing together of the
sexes, can have no agency in purifying and elevating
the character and condition of the social compact?
Besides, by the proposed arrangement of our schools,
the children of one family will be brought together
26
in the same room, and under the influence and in-
struction of one set of teachers, thereby avoiding the
embarrassments, perplexities and adverse influences
to which both scholars and teachers are often sub-
jected in double-headed schools.
Our schools are occasionally subjected to a change
of teachers, and when this occurs, it requires much
time for the new teacher to become familiar with his
pupils, their temperament, habits, dispositions, and
the best mode of governing them. This labor is at
best, a very arduous one, and is made doubly so, un-
der the double-headed system of organization, where
the teacher is brought in contact with twice the num-
ber of children ; yet he has but half the time to be-
stow upon this work that would be allowed him
under the system of separate or single school organ-
ization, and as the pupils now alternate each half
day, the influence exerted upon them one half of the
day, in one room, may be in part or entirely coun-
teracted the next half day in the other room ; there-
fore, the labor is again to be gone over, and success
in carrying out his purposes and plans for a well
regulated school, must be much protracted, and with
his best directed efl"orts, never perhaps fully realized.
The Bunker Hill School House, and the new
School Houses on Bunker Hill street and on Har-
vard street, are constructed with separate entrances,
clothes rooms and yards, for the accommodation of
both sexes, and are provided with suitable recitation
rooms.
These conveniences are yet to be furnished for the
Warren School, and when they are provided for this
School, there will be a uniformity in the construc-
tion and general arrangement of all our Grammar
School Houses.
27
The importance of furnishing recitation rooms for
the Warren School, has been urged by former
Boards, and your Committee have now instructed a
Sub-Committee from their number, to ascertain the
cost of supplying this want for the above school,
and for providing an additional stairway in the pres-
ent porch of the building, to admit of separate en-
trances for both sexes to the school room in the sec-
ond story.
They have farther instructed this Sub-Committee
to apply to the City Council for an appropriation to
defray the expense thereof
In view of the positions herein taken, and with a
desire to secure greater perfection and uniformity in
our school system, the School Committee have deci-
ded, that when the Winthrop and Harvard School
Houses shall be completed, they shall be occupied by
four distinct schools, each school to be composed of
children of both sexes ; and when recitation rooms
and an additional stairway are provided at the War-
ren School House, it shall be occupied by two dis-
tinct schools, each to be composed of children of
both sexes ; the Bunker Hill School has long been
organized and successfully conducted upon this plan.
The number of scholars in all our schools, is quite
too large for the force employed in teaching them.
Teachers cannot do full justice to their pupils, espe-
cially in the Grammar Schools, where the variety
of studies is more numerous and difficult. While
these schools contain so large a number of scholars,
it is absolutely essential to their welfare and success,
that additional assistance be furnished to all the
Grammar Schools, by the appointment of a sub-mas-
ter to each of them.
There being two recitation rooms in each story of
all the Grammar Schools except the Warren, the
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assistant teachers will be able to attend to all the
recitations of their classes in these, while the princi-
pal and sub-master can, at the same time, be conduct-
ing their recitations in the main room ; and by the
sub-master at such times, having the general care and
oversight of the room, the principal could be reliev-
ed from this duty while engaged with the upper
classes in giving illustrations or explanations, upon
the studies which these classes have been pursuing.
The system of monitors, also, which now, at such
times, is indispensible, (a system attended with many
evils wherever practiced,) could be entirely avoided ;
a point which it will be difficult to eifect with the
present arrangement of our Schools, and the large
number which, under the present construction of our
School Houses, must necessarily be enrolled upon
their lists.
The salary of a competent, faithful, and efficient
sub-Master, will not exceed seven hundred dollars
per annum, a sum of money which, in promoting the
welfare of our Schools, would be profitably expended.
This arrangement will also give the Principal
Teacher an opportunity of knowing the character
and proficiency of all the Scholars of his School, and
of suggesting to his Assistants a remedy for any de-
fects which, upon an examination of their classes, he
may find to exist ; thus adding to the usefulness and
prosperity of our Grammar Schools. Our Schools
will, therefore, in carrying out the plan now fixed
upon for their organization, contain one Principal
Teaciier, one sub-Master, and two female Assistant
Teachers, to each School.
These Schools, together with the High School,
when organized, will meet the wants of the City for
such a class of Schools for several years.
It will be seen by reference to the abstracts of the
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Massachusetts School Returns, for several years past,
that Charlestown stands high in the graduated scale,
which represents the amount of appropriations made
by the Towns in this Commonwealth for the support
of Public kSchools. Although the sum to each child
between the ages of four and sixteen years, for
the School years ending in April, 1847, and Feb-
ruary, 1848 — may be found to fall a little below
the amount for the several years immediately preced-
ing these ; yet, this is no evidence of a want of inter-
est among our citizens for the cause of popular edu-
cation. They are ever anxious that the Schools of
Charlestown shall aiford to the young equal oppor-
tunities, to those enjoyed by the children of any other
Town or City in the Commonwealth, and are always
ready and willing to be liberally taxed for this object.
"We doubt not that every resident in this City feels a
desire, that the prosperity of its Free Schools shall
keep pace with the accumulating wealth of its citi-
zens, its rapidly increasing business prospects, and
the growth of its population. They well know how
much the peaceable enjoyment of the comforts which
prosperity affords, depends upon the moral and social
obligations which bind a community together, and
the mighty influence which knowledge has in pro-
moting the general welfare of society, and the bright-
est hopes of mankind. Therefore, they look with
pride to their Public Schools, and strive to make
them .instrumental in disseminating knowledge
through every rank and condition of life; thereby
imparting to all classes a better understanding of the
sources of true interest and happiness ; — leading all
to a more just appreciation and a more faithful dis-
charge of every civil, social, and domestic duty.
3*
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE. — TRUSTEES OF CHARLES-
TOWN FREE SCHOOLS, TRUST FUND, &c.
In the 11th section of the Charter of the city of
Charlestown, after prescribing the manner of elect-
ing, and fixing the number of the School Committee, it
says : " The persons thus chosen shall constitute the
School Committee, and have the care and superin-
tendence of the Public Schools."
The Statutes of the Commonwealth provide, that
every town shall hold an annual meeting in the
month of March or April, and that the inhabitants
of every Town or City, shall, at their annual meeting,
choose by written ballot, a School Committee, who
shall have the general charge and superintendence
of all the public schools in such town or city.
The Statutes provide, that the School Committee
shall determine the number and qualifications of the
Scholars to be admitted into the Schools kept for the
use of the whole Town, and said School Committee
shall direct what books shall be used in the several
Schools, and may direct what books shall be used
in the respective classes ; — and the scholars shall be
supplied by their parents, masters or guardians, with
the books prescribed for their classes. It says fur-
ther, that in case any scholar shall not be furnished
by his parent, master or guardian, with the requisite
books, he shall be supplied by the School Committee
at the expense of the Town, and the School Commit-
tee shall give to the Assessors of the Town the names
of the scholars so supplied with books, and they shall
tax the parent, master, or guardian of such scholars
for the same, and the amount shall be collected in
the same manner as the town taxes.
The 11th Section of the City Charter, further pro-
vides, that the persons chosen as the School Com-
mittee, shall have " all the powers and privileges and
be subject to all the liabilities set forth in an act
passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three, entitled ' An act to incorporate certain
persons by the name of the Trustees of Charlestown
Free Schools,' and all acts in addition thereto." By
this act, the Trustees are made the " Visitors, Trus-
tees and Governors of the Schools," and " have power
to make and ordain such lavs^s, rules and orders for
the good government of said Schools, as to them the
Trustees, Governors and Visitors and their succes-
sors, shall from time to time seem most fit and requi-
site ; all which shall be observed by the officers and
scholars of said Schools, upon the penalties therein
contained."
" Said rules, laws and orders not to be inconsist-
ent with the laws of the Commonwealth."
It will be seen by the above, that the act incorpor-
ating the " Trustees, &c.," — does not give to them
the powers which are generally given to the Trustees
of Academies and other Schools not supported by pub-
lic authority and at public expense ; but such as by
the general laws of the Commonwealth, are given to
the School Committees of each town, over the Schools
of their respective towns.
By the preamble of the act of March 27th, 1793,
creating the Corporation of the Trustees of the
Charlestown Free Schools, the object appears to
have been, a more convenient administration of cer-
tain real and personal property that had been be-
queathed to the town for the use of the Public
Schools, "and prevent it from being indiscriminately
mixed with other property or funds of the town, and
so lost to the specific use for which it was given."
Traditionary account says also, that there was an ex-
pectation, that other funds would be given, if there
should be an assurance that they would be kept
sacred for the above object.
The object of the Charter, then, appears to have
been, to provide Trustees for these funds, which were
trust property ; and it " was thought most appropri-
ate at that time, to make the persons whom the town
should yearly elect to the care of its Schools, the
Trustees of such funds;" they and their successors,
were, therefore, designated by the corporate name of
"The Trustees of Charlestown Free Schools," and
clothed with all the usual powers and liabilities of
similar corporations, for all purposes connected with
the care and administration of the aforesaid trust
funds ; — but in all other respects, their powers were
only such, as under the general laws of the Com-
monwealth, are given to School Committees.
It was doubtless " intended by this Charter, to keep
the gifts of public spirited citizens, made for uses,
which, compared Avith the ordinary expenditures of
the Town for streets, drains, and the like, may well
be called sacred, from falling into the general Treas-
ury, to be drawn out and expended for ordinary pur-
poses," when a momentary or imaginary want, urged
at a Town Meeting, should prove stronger than a
strict regard for the intention of the donors.
In 1 842, the Trustees' funds consisted of 35 shares
of the Union Bank Stock, a town note for ^1,200,
for money loaned the town, and a town note for ^600.
All these funds were productive, though the income
from them was united with the appropriations of the
town, and from the whole sum, all the expenses of
the schools were paid; the practice at that time
being, for the treasurer of the trustees to draw money
from the town treasury, and pay all school bills.
The trustees, in 1842, sold the Union Bank stock,
collected the town note of ;^1,200, and the interest
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due on the same, also one year's interest on the town
note of ^600. These sums, together with the
amount of Dea. Thomas Miller's legacy, with the
interest on the same, — the whole amounting to
^4,913.67, — were invested in the Bow Street school
house and land ; for which, no rent or interest has
been received since this large portion of the trust
property was so expended, — the trustees having no
income from the property, except the interest on the
town note for $600, which is regularly received.
Thus, as to the bulk of the trust funds, the very
thing which was sought by the act of 1793 to be
guarded against, has come upon us.
We see no reason why the city should not give to
the School Committee a note, on interest, for the
amount invested in the Bow Street school house
estate, and receive from the committee a conveyance
of this property ; thus restoring to the trustees the
amount of the trust funds, w^hich would give to them
an annual income of about ^300, which sum " could
be usefully expended by the School Committee," as
the trustees of these funds, for the legitimate pur-
poses for which it is supposed the funds were orig-
inally bestowed.
The fact that only the income of these funds was
to be expended for the benefit of the schools,
shows that they were not intended to relieve the
citizens from taxation for the support of schools.
" They were given for the improvement, and not the
support of schools, not for the purpose of building
school houses, or purchasing fuel, or paying salaries,
but as a fund in the hands of the School Committee,
to be expended in their discretion, in the purchase of
books for libraries, for maps, apparatus," &c. ; or for
" some convenience or ornament to make the school
room more attractive" or useful to the children ; for
which purposes, many are not willing to appropriate
money, and yet would delight to see, and to feel that
their children could enjoy as a gift. What feelings
of " grateful remembrance towards some venerable
father of the town, or friend of education, may be
awakened in the young, by the daily enjoyment of
some such luxury. No man will be thanked for
paying the taxes of posterity, but let him leave a
fund, the income of which shall be expended in fur-
nishing some convenience, accomplishment, or im-
provement, above the ordinary means afforded by the
town, and successive generations will rise up and call
him blessed."
SCHOOL BOOKS, &c.
The 19th Section of the 23d Chapter of the Re-
vised Statutes, provides, " That the School Commit-
tees of each town may provide, at the expense of the
town, or otherwise, a sufficient supply of such class-
books for all the schools aforesaid, and shall give no-
tice of the place, where such books may be obtained ;
and the books shall be supplied to the scholars
at such prices as merely to reimburse the expense of
the same."
The subject of supplying the children of our
public schools with books and stationery, after the
plan suggested by the above statute, has been before
the committee for some time, and they are endeavor-
ing to make an arrangement, by which school books
shall be furnished to the pupils, at " such prices
as merely to reimburse the expense of the same.''
If the committee can fix upon some plan, by which
books of an uniform quality shall be provided at
some central location in this city, where all can
readily obtain them, they are of opinion that the
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cost of the same may be made such as to become an
inducement to all, to supply themselves with school-
books and stationery in this manner, rather than in the
way in which they have ordinarily been provided for
the children of our schools. Due notice will be
given when these arrangements for the supply of
books shall have been completed, and whether the
same are to be furnished at the expense of the city,
or be paid for by individuals on their receiving them.
TEACHEES' SALARIES, &c.
The School Committee have had under considera-
tion the salaries paid to our Teachers, and after fully
deliberating upon this subject, they have decided,
that in justice to them and the interests of our
Schools, we should be warranted in making an addi-
tion, to the amount which has heretofore been paid
to them ; — therefore, they have fixed the salaries of
the Masters in the Grammar Schools at ^^1,000 per
year, each, and all the Primary School Teachers and
Assistants in the Grammar Schools at ^250 each,
per year ; — this arrangement to take effect on the
16th day of the present month.
,Charlestown is nearly encircled by cities, in some
of which, higher salaries are paid to both male and
female Teachers than we pay, and while this City is
no less prosperous than her sister cities, and has as
deeply at heart the cause of public education, she
must, if from no higher motive than self-defence, fix
the rate of compensation for her School Teachers at
something near the rate paid in other cities and large
towns in her immediate vicinity. The number of
Teachers who bave been taken from our Schools dur-
ing the past year, has fully proved to your Board the
fact, that soon after Teachers have established a
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reputation in our Schools, and have become efficient
in the positions they have been called to fill, they
are taken from them by offers of a higher salary
than they receive with us, — a powerful inducement
to every one, whose merits will commend them to
the notice of those in pursuit of competent, experi-
enced, and successful Teachers.
The establishing of several new Primary Schools,
will be indispensable during the coming year. Ar-
rangements should be immediately made for the or-
ganizing of one or more, in the eastern section of the
city, where some of this class of schools are so full
that the scholars, at times, cannot be seated. There
is also a want felt in the western part of the city for
a new Primary School. The citizens in that section
have already petitioned the School Committee upon
this subject, and they have submitted the matter to
the City Council, asking of them a suitable building
for the purposes of such a school. It is understood
that a lot of land has been secured for this object.
The prosperity of our Free Schools, is of vital im-
portance to the public good, and these noble institu-
tions, which have come down to us as a heritage from
the wisdom and patriotism of worthy and honored
ancestors, should be cherished, improved and perpet-
uated, for the general welfare of society, and for the
advancement of mankind in all that is elevating and
noble in his nature.
HENRY K. FROTHINGHAM, Chairman.
In School Committee^ Feb. 23, 1848.
Voted, That the foregoing Report be accepted by
this Board.
Voted, That twenty-five hundred copies be printed
and distributed to the citizens.
GEO. FAPRAR, Secretary,
LIST OF PERSONS TAXED
FOR
CITY AND COUNTY,
FOR 1 847,
IN THE
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
TO WHICH IS ADDED THE
TREASURER'S STATEMENT
OF
RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES, &c.
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE CITT,
CHARLESTOWN r
PRINTED AT THE FREEMAN OFFICE,
1848.
C
LIST OF PERSONS TAXED.
The names of those Persona whose Taxes remain nnsettled, are denoted by a *
WARD No. 1.
Abbott, John
1 50
Armstrong', Oliver . . . . .
1 50
Applin, Wesson
15 94
Ayer, Oliver
3 78
Artherton, Samuel
39 50
Adams, Edwin F
]04 10
Adams, George S
151 22
Alberty, Raphael B
1 50
Arnold, William
54 76
Adams, James
149 70
Adams, Abraham D
1 50
Ayer, Samuel
15 94
Adams, Chester
170 98
Adams, Edward
117 02
Ames, Cyrus
1 50
Adams, Daniel S.
10 62
Arnold, James
12 90
Arnold, George
6 06
Arnold, William, heirs of,
34 20
Armitage, John
1 50
Armitage, Joseph
1 50
Andrews, Abraham
77 50
Alexander, Henry S
5 30
Ambor, Artemus
1 50
Abbott, Samuel
201 38
Abbott, Samuel & Co. . .
27 36
Applin, Benjamin
13 66
Austin, Nathaniel
1 50
Applin, Sumner
15 94
Arnold, Catharine
7 60
Arnold, Isaiah F
28 10
Alden, James
7 58
Boyle, Francis
1 50
Bogardus, A. R
1 50
Burnham, Harrison
1 50
Brown, Franklin
1 50
Brown, Ephraim
1 50
Beard, William
1 50
Blanchard, Benjamin G. .
