City Document — No. 1.
ADDRESS
HON. THEODORE OTIS,
MAYOB,
%\z dig Cmmcil of Ikekrj,
DELIVERED BEFORE THE
TWO BRANCHES IN CONVENTION,
January 3, 1859.
ROXBURY:
PRINTED FOR THE CITY COUNCIL.
1859.
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(jlitg of Ho*bnrt).
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In Board op Aldermen, Jan. 3, 1859.
Ordered, That one thousand copies of the Address of His Honor the Mayor
be printed for the use of the City Council, and for distribution among the cit-
izens.
Sent down for concurrence.
JOSEPH W. TUCKEE, City Clerk.
Concurred.
In Common Council, Jan. 3, 1859.
FRANKLIN WILLIAMS, Clerk.
JOHN M. HEWE3, FRINTEB.
ADDRESS.
Gentlemen op the City Council :
We are assembled to organize the fourteenth Mu-
nicipal Government of the City of Koxbury. Let us
gratefully return thanks to God, that, at this commence-
ment of a new year, we are enabled, in health and pros-
perity, to enjoy the high and responsible privilege of
self-government ; that the beautiful City of our choice or
our birth has been visited by no overwhelming calamity
of sickness or fire ; that general prosperity, industry and
contentment prevail. Having been honored by the gen-
erosity of my fellow-citizens with the responsible and
important office now assumed, allow me to express to
you, and through you to them, the sincerity of my grat-
itude for this unexpected expression of their confidence
and trust. If by the entire devotion of my time and
abilities to the best interests of our 'City, I can satisfy the
just expectations of her citizens, my highest ambition
will be gratified. Unacquainted with some parts of her
territory and many of her citizens — not familiar with the
details of municipal affairs, it better becomes me to ap-
pear before you as a learner than teacher. It will not
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be expected that I should take up and discuss the affairs
of the City minutely and in detail. That duty was so
fully and ably done last year by the mature experience
and ripe wisdom of my worthy predecessor, that I deem
it unnecessary. In a few days, too, you will have laid
before you full reports by the respective officers of the
government.
SCHOOLS.
The Annual Report of the School Committee, now
printed, will give you full particulars of that department.
The schools are represented to be " generally in a health-
ful and prosperous condition, and as comparing favorably,
both as to progress and attainments, with those of the
same grade in other places."
The citizens of Roxbury have always evinced a lively
interest in having good teachers, and making liberal ap-
propriations for our schools. It would encourage and
gratify those teachers, and essentially benefit the schools
if our citizens would frequently visit them. We owe it
to teachers, scholars and ourselves to do so. Parents
should make the acquaintance of their child's teacher as
far as is practicable. This to some extent is the case ;
but it should be more general. An acquaintance with a
large number of our teachers, enables me, with great
pleasure, to bear testimony to their fidelity and ability.
They are skilful, competent, trustworthy, and should be
liberally paid. With this they will be satisfied ; and
short of this we should not be. And while, on the one
hand, we should not be governed by the general average
wages of the State, $46.63 per month for male teachers
and $19.17 for female ; neither, on the other, should we
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be held to follow the example of Boston, certainly not
till we are annexed, where the wages for male teachers
are $139.75 per month, and for female $39.74. A more
just comparison would be with places similar to Roxbury
in position, population or wealth.
Male Teachers.
Female Teachers
Salem
pays
$82.00
per month
$19.00
New Bedford
73.82
26.30
Worcester
92.00
27.74
Lowell
96.00
23.00
Cambridge
97.50
24.93
Charlestown
100.62
24.05
Roxbury
107.56
27.29
It thus appears that not a single place in the State,
having as large a number of children to educate, except
Boston, pays so liberally.
If we look once more at the subject, we shall find that
Roxbury raises a larger amount for each child ($9) than
any of the places named, except Lowell, — higher even
than Boston, and ranks as the tenth town in the whole
Commonwealth. It is a matter of just pride to see our
City standing so honorably before the community.
It is to be regretted that, with our Committee and the
citizens generally, there is no settled, well matured,
thoroughly digested policy for conducting our High
Schools. Perhaps it arises in part from a yearly liability
to change in the Committee. Some fixed plan should be
determined upon. The Report says, " The interest to
be looked after has become so extended that the expedi-
ency of enlarging the Committee, or employing a Super-
intendent of the Schools, demands attention." I would
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recommend to your attention the propriety of adopting
both. An able, well qualified, faithful Superintendent
is as much more important for our schools than a Super-
intendent is for our streets or almshouse, as the first ex-
cels the latter in magnitude. It is his business to know
minutely every thing pertaining to schools, — the best
books, the best mode of teaching, the best teachers. He
should be a man worth a liberal salary. It is not un-
likely that Dorchester, or West Roxbury, or both, would
join with us, and employ one to do the labor of each
place. His time and pay would be apportioned to each
place, according to the number of schools. The number
of schools in all three places would be less than one-third
the number in Boston, which are under one Superin-
tendent. The Committee should be increased to twenty
or twenty-five ; and as their labor would be greatly les-
sened, doubtless they would most cheerfully relinquish
the pittance they are now allowed under the name of
pay. Increased accommodations are called for in the
Washington and Dudley Schools, and have been, for the
past two years.
