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City Document — No. 6.

REPORT

OF

JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE

ON

SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS

FOR

1854-55.

ROXBURY:
NORFOLK COUNTY JOURNAL PRESS.

1854.

CITY OF ROXBURY.

In Common Council, April 3, 1854.

Ordered, That the report of the Joint Special Committee on Salaries for the
year ending April, 1855, be printed for the use of the City Council.

Sent up for concurrence.

JOSHUA SEAVER, Clerk.
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In Board of Aldermen, April 3, 1854.

Concurred.

JOSEPH W. TUCKER, City Clerk.

CITY OF ROXBURY.

In Common Council, Jan. 30, 1854.
The Joint Special Committee appointed to consider and
report upon the Salaries to be allowed the City Officers for
the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, have
considered the subject, and respectfully recommend the
adoption of the accompanying Order.
For the Committee.

J. B. WHEELOCIC

ORDERED, That the Salaries of the several City Offi-
cers, for the year beginning on the first day of April, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty four, except Engineers^
Officers and Members of the Fire Department, which begin
on the first day of May, shall be as herein named, to be
paid quarterly. This order to remain in force during the
municipal year of One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four, and after that time until otherwise ordered.

Section. 1. The Salary of the Mayor shall be at the
rate of Eight hundred dollars per annum.

Section 2. The Salary of the City Clerk shall be at the
rate of Nine hundred dollars per annum. And the fees re-
ceived by him in the discharge of this office, shall be paid
into the Treasury of the City, for the use of the City. And
the City Clerk shall, in the months of January and July,
make and render to the City Council a statement of the
amount of monies received by him as fees, specifying from
what sources said fees are received.

Section 3. The Salary of the Clerk of the Common
Council shall be at the rate of One hundred and fifty dol-
lars per annum.

4 REPORT,

Section 4. The Salary of the Treasurer and Collector
of Taxes shall be at the rate of Twelve hundred dollars per
annum.

Section 5. The Salary of the City Messenger shall be
at the rate of Tioo hundred and seveyity-jive dollars per
annum.

Section 6. The salaries of the Assessors of Taxes shall
be at the rate of One hundred and seventy-five dollars each
per annum. And there shall be allowed to the Board of
Assessors the sum of Seventy-five dollars for a Clerk.

The Assistant Assessors shall receive at the rate of Twen-
ty dollars each per annum.

Section 7. The Salary of the Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department shall be at the rate of Tido hundred dol-
lars per annum.

The Assistant Engineers shall receive at the vate of Forty
dollars each per annum.

The Secretary of the Board of Engineers shall receive at
the rate of Fifteen dollars per annum.

The Foremen of Engine, Hook and Ladder, and Hose
Companies shall receive at the rate of Thirty-five dollars
each per annum.

The Clerks of the several Engine Companies shall re-
ceive at the rate of Thirty -five dollars each per annum. And
the Clerk of the Hook and Ladder and Hose Companies
shall receive at the rate of Thirty dollars each per annum.

The Stewards of Engine Companies Nos. 1, 2, 6, and 7
shall receive at the rate of Seventy-five dollars each per
annum.

The Steward of the Hook and Ladder Company shall re-
ceive at the rate of Twenty-fixe dollars per annum.

The Steward of the Hose Company shall receive at the
rate of Fifty dollars per. annum.

All the other members of the several Engine, Hook and
Ladder, and Hose Companies shall receive at the rate of
Twenty-five dollars each per annum.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

OF THE

CITY OF BOSTON

ABBREVIATED REGULATIONS.

One volume can be taken at a time from the
Lower Hall-, and one from the Bates Hall.
Books can be kept out 14 days.

A fine of 2 cents for each volume vfIU be
incurred for each day a book is detained more
than 14 days.

Any book detained more than a week be-
yond the time limited, will be sent for at the
expense of the delinquent.

Ko book is to be lent out of the household
of the borrower.

The Library hours for the delivery and re-
turn of books are from 10 o'clock, A. M., to
8 o'clock, P. M., in the Lower Hall ; and from
10 o'clock, A. M., until one half hour before
sunset in the Bates Hall.

Every book.must, under penalty of one dol-
lar, be returned to the Library at such time
in August as shall be publicly announced.

The card must be presented whenever a
book is returned. For renewing a book the
card must be presented, together with the
book, or with the shelf-numbers of the book.

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