30 38
Brooks, Charles H
3 78
Bailey, Barker
12 90
Bradford, Duncan
9 10
Buel, Loveman 1 50
Blaisdell, William 5 30
Baker, Abiah 1 50
Bridges, Francis 1 50
Breed, John 1 50
Brewer, John 2 26
Brown, Amos 22 02
Brewster, Ezra S 3 78
Baldwin, Edson 1 50
Bunker, Thomas 1 50
Bowman, Zadock 41 02
Bowman, Dexter 96 50
Barker, George 77 50
Bragdon, Roderick 1 50
Bakewell, Henry 5 30
Bradford, Russell 1 50
Bagley, T 1 50
Braun, Eugene E 5 30
Barker, Loring 15 20
Burdett, William 1 50
Barker, Ebenezer 49 38
Bemis, Horace 3 02
Bellman, Francis C 1 50
Bell, John C 6 06
Bailey, Loami 3 78
Brown, Benjamin, Jr. ... 64 58
Brown, Caleb S. ....... 3 02
Brown, Jonathan, Jr 34 94
Blaisdell, Francis 1 50
Bemis, Jonathan W 38 74
Bailey, Joshua S 39 12
Brown, George A 1 50
Bradley, Edwin 6 82
Bryant, John 1 50
Bryant, John, Jr 4 54
Bryant, Thomas 150
Brown, Isaac E 14 42
Balfour, Walter 66 10
Bulkley, Samuel 1 50
*Boyd, William 5 30
Brown, John H 50 14
Brown, George W 1 50
JBeckford, William M 1 50
Brackett, Joseph 3 78
Brown, James 3 02
Bowman, D. & Z 171 00
Bradley & Richardson, . . 31 16
Bailey, Cyrus B 1 50
*Batchelder, John G. ... 1 50
Brownell Benjamin 1 50
Bowen, John R 3 02
*Burns, Edmund A 1 50
*Bartlett, Stephen 1 50
Ballard, Alpheus 1 50
Brown, Jonathan L 1 50
Byrnes, William M 49 38
Bellows, Albert J 42 54
Boyle, Patrick 1 50
Burkholder, Daniel 1 50
Batchelder, Peter 3 02
*Beckler, Charles 3 02
Brown, Sumner 3 02
*Brannan, Timothy 1 50
*Bond, Asa 1 50
Bridgeman, Stephen V. R. 1 50
*Bisbee, 1 50
Bragdon, Feter 1 50
Bean, Joseph P 1 50
Bradbury, Thomas 1 50
Baker, Thomas 3 02
Burrill, Joseph, 14 42
Bradbury, Oakes J 3 78
Brintnell, Samuel 2 20
Brintnell, Samuel R. . . . . 3 02
*Banks, John 1 50
Brown, Abraham 1 50
Butterfield, William 1 50
*Brannan, Patrick 1 50
Brandenburg, Oliver W. . 3 02
Butts, Noah 9 10
Brintnall, Thomas 3 02
Burbank, Elisha 1 50
Barker, William 1 50
Bartlett, Jonathan 1 50
Bowers, Henry 1 50
Barnes, Jonas L 1 50
Barril, Frederick 1 50
Barrett, Samuel W, 1 50
Brower, Henry 3 02
Bailey, Ephraim 1 50
Buel, Jeremiah 1 50
*Bowman, Richard 1 50
Bailey, Kendall 284 22
Bambrich, James 1 50
Beal, Elijah 3 78
Bailey, Kendall, 2d 12 14
Blanchard, Isaac 31 14
Bradbury, Josiah C. .... 3 02
Brown, David 17 46
*Beard, Augustus 1 50
Blanchard, Cyrus 12 14
Bacon, William H 32 42
Bailey, George S 1 50
Bryant, Timothy 69 14
Babcock, Moses 9 10
*Bowers, b^dward C 1 50
Bogart, Cornelius 1 50
Brown, James, 2d 3 02
Brown, Henry 1 50
Burcham, Charles 1 50
Barrett, Jonas 30 38
Bradt, Isaac M 1 50
*Blood, Nathan 1 50
Brown, George, 2d ..... 1 50
Bradshaw, Eleazer E. ... 136 78
Balfour, David M 3 02
Bailey, John B 1 50
Babcock, Albert H 1 50
Bridge, Jonathan, heirs of, 24 32
Barnes, Reuben K. heirs of, 7 60
Bartlett, Elizabeth, heirs of; 19 76
Brown, David & Son ... 3 80
Brown, Benj. Jr. guardian 3 80
Crowley, Jeremiah 1 50
Conroy, John 1 50
Carr, Uriah W 12 90
Cole, Augustus H 9 86
Carnes, Nathan W 1 50
*Cummings, Amos M. . . 1 50
Crafts, Elias 42 54
Cummings, David 1 50
Clark, Enoch J 1 50
Cameron, Alexander J. . . 8 00
Carte, William 1 50
Cobb, Moses G 9 10
Carleton, William 308 54
Chalk, William 3 02
Cox, Charles 1 50
Currier, Charles 1 50
Call, Jonathan 50 90
Crane, Silas 1 50
Conner, John 1 50
*Chase, Ede K 1 50
Collins, Hiram 3 02
Cummings, William — . 1 50
Cotting, William W. . . . 3 02
Chamberlin, George C. . . 11 38
Curtiss, Jared 9 10
Corigell, James 10 64
Cody, John 1 50
Collins, Richard 1 50
Carleton, Catharine .... 55 48
Carlcton, Alfred 77 50
Crosby, Franklin 1 50
■Chapman, Lothrop 3 02
Cory, Isaac ..' 3 78
Cutter, Samuel 18 98
Childs, William C 9 10
Collins, Herrod 3 02
Cook, Lydia T 7 60
Croswell, Joseph B 3 78
Currier, John P 6 82
Cristy, William C 47 10
Cristy, William C. & M. . 8 36
Cristy, Moses 4 54
Cristy, Henry F. . . . 1 50
Cristy, William C. Jr. , . 13 66
Caldwell, Timothy B. . . . 17 46
Chickering, Joseph ..... 1 50
Cassell, William C 7 58
Clark, Joshua S 3 78
*Cummings, 1 50
Cutter, J.Carter 6 82
Carter, Charles S 4 54
Campbell, Eliza 13 68
Caverly, Moses 1 50
*Crandal], Hezekiah I 50
Crafts & Taylor 6 08
Child, George H 16 70
Chase, Artemas E. ..... 1 50
Curtiss, Orin 3 t)2
Coffran, Susannah 47 12
Coffran, John, heirs of, . . 32 68
Cook, Trueworthy . . 1 50
*Carroll, John 1 50
*Coburn, S. A. 1 50
*Connely, Patrick 1 50
Caverly, Everett F 3 78
Creighton, John 1 50
Cutting, William H 6 06
*Chellis, Seth 1 50
Cutter, George W 1 50
Cutter, Marshall N. .... 25 82
*Calhoun, Thomas 1 50
Carter, Augustus H 1 50
Clark, James, 2d 1 50
Campbell, James 1 50
Cutter, Oliver C 9 10
Crowningshield, Benjamin 20 50
Clark, John C 1 50
Cheeny, Albion 1 50
Childs, Francis 28 10
Clark, Asahel G 1 50
Caswell, William 157 30
Caswell, Jacob 109 42
Caswell, Octavius B 1 50
Caswell, Francis J 6 82
Caswell, James M 1 50
Clapp, George H 3 02
Crowningshield, Jacob . . 6 00
Caldwell, Joseph 3 02
Caldwell, Asa 1 50
Colburn, Gilbert 1 50
Crooker, Nath'l, heirs of, . 11 40
Choate, Benjamin E. . . 9 10
Cilley, Jonathan 1 50
Caverly, John H 3 50
*Cutter, William 1 50
Carr, Charles F 1 50
Caldwell, George A 3 78
Curtiss, Robert 1 50
*Cunningham, John T. . . 1 50
Chandler, Samuel 13 66
Conroy, John, 2d, 1 50
Gov, Horace C 1 50
Calder, Robert, Jr 92 70
Chandler, William T. . . 1 50
Cloutman, John 4 54
Cades, William H. 3 78
Collins, Joshua C. 3 78
Carter, Joseph 77 50
Clark, Aaron 1 50
Caldwell, John, Jr 31 90
Caldwell, John B. 137 54
Church, Forster 1 50
*Corson, Frederick F. . . 1 50
*Conroy, Lawrence .... 1 50
Chaffee, E. Bound 1 50
Clapp, William G 1 50
*Crooker, Thomas M. . . . 1 50
*Chase, Elias 1 50
«Chand]er, A 1 50
Cleary, William W 1 50
Child, Caleb 1 50
Clark, James 5 30
Dix, LeviW 1 50
Denvir, William 3 78
Denegan, Jeremiah 1 50
*Dimon, John 1 50
Donevan, John 1 50
Dickenson, Lucius, Jr. . . 1 50
Dalrymple, Willard, 36 46
Dwinnell, Ira C 1 50
Devens, Sam_uel 98 02
Deleno, Jeptha 1 50
Dunkan, John 1 50
Drake, Ames 1 50
Doane, Heman S 72 18
Dean, Christopher C. ... 13 66
Delin, Nicholas 1 50
Downer, Barney T. .... 22 02
Devens, David , 392 14
Delano, Nathaniel 1 0 G2
Dodge, David 24 30
Deblois, James 47 38
Drew, Harriet 26 60
Draper, Samuel 20 50
Draper, Edward L 3 78
*Davenport, Charles D. . 3 78
Deveraux, John N 3 02
Dockum, Ephraim N. . . . 1 50
Durkin, Mark 1 50
Dodge, Seward 1 50
Dunkan, Stephen D 3 02
Dodge, Benjamin 3 78
*Danforth, Henry W. . . . 3 78
Davis, James 3 78
*Day, 1 50
Devlin, Peter 1 50
Dockham, Josiah B ] 50
Deviney, William 1 50
Downer, Elisha 3 78
Durfee, William 1 50
*Driscoll, Nicholas 1 50
Doyle, Perley H 1 50
*Davis, Edward 1 50
Davis, John 1 50
Dow, James 1 50
Dennis, Jacob 1 50
Dennis, William 1 50
Davenport, Edwin 5 30
Daggett, Samuel 4 01
Daggett, Cooledge C. , . 1 50
Davis, Henry 6 06
Dickenson, Joseph 3 02
Driscoll, John 1 50
Dow, Moses A 5 30
Davis, Gillman, 3 78
Dill, Washington 1 50
Downing, Abraham E. . . 1 50
Downing, Orin E 3 78
Davidson, Hamilton .... 472 70
Davidson, Charles H 11 38
Dearborn, David 1 50
*Durgan, James W 1 50
Dana, James 395 18
Devens, David, Pres 136 80
Davis, Webster D 1 50
Davidson, Hamilton, and
others, 136 80
Ennis, Simon 1 50
Enwright, Daniel 1 50
Emmons, Charles P 35 70
Ellisg & McKean, 12 92
Evelcth, Charles .3 02
Eddy, George R. ...... 40 26
Edmands, Benjamin 86 62
Edmands, William S. . . 4 54
Edmands, Waldo B 1 50
Edmands, Martha 28 88
Edmands, George W. . . 1 50
Everett, Lucian C 1 50
Edmands, Barnabas . — 350 32
*Edmands, Joseph W. . . 4 54
Edmands, Benjamin B. W. 1 50
Edmands, Barnabas & Sons 25 84
Eldridge, Benjamin W. . . 3 02
Edmands, Augustus B. . . 1 50
Eaton, Albert 7 58
*Edmands, Thomas J. .. 150
Edmands, John D 22 02
Edmands, George D 1 50
Emerson, Nathan 3 02
Elliott, George C 1 50
Edes, Robert B. Jr. & Co. 19 00
Evans, Benjamin 3 78
Edmands, William M. . . 37 22
Emerson, William . . 1 50
Ellis, John 1 50
Emerson, Charles 60 02
Emerson, Elias 7 58
Ellis, Joseph 3 78
Ellis, George E 20 50
Eger, William 7 58
English, Patrick 1 50
Edmands, Barnabas, Trust. 38 00
Flanagan, John 1 50
*ri etcher, Samuel 1 50
French, Moses S 3 78
Feathers, Francis 1 50
Finney, William 17 46
Fayes, Martin P 10 62
*Francis, Samuel ...... 1 50
Frost, Albert A 5 30
P'uller, Stephen 4 54
Fosdick, James 62 30
Fletcher, Jonathan V. . . 47 10
Farrar, George 25 06
*Flint, Mason 3 02
Flint, Simon 66 86
Felton, Samuel M 117 78
Frothingham, Amos T. . . 44 82
Frothingham, EdAvard M. 5 30
Fosdick, John 55 46
Ford, Ebenezer 48 62
Felton, Thomas 1 50
Forster, Henry 434 70
Flagg, John P 123 86
Fatnsworth, John C 6 82
Fauncc, Elisha 13
Fessenden, Isaac
Ford, Hannah
Forbes, William
Fox, David B
Fox, Edward S
*Foster,
Fuller, Charles W
Fellows, Milo
Fernald, Joseph
Fitchum, Edward A
Field, Jacob
Fosdick, Daniel
Frost, Charles T
Fickett, Samuel
Fall, Tristram
Fowler, Thomas
Forster, Jacob
Fairbanks, Henry P
Frothingham, John W. . .
Fenno, Stephen
Forster, Lawrence & Co.
Fosdick, Carter & Co. . .
Fletcher & Tay ........
Fisk, Letetia
Fisk, Emeline
G 82
1 50
7 60
9 10
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 50
37 22
1 50
1 50
9 10
9 86
1 50
18 98
463 58
73 70
9 10
1 50
114 76
45 60
44 08
9 12
38 00
*Green, William
Gillman, Benjamin . . . .
*Gleason,
Goodrich, Ira
Grover, Alexander H.
*Gilbert,
Gale, Charles W
Ginn, James
Goodridge, David
Glines, Nahum M. . . . .
Griffin, Warren
Gould, John B
Gregory, John
Gibson, Griffin .- .
Gary, John
Gerry, William
Gutterson, William H.
Grant, Abraham W. . .
Grover, Calvin ......
Goodwin George J. . .
Gould, James
Green, George .....-,
*GofF, James
GofF, Reuben .......
Gardner, Franklin . . .
Ginn, John C
Gardner, Aaron H. . . .
Goodnow, Joseph . . .
1 50
1 50
1 50
45 58
8 34
22 78
74 46
1 50
43 30
7 58
1 50
15 18
1 50
22 02
455 98
50
78
50
50
50
Grubb, John, heirs of, . . . 7 00
Gregg, Chauncy 1 50
Gage, George W 1 50
Gaffncy, Peter 1 50
Gates, Noah 3 02
Goodridge, Lorenzo 1 50
Gage, Hittenger & Co. . 378 48
*Galagher, Laurence 1 50
Golding, Dennis 1 50
Green, Thomas H 1 50
Gorham, Stephen 9 10
Goodridge, George W. . . 1 50
*Green, Rufus 1 50
Gage, Jane 7 60
Goodnow, Alexander 1 50
Gates, James L 7 58
Goodnow, Levi 51 66
Goodridge, George ..... 30 38
Gage, Elizabeth 14 44
Gove, Warren 1 50
Gardner, Daniel B 1 50
Gage, Addison 9 10
*Gage, Asa
Goodwin, Thomas R. 2d
Gove, Ebenezer T. ......
*Gilbert, Samuel W
*Gray, Augustine
Greenleaf, Patrick H. . . 9 10
Glidden, John W 21 26
Gline, Bradford E 1 50
Gould, Joseph, heirs of, . 9 12
Higgins, Thomas 3 02
Hardy, Benjamin 1 50
Hatsfield, Joseph 1 50
Hays, John • 1 50
Huff, Benjamin 1 50
*Hobart, George 1 50
Harris, John 83 58
Holden, Thomas F 56 22
Hinkley, Ezra 1 50
Hinkley, John 1 50
Horn, Van Voorhis 1 50
Haywood, George 1 50
Houghton, Ezra 1 50
Houghton, Charles 3 02
Houghton, George . 1 50
Holden, Nathaniel 3 02
Houghton, Jonas ....
Hill, Mark P
Hoyt, Sylvester S. . .
Hooper, Edward
Horton, Reuben
Horton, Reuben, Jr 1 50
*Hart, Joseph 3 78
50
02
50
50
50
Hoburt, Elbiidge G 1 50
Hall, Isaac 5 30
Hunt, Reuben 355 66
Hunt, Reuben, J r 3 02
Houghton & Hill . . 7 60
Hall, Gorham 1 50
Hale, Pollus 1 50
Hubbel, Peter 139 06
Hastings, Walter 39 50
Harris, John, 2d 6 06
Hall, Jacob 1 50
Hovey, Solomon 34 94
Hutchins, Ezra C 64 58
Hutchins, Henry C 9 10
Hill, William 1 50
Hurd, J. Stearns 90 42
Hurd, Marv F 157 32
Hurd, William .... ... 677 14
Haynes, Benjamin 1 6 70
Hoyt, Otis 39 50
Hyde, George 43 30
Hadley, Isaac V 3 78
Hovey, Henry 150
Higgins, John, Jr 1 50
Hadley, Aaron 16 70
Hadley, Aaron, Jr 11 38
Hadley, Albert G. ..... . 3 78
Hutchins, Horace G 44 82
Hobart, Leavett 3 78
Hazletine, Charles 14 42
Harrington, Daniel 1 50
Ham, Frederick A 3 02
Hale, Joseph L 7 58
Hays, Jacob 3 78
Harris, Josiah, heirs of, . 12 16
Harris, Josiah A 1 50
Harris, Thomas B. s 1 50
Hunt, Enoch 82 82
Hunt, William 12 90
Hurd, John 365 54
Hunt, James .....,,... 1 50
*Hancock, Thomas . 1 50
*Heigenton, Thomas 1 50
Howe, David B 41 02
Hawkes, Benjamin 1 50
Hunnewell, Joseph 149 70
Hagar, Solomon 1 50
Heald, Benjamin 1 50
Hittinger & Cook 54 72
Haynes, Amos 5 30
Haggerty, Andrew 12 90
Howland, H. & Z. C. . . . 53 20
*Hayes, Timotliy 1 50
Hatch, Abijah 1 50
.Holt, William 1 50
Huddleston, William .... 1 50
Heath, William 1 50
Hittinger, Jacob 170 Oa
Hancock, Josiah B 1 50
Hurley, David 1 50
Hadley, Isaac 3 02
*Hayes, James 1 50
Hurley, Timothy 1 50
Howe, Jonathan . 18 22
Howe, Walter 9 10
Heath, Nathaniel .. 25 82
Hood, Harvey B 1 50
Hobbs, Isaac 9 10
Hill, Samuel P 24 30
Plill, Henry 7 58
Hill, H. & S. P. ....... . 48 64
Herriman, Joseph 1 50
*Hughes, Owen 1 50
Hall, Charles 1 50
Haskell, George W 1 50
Haste, Henry 3 78
Horton, Thomas Bw . . . . . 1 50
Hobbs, James , . . 14 42
*Holman, John 1 50
Hunnewell, Thomas 12 90
*Higgins, Alfred 1 50
Hurd, Frederick L 1 50
Hawes, William ....... 17 92
Holbrook, Joseph . . 1 50
Hodgkins, William 4 54
Harding-, John, Jr 3 02
Harding, Samuel L. .... 1 50
Harding, Thomas M 1 50
Harding, John 27 42
Harding, Wilber F. .... I 50
Harding, Noah 11 38
Harding, Henry S, ^ 1 50
*Hatch, Cyrus P. 1 50
Hart, Joseph S 5 30
Holbrook, William A. .. 150
Hall, Frederick W. . . . . 1 50
Haws, Elnathan 1 50
Hunnewell, John 4 54
Hatch, James B 11 40
Horsington, Henry 1 50
Hastings, James — .... 1 50
Hill, Thomas 1 50
Hooper, Samuel T 6 06
Hall, Alfred -B 26 58
Hall, Osborn B 5 30
Hunnewell, James 444 58
Hunnewell, T. & T. F. . 1 52
Hunnewell, Thomas F. . 3 02
*Hill, Amos 1 50
Howell, William 4 54
0
hadley, Betsey, and Mra.
Richardson 11 40
Hurd, Harriet. 5 32
Jewett & Gates, 53 20
Jordan, Nelson 1 SO
Jaques, Henry L 71 42
Jaques, Henry L. adm'r, . 3 80
Jaques, Henry, heirs of, . 357 96
Jordan, Ambrose ....... 1 50
Jose, John 1 50
Jones, Daniel 3 02
Jaquith, Oliver 47 86
Jewett, Cummings 1 50
Jewett, James C 1 50
Jewett, John H 7 58
Jacobs, Perez R. 4 ..... , 4 54
Jones, John P 1 50
*John3on, 1 50
Johnson, Isaac 1 50
Joy, Francis H 6 06
Jenkins, Henry . . . « . . . . 1 50
Johnson, Jothara, Jr. ... .^ 67 62
Jackson, George 3 02
Jackson, Andrew 3 02
Jackson, Samuel, heirs of, 17 48
Jones, Leonard W 1 50
Jones, William 3 02
Jones, Catharine 13 68
*Jayne, Thomas ....... 1 50
*Johnson, Willard S 1 50
*Kelly, James 3 02
Kinman, John 1 50
*Eelly, Samuel 1 50
Kelley, Morris 60 78
Kimball, Daniel A 5 30
Kean, Tilden H 1 50
Kimball, William 1 50
**Kimball, Joshua ...... 1 50
Kimball, Thomas J 1 50
*Knight, Thomas 1 50 ,
Kendall, Isaac - 5 30
Kendall, Loami 60 02
Kendal], Isaac, 2d ..... . 43 30
Knowles, Willard 7 58
Kennah, James 1 50
Eilbraith, Dennis 1 50
*Kelly, George 1 50
*Knight, 1 50
Kelsoe, Lewis 1 50
Kinney, Marshal N .• 3 78
Kidder, Andrew B. v 3 78
*Knight, Benjamin 1 50
Kelly, John 1 50
3
Kelly, Thomas 7 58
Kendall, Isaac, heirs of, . 12 16
Kidder, Samuel & Co. . . 174 80
Knight &, Poor, . . * 3 80
Langridge, John ...... ^ 1 50
Lyons, Dan 1 50
Lamson, Horatio N 9 10
Leonard, Martin 25 06
Luf kin, Russell S 1 50
Little, George W 164 14
*Lennan, John 1 50
Lincoln, Joshua 1 50
Leonard, Watson 1 50
Leonard, Albion I 50
Lathrop, Cummings .... 1 50
Loring, Abraham M. ... 1 50
*Lyons, David , 1 50
Lawrence, Arthur L 1 50
Leavitt, Daniel 40 26
Leighton, George A. . . . 1 50
Lawrence, Edward ..... 288 78
Lamson, Samuel « 12 90
Lampreli, Simon 3 02
Lapham, Luther 41 02
Leach, Edward B I 50
Lyons, William 3 78
Lincoln, Uriah 1 50
Lincoln, Oshea 1 50
Lord, Asa ... * 1 50
Lamson, Walter 1 50
Lord, William, 2d 1 50
Larkin, Thomas 1 50
Leavitt, David 1 50
*Loring, Joseph P « 1 50
*Lowrey, John 1 50
Littlefield, Abiel 6 06
Loring, Joseph 1 50
Lovering, Robert, heirs of, 9 88
Larkin, Israel J 30 38
Larkin, Ruth 17 48
Leman, Henry B 1 50
Loring, Mary H 79 80
Lapham, Charles 3 02
*Lanwell, Peter 1 50
*Leavitt, Samuel 1 50
McElroy & Denvir, .... 11 40
*McKusker, Francis 1 50
*McNall, James 1 50
*McCarty, Charles ..... 1 50
*Murphy, Peter 1 50
McCarty, Timothy . 1 50
Manning, Benjamin F. ^ . 1 50
10
*McCarty, Jeremiah .... 1 50
Manners, John 1 50
Marium, Otis W 6 82
Munroe, Henry 6 06
Munroe, Royal K 3 02
Mulliken, Henry B. G. C. 1 50
Mulliken, Nathan C 3 02
Martin, Ebenezer 1 50
Morrill, Jesse 3 02
Mason, Samuel L 22 78
Mason, Hale 1 50
Mauriura, William H. . • . 1 50
McNulty, James 1 50
McPoland, John 1 50
*Mills, Caleb 1 50
Merrill, Enos .^ 150
Mulliken, Clement 1 50
Morse, George H , f) 10
McNamara, Bartholomew 1 50
Marshall, Thomas 64 58
Mclntire, Theodore B. . , 4 54
Marsh, Jacob T 50
Murray, John 42 54
Mason, Francis M 3 02
Murray, Thomas B 3 78
*Murray, Michael 1 50
McDonough, James F. . . 1 50
^Montgomery, John B. . . 12 90
Mead, Isaac H 1 50
Melvin, Adono L 1 50
Munroe, Abijah 31 90
Munroe, Lewis B. ..... . 3 02
McKean, John 3 78
Mann, Alexander 18 98
Mann, Desire 17 48
Moore, William R 1 50
McGrath, Michael 3 02
*Middleton, Thomas 5 30
*Marsl)all, James 1 50
*Matliez, DeLouis 3 78
Merrill, Nathan 15 ] 8
Murray, William 6 06
Merrill, .7. Warren 4 54
Mason, J. Otis I 50
McNeills, John 2 26
^Morrison, Jesse L. . .-. . ^ 1 50
*McLaughlin, William . 1 50
*McCarty, Jeremiah, 2d . 1 50
McHughes, James 1 50
Mead, Frederick . . .- 3 02
McLoud, John 3 02
McDonald, Patrick 18 22
Munroe, Moses 150
McLaughlin, James ..... 1 50
Mo Williams, Barney .... 9 10
McCollar, John ........
7 5&
Morrell, George
1 50
*Murray, Edward
1 50
Maloon, David
1 50
*Mayo,
1 50
*McNeal,
1 50
Metcalf, David
3 02
Mullett, James
13 66
McGuire, Barney
1 50
McLaughlin, Barnard . . .
1 50
McKinney, John
1 50
*Murphy, Daniel
1 50
*Murray, Thomas
1 50
Melvin, Jerome
1-50
Mills Elisha
2 72
McFarlane, Dennison . . ,
1 50
Melvin, Thomas M
7 58
*Marston, John
1 50
Myrick, Henry
3 78
Mellen, Thomas
6 06
*Maling, Patrick
1 50
Mitchell, John
6 82
Mitchell, George
4 16
McFarlane, William ....
6 82
McKay, George
1 50
Mclntire, James
1 50
Munroe, James F
3 02
Moulton, Joseph
1 50
McDonald, John
3 78
Marpole, John M. ^ ..... .
2 26
Murphy, Patrick
1 50
Mann, Joseph, heirs of, . .
7 60
Manning, Mary, heirs of, .
2 28
*Maloon, D
1 50
*Mahan, Martin . . .
1 50
Moody, Edward F
3 40
Murray, James
14 42
Nichols, Edward O
3 78
Neal, George B,
3 02
Newell, Constantino F. .
6 06
Nickerson, Jonas C
3 78
*Norton, Elisha
1 50
Nichols, Thomas 0
40 72
Nutting, Hosea
1 50
*Noonan, David
1 50
Nichols, John R
4 54
*Nason, John ...
1 50
Norcross, Joseph W.
1 50
Norton, Doniel J
3 02
Noyes, Michael
1 50
Noyes, Abraham
1 50
Newcomb, Samuel
24 30
Norton, Charles
5 30
Norton, Thaxter
3 02
11
*Newton, Francis 1 50
Newell, Jos. W., heirs -of, 15 20
Osgood, William H 28 10
Osborn, Ezra 1 50
Oakman, Samuel 6 06
Oakman, Samuel, heirs of, J 9 00
Orman, James 1 50
Oakes, NehemiaJi 1-50
Proctor, John R 28 86
Parker, William B 9 «6
Peirce, Polly 11 40
Philbrook, Samuel , . . . . 1 50
Pickett, Henry J 1 50
Page, George 1 50
Plunket, James 13 66
Powers, Lucius 13 66
Powers, Lucius, Jr 1 50
Powers, Charles 3 78
Priest, Ira H 1 50
^Pitcher, Luther 2 50
Pitcher, William i 50
Patterson, Lucius 3 75
Parker, Daniel H 1 50
*Pollard, George N 3 02
Putnam, George A -. i 50
Pattee, Cyrus C 25 82
Peirce, Henry A 440 02
*Powers, John 1 50
Priest, Samuel 7 58
Page, George A 1 50
Perry. Charles H 1 50
Peters, Andrew B. 1 8 22
*Pearson, Henry 1 50
*Peirce, George W. L. . 1 50
Paine, John 17 46
Paine, Elbridge G 1 50
Paine, John, Jr 1 50
Pratt, Oliver .- 3 78
Pond, Nathaniel 3 02
Peirce, William W 5 30
Parker, Warren B 5 78
Paterson, Wm. C. & Co. 12 16
Pennell, Joseph W 1 50
Perry, Charles 3 78
Parkinson, Charles 3 02
*Porter, Amasa 1 50
Porter, Samuel A IK)
Payson, Samuel 73 70
Parkinson, John 1 50
Preston, Thomas B 3 02
*Parker, Henry 1 50
Pasco, John 1 50
Parker, Isaac „. . 10 63
PettingiH, Benjamin H. . 3 02
Palmer, John D 3 02
•^Pike, John K 1 50
*Pike, Lyba 1 50
Phelps, Charles 1 50
Parker, George A 18 98
Pearson, Jacob 1 50
*Pond, William 3 02
Phillips, Lenthel, heirs of, 7 60
Phillips, Lenthel W, . . . 3 02
Powers, Francis 1 50
Potter, Samuel W ] 50
Palmer & Harding, 3 80
Pearson, John 4 54
Philrotho, Archer 1 50
Phelps, Mary 26 60
Perkins, John 56 98
Pratt, Nathaniel 2 26
Peirce, Caleb 334 38
Preble, George B 3 02
Palmer, A sahel 18 98
Payson, Mary P 11 14
♦Quinland, Edward, ... - 1 50
*Quigley, Philip 1 50
Quaint, George 2 26
Quincy, Henry A 3 02
Robinson & Fifield, 15 20
Ross, John A. 3 02
Robinson, Thomas 1 50
Richardson, John W. . . . 3 02
Robertson, John C 22 78
Rand, Lilies 15 96
Reynolds & Waitt, 98 04
Ryan, Patrick, 1 50
Rice, John R 20 50
Rice, Charles A 1 50
Rice, Levi 2 26
Rice, Aaron 1 50
Richards, Thomas B. . . . 1 50
Richardson, Josiah B. . . 1 50
Richardson, Charles 1 50
Raymond, Samuel, 2d, . . 58 50
Raymond, William J. . . . 1 50
Rich, John 1 50
Raymond, Samuel S I 50
Rowe, Philip C 3 78
*Rodgers, Seth 1 50
Rodgers, William 1 50
Rodgers, Zaccheus 3 78
Rand, Caleb 7 58
Riddle, Edward .... 52 42
Roberts, Jacob W 3 78
Randall, James 1 50
Russell, Thomas 22 02
12
Jlobinson, John S 1 50
Robinson, T. S. G 18 98
Richardson, William S. . 3 02
Richardson, Job 68 3§
Richardson, Moses ..... 1 50
*Rider, Samuel C 1 50
*Rose, Joseph 1 50
*Ricker, Charles , J 50
Ripley, Dennis 1 50
Robbins, William S 1 50
Rice, Phinehas 20 50
Rice, Merrick 5 30
Rice, Henry 1 50
Russell, Spencer 16 32
Roberts, Amos , 3 02
Roberts, James W. , . . . . 1 50
Richards, Sylvester .... 1 50
Riee & Pettingill, 3 04
Rice, Samuel 119 30
*Rice, William 3 02
*Rice, James, 1 50
Roach, Luke 1 50
Runey, James 71 42
Reigan, Jeremiah 1 50
*Rodgers, James S 1 50
Robinson, John 3 02
*Ridley, Alonzo 1 50
Richardson, Thomas ... 1 50
Raymond, Francis 1 50
Redding, Howard 1 50
Rice, Charles . . . , 3 02
Rice, Matthew, heirs of, . 11 40
Rice, Matthew 41 78
Rodgers, Samuel 3 02
Reed, Franklin 0 1 50
Roach, Edward 1 50
Raymond, Bartholomew , 59 26
Raymond, Bartholomew, Jr. I 50
Rice, John 4 54
Reigan, James 1 50
Robinson, Jonathan H. • 1 50
Rice, Samuel R 35 70
Richards, Asa T, 6 06
Raymond, Samuel 136 78
Rodgers, Charles B 26 58
*Rowell, M , 1 50
Reed, JosiahT 1 50
Sullivan, Timothy, 2d, . . 1 50
*Shanhan, Philip 1 50
Smith, John 1 50
*Sullivan, Michael O. . . 1 50
Smith, Emery 1 50
Stevens, William H 1 50
Solis, Frederick .,,,.... 1 50
Sullivan, Patrick 1 50
Shute, J ames 1 50
Shultz, Christopher H. . . 1 50
Shaw, John E 3 78
•Stearns, Oliver 1 50
*Smith, Alexander 1 50
Smith, Nathaniel 1 30
*Storer, William 1 50
Stinehart, William & Co. 7 60
Stinehart, John 1 50
Sisson, William B 1 50
Sargent, David 4 54
Snaith, Richard T 3 02
Sweetser, Isaac 43 30
Souther, Joseph 101 82
Souther, Joseph, Jr 5 30
•Sawtell, 1 50
Sanger, George P. ..... . 15 18
Stoddard, Mary 13 68
Skinner, Francis E 3 78
Sheridan, Barnard 6 06
*Sewall, Samuel T 5 30
Stuart, Darwin E 1 50
Stiggers, Joseph H 1 50
*Small, Samuel 1 50
Sargent, David, 2d, 1 50
Sawtell, Andrew 102 58
Swallow, William K. . . . 1 50
Spring, Isaac H 48 62
Stetson, Lemuel , 129 18
Stratton, Nathan W 3 02
Sullivan, Eugene 1 50
Stevens, George C 1 50
Stinehart, William , . . . , 1 50
Skilton, George 5 30
Sampson, Ebenezer .... 19 74
Simmonds, Melvin 18 22
Sumner, Thomas , 57 74
Smith, John A 1 50
*Smith, John 1 50
Sisson, Robert 7 08
Simonds, Joel 3 02
Smith, Charles H , 1 50
*Shapley, Henry 1 50
Sylvesver, John 1 50
Smith, Joseph N 15 94
Stone, Charles , , 1 50
Shedd, Daniel 1 50
Stone, William 1 50
Shultz, Mary , 10 64
Sweetser, John 49 38
Sweetser, Isaac, heirs of, 16 72
Shaw, Daniel W 3 02
Saville, Richard L 3 03
Skilton, Samuel P. .... . 34 94
13
Skidmore, John 1 50
Sawyer, William B 39 50
Sawyer, Otis V 3 02
Sargent, Thomas 1 50
Stone, Jasper & Co 17 76
Snow, Hannah 2 28
Savage, John 1 50
*Smith, James 3 78
Sawyer, Isaac 3 02
Sweetser, Daniel 1 50
Smith, William 25 44
Sylvester, Artemas 1 50
Sawyer, Leonard 2 26
*Sawyer, Abiel . • 1 50
♦Spalding, Henry O. . . . 1 50
*Sanborn, Josiah ...... 1 50
•Sampson, Andrew 1 50
Sullivan, John 1 50
Smith, Charles 2 26
Stinson, Erastus R. . . . . . 3 02
Stark, John 3 02
Soley, John 334 38
Skilton, John 45 58
Skilton, James 7 58
Sparrell, George P 27 34
Stratton, John 11 38
Stowell, Abel 28 86
Stowell, John 1 50
Stowell, Francis 1 50
Smith, Perley 3 02
Stone, Stephen H 5 30
Sweeney, James 1 50
Savage, Joseph 1 50
*Sullivan, John 2d, 1 50
Sawyer, Joseph 1 50
*Stearns, Henry 1 50
Shaw, Benjamin F 1 50
Symmes, Caleb 72 22
Scollan, James 1 50
*Sividy, Henry 1 50
Seavy, Simeon 3 02
Sholes, John J 1 50
Stark, Hezekiah 3 02
Stark, Robinson &, Co. . 7 60
Simonds, Francis 31 90
Spring, Samuel 177 06
Sutton, J ames A 1 50
Souther, E. Jr 1 50
*Shay, William H 1 50
Sanderson, Harry 1 50
*Shelburn, Nathaniel ... 1 50
*Shedd, Samuel 1 50
Stetson, George W 1 50
*Smith, 1 50
Smith, Joseph 84 34
Sampson, Thomas 0 84
Southwick, John 34 94
Sampson, Thomas, Jr. . . 3 02
*Smitli, Haskell 1 50
Sawyer, Seth 30 36
Southwick, Arnold 9 10
Southwick, Oliver B, . . . 3 02
Sylvester, Ingenious .... 1 50
Smith, Albert 13 66
Scaramon, James 1 50
Smith, Amos 3 78
*Stearns, William 1 50
Symmes, Calvin 1 50
Seavey, Joshua R 22 02
Stevens, Thomas J 32 66
Southworth, Thomas 42 54
South worth, James ..... 1 50
Sutton, Robert 1 50
Sawyer, Clark 1 50
Sawyer, Harrison 1 50
Snow, Martin B. ....... 1 50
*Sargent, James 1 50
*Sargent, R 1 50
Sullivan, Timothy 9 10
Skilton, Augustus H. . . . 1 50
Stanley, Mrs 15 20
Sampson, Amos, heirs ?of, 9 88
Stetson, David, heirs of, . 104 12
Stetson, Catharine 12 16
Stetson, Mary 6 08
Skilton, S. P. and James
Adams, Trustees, . . 41 80
Thompson, Clark 3 78
Twycross, Martha 247 00
Turner, William B 1 50
*Teague, Samuel 1 50
Tilden, Edward 9 86
Thomas, Seth J 63 06
Tufts, Gilbert 408 54
Tufts, Gilbert, Jr 7 58
Tufts, William 56 22
Tufts, Amos 113 98
Tufts, Edwin 5 30
Thomss, Warren B 25 06
Tayler, William 3 02
Thayer, A bner 1 50
Turner, Henry 1 50
Turner, Greenleaf 6 82
Turner, Rebecca 7 60
Thomas, George 1 50
Turner, Robert R 11 38
Thomas, Charles 18 22
Turner, James R 6 82
Thomas, John C. 11 38
14
Tolman, Samuel 1 50
Taylor, Cyrus 1 50
Todd, Robert 43 30
Tyler, Edward 7 58
Todd, George 7 58
Tufts, Samuel P 79 02
Tarbell, Daniel 1 50
Tibbetts, Israel 6 06
Turner, Barnabas 1 50
Taylor, George W 43 30
Thompson, Joseph 77 50
Thompson, Abraham R. . 153 50
Tyler, Jonas 77 50
Tyler, Benjamin F 3 02
Taylor, Daniel h 1 50
Travers, Calvin 25 82
*Taylor, Carleton 1 50
Tilson, Edward C 15 18
Turner, William L 18 98
Turner, William 1 50
*Tenney, Daniel I 50
Toomey, Dennis 1 50
Toomey, Patrick 1 50
Taylor, John J 4 54
Tibbetts, Phinehas 1 50
Taylor, Thomas 1 50
Tinslar, Benjamin R. . . . 39 50
*Tibbetts, Richard 1 50
Trefethen, Nathaniel ... 4 54
Tufte, Leonard 49 38
Tapley, Warren 3 02
Todd, Thomas 3 78
Tewksbury, Cyrus 1 50
Thompson, Charles 87 38
Thompson, Francis 3 02
Thompson, Charles, Jr. . 3 78
Thompson, Benjamin - . . 134 50
Tufts, Nathan A 229 50
Taggard, John L 79 02
Thurston, Andrew 1 50
Thompson, Benj. & Co. . 372 64
Todd, Aaron 1 50
Thompson, Timothy .... 136 78
Tufts, Nathan A. guardian, 19 00
Thompson & Lapham, . . 20 52
Thompson. Timo. heirs of, 55 46
Upham, Timothy 9 10
Upham, George ....... 9 10
Ventriss, Moses 1 50
Viles, William A 7 58
Vinal, Otis 100 30
Van Voorhis, Robert D. . 4 54
Vial, John 3 78
*Verry, John 1 50
Vannevar, Alexander, Jr. 10 62
Vaughan, Eliphalet L. . . 1 50
Veasey, Dennis 16 70
Vinal, Otis, guardian, ... 9 88
Wesson & Gary, 330 60
Walcott, Edward K 3 78
Wright & Ross, 2 28
Wright, Joel 3 78
Warren, G. Washington, 402 02
Warren, Abigail 144 40
Walker, Charles, 1 50
Watson, Nathaniel 1 50
White, Benjamin T 1 50
Wason, Samuel A 1 50
Wason, David 6 06
Ward, Edward A. ..... . 26 58
Whitney, Charles 1 50
Whitney, John S 1 50
Woodman, Ezekiel 7 58
Whittier, Leonard N. . . . 1 50
White, Moody 3 78
Wilson, Nathaniel B. . . . 14 42
Wilson, John B 3 78
Whiting, Eldad 22 80
*White 1 50
White, Ebenezer , 25 82
Whiting, George 5 30
Waitt, Warren 3 02
Wetherbee, Judah 1 50
Worthen, True F 1 50
Wyman, Mary 9 12
Wyman, Thomas B 1 50
Wyman, James K 4 54
Wyman, Thomas B. Jr. . 6 82
*Woodbury, Benjamin F. 3 02
White, Nicholas 1 50
Wilson, John 5 30
Wheeler, Alexander 5 30
Wiley, Peter B 16 70
Whittier & Viles, ...... 15 20
Worthen, Charles J. & Co. 5 32
Wesson, John 43 30
Walker, Joseph C 3 02
* White, Willard C 3 02
* Wheeler, Joshua S 1 50
White, James 1 50
White, Ephraim 1 50
Welch, John P 42 54
Wyman, Joshua 1 50
Whiting, Samuel 15 94
White, Amos W 1 50
*Williams, Jonas 1 50
Waldo, Sarah V 21 23
15
Wade, Reuben S
Wyman, William
Walker, Lucy J
Wason, Robert
Wason, Robert & Co. . .
Wason, I. Putnam
Woodward, Benjamin —
*Whitcomb, Leicester C.
*VVhitcomb, Frederick G.
Wellington, Leander . .. .
Wetlierbee, Isaac J
Woodbury, Samuel T. . .
*Weston,
Whitney, Thomas P
* Wilson, Francis
Whitney, Hiram
* Whiting, Ebenezer ....
* Webber, Georo-e
Wilson, J. B.& C
Webster, Jasper
White, George W
* Wilson, George
Wiley, William
Walker, James, heirs of",
Woodbury, George W. .
Winslow, Varnum S.
Wilson, Isaac
Worthen, Charles J
Watson, Lewis W
West, Charles
Wing, Charles H
Weeman, Eli P
59 26
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180 12
47 86
8 36
3 78
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2 26
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3 78
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42 56
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Winch, James 1
Wyman, Nathaniel F. . . 1
Witherell & Field 2 28
Wiley, Aaron 3 02
Woodman, Edwin 1 50
Wiley, Uethuel 1 50
Wilson, Charles 3 78
Whiton, Lincoln B 3 02
Whiton, James 33 42
Whiton, Walter M 1 50
Whiton, Albert G. 1 50
Whiton, Henry L ] 50
Whiton, Blossom, heirs of, 25 84
* Williams, John 1 50
Woodland, Charles 1 50
Webb, Nathan 128 42
W^hite, Daniel 307 78
*Whcelock, B. 1 50
Wyman, Francis^ and Su-
san, heirs of, . 77 50
Wiley, Hannah, heirs of, 26 60
Warren, G. W. trustee, . 38 00
Welch, Sarah 27 36
Walker, Helen L 9 88
Walker, Helen L. guard. 7 60
Whiting, Martha 19 00
*Welch, Rachel 22 80
Whitney, Luther F. 10 62
Yeaton, Charles 2 66
York, Joseph W I 50
Young &L White, 84 32
WARD JVo. 2.
Armstrong, James . . 94 98
Adams, Benjamin, heirs of, 101 12
Alstine, J. Van 1 50
Anderson, Dugal 1 50
Armstrong, William .... 1 50
Almeider, Francis J. Jr. . 6 82
Archer, William 9 10
A veriil, Ebenezer 1 50
Alden, Ichabod 15 94
Allen, Squire J 1 50
Averill, Hiram 42 54
Allen, James 3 02
Abbott, William 31 90
Austin, Arthur W 92 70
Austin, Arthur W. exec'r, 22 80
Austin, Arthur W. guard. 9 12
Anthon, Benedict . . .^. . , 5 30
Aiken, John 1 50
*Andrews, Edward 1 50
Adams, George W. .... 7 58
*Anderson, William 150
Barker, Josiali ^ . , ,
Barker, Seth
Brown, George, heirs of
Bass, John
Bartlett, Stephen
Briggs, Philander ^. . . .
Burckes, Lewis .......
Breed, Ebenezer
Bateman, John
Bailey, Otis
Boudett, Louis
Blanchard, Marshall —
Barker, William
Byron, Thomas C. .
Byron, Thomas A. . . .
*Beal, George W. ... .
Butler, John . ^
*Burns, John
Baxter, Alexander P. . .
Burckes, Martin, Jr.
Bailey, James
54 70
175 54
36 48
1 50
47 10
57 74
1 59
5 30
1 50
1 50
16 70
27 34
I 50
25 82
6 82
6 06
3 02
1 50
9 10
48 62
10 62
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Baldwin, Joshua 1 50
*Blood, Putnam B 1 50
Bibram, Joseph 1 50
Buckman, John 9 86
Barrill, George 1 50
Barry, Edwin C. ....... 1 50
Bradford, Edmund 1 50
Barrill, Colburn 8 34
Barrill, Colburn, Jr. ... 1 50
Barry, Jotham 20 50
Brown, Edward 12 14
Bodge, Samuel G 25 82
*Bryant, George 1 50
Brown, Ezra 18 98
Beckford, Albert C 10 62
Beddoe, Thomas 21 26
Budington, William J. . . 52 42
Bentley, Thomas 1 50
Blaisdell, Charles 13 66
Bettinson, Richard B. . . . 15 18
* Brewster, Daniel 1 50
Blaisdell, Nicholas ..... 22 02
Brintnall, Stephen 3 02
Blaisdell, J oseph 1 50
Barnicoat, John A 1 50
Brintnell, Samuel, 2d . . . 1 50
Burns, Andrew 14 42
Bradford, John R 5 36
Bradford, Charles L. F. . 1 50
Bradford, Samuel S 1 50
*Burrows, Edward 1 50
Brooks, Charles P 12 90
Bruce, Joseph A 18 98
Baxter, Stacy 18 98
Bazin, Richard C 22 02
Bryant, Charles M 1 50
Butts, William D 17 46
Bassett, Abigail & Rachel, 10 64
Bates, Theodore E 1 50
Brown, Lyman 3 78
Brown, Nathan R 1 50
Brown, John 15 94
Badger, John, heirs of, . . 15 20
Badger, Benjamin ...... 34 94
Barker, Benjamin W. — 1 50
Barnard, Currier, 11 38
Barnard, John 9 10
*Bennett, James 1 50
Battles, James 1 50
Burley, William 1 50
Butterfield, Levi 1 50
Burnett; Philetus W 1 50
Burnett, Thomas 2 26
Burnett, James F 2 26
Blanchard, Henry V. V. . 16 70
Bryant, Ebenezer ...... ISI l4
Barstow, Charles N. . . . . 1 50
Bass, Robert P 20 50
Butterfield, Stephen .... 13 66
Bodwell, Mary R 7 60
Burnett, James 38 74
Brackett, Benjamin F. . . 9 10
*Bonner, Cornelius 1 60
Colby, John 1 50
Crowell, Aaron ........ 1 50
Champney, Samuel 4 54
Caswell, William H 1 50
Conn, Henry 3 02'
Carnes, Edward, Jr 9 10
Chase, Wells 4 54
Chapin, Nahum .... 31 90
Caban, William 24 30
Cook, Isaac 32 66
Curtis, John, Jr 12 14
Cooledge, Nathan T 5 30
*Coffin, Augustus A. . . . 3 02
Commerford, Michael .^ . 1 50
Cutter, Thomas M 114 74
Crosby, 'I'homas 1 50
Clough, Thomas B 1 50
*Conley, Lawrence 1 50
♦Cassidy, Patrick 1 50
Chamberlin, Lowell W. . 4 50
Costigan, Edwin 1 50
Cole, John 6 06
Cory, John W 12 14
*Cross, Anthony 1 50
♦Connelly, Patrick 1 50
Conway, Edmund 11 38
CoUins, Michael 1 50
Campbell, Patrick 11 00
Calwell, John 1 50
Chamberlin, Abraham . . 6 06
Cutter, Joseph 10 62
Clausen, Martin 3 02
Clark, Perley 1 50
*Collins, Richard 1 50
Cutler, Nelson 1 50
Crocker, John , 3 02
Chase, Oliver 1 50^
Clay, Otis 1 50
Cottle, Abisha 9 10
Crocker, Benjamin 3 02
Clark, Joseph 1 50
Colburn, Charles 1 50
Cottrell & Brooks, 57 00
Cushing, Isaac 18 22
Crosby, George 1 50
Cutter, Ezra 11 38
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Coffin, Samuel 1 50
*Cummings, Nathaniel . . 3 02
Crooks, Joseph 1 50
Currell, Joseph S. ...... ] 50
Clapp, James 0 11 38
Child, Nicholas G 18 22
Cooper, Gilbert D 31 90
Carroll, Barney 1 50
Cassidy, Andrew 1 50
Cooper, Abner, Jr ] 50
Crai^-g. M. Clark 3 02
Clifford, John 1 50
Crapo, John 1 50
Cummings, Charles H. .. 3 78
Cram, Timothy B. 1 50
Coburn, Ethan N 1 50
Chandler, Thomas M. ... 3 02
Clancy, Haskell D 26 58
Clark, Ramsey 3 02
Cooper, Samuel 50 90
Call, Henry J 3 02
Cross, Albert F 1 50
*Cooms, John 1 50
Covington, Caroline L. . . 9 12
Curtis, Nathan P. B 9 10
Culbertson, Nathaniel Y. 18 22
Culbertson, John H 1 50
Chapman, Faulkner .... 20 50
Cutter, George 3 78
Currier, Ephraim 11 38
Cook, Henry A 1 50
Cobb, William 13 66
Call & Seavey, 7 60
Cobb, Cyrus 18 98
Conant, Peter 19 74
Childs, John 1 50
Conant, James H 1 50
Conant, William F 4 54
*Clark, Edward 1 50
Cory, Anna 20 52
Doriety, Thomas 1 50
*Dinsmore, Timothy 1 50
Dickson, Joshua G 27 34
*Durkin, Aaron 1 50
Dana, Edward 11 38
Dana, Henry 23 54
Dearborn, James 45 58
*Dearborn, John H 3 02
*Devens, Richard 9 10
Devens, Thomas M 55 46
Dechan, Thomas 14 42
*Driscoil, Jeremiah ..... 1 50
Drinen, Morris 1 50
Dustan, Benjamin F 11 38
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Decoster, Amos R 18 68i
*Doyle, Michael, 2d 1 50
Dearing, Thomas 88 90
Davis, James S J 50
*Downs, John 1 50
Devine};', James? , , ^ 8 78
Doriethy, Philip 1 50
*Dormett, Joseph 1 50
Davis, Theodore 3 02
DriscoU, James, 1 50
*Davis, James C 2 26
Davis, Joseph 21 26
Davis, Edward K 1 50
Decosta, Lucius 1 50
Downing, Earned 18 22
Dinsmore, Samuel 14 42
Davis, Lois 9 12
Downs, Ezekiel 1 50
Doyle, Michael 20 50
Deming, Francis ....... 6 82
Edmands, William B. . . . 1 58
Eastman, Samuel 1 50
Estee, Elijah R 1 50
*Emerson, John 1 50
Eldridge, Shubael 1 50
Edmands, David 15 18
b^merson, Hiram, Jr 10 62
*Elworth, James 1 50
Edick, James J. 1 50
Elms, John 6 82
Edwards, Thomas 16 70
Eberlee, Frederick 3 02
-Everett, Horace 14 42
Emery, Alexander, Jr. . . 1 50
Eaton, Osgood 7 58
Emerson, Joseph ....... 33 42
Eaton, John L. ........ 378
Enwright, John ........ 6 06
Esckert, George 1 50
Field, Simon C. 3 78
Foss, Jacob 761 50
Fuller, James G. ...... . 74 46
Folsom, Nathaniel S. . . . 4 54
Farwell, James D 5 SO
Foley, Patrick ......... 7 58
*Flynn, William ... 1 50
*Fo]an, Patrick 1 50
Farrell, John 1 50
Fassan, Charles H 3 02
Fales, Newell 1 50
Ferren, Samuel 104 10
Friend, Samuel 2 26
Forster, Joseph S. ...... 150
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^Fisfeer, Lewis ........ 1 50
Follens, Richard ........ 5 30
Fisber, Sanford ...... 6-06
Fowler, William 6 06
Fowler, Samuel, Jr 9 86
Forster, James G 37 22
Fall, Parker ........... 41 02
Forster, George .. . . .• . 33 42
Freeman, Charles ...... 18 98
Fly Hn, Morris 150
Fosdick, William .■• 24 30
Fiske, Paschal . .- 13 66
Fifield, Daniel W •■ 5 30
Fosdick, Stephen 1 50
Ferren, Albert 3 02
Fitzpatrick, Peter 1 50
*Fitzpatrick, Patrick 1 50
Farnsworth, Thomas H. . 12 14
Finnegan, Daniel 1 50
Frost, Oliver 31 90
Farr, William W 3 78
French, Isaac S 1 50
Fiske, Frederick A 12 14
Fessenden, Charles . . 1 50
Fisher, George N 15 94
Falan, Hugh 1 50
*Farnsworth, Jacob . 5 30
*Ford, 1 50
Forster, George H 1 50
Fifield, John B. M 5 30
Fessenden, Charles P. . . 3 02
Fessenden, George F. . . 1 50
*Fuzzard, William 9 86
Faulkland, George ..... 3 78
Farnsworth, Eliza C. . . . 11 40
Fall & Pearsons, 16 72
*Green, Daniel ........ 1 50
Goodwin, George ....... 1 50
Greenleaf, Thomas . .... 212 78
Gilday, James 1 50
Green, Patrick ......... 6 06
Ginter, John H 1 50
*Griffin, Martin ......... 1 50
Graham, Henry G 5 30
Gardner, James M. . ..^ . 6 82
Gardner, Henry P 1 50
Goodwin, Henry P 1 50
Gamraell, John 3 02
Glinds, Nathan 1 50
Gerry, Lorenzo 1 50
Gray, John 4 54
Grant, Nathan W 7 58
Goldthwaith, Silas B. . . . 23 54
*Graves^ Benjamin ..... 1 50
Gillman, Christopher G. . 6 06
Gear, Charles 1 50
Gray, Aseph 1 50
Goldsmith, George W. .. 12 14
Gay, J esse 11 38
Garretty, Owen — .... . 1 50
Gage, Alvah. 12 90
*Gall, Warren 1 50
Gardner, Garland 12 90
Gabriel, Benjamin E. ,. . . 1 50
Gerry, Samuel L. 25 06
Gwinn, James L. ....... 1 50
Griffin, James 1 50
Gillson, Edmand L 14 42
Gillson & Towne 3 80
Gould, James 12 14
Glines, Hiram ....... — 9 10
Garland, Norvill . 3 02
Goodwin, Thomas R. . . . 23 54
Gay & Leavitt, 17 48
Harding, Edward ...... 85 10
Harding, Edward, Jr. ... 1 50
Hunt, Samuel C 7 58
*Hunt, Samuel C. Jr. ... 1 50
Howland, Zenas C 34 18
Howland, H enry . , . 47 10
*Harrington, John 1 50
Hay, Thomas H 1 50
Hicks, Joseph G 23 54
Hallett, James H. .. . 28 86
Hittenger, Michael . 32 66
Hanford,- James W. . . . . . 5 30
Hadley, Moses ........ 150
*Hamstead, James 1 50
Heigan, Henry . - 1 50
Hopkins, Patrick, heirs of, 4 56
*Hayes, William 1 50
Huntress, Dyer P 1 50
Higgins, John 6 06
Higgins, William 1 50
Haskell, Joel 17 46
Holbrook, Henry E 1 50
*Holderness, George ... 1 50
*Hamilton, Lawrence A. 1 50
Hamlin, Thomas 150
HeAvett, Thomas 1 50
*Hennessy, William 1 50
Hopkins, Daniel 1 50
Haskell, Andrew 1 50
Hudson, James 1 50
Hardy, Sylvander ...... 3 02
Hatch, Seth H 1 50
Hancock, Samuel ...... 1 50
Hartman, Anthony, 1 50
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Hatch, Leonard L. , . , . . 1 50
Holmes, FrHjicis 1 50
*Hoyt, Jason T 1 50
Hurd, James 10 62
Howard, Henry 14 42
Hamlin, Benjamin B. . . . 1 50
Howilton, Robert 150
Hunnewell, William ... 12 90
Hinds, Lowell L 5 30
Hinds, Elisha W 1 50
Hobart, Shubael, heirs of, 16 72
*Hayward, Jabez 1 50
Hall, John M 1 50
Hammett, Thomas 9 10
Hall, Charles S 6 82
Hovey, James 1 50
Hayden, Lincoln ....... 1 50
Hayden, Joseph 1 50
Hutchings, Sincere 1 1 30
Hayward, Justin .... 1 50
*Hayes, John G 1 50
Harrington, William 1 50
Hadley, Elijah 73 70
Hadley, Elijah L 1 50
Hopkins, Franklin 12 16
Hall, Gustavus V. ....... 124 62
JHitchings, Joshua ...... 3 02
Healey, Samuel W. . . , . 1 50
Holmes, Enoch 6 62
Hitchens, Nathaniel, Jr. . 18 22
Holmes, Philip B 8 34
flaggett, William H. ... 9 10
Harvey, William A 1 50
Holden, William H 1 50
Hay, Francis, heirs of, . . 12 92
Hay, Oliver H 1 50
Hinckley, Benjamin .... 4 54
Henry, William, heirs of . 28 88
Henry, Pamelia, adminis-
tratrix, 76 00
Henry, William W S 78
Hall, Milton, Jr 3 78
Hall&Burrill, ......... 31 16
Hayes, Joseph i 50
Harwood, Jesse 22 02
Hammond, Richard C. . . 12 14
Hammond, George W. . . 1 50
Hutchinson, James W. . . 3 02
Howard, William 150
Hobart, David H. 12 ] 4
Hobart, James P. .. . . 1 50
Hobart, Isaac 1 50
Haynes, Joseph Jr. 3 02
Jlobart, Prudence, admin-
istratrix, 15 20
Ingalls, Joseph, 2 26
Johnson, Thomas C 1 50
Johnson, Daniel 50 90
Jaqnes, Henry B 1 50
Jordan, Charles 1 50
Johnson, John H 2 26
Johnson, Peter 15 18
Jacobs, George H 91 18
*Jones, Peter 3 02
Jones, Silas 14 42
Janes, Charles J 15 94
Knox, Robert '. 35 70
Knox, Robert, Jr 12 -90
Knox, Joseph ,. 5 30
Knight, Moran . . . , 1 50
Kimball, John D. ....... 1 50
Kettell, George A 338 94
Kettell, Thomas 62 30
Kelly, Patrick 1 50
Kelly, Michael 1 50
*Kelly, James, 2d, 1 50
Kibble, Arthur W 6 82
Kimball, George, W. . . . 1 50
*Kearney, John 1 50
Kenrick, John 1 50
Kershaw, John 1 50
Kershaw, Edward 1 50
Kent, John 1 50
Kelly, James 5 30
Kibble, William 1 50
.*Kearvin, Timothy 1 50
Kyley, Richard 7 58
*Kennedy, William 1 50
Knox, John 14 42
Kimball, Oliver 14 80
King, Daniel 1 50
Kidder, James 30 88
Kidder, Elias U 3 02
Kendall, Isaac 1 50
Keith, William H 22 78
Kettell, George A. guard. 38 00
*King, Herman 6 06
Keliy, James, 4th, 1 50
Kelly, Patrick, 2d, 1 50
Kevill, Patrick 13 68
Leach, Samuel, heirs of, . 21 28
*Leach, Phebe, guardian, 25 84
Locke, Isaac ....... — . '8 78
Lothrop, Loring H) 62
Lothrop, Joshua 5 30
*Lyon, Lawrence 1 50
Lang, Charles -.. 150
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Low, Jolin 2 64
*Laffity, Barnard 1 50
Long, John 1 50
Lincoln, Joshua W 10 62
Lake, Alphens A.W. ... 11 38
Loring, Seth L 13 66
*Lyds'ton, William 1 50
Linnell, Elkanah 6 82
Loring", Joseph 7 58
Lincoln, John A 1 50
Leavitt, David 10 62
Lindsey, Ichabod 8 34
Lincoln, Charles D. . . . 1 50
Lincoln, Joseph S 1 50
Liverjnore, Josiah 1 50
Lewis, George 1 50
Leach, Roland 11 38
Libby, Josiah 1 50
Linscott, Ephraim 9 10
Lockwood, Rhoades G. . 14 42
Ladd, Stephen F 10 62
Lincoln, Hawkes 6 06
Lears, John C 1 50
Lears, William C 10 62
Locke, Andrew J 18 22
Locke, Jonathan 3 02
Linnell, Ralph 1 50
Lothrop Harrison 3 02
Lund, William 150
Laskey, John 1 50
Lynde, Stephen H. 18 22
Lyndo, Larkin T 3 02
*Low, William 1 50
Littlefield, Frederick 1 50
McGuire, Arthur 1 50
*McGuire, Patrick 1 50
McCafSty, John 150
Mullett, John 5 30
Mullett, Bradbury 15 96
Murphy, Francis 1 50
Manix, Timothy 1 50
McBrady, Edward 1 50
McCarty, William 1 50
*Mnrphy, James 1 50
*31cKinne3r, Thomas 150
McLaughlin, Patrick ... 1 .50
Miskelly, James 12 90
Miskelly, Edward 3 02
Moore, Andrew 1 50
*Moran, Robert 150
McLeod, William 1 50
McAuslan, Joseph 7 58
Moran, Gabriel 1 50
McTeagu.e, Patrick 1 50
McNamara, James 1 50
Murphy, Timothy 1 50
Madden, John 6 06
Madden, Thomas 6 06
Madden, John, 2d 7 58
Madden, James 9 86
Moore, John 1 50
Marshall, Samuel 9 10
Murphy, Michael (i 06
McConville, Felix 1 50
Morris, William 1 50
McDonald, John R 1 50
Mahan, Daniel 1-50
Madden, Patrick 6 06
Moore, Thomas 1 50
*McCrea, James 1 50
Mullett, James, Jr 10 62
Mears, Joseph 6 06
Marriam, Cheeney F. . . . 3 02
Murphy, Thomas 5 30
McCurdy, John 1 50
Mann, Jesse 28 86
McConologue, Daniel ... 1 50
Miller, John 1 50
McFarlane, Alexander . . 20 50
McFarlane, Horatio N. . 14 42
McDevett, George 1 50
*Morris, Robert 3 02
Morrow, Nathaniel 1 50
McLaughlin, Patrick ... 13 66
Morse, Edwin 1 50
Melcher, Lee 1 50
McComber, George 14 42
Moore, James 1 50
*McClusker, James 1 50
Mahoney, James S 15 18
Mousely, William 16 70
Morgan, James 1 50
Munroe, George .... 12 90
Mills, Maiisoii L 2 26
Morse, Charles 1 50
*Murray, James 1 50
^Murray, James, 2d ... . I 50
Mann, Josiah 14 42
Moolton, Andrew 1 50
Mills, Lemuel 24 30
Meserve, Hopley 4 54
Martin, Newhall, 2d 1 50
Meserve, Charles Y 1 50
Merrill, Stephen 3 78
Martin, John C 1 50
Meserve, Hopley T 25 06
*Moore, Orin 1 50
Maynard, Jason G. . . . . , 12 14
Morris, Clarissa L 32 68
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Marshall, James 17 44
Mansur, Nathaniel R. . . 8 34
*Mayhew, Albion ...... 150
Moody, Benjamin 1 50
*Melcher, John 1 50
Morse, Jonathan 1 50
Martin, Newhal] 34 18
Muzzey, Charles 3 02
Newhall, Joseph 1 50
Nolan, Richard 1 50
Niles, James 6 82
Nason, Moses 1 50
Norton, William 1 50
Norton, John B 1 50
Norton, Eugene L 1 50
Norcross, William T. . . 14 42
Norton, Daniel Jr 3 02
Noyes, Uriah W 6 06
Nutting, Henry 10 62
North, John W 1 50
Nash, William H 1 50
Noyes, James M 1 50
Nichols, Susan 15 20
O'Brien, James 1 50
*0'Flarety, Anthony 1 50
O'Donnell, William .... 6 06
Osgood, Isaac 166 42
Osgood, Thomas, heirs of, 21 98
O'Niel, Lawrence 7 58
Overen, James 8 34
^O'Brien, James, 2d 1 50
Pedrick, William 26 58
Poor, Charles 51 66
Pitts, Lemuel 55 46
Pook, Samuel M 49 38
Peirce, Elias D 4 54
Powers, Edward 1 50
Page, Jacob 1 50
Potts, James 12 ] 4
Peppard, William 1 50
Perkins, True 11 38
Porter, George M 1 50
*Patten, John ,... 1 50
*Powell, Michael 1 50
Perry, Henry 0 1 50
*Page, Jacob, Jr 1 50
Powers, John F 1 50
Pray, Lyman 15 18
Pook, George 3 78
Putney, GiJlman 1 50
Pearson, Jefferson 3 78
*Pratt, Isaac B 1 50
Paine, Thomas N 3 02
Paine, Orlando J 1 50
Page, Benjamin 25 67
Plaisted, John 10 62
Pearson, Samuel ....... 3 78
Patch, Charles R 14 42
Poor, Henry R 1 50
Prentiss, Henry 1 50
Pratt, Charles 1 50
Palmer, Samuel 3 78
Pratt, Edward H 12 90
Perkins, Edwin L 3 78
Plummer, William B. 1 50
Parkhurst, Horace 3 02
Pulsifer, Edgar 1 50
Porter, James A. 7 58
Pulsifer, Peckford ...... 910
Powers, Patrick 8 34
Peirce, Salem 1 50
Prescott, Samuel T, 12 90
Putnam, Allen 1 50
Pratt, Edward 115 88
Peirce, Foster 42 54
Peirce, Joseph 24 30
Preston, David 3 78
Prescott, Jeremiah S. . . . 1 50
Preble, Jeremiah 2 26
*Pratt, Henry 1 50
Pedrick, Joseph. W 3 02
Pearsons, Francis W. . . 3 78
Patterson, George W, . . 1 50
Peirce, Haskell 1 50
Pettingill, David 1 50
Plumb, Samuel 1 50
Peirce, Charles 1 50
Pope, Mark 6 84
Peirce, Hiram 1 50
Peirce, F. & J, & Co. . . 7 60
Q,uinn, James 1 50
Gluiraby & Hanford 22 80
*Quimby, Dyer 1 50
Richards, Moses 18 22
Rice, George 1 50
Ryan, Jeremiah 1 50
Roach, Garret 1 50
Reed, Charles 3 78
Riley, Barnard 1 50
Richardson, Baxter 5 30
Reigan, John 1 .50
Richardson, George .... 1 50
Rider, James 1 50
Richardson, C. heirs of, . 15 96
Richardson, Oliver ..... 1 50
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Rosevelt, Oscar 1 50
Ricker, Lewis 1 50
Ryan, William 1 50
Rimback, Christian 1 50
Raffity, Bartholomew ... 6 82
Robinson, William L. . . 1 50
Redfern, William C 10 62
Riley, Michael 6 08
Roper, John B 1 50
Roach, John 3 02
Richardson, Job, Jr 1 50
*Roach, Timothy, 1 50
Rasmuson, Augustus 1 50
Richards, Enoch 12 14
Rice, Henry A 20 50
Rodgers, James 6 82
Roach, Morris 1 50
Robinson, John 4 54
Rose, James 9 80
Randall, Henry A 7 58
Robinson, Asa L 3 02
Rice, Samuel 1 50
Riley, Nancy 6 08
Rodenburg, Simon 1 50
Richardson, Thaddeus . . 28 10
Riblett, Cornelius 1 50
Ranlett, Charles A. .... 9 10
Richardson, Palmer .... 1 50
Raymond, Joel 1 50
Remick, Jeremiah J. . , . . 1 50
*Rodgers, William . 1 50
Randall, Ivory H. ..... . 1 50
Rich, Robert, Jr. 9 10
Rich, Robert 7 60
Raymond, William 22 02
Rand, Warren 11 38
Richardson, William B. . 1 50
Rand, Alonzo 1 50
Rand, Albert S 1 50
*Steed, Patrick 1 50
Silva, John M 3 02
Southwick, Lawson .... 3 78
Sampson, Daniel 22 78
Sewall, Moses B 48 62
Stockbridge, William G. 1 50
*Sampson. William .... 1 50
Sanborn, Russell F 44 06
Bidley, Daniel 1 50
*Sullivan, John 1 50
*Sullivan, John, 2d 1 50
Sullivan, Daniel 1 50
Sibley, Timothy 1 50
Slivan, Owen 1 50
Bprague, Rufua 1 50
Swift, ErdixT. 12 14
Southwick, Alonzo 1 50
Sherland, Joseph 9 10
Stearns, Jerome B 1 50
Smith, Frederick 1 50
Styles, Francis 1 50
Streeter, Levi W 6 25
Sullivan, Daniel 7 58
Sanborn, John 63 06
Sanborn, Peter 11 38
Sanborn, John A 1 50
Stone, Nathan G. ...... 3 02
Stone, George W 9 10
Smith, Harvey 1 50
Stevens, Levi 1 50
Simonds, Nathaniel G. . . 4 54
Stevens, Simeon I 50
Smith, Lemuel 3 02
Stone, John 1 50
Stevens, John D 1 50
Stone, Joseph G 1 50
Scott, George 1 50
Sawyer, William 124 62
Smith, Samuel L 1 50
Stone, Jasper 6 06
Storer, Asa 17 46
Simonds, Charles H 10 62
Stockbridge, Lewis N. .. 15 18
Stevens, Benjamin 1 50
Southwick, John, Jr 24 30
Smith, David 13 66
Sanborn, Matthew P. . . . 3 02
Sisson, Francis 3 02
Sanborn, Matthew P. Jr. . 1 50
Stone, Phineas J 324 SO
Sanford, William W. . . . 12 14
Sto well, George A. ..... 1 50
Spinney, Leonard 3 02
Stearns, Philip P 4 16
Sherburn, Reuben B. ... 1138
Shapley, William 3 02
*Snell, Albion K 1 50
Snow, David 90 42
Shipley, Simon G 63 82
Searle, Robert 10 62
Searle, Frederick A. ... 1 50
Sargent, Nathan 1 50
Seabury, Benjamin 28 86
Seabury, Jeremiah 3 78
Sweetser, Henry P 3 78
Savage, William S 1 50
Wmith, Oliver 23 54
Savage, Thomas W. ... 1 50
Smith, John W. 1 50
*Seavy, Harrison N. . , . . 1 50
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SpaaMing, Samuel W. . . 1 50
Seawood, Oliver 1 50
Stocker, Joseph W 11 38
Stocker, Nancy 3 04
Savill, David 3 78
*Stone, James M 1 50
Sampson, Alden 6 06
Swan, Joseph T 20 50
Sanborn, Joseph S. . . . . . 1 50
Swan, Francis 3 02
Stevens, Abraham L. . . . 1 50
Sisson, Rebecca H 7 60
Sisson, Walter J 1 50
Sawyer, Timothy T. , . . . 31 90
Sewall, Freeman C 1 50
Stowell, Alexander 28 10
Scales, John 150
Seavy, Moses 14 42
Strout, Elbridge G* 1 50
Seavey, Stephen S 3 02
Schwartz, Jacob L 5 30
Turner, George W. . . . . 3 78
Turner, Lewis ......■.., 1 50
^Thompson, Edward T. . 1 50
Teel, Gershom 1 50
*Thomp3on, George — . 1 50
Taylor, Warren P. .... . 5 30
Till, Thomas 1 50
Till, Joseph H 1 50
Taylor, Augustus ...... 3 02
^Taylor, Charles 1 50
Tuttle, Samuel L 9 10
Turner, Joshua 9 86
Tilley, James A 1 50
*Trafton, Joel 1 50
Tate, Moses F 16 70
Tirrell, Artemas 116 28
Tay, Rufus L. 7 58
Thorndike, Edward 7l 42
Toomcy, Dennis 22 78
Turner, James D 1 50
*Taylor, James J 1 50
Trask, Asa T 7 58
Towle, Cyrus 1 50
*Taylor, Daniel ,.. 3 02
Tice, Luther K. 19 76
Temple, Thomas G 16 70
Tapley, William 8 34
*Tufls, George 1 50
*Tilley, Henry W 1 50
Tapley, Samuel T 3 78
Taylor, Dolphin 12 14
*Turner, Abel 1 50
Teel,, Benjamin ........ 3 30
Thomas, Warren S. .... 28 86
*Taggard, John A 1 50
Tweed, Benjamin F. 18 22
Taylor, Joseph G. 1 50
Tinkham, Jeremiah ..... 3 02
Tylor, Simon H 3 02
Tamplin, James B 54 70
Tuttle, Ezra 1 50
Towne, John 3 02
Thurston, John 1 50
Tuttle, James 16 70
Tilden, Samuel F. 16 70
Tuttle, AuraS. 1 50
Taylor & Hobart, 24 32
Thomas, John 13 66
Tee], Benjamin F 6 82
Underwood, Royal 12 14
Upham, Russel 6 82
Underbill, Samuel G. ... 20 20
Unthank, William B. ,.. 3 02
Varney, Shadracfc 162 62
Valentine, George 1 50
Vose, Zilpha 9 12
*Vining, John 150
Veasey, James 1 50
Varrell, Joseph 2 26
Vaughan, Richard K. . . . 1 50
Whitney, Isaac 1 50
Wiley, Stephen, heirs of, 45 60
Winslow, William .^.... 4 54
Wyman, Thomas W. . . . 48 62
Warren, Mark F 150
Wentworth, Sally 40 28
Wasgatt, Rhoda . . 7 60
Webster, Benaiah 7 58
White, Daniel 1 50
Ward, William 1 50
Wallace, Jerome B 2 72
Willson, Charles 1 50
Ward, Robert 1 50
Waters, John S. .., 10 62
Wri^-ht, John 1 50
* Wallace, Patrick ... 150
Waldron, Horatio G 9 86
Worcester, Alfred, 28 86
Woodbridge, Samuel .... 1 50
Wilkinson, Benjamin 1 50
Wayland, Patrick 150
Wiley, James, Jr. ....... 4 54
Woodward, Roland S. . . 48 62
Wheeler. Lewis G. ..... 1 50
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Williston, Frederick P. . 14
Woodworth, Alfred ..... 1
Witham, Samuel, 1
Wormwood, James 1
Welch, Michael 6
Wadleigh, Rufus 1
*Wren, Walter 1
*Wenlworth, Isaac 3
Williams, Sheldon 13
Whitehead, George 16
Williams, Samuel 1
Warren, Sampson 64
Watts, Joseph 18
Waldron, Elias L 1
White, Sumner P 1
Watson, William G 1
Whiton, Joseph D 4
W aitt, Francis T 5
Withey, Simeon 1
Witherell, Benjamin 4
Whittemore, Augustus .. 10
Wingate, Harrison 22
Walker, John W 39
Wilde, Washington
Weltch, Thomas G.
Witherell, Elisha B.
West, William
Williams, Oliver
1
1
18
1
1
Wells, Joseph 3
Wehster, Nathan ...... 18 45
Willson, Augustus 1 50
*Whitney, George 1 50
Williams, Isaac F 21 26
*VValker, Horace 1 50
Willard, Paul 89 64
Willard, Sidney A 3 02
Willard, Paul, Jr 2 26
Warren, Henry S. ' 5 30
West, John 1 50
Whipple, Benjamin 34 94
Waitt, Sarah 7 60
Witherell, William 5 30
Waitt, James M 3 78
Wheeler, George W. . . . 1 50
*Whittomore, 1 50
Woodward, Charles 2 26
Woods & Gerauld, 13 68
Winship, Abel - 6 82
Walker, John W. trustee, 9 88
Waldron, Thomas 3 02
Williams, John 1 50
Willis, Stillman D 14 42
Willis, Sidney D 8 36
Yenitche, Constantine ... 1 50
Yale, Eli A 6 82
Young, E. G. 1 50
WARD J?fo. 3,
Adams, Joseph H 3 02
Arnold, Caleb H. S 30 38
Armstead, Samuel L.
1 50
Armstead, John 1 50
Andrews, James
1 50
Andrews, George 1 50
Andrews, James B 1 50
Austin, Henry D , 56 22
Ayer, Nathaniel 55 46
Anderson, Sween 18 98
Andrews, Samuel R 1 50
Anthony, Joseph W 1 50
Ayer, Alvah G 1 50
Aldrich, James 1 50
*Armstead, Samuel 1 50
Austin, Lucy 125 40
Austin, Lucy, guardian, . 66 12
Austin, Edward 5 30
Ames. Dean 1 50
Alien; John 1 50
Almy, George W 3 78
Allen, Samuel H 6 06
Alden, Charles 1 50
Abbott, John G
Allen, David
Albee, Godfrey B
Ansonberry, Christopher
Aldrich, L-a
Abbott, David
Allen, Macon B
Abbott, Hiram
3 02
7 58
55 46
Batchelder, George . . .
Brown, Benjamin, 2d ...
Bolton, William ,
Brackett, Ebenezer W. . ,
Bromade, Abraham . . .
Barber, Edward ,
Boynton, Samuel H. . . . ,
Burr, Freeman F.
Burr, Temperance ,
Burr, Joshua
Bradford, Jeremiah B. . . .
Burrell, John H ,
Bailey, Thomas P
Brown, Oliver ,
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50
54
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26
50
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10 62
41 80
29 62
3 02
3 78
1 50
68 38
125
Brintnall, E^ra W. ..... 3 02
Breed, Ephraim, heirs of, 15 20
Breed, Anderson P. .... . 35 18
Blancbard, Reuben K. . ^ 1 50
Bigelow, GorJiam 7 58
Brown, Elbridg-e ....<.. 47 10
Boyd, Joseph F 45 56
Blain, John 12 ]4
Bruce, Benjamin 9 10
Barry, Richard 1 50
Barker, Cliarles A 6 82
Bronwick, William 1 50
Baldwin, George R 126 90
Beckford, Thos. heirs of, 190 00
Brown, John D 5 30
Baxter, Hiram 1 50
Barry, William 4 54
Bolton, William, 2d 3 78
Bispham, William ..... , 1 50
Brazier, James 1 50
Brackett, Josiah 35 70
Bun-ill, John 22 78
Barker, Levi 1 50
Bennett, Theophilus S. . . 1 50
Battiste, Antonio 7 88
Blanchard, Asa 1 50
Barrus, Benjamin K. . . . . 1 50
*Bel], Samuel 1 50
Bell Mrs. & Mrs. Parkman, 8 36
Barry, John 1 50
Brannin, John, heirs of, . 4 56
Brigham, Elijah P 8 34
Brown, Jacob 15 18
Baker, Richard 39 50
Baker, Richard, Jr 54 70
Bennett, David E 1 50
*Bailey, James E I 50
Brazier, John H. . 1 50
Blanchard, Isaac W. . . . . 11 38
Brooks, William P. B. . . 7 58
Blanchard, Abijah . . 12 90
Bird, James 1 50
Bro-wn, Atkins 3 78
Belknap, Austin 3 78
*Kruee, Charles 1 50
Baker, Samuel H 1 50
Bazin, Joshua W J 50
liarstow, George E 16 70
Burr, Henry T 46 34
Butts. John W 1 50
Bryant, William T 1 50
Blaban, Nathaniel , 31 14
Brown, Nathaniel 25 82
Burley, Nathaniel A 1 1 38
Bragdon, William 15 18
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*Bryant, James A 1 ^0'
Bean, James A 11 38
Bent, Ebenezer .... 3 02
Brooks, John W 4 54
Burley, Thomas H 3 02
Bennett, Stephen 1 5Q
Bennett, Charles 1 fiO
Bean, George W 1 50
Bigelow, Elijah 40 39
Batchelder, James W. .. 1 50
Barker, Asa B 1 50
Blanchard, Louisiana 33 44
*Boynton, Samuel, 2d . . 1 50
Bigelow, Sullivan 1 50
Bigelow, Charles ...... 6 06
Burroughs, William .... 2 26
Bridgeman, William H. . 4 54
Blanchard, Sampson S. . 10 62
*Babbidge, Levi 1 50
Brown, Benjamin 38 00
Brown, Peter 3 02
Blaisdell, Charles H.C. . 150
*Blye, Sanford 1 50
Brown, Ward B 1 .50
Babcock, Archibald 297 90
Babcock, Thomas 3 02
Brown, Josiah 6 06
Brigden, Michael ...... 3 80
Baldwin, George R. guard. 22 80
Batchelder, Putnam .... 1 50
*Barton, Peter 1 50
Bishop, Joseph ^ 1 50
Blood, John 28 10
Brown, Asa N 4 .54
Breed, Charles S 3 78
Broraade, Benjamin C. . . 1 50
Bartlett, Timothy 5 33
Bettis, Joseph L 4 5©
Corker, Peter J. . . . . 1 .50
Cole, John 84 34
Crafts, Elias, Jr 28 10
Cheever, John 162 62
Caldwell, Daniel 1 50
Cbesley, Charles 1 50
Collins, [jovi 16 70
Cass, Rufus 10 62
Cass, John 1 50
Carpenter, Thomas V. .. 19 74
*Chipinan, David 1 50
Chapman, Samuel 1 50
Clapp, Otis 32 66
Clapp, John H 41 C2
Clapp, Eliza A, 28 88
Collins, John 1 50
26
Collins, John S. .... 1 50
Crisp, Antonio 4 54
Cutter, Edward 1^14
Call, Edwin 1 50
Clark, John M 1 50
Cartel, Cornelius S, .,.^ 4 54
Conn, George S 78
Chandler, Elijah 6 82
Carr, Michael 1 50
Clark, Reuben 1 50
Collins, Joseph 1 50
Cole, Lysander 1 50
Children, Henry 18 98
Calder, Robert 19 00
Clark, Sarah T 6 84
Chandler, Bradford . 1 50
Cutter, John 1 50
Cunningham, Hartley ... 1 50
Clifford, Charles W 9 10
*Char]fdler, Roswell .... 1 50
Charter, John 4 54
Cutter, Amos 15 18
Cutter, Isaac S 1 50
Cutter, Amos, Jr. ...... 1 50
*Cothrin, Thaddeus 1 50
Curley, John 1 50
Chase, Samuel C 7 58
Gushing, Luther 13 66
Cronach, William H. .... 1 50
Collins, Seneca V 1 50
Collar, Charles W 3 78-
Cutter, Samuel, 9A 99 54
*Cutter, Samuel P 1 50
Conant, George H 6 06
Carr, Samuel 45 58
Gushing, Holmes 1 50
Corlis, Edwin W 1 50
Carroll, Henry 11 38
Card, John P 9 10
Grossman, Benjamin .... 1 50
Chase, Amos 4 54
Gross, Porter 14 42
Gumroings, James M. 9 86
Carrol], Barney 1 50
Carpenter, Marcellus ... 3 02
*ClufF, Samuel 1 50
Cook, Ebenezer R 1 50
Clra.mberliri', John H. 3 78
Craigg, .Tames 5 30
Craigg, John D 4 54
Craigg, Joel 4 54
Churchill, Amos 2 26
Clark, Aaron, 2d 25 06
Clark, Bradley M 42 54
Conner, James R 3 78
Caldwell, Moses H. 12 14
*Cook, David .- 1 50
Cochran, Robert B. ....- 150
Goon, John .... . .. 7 58
Gall, Robert 30 38
Coleman, Augustus . — . 1 50
Chase, Lyman O 1 50
Cox, James 12 14
Cooper, John 1 50
*Dunn, Michael I 50
Devlin, John 24 30
Denvir, Patrick ., 29 62
Donevan, Timothy 4 54
Driegan, William . . 1 50
Dadley, James G 1 50
Day en, Richard 1 50
Deland, James C 3 02
Dean, Charles . ,. .- 1 50
Davis, Phineas ,. . . » 3 78
Davis, Reed & Churchill 4 56
Dix, Joel 12 14
Dennis, Barney 1 50
Dyer, John 7 58
Dadman, Francis W. ... 1 50
Dennett, George 1 50
Dailey, James B. 1 50
Dearborn, Daniel 1 50
Devlin, Joseph 1 5)
Dillingham, Samuel ] 50
Davis, David E 7 58
Davis, Charles W 1 50
Drowne, Samuel 1 50
Davis, Luther, 3 78
Dodge, Francis S 1 50
Davis, Henry 3 02
* Daniels, Charles 1 50
Daniels, Sylvanus B^ . . . . 3 02
Drury, William P. ..... 1 50
Dearborn, Thomas W. . . 18 22
Dyer, David B 1 50
Davis, Jacob 12 90
Daniels, John E 26 58
Drink water, Jacob 6 (8
Dewson, Alexander .... 6 82
Damon, James 110 08
Davis, John 19 74
Davis, Consider 1 50
Dyar, Smitli 82 82
Duffee, Thomas 1 50
Durant, David 2 26
*Denvir, Robert 1 50
Darton, William 12 14
Downing, Richard 3 02
Dailey, Thomas 3 80
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Dorris, J ohn 1 50
Dickson, Oliver 26 58
Daby, Bdward 1 50
^Dislinj, Peter 1 50
Davidson* Nancy, admr'x, 19 00
Donevan, John 4 54
Edmands, Edward T. , . . 4 54
*Ecclc3, Nathaniel 1 50
Eberle & Trask, 1 52
Edmands, Horace M. ... 4 54
*Edg-erley, Peter « 1 50
Edes, Robert B 41 02
Edes, Robert B. Jr. 4 54
Edes, Henry A .8 34
*Edes, George A 1 50
Edmands, Thomas R. B. , 6 82
Edmands, George E 14 42
Emery, James ...... 15 \%
Estabrook, James A. . .« . 5 30
Edwards, John 4 54
Emerton, John 1 50
Edminster, Aaron 1 50
Elliot, Thomas J 22 78
Esler, John 3 80
Emery, Moses 14 42
Eddy, John E 4 54
Emerton, Leonard 8 34
• Foster, Isaac S 1 50
Fuller, Henry 1 50
Fletcher, Elisha R 3 02
Fowler, Augustus 3 0 i
Paunee, William 2 26
Fuller, Stephen B 1 50
*Foley, Michael 1 50
Foster, Jonas 3 78
Fuller, John K 11 38
Fletcher, Charles 3 02
Furhush, Andrew 3 78
Frothingham, Joshua P.,
- heirs of 68 40
Frothingham, Thomas H. 9 10
Furbush & Davis 22 80
Fuller, George 4 54
Farnsworth, James L. . . 1 50
Frost, William W i 50
Frost, Samuel 1 50
Fretch, William S 17 46
Fletcher, Timothy 123 86
Farrie, William 1 50
Fowler, Samuel 26 58
Flanders, Asa 19 74
Frink, George S 1 50
*Faulkner, Edward 15®
*Fowler, James 1 50
Flint, Benjamin 1 50
Field, Freeman 9 86
Floyd, Joel 1 50
Fowler, George T 14 42
Fowler, Stephen G 14 42
*Frye, Levi 1 50
Freeman, Abigail ... 6 08
*Frost, Benjamin 1 50
*Fish, Ansel H 3 02
Fislre, William i 50
Freeman, Charl«s H. . . . 1 50
Foster, David . , 3 78
Frothingham, Nathaniel F. 71 42
Freeman, Joshua 5 30
Flanders, Moses G 1 50
Frothingham, Isaac C. . . 18 22
Fernald, William ...... 150
Frothingham, James K. . 94 98
Frothingham, Richard .. 31 14
Frothingham, Richard, Jr. 58 50
Frothingham, Henry K. . 34 18
*Flint, Charles 1 50
Fulton, Bailey 1 50
Fall, Otis 1 50
Frothingham, James K. Jr. J 50
Frazier, James 4 56
Flanders, John H 1 50
Field, James H. , 150
Farr, Frank 1 50
Flanagan, John ........ 1 50
Fleming, Martin ....... 1 50
Finerty, Edward ....... 1 50
Flanders, Isaac 1 50
Finegan, James 1 50
Folsom, Samuel M 21 26
*Fullerton, Ezekiel . J 50
Felt, Jacob, heirs of, 3 80
Fialsom, Orral 1 50
French, Levi 1 50
Francis, James M 10 62
Goldsmith, Seth 4 54
*Gafney, Barney 1 50
Gillman, Alfred 3 78
Goodrich, Abijah, heirs of, 272 08
Gerauld, Edwin R 1 50
Goodnow, John B. 1 50
Godbold, Henry St. John 5 30
Go wan, Edwin 1 50
Giimon, William B. ..... 1 50
Gill, John 1 50
Gibbs, John , 3 02
Goodridge, Lowell ..... I 50
28
Gleason, Nathaniel 2 26
Gillmore, Orin 3 02
Gillinore & Wurdock, ... 3 80
Gillmore, James 3 02
Goodrich, Charles B. . . . - ] 50
George, Stephen M. 3 02
Gulliver, Lemuel 35 70
Greeley, Guy 1 50
Goodwin, George C 37 98
Gould, William 1 50
Guild, James 1 50
Getchell, Uriah 1 50
Getchell, Benjamin ] 50
Gould, William H 3 02
Gibbs, John, heirs of, ... 15 20
Gill, George I 50
Gardner, Henry 79 78
Gardner, John 1 50
Gibbs, George L 2 26
Gillson, Joseph? 1 50
Gage, Benjamin W 43 30
Goodridge, Mrs. adrnr'x, , 3 04
Gibbs, Geo, L. & Leman, 3 04
Hughes, George 1 50
Howe, Reuben 1 50
Hogan, Edward C 3 78
Hill, Roland 3 02
Howe, Nathaniel E 3 78
Heath, Augustus II 24 30
Hall, George S. 26 58
*Hall, David 3 78
Ho] I is, John H 1 50
Hall, Edward 1 50
Howe, David 3 02
Hovey, Joseph F 12 90
*Ham, Silas W 1 50
Hutchinson, John C 1 50
Hearsev, William 7 60
Hooper, Thomas 97 26
Hoooer, Richard H 1 50
Ifooper, Thomas W 96 50
Hunt, Andrew K 66 10
Hamlin, Josiah 1 50
Huntington, Lynde A. ,. 47 10
Hager, James 9 86
Hammatt, Caleb 7 58
*Haynes, Elbridge G. . , . 1 50
HagaTj James, Jr. 14 42
Hitchborn, Pliilip .. 1 50
Hunting, Ebenezer N. . , 1 50
Harrington, Thaddeus ,. 3 02
Hearsey, Edward ...... 64 58
Hearsey, Edward, Jr. . . . 11 38
Hamlin, William 18 24
Hamlin, George, 1 50
Haywood, John W 1 50
Hartshorn, Francis S. . . 3 87
Holbrook, Rafus 1 50
*Hale, Robert 1 50
Hutchinson, James R. . . 1 50
Howard, John 1 50
Hall, Franklin A 7 58
Hammond, Ezra 6 82
Henry, Francis 1 50
Hall, William P 12 14
Haynes, William 17 46
*Hayes, Sidney C 3 02
Hurd, LoamiS 12 14
Huntley, Russel 18 22
Howard, William 8 34
Hayward, Gorham J. ... 6 82
Herman, Benjamin 6 82
Hatch, Joshua F 1 50
Harrington, Adam 3 78
Hartwell, Thomas 12 90
Hatch, John, Jr 1 50
Higgins, Payne S 31 14
Hair, JoelT 11 38
Hall, Jonas G 1 50
Hancock, John C 3 02
*Hobill, Thomas 1 50
*H arris, Jeplhar 1 50
Harding, William 1 50
Hobel, John 1 50
Plandley, John 6 82
Harley, Joseph 6 82
Harley, Thomas B 1 50
Hertell, Charles A 1 50
Hustin, John 16 70
Hurd, Charles 1 50
Hall and Brother, 4 56
Hall, Moses B. 42 54
Hall, James 101 06
Hall, Theodore A 1 50
Higgins, Jeremiah 31 92
Howe, Edwin 6 06
Hovey, Abijah, heirs of, , 24 32
Hovey, Abijah W 5 30
*Hovey, Albert 1 50
Hovey, William 5 30
Hovey, Sarah ., 3116
Henry, Alden 3 02
Henry & Brown, ? 2 28
Hood", Asa , . . 3 02
Hutchins, Joseph 13 1 50
Hollis, Charles , 6 06
Hutchinson, Herman .... 38 74
Hussey, Joseph, ... , 1 50
Hadley, William 2 26
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Ham, Philip 1 50
Hitchlar, Henry 1 50
*HaGkett, Charles W. . . 1 50
Hutchinson, J eri-y !• 8fi
Herlfley, Belen. 1 50
Holden, Oliver, heirs of, . 207 48
*Hunter, Michael 7 58
Haywood, James 9 86
*Hobart, Samuel, 1 50
Higg-ins, Josiah G 1 50
*Huut, Merrill C 1 50
*Johnson, Philip J. ..... I 50
Johnson, Samuel R 85 10
Johnson, Mary 11 40
Jones, Nathan 9 10
*Jones, William 1 50
*Jordan, James 1 50
Johnson, John J\J 1 50
Johnson, John, heirs of, ,. 26 60
Jennerson, Jonas L 3 02
Jennings, Alexander H. . 1 50
Janes, Elihu 1 50
Janes, William H. . 1 50
Jordan, George W 5 30
Janes, Francis P 1 50
Johnson, William 12 90
Johnson, John M. ...... 1 50
Janes, Elihu, Jr. 1 50
Johnson, Thomas S 14 42
Johnson, Jotham 139 06
Johnson, William, 2d . . . 10 62
Johnson, John B 5 30
Johnson, Bradford 1 50
*JefFerson, Willis R ' 1 50
Jordan, Daniel 1 50
Johnson, Samuel T. , • . . 1 50
Johnson,. Lewis 14 42
Jenkins, Samuel R 1 50
Jefferson, Nathaniel W. . 1 50
*Johnson, John 1 50
Johnson, George - 97 26
Jeffrey, Peter 1 50
Killen, Patrick 1 50
Kelley, James C 1 50
*Keiley, Michael 150
Kimball, Richard 1 50
Kettell, George P 7 60
*Knapp, George M 1 50
Kerr, William 1 50
Kellv, Joseph 1 50
*Knight, Daniel 1 50
*Knights, Calvin S 1 50
Kingsbury, Nathaniel . . 1 50
Kalner, John 150
Kimball, Samuel 7 58
Kenrick, Warren F 1 50
Kelly, Stephen P 2 26
Kimball, Benjamin 17 46
Kimball, Benjamin A. . . 1 50
Kimball, Samuel J 1 50
Kimball, Harvey T. .... 1 50
Knight, Oliver 1 50
King, Thomas S 5 30
Kimball, Joshua W 31 90
Kilfoil, Thomas 1 50
Kimball, Lewis 1 50
Kimball, Shubael C 1 50
Kimball, Jonathan 1 50
Kimball, James J 1 50
*Kelley, Keiren 1 50
Kent, John 126 14
Kenrick, William W. . . . 3 78
Kinsley, Silas 43 30
Kinsley & Kenrick, .... 1140
Knio-ht, Charles R 12 14
Knight Horace 3 02
Knio-ht, Horace & Co. . . 34 20
Kimball, Charles 22 78
Lyon, Flenry 15 18
Lynde, Nathan 16 68
Littlefield, Albert 1 50
*Lamb, George H 1 50
Lane, Simon, 1 50
Lane, George 32 66
Leman, Henry W 1 50
*Lothrop, Joseph 1 50
Long, William 3 78
Leman, Nathaniel R. . . . 7 58
Leman, Frederick W. . . 2 26
Lewis, Seth W 6 44
Leavens, George L. .... 1 50
Laing, Daniel 5 30
Lincoln, Charles N. M. . 9 10
Lewis, Justin H 1 50
Logan, John 1 50
Lewis, Andrew 1 50
Larkin, Franklin 1 50
Lewis, Humphrey 6 82
Littlefield, Richard 15 18
Letter, Flush 1 50
Littlefield, Ivory 57 74
Linnell, Joshua 5 30
Lord, Edwin 7 .58
Laing, Daniel, Jr. 1 50
Lakeman, Ebenezer .... 5 30
Lane, Augustus, 150
Locke, Jonathan F 1 50
30
Larkin, Abraham - 1 50
Locke, Daniel 1 50
Lamson, Nathaniel 33 42
Lund, James 8 34
•Lawrence, Benjamin . . 1 50
Low, Nicholas 25 82
Larkin, Caleb 1 50
Lincoln, Susan C. guard. 13 68
Leavens, George M 1 50
McMahar, Owen 8 34
Miller, Albert 1 50
Marshall, Joshua P 10 62
Mahoney, Thomas, 1 50
*Morey, David W 3 78
Marshall, Daniel 32 66
Mayo, Asa 3 78
Martin, Newhall. heirs of, 32 68
Mitchell, Lewis S 3 02
Murdock & Tilson, .... 3 04
Morris, Thomas 1 50
Munroe, George S 6 06
McKillips, JohnP 1 50
*Miller, James, 2d 1 50
*Marston, Ward 5 30
Moulton, Joseph 1 50
^Marshall, Christopher . . 1 50
Mayhew, Freeman F. 1 50
Mayhew, Freeman T. . . . 1 50
Mayhew, Daniel M 1 50
Mayo, Uriah K 9 10
Martin, James B 15 94
Marden, George H 10 62
Mason, Rufus 8 34
Murdock, John 17 46
Mayhew, George H 1 50
McElroy, Charles ..... 7 58
McNear, Christopher ... 3 02
McCortif, Andrew 1 50
Miller, George 1 50
Mason, Thomas 1 50
Matlock, John 1 50
Mullett, Charles T 6 82
*McDaniels, William ... 150
Marpole, Samuel 1 50
Mann, Patrick 1 50
Mead, Isaac, heirs of, 136 04
Melvin, John, heirs of, . . 30 40
Marpole, Catharine, heirs of, 19 00
McDade, Robert 1 50
*Murdock, Stephen 3 02
Mayers, Hartwell 2 26
Moore, Charles W 21 26
Mason, Marshall 12 14
*Mahan, Abraham 3 78
Miller, James ......... 6 06
*Morey, Alexander S. .. 1 50
Murphy, Timothy 1 50
Melville, John 6 82
Myrick, George 3 02
Morse, Caleb 1 50
Mellen, Cad H 1 50
McCloud, Peter 1 50
Maling, Nathaniel G. . . . 1 50
Mills, William F 3 02
McElroy, John 1 50
*McBay, John 3 78
Mclntire, Silas 18 22
Melvin, Nathan 4 54
Magoun, Joshua 20 50
Magoun & Turner 47 12
McKinney, James 1 50
Moore, Benjamin P 7 58
Marshall, Albert 6 06
Melvin, Wier T 1 50
McGlaulin, William H. . 1 50
McGlaulin, Eben W. . . . 1 50
Nichols, Richard 5 28
Neval, James 1 50
Norris, Moses 6 82
Nelson, Neil 14 42
Nowell, Oliver 1 50
Neagle, William 21 26
Neagle, Godfrey B 4 54
Norton, John 1 50
Oakman, Forbes 1 50
Oliver, Marshall 6 06
Otheman, Edward 3 78
Oakes, Levi 1 50
Osgood, Sylvester 3 78
Oakes, William H 1 50
Osborn, Richard 18 98
Osgood, Moses 1 50
Peters, William 9 86
Peters, Edmund F 1 50
*Parker, Charles E 2 26
Porter, Alfred H 3 78
Phinps, Solomon G 146 66
*Phe]ps, Jonathan E. ... 150
Payne, Thomas 1 50
Poor, James C 12 14
Percival, Francis 1 50
Phipps, John S 1 50
Parker, Ebenezer S 1 50
Poole, Charles 1 50
*Parker, 1 50
81
Phipps, William 4 54
Phipps, Solomon ] 50
*P age, Thomas R. ...'.. 1 50
Pratt, Ralph 9 86
*Page, Nathan 1 50
Payne, Nathaniel G 1 50
Phipps, James M 2 20
Paterson, William C 8 34
Pratt, Henry C 4 54
*Putnam, William H. . . . 1 50
Penny, Samuel 1 50
Perkins, Joseph P 1 50
Perkins, Benjamin F 1 50
Payne, Kilby J 1 SO
Pratt, Augustus VV 1 50
Pratt, Isaac, heirs of, 7 60
Pratt, Caleb 25 74
Pearson, Charles 1 50
Phipps, Thomas 1 50
Pratt, Ruel 1 50
*Pritchard, Abraham P. . 1 50
Pritchard, Abraham P. Jr. 1 50
Pendergast, George S. .. ]8 98
Philbrook, Heman S 1 50
Pearson, Enoch .... ■. i 50
Phipps, Benjamin 83 58
Phipps, IJenjamin, Jr. . . . 3 78
Phipps, Solo'n, Jr. heirs of, 38 00
Phipps, Solomon, heirs of, 9 ]2
Percival, Harper E. .... ] 50
Praddox, Robert C. 1 50
Pattee, Asa D. 2d, 47 10
*Pattee, Amos 2 26
Pennell, Calvin S. . 9 86
Patch, Sidney S 14 42
Peirce, Charles } 50
Purington, Samuel 1 50
Perry, Edmund S 1 50
*Parkhur3t, Benjamin E. . 1 50
Pollard, Asa D 37 98
Phipps, Joseph, heirs of, . 34 20
Phipps, Emeline 19 00
Poll&rd, Samuel 1 50
Pollard, Preston 150
Phipps, Wm. S. heirs of, . 27 36
Phipps, Williams 3 02
Phipps, Albert 18 98
Pattee, Asa D ... 3 78
*Phelp3, E. Bartlett 150
*Parker, William 1 50
Packard, Jesse 1 50
Phelps, Henry .... . , 1 50
Peirce, Dane 9 86
Parker, Benjamin ... 111 70
Purrington, Stephen .... I 50
Peacock, Freeman H. . . 10 62
Page, John 3 78
Penny, Jonathan, heirs of, 7 60
Payne, Ebenezer 10 62
Phillips, Isaac F 1 50
Quinlan, Timothy 4 54
Quinn, Alichael 1 50
Robinson, Frederick .... 59 26
Rooney, Edward . . . 1 50
Robertson, John M. . . . . 3 78
Robertson, George 1 50
Roberts, J. W. & A. ... . 8 36
Rorin, Cornelius 1 50
Raymond, Oliver F. .... 4 54
Reed, Leonard ........ 1 50
*Reed, Charles 1 50
Remick, Hiram P 52 42
Richardson, Nathan . — 1 50
Reed, Dana 1 50
Reynolds, Samuel S 9 10
Reynolds, Edward E. . . . 3 78
Raymond, Joel, Jr. ,.... 1 50
Rich, Michael 1 50
Roulstone, Samuel 17 46
Rhoades, SamiJel .. . 19 74
Rhoades, Samuel, guard'n, 7 60
Rogers, Henry 13 66
Rogers, Edward H 1 50
Kand, Warren, Jr 1 50
Restrick, John 1 50
Randall, Henry A • 1 50
Richards,. Samuel C 25 82
Richards, Leonard 22 78
Rodman, Ezra 3 78
Rugg, Luther 1 50
Rogan, James 8 34
Randal], John 5 30
Robinson, Nathaniel VV. . 5 30
Robbins, Walter 21 26
Rice, Henry 3 78
Reed, Martin L. . 150
Rand, A bsalom. 38 74
Rand, Edward T 1 50
Rogers, Albert B 1 50
Rollins, Williams S. ... 150
Riley, Peter 1 50
Richardson, Edward H. . 1 50
Rooney, William ...... 1 50
Rice, Thomas, heirs of, , 79 SO
Robertson, John P. . 1 50
Reace, John 6 84
Richardson, John 14 80
Sloane, Thomas 1
Stowe, Amos 20
Sn^an, William H 17
Smith, Charles A. 2d, . . . 1
Shaw, Joseph W 1
Stevens, William H 5
Smith, Amos J 1
Simonds, Benjamin H, . . 1
*Simonds, William C . . 1
Stevens, Edward 1
Savage, Seth H 1
Savage, Theodore L 1
Savage, Francis 0 1
Stowell, Abel, Jr 88
Shed, Imla 3
Stickney, Luther 1
*Shattuck, Charles 1
Stone, Paschal 1
Sears, Clark 7
Seward, Alfred 3
Shaw, Charles A. ...... 1
Stevens, Isaac li 1
♦Sylvester, John M 1
Spear, Joseph S 9
Stickney, Silas 76
Stanwood, Solomon 4
Stinson, Charles 7
Sunderland, Le Roy 36
Stimpson, George, Jr. . . 23
Schwap, Francis 1
^Spear, James 1
Stone, Phineas 53
Stone, Amos 38
Stone, Jonathan 22
Smith, Charles A 1
Sanderson, Charles . — 3
Shattuck, Nathaniel 9
S ward, Henry H 1
*Simpson, Joseph 1
Sears, Charles 1
Smiley, Hezekiah S 1
Stone, Sardine, Jr. 10
Smith, Henry 1
Smith, James 1
*Smith, 1
Stimpson, Robert 13
Stover, Frnucis 1
Sheriff, Charles H 1
*Smith, Christopher S. . . 1
Sargent, Isaac 1
Sawtell, John 1
*Smith, Daniel J 1
Shedd, Thomas I
Shedd, William B 1
Stimpson, James M 1
Stevens, Jesse , 6 W2
Stimpson, George ...... 18 22
Spear, Samuel G 150
Stetson, John 3 02
Stanwood, George E. . . . . 1 50
Snow, Benjamin B. .... 1 50
Sawyer, Edward T 2 2G
Stickney, William . 35 70
Snow, Ezekiel, heirs of, . 7 60
Smith, William 3 79
Sawyer, George H. .... 1 50
*Stowell, Otis W 1 50
Simonds, Calvin, Jr 27 34
Smith, Charles C 21 64
Smith, David 1 50
Simmons, Henry B. . 8 34
Shedd, Abraham B 3 78
Sanborn, Azel 4 54
Swan, Reuben 34 94
Spear, Salathiel 14 42
*Shay,John.. 150
Stevens-, Collins, 4 54
Small, Sylvester 1 50
Smith, Addison 12 SO
Sibley, Nahum 37 98
Smith, Samuel 4 54
Stumche, Charles 15 18
*Stimpson, Reuben .... 3 02
Swift, Joseph , 12 14
Stover, Jonathan 1 50
Shaw, Joseph 1 50
Sampson, Miles 1 50
Stockwell, George 1 5&
Simonds, Henry 1 50
Sweetser, Amos 6 82
Storer, Robert B 1 50
*S wan, Joseph, Jr 1 5&
Simmonds, Stephen .... 3 78
*Sherman, Hiram 1 50
*Shedd, Edward 1 50
Skilton, Samuel D 5 30
Skilton, Samuel, heirs of, 22 80
Skilton, William W 1 50
Sweetser, Seth 9 86
Stearns, Ezra 5 30
Simonds, John 1 50
Stewart, James 6 06
*Scollay, Michael 1 50
Stone, Calvin 11 3S
Simonds, David 9 10
Stevens, Seth 25 82
Stearns, Joshua B. 20 50
Stewart, Wentworth 1 50
Salisbury, William 1 50^
Studley, Alson 69 90
ss
Simpson, Mark . . . ^ 1 50
Sargent, Sam'l S. heirs of, 20 52
Sargent, Mary, heirs of, . ]2 IG
Smith, O. H. P 3 78
Slowe, Haven P 1 50
Sargent, Samuel S 1 50
Shedd, John 4 54
Skilton, Martha 15 20
Tibbetts & Hill, 24 32
Taggard, Samuel 5 30
Tenney, Leonard 3 78
Tabor, William ; . 1 50
Tee], Henry T 3 78
Tibbetts, John 12 90
Tufts, Daniel 208 22
*Titus, George 1 50
Titus, John 1 50
Thomas, John 1 50
Tillson, Benjamin F. .... 3 02
Thorp, Charles M 1 50
Thrasher, James 1 50
Trask, Isaac B 3 02
Taylor, Joseph 1 50
Tash, Charles G ] 50
Tilden, Freeman F 12 14
*Turner, Henry 1 50
Thompson, Isaac 3 02
Torrey, David, heirs of, . 10 64
Tufts, Uriah 9 10
Tucker, David S 1 50
Trowbridge, Almarin ... 33 42
Turner, Jarnes R 7 58
Thompson, Lafayette ... 1 50
Tiitty, John 1 50
Tubbs, Edward 1 50
Tufts, Joseph F. , , 64 58
Tufts, Joseph F. Jr. . . . . 1 50
Tufts, George '1' 1 50
Tufts, Gilbert «fc Co 129 96
Thayer, Henry 1 50
Teel, Joseph E. 2 26
Tolman, William 9 10
Thompson, Luke 1 50
Tirrell, Parker P 2 26
Tyler, Philip 18 98
Tandy, Moses S 1 50
Tufts, N. & G 47 12
Turner, Francis 19 74
Tibbetts, Timothy W. .. 1138
Tenant, John . , 1 50
Tufts, Joseph P. guardian, 45 60
Tasmau, Zebediah ..... 1 50
Tnfts, William 12 90
Tufls, Joseph F. guardian, 22 80
Underwood, Joseph . . . . ; 1 50
Vestiman, Simon a 1 50
Vancleve, Peter J i 1 ."SO
Varney, Jacob 1 50
Vose, "I'homas C 3 02
Varney, Enos . * 18 98
Wharton, John 150
Whitney, Alfred .. . 3 78
Winslow, Samuel, 2d .i . i 3 02
Willson, Jesse J6 70
West, Thomas Y 31 90
Wyer, Cath. & Margaret, II 40
Wellman, Asa 43 30
Willis & Kendall, 26 (iO
Willis, David C 17 46
Whittle, John 150
W bitten, Jonathan 1 50
Winchester, Mark ...... 77 50
Willson, John B 7 5^
Williams, Richard 4178
Worcester, James A. D. 6 J3 66
Walker, George 50 14
Witham, Lorenzo D 1 50
Wright, Winsor 3 02
Wyman, Earl 1 50
Waitt, Ashbel 28 10
Whiting, Augustus 236 34
Whiting, George A. . . . . 5 -30
Whiting, James H 3 78
Willson, Jeremy 26 58
Willson, George B 1 50
Woodb ridge, Samuel ... 1 50
^Williams'; John H 1 50
Warren, George H. .... 9 10
Woodbury, David 3 02
Waterman, James ...... 15^
Winslow, Edward 20 50
*Winslow, John B 3 02
Watson, Horace H 3 78
Warren, Bezaleel, heirs of, 9 12
Warren, Henry 2a ^
Webster, Humphrey H. . 1 50
Worthen, Moses P. .... 3190
Wells, George E. 1 50
Welch, George F. 3 78
Wright, John .......... 1 50
Willson, Robert 10 62
Wyman, William 1 50
Winn, George — , . 1 50
Walker, Henry B. J3 66
Walker, Persis 6 08
Walker, Cliaries, beira of, 139 84
34
Wright, Charles S.
Welch, Gardner R,
Weston, David B. .
Wyman, Moses , . .
*W' right, Marcus L,
Williams, William
Waitt, Charles . ..
WiJmott, Nathaniel N
Williams, Thomas .
Wilmot, Sullivan N.
Wig-gin, Thomas L.
Willson, James W. .
Welch, Richard . . .
Woodman, Joseph B.
Walker, Edwin R. .
Woodson, Joseph . .
Wriglit, Sylvester . .
*Wicks, Elias S. . . .
* Watts, Simeon N.
Wiley, Ephraim W.
Williams, Caleb . . .
3 02
6 82
1 50
1 50
1 50
23 64
15 94
5 30
1 50
1 50
5 32
30 38
1 50
1 50
1 50
9 10
1 50
1 50
1 50
8 34
1 50
*White, Otis 1 5Q
Worcester, Prudence ... 16 72
Worcester, William E. . 3 02
Wardwell, Bailey R. .... 1 50
Walker, Alexander .... 1 50
Ward, Edward 3 78
Wetherbee, Isaac . . . 1 50
Whitehead, George .... 1 50
White, Ambrose H 47 10
Wallace, James M 3 78
Winslow, Samuel 16 70
Waterman, Charlotte ... 3 80
Welch, Jane 6-08
Walker, Joseph F. heirs of, 12 16
Weeks, George M 1 50
*Walsh, George 1 50
Young, Joseph, 2d 1 50
Young, Thomas P 1 50
Young, Joseph 5 30
NON-RESIDENTS.
Aspinwall, Samuel . , . . . 19 00
Adams, George W 6 84
Andrews, Samuel 13 68
Armstrong, Samuel T. . . 39 52
Andrews, Joseph E 7 60
Ames, Philander 179 36
Adams, Samuel 5 32
Aldrich, Aaron 14 44
Allen, Francis 7 60
Barnicoat & Tuckerman, 5 70
Brintnall, Benjamin .... 25 84
Bradstreet, Samuel 45 60
Barnard, Samuel 238 45
Bennett, Joshua 52 44
Boylston, Ward N. heirs of, 53 20
Binney, Amos, Sen., heirs
of, 114 00
Binney, Amos, Jun., heirs
of, 15 20
Breed, John, heirs of, 155 80
Bramhall, Cornelius 2128
Barton, Martha 3 80
Bates, Martin 33 44
Bradstreet, Elizabeth ... 14 44
Bass, Moses 1 52
Brown, Charles 361 00
Bartlett, George 56 24
Bowles, John 8 36
Bowman, Francis 38 00
Betterley, 7 .30
Baldwin, Catharine 53 20
Blake, Philip 34 20
Burckes, Martin 34 96
Bartlett, Thomas M 6 08
Bigelow, Samuel 77 ,52
Bradshaw, Samuel C. Jr. 98 80
Bryant & Herman 83 6U
BaVbour, J. R 15 20
Bray, Charles C. 21 28
Buliard, Lewis 21 28
Boylston, Marcy 22 80
Bell, Benjamin 23 56
Brown & Swift, 121 60
Barry, Richard 22 80
Barker, Abel 13 68
Baker, Alice 110 20
Barker, George 22 80
Bradeen, Benjamin ..... 12 92
Bowen, Charles 80 56
Barker, Cyrus 15 20
Blanchard, Seth 6 84
Bowers & Ham, 26 60
Barry, William 6 08
Babbitt. Alvin 7 60
Bowthorp, Thomas 6 08
Buzzejl, Samuel 5 32
Bigelow, Josiah 10 64
Baxter «fe Brothers, ..... 5 32
Barstow, George 0 38 00
Bent, Stephen C. ...... . 12 16
Chapman, Jona. heirs of, 243 96
Colby, Sarah 32 68
Cary, Jonathan 15 20
Gary, Isaac H. 6 08
Cary, Charles S 27 36
Chelsea Bridge Corpora'n, 16 72
Cummings, Samuel 1 52
Coburn, Daniel J 88 92
Corbett, Leavett 9 12
Clapp, Salmon, heirs of, . 13 68
Calhoun. Mrs 24 32
Calahan, John 20 52
Cook, Martha 19 00
*CampbeIl, Patrick 9 12
Collier, Martin 9 12
Carruth, F. S. treasurer, . 101 08
Cook, George 47 12
Clapp, Eliza 47 88
Chandler, Newton A. & Co. 12 16
Chamberl in 5i' Foster, .. 3 04
Carruth, Nathan 9 12
Chambers, David 15 96
Crowningshield, Abr. W. 18 24
Cole, William 3 80
36
Collamore, Gillman 66 88
Campbell, James 15 20
*Currier, A. H 1 52
Deterbee, Peter 1 52
Damon, Rebecca 11 40
Dix, James H 22 80
Daltori, Thomas 11 40
Dee, Patrick 7 60
Douglass, Robert 8 36
Dunbar, Peter & Thomas, 38 00
Dutton, Francis L. trustee, 174 80
Edmands, Thomas 72 20
Eustis, James 15 20
Elwell, David 30 40
Edmands, Thomas B. . . . 8 36
Emerson, E. Mrs. and S.
Sweetser, 13 68
English, Jerome 3 04
Eaton, William 39;i 20
French, Ann 19 CO
Fuller, Stephen 13 64 60
Fenwick, Benedict 15 20
Fosdick, David 37 24
Fairbanks, l^oring & Co. 92 .2
P'oster, William, heirs of, 20 .52
Foster, Gidi-on 42 56
Frotbinofham, Richard, Jr.
age'nt, S83 48
Fiske, Francis 10 64
Fernald, Wm. heirs of, .. 31 92
Farnsworth, William J. . 11 40
Fullerton, Samuel 12 16
Fitz, Abel 90 06
Foster, Charles 120 84
Fnsg, Ezra D 80 40
Fiske, R. F. &. J. C. & Co. 1 9 00
Forbes, Daniel H 10 64
Farley, William 6 08
Fitchburg Rail Road, . . 2945 CO
Gerrish, George W 4180
Guiney, Elizabeth 9 12
Guild, Reuben 34 20
Gasner, Peter 49 40
Goodnow, John 16 72
Gillman, John T. heirs of, 26 60
Grant, Moses 76 00
Guild, Chester & Son, . . 61 56
Granger, George T. . . * . 7 60
Gove & Locke, .... 12 16
Gass & Bowcn, 30 40
Gage, Stephen M. & Co. . 9 12
Guild, Chester 64 60
Gaul, Emeline 3 80
Haywood & Carnes, .... 205 20
Harris, Jonathan, heirs of, 638 40
Hull, Isaac, heirs of, .... 150 48
Hull, I. heirs of, and heirs
of Amos Binney, Jr. 253 84
Hall, Milton 4 56
Hay, Marmaduke 17 48
Harris, Richard 43 32
Hurd, Charles 102 60
Hollis, John R. heirs of, . 3 04
Harris, J ames 6 08
Harrington, Andrew .... 7 60
Harwood, Patty 5 32
Holden, George 23 56
Horn & Sinclair, 14 44
Haskell, Thomas 4 56
Holbrook, Daniel 4 56
I! ay ward, John 9 12
Harrison, Lydia A 7 60
Hammond, Edward 25 C8
Haynes, Charles 39 52
flarris, Jerome 10 64
Howe, Joseph J 15 CO
Hastings, Edmund T. ... 49 40
Howard, William C 7 60
Hancock, John, Jr. ..... 57 00
Holton, Leonard 4 56
Hatch, John B 26 60
Hanson, James ........ A ^Q
Harwood, James 6 08
Hazleboom, 9 12
Hamlin, Cornelius 12 16
Hazlett, William 11 40
Haskins, William 7 60
Holden, Nehemiah 9 13
Hubbard, W. J. and others, 114 00
Harrod & Fernald 60 80
Hammatt, Barnabas .... 9 12
Ingolls, John R 7 60
Ireland, George W. .... 18 24
Jones, Ebcnezer, 36 48
Jackson, Ebenezer ..... 12 16
Johnson, Seth, heirs of, . . 22 80
Johnson, William M. ... 4 56
Johnson, Polly 5 32
Jones, Jonathan 34 20
Jackson, George , 152
37
*Kellan, Robert .
Kendall, Henry A.
Kidder, Jerome G.
Loomis, Hubbel
Lane & Reed,
Lakeman, James
Locke, Charles A
Littlefield, Walter
Lincoln, Beza, admin'r, . .
Lawrence, Sylvester ....
Lawrence, Joshua
Lennox, Asa
Leavett, H. H
Lord, Peletiah
Lane, George F
Lawrence, Brown & Stick-
ney,
Langmaid, Samuel P. —
Lawrence, Richard C. . .
Mackentire, James . .
Mahan, Benjamin F. .
MuUiken, John W. ...
Manning, Mary
Means, James . .
Munroe, Sally P
Mountford, Nathaniel
Mellows, William . . .
Miller, Charles
McGrath, Edward . . .
McElroy, William . . .
Mulliken & Gould, . .
Millen, James
Morse, Foster
McKinsley, Rosannah
McKay, John
McElroy, Patrick . . .
Morrison, E. J
McKenney &l Story, .
McFarlane, David . . .
Nudd, Thomas . .
Newcomb, Norton
Noyes, Clement .
Payson, Ruth
Pratt, John, heirs of, .
Parks, Elisha
Parsons, Nehemiah . .
Parkman, George
Prentiss, Nathaniel A.
Perry, Benjamin
6 08
1] 40
86 20
4 56
21 28
34 20
83 60
24 32
15 20
7 60
34 20
10 64
15 20
7 60
10 64
12 16
8 36
22 80
n 40
12 92
31 16
6 08
9 12
3 80
6 08
7 60
7 60
15 20
53 20
76 00
11 40
3 80
5 32
11 40
6 08
7 60
21 28
10 64
15 20
15 20
12 92
66 88
28 88
395 20
]5 20
9 12
24 32
4 56
Parker, Jonathan 22 04
Parkman, Susan 40 28
Peirce, Jonathan 19 00
Patterson, David 19 00
Peirce, Abijah H 18 24
Plympton, Ralph 20 52
Pook, Charles L. Jr. ... 16 72
Peirce, Thomas 34 20
Pettengill, Benjamin .... 95 CO
Phinney, William 3 80
Penniman, Edward M. .. 5 32
Parsons & Bacon, 9 88
Quimby, A. W 28 88
Roberts, Francis R 7 60
Roberts, John L 10 64
Robins, Richard 166 44
Raymond, William 40 28
Rand, Benjamin 30 40
Rice & Thaxter, 64 60
Ritchie, James 167 20
Rice, John P 41 80
Reed, Samuel G 14 44
Raymond, Charles F. . . . 6 C8
Raymond, Francis L. ... 15 P6
Richardson, S. B 2 28
Swett, Taskpr H, heirs of, 38 00
Sullivan, Richard 699 20
Stevens, John 19 00
Stearns. Sarah, heirs of, . 38 00
Sawyer, Stephen (! 08
Shaw, Mary 91 20
Sipne, William W 167 20
Smith, Thomas C 1 1 40
Swett, J ohn H. 27 36
Stearns, Eckley 21 28
Sheafe, Mary A 45 60
Swasey, JohnH 18 24
Sylvester, Oakes 11 40
Sanderson, J osiah 12 16
Saunders, Oliver 30 40
Sanborn, Jacob 25 84
Swan, Joseph 13 68
Smyth, R. M. N 79 80
Solis, Christopher 125 40
*Swift, H. & Co 7 60
Simpson, Daniel P 7 60
Sawyer, Samuel ]5 20
Swett, Benjamin 6 08
Somes, John G 1 52
Severance, David 2 28
Skinner, John 39 52
Sargent, Joseph R 7 60
38
Taylor, George A 92 80
Thorndike, Ebenezer ... 10 64
Turner, Larkin 44 08
Tudor, Frederick 22 80
Torry, Deborah, heirs of, . 30 40
Tufts, Charles 11 7 80
Trott & Bumstead, 3 80
Tufts, Nathan . 266 00.
Turner, Henry 7 60
Tenney, Robert G 12 16
Twombly, James 22 80
Tuttle, John 25 84
Thrasher, Benjamin 15 20
Terhant, Gerard 13 68
Thayer, Jason 4 56
Taft, Alonzo 6 84
Todd, Moses 18 24
Turner & Cudworth, ... 86 64
Teel, Benjamin R 13 68
Trowbridg-e, John H. ... 34 20
Tripp & Colman, 3 04
Tenny, Gilbert 15 20
Tucker, John C 26 26
Tivnin, Owen 1 52
Towne, Orr N 113 24
Tileston, Edmund P. . . . 9 12
Underwood, Joseph, Jr. . 9 12
Underwood, William ... 64 60
Upton, Ebenezer P 3 04
YanVoorhis, Henry, heirs
of, 49 40
Wiley, Ephraim 11 40
Winchester, E. A. & W. 45 60
Whitney, Simon 30 40
Wheeler, Increase S. . . . 31 92
Williams, Mary 3 04
Walley, Samuel H. Pres't, 9 12
Welch, Abraham _ 3 80
Walker, Thomas ' 15 20
Winter, Waterman G. .. 12 92
Wig^in, Robert P 4 56
Warren, Charles W 4 56
Walker, William J. 15 20
Willson, Shipley W 13 68
Whiting, George ....... 21 28
Watts, S. B. 3 04
Wells, T. G 36 86
Wills, John 53 20
Waitt, Joseph & Co 11 40
Whieldon, William W. . . 91 20
Williams, Thomas 8 36
Willis, Royal B 12 16
White, Seneca 13 68
West, Thomas, President, 30 40
Whitten, Jeseph W 6 08
Wiley, Elizabeth 10 64
Williams, Gilbert 3 80
Wheeler, Plummer 7 60
Weeman, Ebenezer 13 68
Whittredg-e, Alfred W.
heirs of,- 6 84
Yeaton, Benjamin 13 68
Yeaton, George H 11 40
TREASURER'S STATEMENT
OF
EECEIPTS AND EXPBNDITUEES,
FOR THE YEAR
ENDING FEBRUARY 29, 1848.
RECEIPTS.
From Notes payable to the Bunker Hill Bank,
for temporary Loans, $46^000 00
From Notes payable to J. W. Whitten, for
temporary Loan, 2,000 OO
From Notes payable to William Stevens, for
temporary Loan, 2,500 00
50,500 OO
From Notes payable to Lowell Institution, for
Saving, for pennanent Loan, ^. 26,000 OO
From Notes payable toN. E. M. Life Insurance
Company, for permq,nent Loan, 12,000 00
From Notes payable to Scituate Savings Insti-
tution, for permanent Loan^ . . •' ' • • 1,000 00
From Notes payable to Warren Savings Insti-
tution,, for permanent Loan, 7,000 OQ
From Notes payable to Suffolk Savings Bank,
for permanent Loan, 7,000 00
From Notes payable to John Callahan, for per-
manent Loan, .^ ^ 4,000 00-
From Notes payable to heirs of Esther Sar-
gent, for permanent Loan, - . 15,000 0&
From Notes payable to Charles Johnson, for
permanent Loan, 500 00
72,500 00
From State Treasurer, on account of Public
■ Schools, , 585 92
From State Treasurer, on account of State
Paupers, - ^ 39 01
From Treasurer of Somerville, for County Tax, 599 95
From Chief Engineer, on account of Fire De-
partment, 23 55
From Secretary of Board of Overseers of the
Poor, 202 50
Amount carried forward, $124,450 9a
40
Amount brought
From James Dana, in favor of the Estate of
Solomon Hovey,
From William Sawyer, balance of Account
rendered by him,
From John Donevan, for School House bought
of City,
From Jacob Hittenger, for Interest on Note, .
From Benjamin Edmands, for old Book Case, .
From City Clerk, on account of Dog Licenses,
From Nathaniel Pratt, for Rent of City Hall, .
From Richard Nichols, for Rent of City JBall,
forward, $124,450 93
42 65
3 07
120 00
24 00
2 CO
64 00
From G. Washington Warren, \ t^
" John Callahan,
« William H. Keith,
" Ezra Brown, ^ u5
" Thomas Beddoe, ( O
" J. C. Cashing, \ S.
" Charles Freeman, ..../ S
Joseph F. Boyd, \
William M. Edmands, . i
Seth Sawyer, /
David Edmands, ( ^
E. N. Hunting, > =
J. C. Cutter, I "^
John Hatsfield, \
Palmer & Harding, /
27 00
310 37
28 52
18 00
14 10
3 00
9 00
3 00
10 80
5 00
125 00
25 00
30 00
39 00
120 00
26 00
175 00
Taxes Assessed in T847, 65,036 51
" " " 1846 1,810 80
" « " 1845, 378 25
« " " 1844, 57 CO
Interest on Taxes,
Costs on Taxes, . .
337 37
86 4S^
545 00
67,282 56
215 53
134 97
$193,308 50
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Stoneham Tax, 92
" County Treasurer, in part for County Tax, 2,C00 00
" on account of temporary Loans, 31,000 00
" Interest on temporary Loans, 1,132 37
" Interest on permanent Loans, 4,368 14
" Heirs of Esther Sargent, for Almshouse Farm, 15,000 OO
« Town Notes, 9,000 00
« on Town Accounts, 3,910 33
** Members of the Military Companies, . , 204 00
$66,615 76
41
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
CITY HALL.
REPAIRS AND FURNieHINQ.
George S. Adams, $1,709 95
Morris Kelly, 1,383 26
J. B. & C. Wilson 2,882 00
Joseph Kingsley, ^ 608 15
H. G. Waldron, 988 59
Richardson & Chalk, 1,683 07
John P. Dimond, 81 87
William M. Edmands, 300 00
Stephen Smith, 386 00
William A. Viles, 1,541 32
Cross, Brown & Mellen, 15 00
Benjamin Thompson & Co. .- c 181 25
A. Stowell, Jr 769 IS'
Charles P. Brooks, 3 00
Richard Nichols, 11 27
Edward Pratt, 66 23
James A. D. Worcester, 175 12
Roger Herring, 134 88
Bryant & Herman, 314 80
13,134 88
SCHOOL HOUSE AND WARD ROOM
IN WARD 2.
Taylor, Hobart & Co 7,000 00
Ellis & McKean, 3,500 00
John Callahan, Land, 3,963 50
14,463 m
HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE.
J. & A. S. Tuttle, 8,000 00
J. B. & C. Willon, 3,000 00
Edward Pratt, 15 00
P, J. Stone, Land, ,. 6,338 00
-— ^ 17,353 00
HARVARD SCHOOL HOUSE.
George S. Adams, 4,350 00
M. & J. O. Mason, 2,606 25
6,956 25
OLD WINTHROP SCHOOL HOUSE.
George S. Adams, 607 81
Amos Brown, 1,000 00
Jacob Forster, Land, • 7,000 00
Timothy Dailey, » . • . » 25 00
8,632 81
Amount carried forward, $60,540 44
6
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Amount brought forward, $60,540 44
TRAINING FIELD.
Cross, Brown & Mellen, Trainingfield, 2,115 50
A. C. Sanborn & Co 916 73
J, B. & C. Wilson, 300 00
3,332 23
Barker, Felton & Parker, City Survey, 1,300 00
Wm. M. Edmands, Stoves and Ventilators, for
School Houses, 727 64
William G. Shattuck, Seats for School Houses,. 99 75
$66,000 06
SCHOOLS.
Hannah S, Austin, $ 4 33
James Madden, 6 75
James Kelley, 12 50
Samuel Fowler, 10 20
Emeline Courtney, , 35 25
George H. Johnson, 7 50
Johnson, 'J'olman & Pollard, .... ... - 51 36
William W. Frost, 27 21
B. F. Brackett, 95 25
Mi-s. Hall, 112 00
Nancy Fuller, 52 53
Mrs. Jones, 10 00
Mary McGregor, 6 00
Whitten & Viles, 2 75
Margaret Frye, 48 58
Ames Drake, 16 00
Jonas Tyler, I 33
James S. Edick, 5 18
C. Soule Cartee, 8 00
Fuller & Davidson, 82 97 -
Robert Swan, 3 50
N. W. Stratton, 27 00
William G. Shattuck, 39 00
William B. Fowle, 5 00
Mrs. Daniels, 15 50
Abijah Blanchard, 125 97
Institution for the Blind, 7 20
Benjamin Edmands, 8 35
Mrs. Nichols, 22 66
John L. Taggard, 1 18
A.V.Courtney, 118 63
L. F. Whitney, 32 12
J. P. Courier, 5 02
Joseph L, Ross, 7 50
Jacob Caswell, 28 61
R. Herring, 16 14
Mrs. Rebecca Small, 16 25
Eberle & Trask, 49 39
James Arnold, ^ 68 75
Amount carried forward, $1,193 46
4S
Amount brought forward, $1,193 46
X L. Johnson, 9 35
Thomas Groom, , 7 98
C P, Emmons, 325 24
Samuel Abbott & Co 5 64
Benjamin Thompson & Co 15 25
Harvard Church, 65 00
Moses Babcock, 4 31
D. & Z. Bowman, 9 44
H. & S. P. Hill, 20 62
Taylor & Hobart, 14 25
Perez R, Jacobs, 48 00
William C. Bradlee, 4 12
D. Prouty & Co 131 85
Elijah Wilson, 6 38
Little & Brown, 6 50
George W. Little, 4 35
H. K. Frothingham, 1 90
J. E. Gould, 100 00
Gardner Chilson, 3 00
Samuel Kidder & Co 11 50
A. Stowell, Jr. 8 25
James Adams, 23 18
James Hanson 3 00
Nathaniel Pratt, 57 00
J. & P. Sanborn, 601 33
John Bryant, 67 97
Teachers' Salaries, 14,061 73
— $16,611 50
Note. — The Roll paid under the Town Government,
amounting to ^226 15, malces this agree witJi the School
Committee's Report, ^16,837 65.
SCHOOL HOUSES.
A. C. Palmer, finishing 2d story of B. H. School
House, 1,072 00
Cross, Brown & Mellen, moving Primary School
House to the Neck, 100 00
Newton A. Chandler and others. Land for Pri-
mary School House, 1,512 00
Thomas J. Elliott, Repairs of Primary School
-House, 28 60
J,712 60
POOR AND ALMSHOUSE.
H. & S. P. Hill, 196 05
Samuel Abbott & Co 56 08
Andrew Sawtell, , 274 43
Bradley & Richardson, 438 42
John L. Taggard, , 103 04
William Tapley 73 89
Palmer & Harding, 387 40
Amount carried forward, $1,529 31
44
Amount brought forward, $1,529 31
Nahum Chapin, 275 24
Wesson & Gary, 412 55
N. & G. Tufts, 282 86
Absalom Rand, 63 26
David Edmands, 80 80
W. C. & M. Christy, 157 63
H. T. Meserve, 278 30
M. Richardson, 23 17
Luther F. Whitney, 35 05
Alexander Stowell, 123 21
JohnSkilton, 125 23
I. F. Arnold, 188 05
James Adams, 34 98
Elias Crafts, Jr. 32 98
James R. Turner, 33 33
Ann Harris, 21 72
Margaret Bangs, 7 50
Perkins & Cummings, 1 00
Jonas Tyler, 17 44
Francis Richardson, 19 57
Joseph Grover, 33 50
Nathaniel Pratt, .- 118 00
Joanna Hilton, - 13 00
Sarah Mahoney, 12 00
Miss Ross, 5 00
William Gray, 150 75
P. Denvir, 8 00
Cottrell & Brooks, 80
Fosdick, Carter & Co 22 60
John C. Thomas, 7 26
S. G. Phipps, 90 40
J. P. Currier, 56 99
Mullett & Bradbury, 51 96
D. & Z. Bowman, 564 14
Jasper, Stone & Co 350 29
John W. Hollis, 456 91
E. N. Hunting, 119 22
Charles Poor 62 22
J. C. Cutter, 14 08
C. C. Pattee, 41 25
David Brown, » 1 45
G, W. Little, 45 94
H. J. Call, 31 50
Richard Nichols, 10 75
A. J. Carter, 75
Theodore T. Dearing, 2 50
William Gilbert, 2 25
R. Wason & Co 136 75
Albert Eaton, 200 00
John P. Flagg, 97 81
William Fosdick, 156 19
Parker Fall, 12 11
Amount carried forward, $6,619 55
45
Amount brought forward, $6,G19 55
Thomas Greenleaf & Co 99 64
Foster Lawrence & Co 5 00
Jotham Johnson, Jr. 388 99
William M. Edmands, 40 14
Clement Noyes, 27 15
Benjamin Edmands, 39 00
Frederick Carter, 19 50
Dr. G. Cutler, 6 67
William Arnold, 219 13
Jacob Davis, 45 62
C. P. Emmons, 21 12
Leonard Tufts, • 6 97
Lamson & Edmands, 5 39
George W. Adams, 5 00
Charles A. Barker, 25 20
R. B. Edes, Jr. & Co 34 82
William Saunders, 8 00
James Arnold, 30 47
Charles T. Mullett, 5 32
Thomas Ascroft, 7 96
T. & T. F. Hunnewell, 22 00
Francis Tuttle, 52 50
Oliver Brown, 1 25
Alvah Gage 47 72
Jesse Wilson, 5 00
Augustine H. Pray, 91 30
R. Bettinson, 60 35
Caleb Symmes, 13 00
Charles Sanderson, 75
Paul Willard, 4 50
Harry Sanderson, 15 50
William Hodgkins, 12 27
Joshua Seavy, 7 00
William Patterson, 11 25
John C. Thomas, 26 75
S. M. Gage & Co 42 58
Heman S. Doane 9 50
Tapley & Lincoln, 45 50
Samuel Tallman, 16 75
Thomas Greenleaf, 204 00
Noble & Sturtevant, 396 60
Jam'es Edmands, 15 31
Benaiah Webster, 9 20
A. H. Heath, 10 19
J. C. Carpenter, 36 44
Benjamin Thompson & Co 1 85
C. Guild & Sons, 5 04
John Hustin, 3 00
House of Correction, Boston, 38 96
« « « Cambridge 25 86
Estate of Joseph Burrell, deceased, 46 18
G. H. Warren, 2 00
Amount carried forward, $8,940 74
46
Amount brought forward, $8,940 74
J. & P. Sanborn, 8 00
Eliza Richardson, 34 50
Adeline Shaw, 102 01
A. R. Thompson, 3 00
Israel Cliase, , 470 68
Jotham Johnson, 42 09
WiUiam Garj, 12 54
$9,613 56
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HIGH WAYS.
Hittenger & Cook, , $ 34 67
Gage, Hittenger & Co. 15 79
G. Rich, 146 25
James O'Brine, 224 35
John Tutty, 74 05
James Deblois, 300 83
Ivory H. Randall, 179 63
Bernard Murphy, .., 14 38
William Roach, 255 95
Faucett, Davis & Co 3,520 84
Charles R. Sturgis, 78 30
William Adams, 25 50
Gilman, Davis & Co 46 61
John D. Stevens, 139 04
Francis Richardson, 138 75
P. Hubbell, 18 40
B. F. Bracket!, 312 88
John Donevan, 231 19
John Long, 160 30
Nathaniel Pratt, 160 55
John Henley, 192 48
Ellis & McKean, 9 54
Willis & Randall, 15 25
Luther Rugg, 19 25
C.C.Smith, 2 25
S. L. Armistead, 12 50
T. R. Goodwin, 2 50
J. R & C. Wilson, 11 53
E. B. Faunce, 406 58
Warren B. Thomas, 48 16
John Riley, 89 06
William Ryan, 5 31
John Moore, 6 25
Nelson Cutler, 123 18
Levi Goodnovv, 62 62
W. S. Richardson, 29 89
Crafts & Taylor, 3 00
Willard & Dalrymple, 59 00
D. C. Willis, 15 86
T. Griffin, 12 75
Jacob Caswell, 30 10
George Neagle, 77 87
Ed. McCrady, 30 62
Michael Donevan, . 39 99
Hugh McLaughlin, 13114
Caleb Morse, 75
James G. Fuller, 21 69
B. W. Parker, 126 60
Betsey Lynde, 15 63
G.W.Warren, 20 Oa
Abram Chamberlain, 37 22
Amount carried forward,^ $7,736 81
Amount brought forward, $7,736 81
Warren S. Thomns, 125 00
Morris Kelley, 05 16
J. C. Cushing, .... 19 30
Weeman & Harding-, ...... 19 42
Bradley & Richardson, ... . 4 50
Charles Poole, 3 56
Benjamin Edmands, 4 48
Daniel Leman, 3 00
James Adams, . 18 21
George H. Conant, 116
J. Worthen, 6 00
J. L. J ennerson, 88 74
George S. Adams, , 221 36
Haskell Gore, 148 41
William Tinker, 201 00
George Dix, 326 25
•Philip Shanahan, . . . 77 50
Joseph Miller, 9 12
Worthen & Co., 15 60
Leonard Tufts, 6 92
John Coon, 79
Benjamin Phipps, 14 14
T. & T. F. Hunnewell, 50 20
Heirs of David Stetsoa, 4 50
Thomas Dearing, 35 50
John Paine, 15 15
D. & Z. Bowman, ■ 6 5a
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Hancock Company, No. 1, $523 43
Bunker Hill " " 2, , 505 50
Howard " " 3, 485 64
Warren " " 4, 500 00
Washington « « 5 525 33
Franklin " " 7, 482 31
Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, 280 00
Hose '' « 1, 63 13
Philip, C. Rowe, '.... 60 00
Amos R. Decosta 5 00
Thomas Greenleaf & Co. 1 73
Hall & Burrell, 96 43
John Williams, 150
Clark & Jefferson, 5 00
George Porter, 14 00
Crafts & Carter, .....'. 42
S.& E.Thayer, 14 75
PL G. Waldron, 36 01
Charles P. Brooks, 1 10 08
'058 28
Amount carried forward, $3,710 26
7
50
Amount brought forward^ f 3,710 26
Jesse Wilson, 1 25
George Fuller, 20 50
Eberle & Trasit, 9 30
Thomas Beddoe,- 3 50
William Pedrick, 22 00
R. Watts, ., 9 46
B. G. Blanchard, ,. 20 25
Shelton & Cheever, 149 47
R A. Fiske, 12 00
Richardson & Chalk, 10 00
Hittenger & Cook, 43 15-
James Boyd & Sons, 323 00
John C. Bell, 1 50
George W. Turner, 19 50
Willis R. JeiFerson, 6 71
Nathaniel G. Paine, 1 50-
James Emery, 1 50
David L. Tucker, 9 00
James J. Erdick, 2 00-
Jacob Carswell, 2 00-
Charles Poole 3 75
Messrs. Hunneman & Co 223 1 2
Oliver Brown, 24 62
William M. Edmands, 72 36
Moses Babcock, ]2 06
Jotham Barry, Jr , . 7 50
Asa Wellman, -. . , 3 00-
T. M. Cutter, ]3 51
T. &. T. F. Hunnewell, 7 63
Lysander Cole, 5 62
John Coon 8 63
S. Kidder «& Co 2 50
Worthen & Co. 2 05
Cross, Brown & Mellen, 338 83
Mark Fiske, 143 37
Charles T. Mullett, 1 50
Rodger Herring 4 23
Kendall Bailey, 2d, 33
Martin Burckes, Jr 2 96
G. W. Little, 1 22
Weeraan & Harding, .*. . . 75
$5,257 39
SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS.
G.W.Warren, $375 00
Amos Stone, 600 00
A. B. Shedd, 510 93
Paul Willard, Jr. 300 00
James Deblois, 525 00
Richard Nichols, 450 00
Amount carried forward, $2,760 93
51
AmvDunt brought forward, $2,760 93
Nathaniel Pratt, 262 50
Adolphus J. Carter, J 87 50
George J. Lindsey, 37 50
Assessors, , , 800 00
Isaac Cook, 112 50
Henry Conn, , 50 00
James M. Gardner, 50 00
Stephen Kelley, 37 50
Joseph F. Boyd, 37 50
Ames Drake, 12 50
T.J.Elliot, 12 50
Isaac Blanchard, '. 40 00
$4,400
WATCH.
Perez R. Jacobs, $16 67
Charles Sanderson, .....,,., 100 67
Jonathan Bartlett, 75 60
Isaac Wetherbee, 6 GQ
Charles Hackett, , — ,....«.. 5 50
Nathahiel D, Howe, , 5 50
A ugustus Taylor, ...........<. ...'... 91 70
A. X Carter, 88 00
Moran Knight, 78 25
Russell Uphara, 5 50
Francis Powers, 88 15
Asa B. Barker, , 87 05
Joshua W. Lincoln, 82 50
William Norton, 85 95
Joseph Davis, ^ 87 05
Harry Sanderson, 85 95
William B. Unthank, 60 GO
John C. Hutchinson, 84 85
Stephen Fosdick, '. 58 85
A. L. Melvin, 5185
Judah Wetherbee, 59 40
Joseph Currill, 60 50
Joseph Bibram, • • 67 25
Stephen Fuller, 51 70
Nelson Cutler, 72 60
Charles Parkinson, 55 95
JohnSawtell, •••• 26 40
George Richardson, 60 40
John^W. Smith • 40 70
Ebenezer Parker, 86 20
Moses G. Flanders, 82 80
E.R.Davis, 80 30
William McCloud, 38 40
Benjamin Hearsay, 1 10
Amount carried forward, $2,029 89
52
Amount brought forward, $2,029 89
Harper Percival, 45 10
Benjamin Huff, ■ 48 55
E. R. Fletcher, 3 45
William H. Jones, 47 30
Daniel Fosdick, ...-.-. 1100
Benjamin F. Brackett, 47 30
William Phipps, 48 55
Russell Lufkin, 1 10
William Laird, 1 10
Isaac Sargent, 18 70
Perkins Norton, • 48 55
John W. Ginter, 2(1 90
James G. Dadley, 33 00
John West, 110
Royal Underwood, 31 10
Joseph Cutter, 4 55
John C. Martin, 2 50
Joseph Mears, 27 50
POLICE.
Sundry persons, for Police on 17th June, and re-
ception of President of the U. S $153 00
A. J. Carter, 80 00
Asa B. Barker, 84 00
Isaac Sargent, 246 75
Charles R. Knight, 20 00
LAMPS AND LIGHTING-
LutherRugg, $531 65
G. W. Little, 943 39
William Butterfield, 29 14
2,477 24
$583 75
$1,504 17
RESERVOIRS.
Marshall Blanchard, $ 3 30
Atkinson Brown, 8 75
Gilman Davis & Co 61 62
J. L. Jennerson, ... 808 82
Joseph Burrill, • 41 00
Jesse Wilson, 76 75
E. B. Faunce .' 3 25
Sanford & Co. 12 69
D. C. Willis & Co, ..■.•..■..•.• 35 78
C. Stinson, ,..■.•,•.■.,.•.■.....■.,■ 320 00
Amount carried forward, $1,371 96
53
Amount brought forward, $1,371 96
Massachusetts State Prison, 35 30
Willard Dalrymple, 229 42
T. & T. F. Hunnewell, '..'..'.. 10 50
Hittenger & Co 23 14
High Way Department, 90 00
Benjamin Page, 5 00
Nelson Cutler, 15 75
Morris Kelley, 50 00
$1,831 07
MAIN DRAINS 6c COMMON SEWERS.
George S. Adams, $158 50
Timothy Donevan , ] 41 25
Hubbell & Abbott, , 45 00
Nathaniel Pratt, 315 00
CONTINGENCIES.
Caleb Rand, $ 31 50
H. S. Warren, 578 49
Josiah Brackett, 14 50
Perez R. Jacobs, 5 25
Thomas K. Knights, , . 10 00
Little & Brown, 46 50
Nathaniel Pratt, 122 05
Ames Drake, 18 87
Charles Poole, 8 00
Richard Nichols. ......... 74 01
Benjamin Edmands, 6 40
A. J. Carter, 20 68
Charles Sanderson, , 20 68
Luther Rugg, 53 20
Charlestown Post Office, 5 54
Bethesda Society, 3 CO
J. A. D. Worcester, '. 16 75
B. F. Brackett, 150
Asa Wellman, 32 50
Worthen & Co 14 00
Thomas Beddoe, . .■ 1 00
Stephen Brintnall, ....-.- 6 00
Benjamin Connor, — . ......... 6 00
G. Washington Warren, Disbursements, ...... 63 50
Gustavus V. Hall, : . .....•.•. ....... 10 00
Silas Crane, 1 50
William Butterfield, "8 09
A. B. Shedd, 51 75
H.H.Seaward, ......•.....•.• 300
Samuel Fowler, ' ....'... 1 25
Amount carried forward, $1,235 51
$659 75
54
Amount brought forward, $1,235 51
C. R. Knights, 23 68
Nathaniel Johnson, , 20 50
Lexington & West Cambridge Rail Road, .... 10 00
Howe, ... - 28 60
Benjamin Brown, Jr 127 50
Nelson Cutler, 3 00
Thomas H. Farnsworth, 1 50
Nathan Emerson, 8 25
Philander Ames, 247 96
Benjamin Thompson & Co 83 09
J. B. & C. Wilson, 42 20
Sleeper & Rogers, 2 50
Charlestown Artillery, 16 25
C. P. Emmons, 258 88
Harrison Wingate, 52 50
J. Stone &. Co 4 10
Jonathan Tileon, 5 00
Ellis &McKean, 29 70
Taylor &. Hobart, 5 87
T. W. Willard 9 00
Jonathan Howe, 44 40
Joseph Mears, 67 63
John Bryant, 5 50
Ames Brown, 130 00
George Clapp, 19 50
T. J. "Stover, Jr 12 00
Theodore Dearing, . 4 00
John P. Flagg, 6 CO
Asa B. Barker, 22 25
Isaac Sarirent, 5 .50
Joshua Bennett, 15 00
W.Jones, 3 00
James G. Dudley, . . .'. 3 CO
J ohn Ginter, 2 50
William McCloud, 150
Warren S. Thomas, ] 0 CO
George S. Smith, 35 CO
Oliver C. Cutter, 44 75
Thomas J. Elliott, 125 01
Crafts & Taylor, 5 20
William M. Edmands, 316 25
J. L. Cady 60 00
J. M. Seav.ey, 1 50
A. Chamberlain, 8 67
T. R. Goodwin, 21 00
S. Bigelow, , , 3 00
N. Stratton, . ^ 1 85
D. & Z. Bowman, 5 54
J. Delano, 2 CO
Society of the M. E. Church, 150 CO
A. Blanchard, 40 25
AbeJ Stowell, Jr. 152 88
Amount carried forward, $2,304 76
55
Amount brought forward, $2,304 76
Esther Sargent, IGO 00
William S. Rollins, . ." 27 50
David Dodge, ]4 00
Aaron Clark, 2d, 3 00
Hittenger & Cook, 16 00
A. CarTeton, 15 25
Paul Willaid, 25 00
Bunker Hill Encampment, 65 00
D. B. Weston, 335 19
George W. Turner, 1 00
Moses P. Worthen, 7 50
Moses Babcock, 5 95
Stephen Smith, 139 50
James Adams, 4 47
Beals & Greene, 1 50
Daily Advertiser, 5 50
Overseers of the Poor, 202 50
William A. Viles, 36 GO
John R. Barnicoat, 1 .''iO
George Fuller,. 23 44
Washino'ton Engine Company, 7 50
C. Symmes, 27 85
W. W. Wheildon, 100 00
William G. Shattuck, 78 50
Roger Herrina', 66 01
Charles P. Brooks, 86 07
David Granger, 1 21
Lessees of Fountain Hall, ,.,.... 4 00
Wesson & Gary, 5 00
Barker, Felton & Parker, 304 50
First Parish 50 00
Thomas P. Whitney, 50 00
Henry L. Jaques, '. 74 84
A. R. Thompson, 180 CO
$5,605 55
Celebration of 17th of June.
Boston Daily Advertiser, $11 83
Boston Brass Band, 90 00
Crafts & Taylor, 2 00
Charlestown Artillery, 75 00
Jacob Caswell, 37 73
White's Cornet Band, 42 00
Thomas Knights, .... 10 00
Boston Courier, 17 18
Harrison Wingate, „ 8 00
James G. Hovey, 108 00'
O. C. Cutter, 62 50
Thomas Beddoe, 5 00
Boston Daily Atlas,. 16 00
Amount carried forAvard, $485 24
56
Amount brought forward, $485 24
Patrick Campbell, 25 00
B. F. Brackett, 1 50
P. R. Jacobs, 1 50
Boston Post, 19 88
Samuel Thompson, ■ 8 00
Sleeper & Rogers, 2 00
James F. Fullam, 5 00
Schouler & Brewer, 7 00
Reception of the President of the
United States.
William H. Barker, $18 00
Samuel Brintnall, 15 00
John Tapley, 15 00
O.P.Caswell, ]8 00
A. Jordan, 15 00
J. Kennar, 6 00
W. H. Caswell, 4 50
C. Poor, 35 00
T. Peterson, 24 00
R. Jones, 6 00
W. Johnson, 6 00
G. W. Turner, 7 00
T. R. Goodwin, 52 02
H. C. Hill, ;....... 6 00
A. Harding, .... 1 00
J). VV. & S. H. Barnes, 54 25
A. Fearing & Co 42 21
C. Barnard, 7 00
Luther Rugg, 3 00
Crafts & Taylor, 4 50
James G. Swan, 14 50
Oliver C. Cutter, 155 00
Boston Morning Post, 7 08
Boston Brigade Band, 80 CO
John S. Reed, 30 00
James Giiday, * 6 00
Alexander Stowell, 32 12
Bunker Hill Encampment, 6 00
Nathaniel Pratt, ....;;.. 6 00
John A. Ross, 24 00
Bunker Hill Engine Company, No. 2,- • . •. . ; 12 00
Franklin " «' « • •7,- ........ 12 00
Harrison Wingate, 16 75
Hancock Engine Company No. 1, 12 00
Howard " '« "3, 12 00
$555 12
Amount carried forward, $744 93
57
Amount brought forward, $744 93
Boston Brass Band, 68 00
White's Cornet Band, 75 00
B. T. Downer, 8 00
Schouler & Brewer, , 7 00
Forbes Oakman, 1 00
Proprietors of Boston Courier, 4 25
James F. Fullam, 132 00
Dexter, Hixson & Dexter, 45 00
$1,085 18
68
Dr, CITY of CHARLESTOWN, iu Aceonnt
To Cash disbursed at sundry times, as detailed in the foregoinor
Schedules of Expenditures, viz :
Paid Stoneham Tax, $ Q2
" County Treasurer, in part for County Tax, 2,000 00
" on account of temporary Loans, 31,000 00
" Interest on " " 1,132 37
** " " permanent " 4,368 14
" Heirs of Esther Sargent, for Almshouse Farm, . . . 15,000 00
" members of the Military Companies, 204 00
" Town Notes, 9,000 00
" on Town Accounts, 3,910 33
" " account of Permanent Improvements, 66,000 06
" " " « Schools, 16,611 50
" « « " School Houses, 2,712 60
" " « " Poor and Almshouse, 9,613 5G
« " " " Highwaj's, 9,058 28
« " « " Fire Department, 5,257 39
« « " « Salaries, 4,400 93
« « « " Watch, 2,477 24
" " " " Police, 583 75
" " " " Lamps and Lighting, 1,504 17
« " " " Reservoirs, 1,83107
" " " « Drains, 659 75
" " " " Contingencies, 7,245 85
Lost by Robbery, November 12, 1847, 759 34
Balance in the hands of the Treasurer, March 1, 1848, . 1,524 24
$196,855 49
The Joint Standing Committee on Finance, have examined this Ac-
count Current, together with the foregoing Schedules of Receipts and
Expenditures, all of which they find to be accurate, and sustained by
proper vouchers.
The balance in the hands of the Treasurer, March 1, 1848, was,
one thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars, and twenty-four
sents,
G. WASHINGTON WARREN, J „.
CHARLES W. MOORE, J J^mance
PHILANDER S. BRIGGS, S committee,
Charlesloimt, March 30, lSi8.
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Current with AMOS STONE, City Treasurer, Cr.
By Balance in hands of Treasurer, May 13, 1847, $ 2,815 40
" Cash received at sundry times, as detailed in the
foregoing Schedules of Receipts, viz :
" Notes payable for temporary Loans, 50,500 00
" " " " permanent " 72,500 00
" State Treasurer, on account of Public Schools, . . . 585 92
" " " " " " State Paupers, ... 39 01
" Treasurer of Somerville, for County Tax, 599 95
" Chief Engineer, on account of Fire Department, . 23 55
" Secretary of Board of Overseers of the Poor, 202 50
" James Dana, in favor of Estate of Solomon Hovey, 42 65
" Wm. Sawyer, balance of account rendered by him, 3 07
'* John Donevan, for School House bought of City, . 120 00
" Jacob Hittenger, for Interest on Note, 24 00
" By Benjamin Edmands, for old Book Case, 2 00
" City Clerk, on account of Dog Licenses, 64 00
« Rent of City Hall, 337 37
" sundry persons for entering Drains, 86 42
« « " " Rents, 545 00
« Taxes collected to March 1, 1848, 67,282 56
« Interest « on Taxes to March 1, 1848, 215 53
« Costs « " « to March 1, 1848, 134 97
« unpaidRolis, 73159
#196,855 49
«' Balance of Account, ..... $1,524 24
E. & O. E.
AMOS STONE, Treasurer and Collector.
Charle$town, Mas$., March 30, 1848.
SCHEDULE AND VALrATION
CITY PROPERTY.
City Hall, Land and Building, $35,000 00
Lot of Land on Medford Street, 30,625 feet, 10,200 00
« " " " " 5,000 " and Flats, . 5,000 00
*' " " B.Hill « 4,700 « at 25 cents, 1,175 00
" " in Stoneham, 200 00
Ledge of Land on Cambridge Road, 500 00
Hearse House and Hearse, 100 00
Tomb Lots in Old Burying Ground, 500 00
City Bell and Clock, ^ . . 500 00
Furniture in City Hall Building, 2,500 00
Military Articles, $100 ; Weights and Measures, $50 00, 150 00
Almshouse Land and Wharf, ..... 70,000 00
Furniture of do.. Live Stock, Provisions, &c., ........ 1,700 00
City Farm, containing 45 acres, 15,000 00
High School House, Monument Square, when completed, 26,000 00
Winthrop School House, Bunker Hill Street, 21,000 00
Harvard " " Harvard - " 18,000 00
Warren " " Summer " 12,000 00
Bunker Hill " " Bunker Hill " 9,700 00
Primary " " Winthrop Square, four Schools
and two Engine Rooms, . . . 13,000 00
" " " Bow Street, four Schools, 5,000 00
« " " Cross " two " 2,400 00
" " " B. Hill « one School, .... 1,350 00
" " " Mead « one " .... ],000 00
" " " Main " one " .... 800 00
"" " " B.Hill " 600 00
« " " Elm « 600 00
" " " " " 500 00
" " " Kingston Street, 2,000 00
" " " Moulton " 500 00
" " " Sullivan " 2,500 00
" " " Chelsea •' (on leased land,) 250 00
" " " Winthrop " « " " 500 00
Maps, Books, Desks, Globes, Stoves, &c 500 00
Amount carried forward, $260,725 00
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Amount brought forward, $260,725 00
No. 1 Engine House and Land, $ 700 00
Engine, 1^200 00
Furniture, 30 00
1,930 00
No. 2 Engine House and Land, $1,400 00
Engine, , 1,200 00
Furniture, 30 00
• 2,630 00
No. 3 Engine House and Land, $1,300 00
Engine, 1,200 00
Furniture, 30 00
2,530 00
No. 4 Engine, $1,200 00
Furniture, 75 00
1,275 00
No. 5 Engine, . _ $1,200 00
Furniture, 65 00
1,265 00
No. 7 Engine House and Land, $1,200 00
Engine, 1,200 00
Furniture, 45 00
■ 2,445 00
Hook and Ladder House and Land, $1,200 00
Carriage, &c 200 00
Furniture, 25 00
1,425 00
Hose Carriage and Hose, $ 800 00
Extra Hose for the several Companies, ...... 1,200 00
" Ladders and Fire Hooks, 25 00
2,025 00
Jacob Hittenger's Note, 400 00
Flats appurtenant to the Old Burying Ground,
Claim against Boston and Maine Rail Road,
Deposit in Phcenix Bank, $1,194 45, worth . . 125 00
$276,775 OD
Amount due from different Estates for Drains
paid for by the City, but not yet assessed.
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DEBTS OF THE CITY, FEBRUARY 29, 1848.
PERMANENT LOANS.
Lowell Institution for Savings, at 5 per cent., $61,000 00
" " « « at 5h " " 26,000 00
Warren " " " at 6 " " 7,000 00
Suffolk « " " at 6 " " 7,000 00
John Callahan, at 5 " " 4,000 00
Scituate Institution for " at 6 " " on
account of loan of $3,000, 1,000 00
New England Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany, at 6 per cent., on account of loan
of $20,000, 12,000 00
Trustees of Poor's Fund, 8,500 00
School Committee, including their claim, . . 5,600 00
Esther Sargent and others, for Maiden Farm, 15,000 00
147,100 00
TEMPORARY LOANS.
Bunker Hill Bank, $15,000 00
William Stevens, Treasurer, 2,500 00
Sundry Individuals, 2,500 00
20,000 00
$167,100 00
N. B. To meet the above Temporary Loans, and also the balance
due on the Public Improvements, permanent loans have been author-
ized and engaged.
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