The whole amount expended for Schools, except the
Boys' High School, is $30,875.
STREETS.
The future prosperity of this City very much depends
upon a wise forethought in the management of Street
Expenditures. As the law now stands, you are aware
that if a new street is laid out, or an old one widened,
each individual claims damages by proving the value of
his front land, and he is thus enabled sometimes to get
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large damages, and still have an estate left of twice the
value that the whole was before, in consequence of the
improvement. This is neither equitable nor just ; and
desirable improvements are frequently prevented, or ac-
complished at the expense of the community by unrea-
sonable and exorbitant claims for damages, when none
have been suffered. The City of Boston, within the last
thirty-five years, has paid two and a half millions of dol-
lars for laying out and widening streets. Wide streets
for health, convenient transaction of business, prevention
of fires, and the good appearance of the place, are most
essential.
A law that will favor and encourage such in all large
places, is of vital importance. The citizens generally,
and the representatives in particular, should use all
their influence to have what is commonly known as the
"Betterment Law," enacted in this State, — allowing
each man the damage he actually sustains, and requiring
those who are greatly benefitted, and in a much larger
proportion than the rest of their fellow-citizens, to con-
tribute their just share.
You are well aware that, in portions of the City where
drainage is difficult, there is danger of streets being ac-
cepted, and abutters being allowed to build on them at
so low a grade that, as population increases, they will
have to be raised, and large damages paid by the City.
To avoid this, and to avoid misleading abutters, the
grade of all such localities should be established by a
competent survey (if it has not been made), and every
individual, about to build, notified not to set any
building below that line, except at his own risk. If this
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is not faithfully attended to, our tax bills will in future
demonstrate its importance.
Our predecessors are entitled to great credit for the
improvements made, of the most substantial character,
upon our streets.
The ordinary outlay for repairs has been about $20,000
— the cost of new streets about $30,000.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
j3o important is an energetic, harmonious and efficient
Fire Department in a city where so many of the build-
ings are constructed of wood, I recommend to your
watchful and liberal care this branch of the City service.
Our firemen, who so willingly and intrepidly submit to
toil and danger at the risk of health and life in protect-
ing our property, merit our sympathy and regard. No
reasonable expense should be spared to keep the Depart-
ment thoroughly furnished and equipped. Having done
this, the citizens have a right to hold it responsible for the
faithful and judicious care of the property, for prompt,
manly, heroic endeavors to prevent and extinguish fires
and save property. Never failing censure of the wrong,
and generous encouragement of the right, will be our
true policy with the Fire Department. The practice
which has prevailed of permitting boys, too young if not
too reckless, to belong to the Department, to run with
the machine and to partake of refreshments after the fire,
is no doubt a source of evil, destructive to the character
of the boys, creating distrust of, and reflecting dishonor
upon the Department ; and is by many believed to be
the cause of most of the false alarms and many of the
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fires that occur. If these opinions are well grounded,
the officers and men owe it to themselves and their fellow
citizens, by decided and fearless conduct, to put a stop
to this practice. No person, not a member of the De-
partment, should be allowed to work at the engine, par-
take of refreshments, or be about the houses, unless
invited. Such a course would put our firemen above
censure.
The purchase of a thousand feet of Hose will be need-
ed this year, and the construction of two or more Reser-
voirs.
During the past year there have been fifty-nine fires ;
sixty-one false alarms and alarms from out of town — too
large a number. The Department has been called out
one hundred and twenty times ; more than double the
number of last year. The amount of property destroyed
was $45,900. Insurance $30,060. Cost of the De-
partment $14,204.
POLICE COURT.
The return of the Justice of the Police Court places it
on a paying footing.
The receipts being about . . . $2,037
The expenses " " . . . 1,565
This leaves a balance in favor of the Court of $472
There have been 648 criminal cases tried, and 260
civil cases. In all 908 — being 145 cases more than last
year. Of these there have been 228 cases for drunken-
ness, and 50 liquor cases. The residue for all grades of
offences usual in such a Court.
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The Justice says that, in his opinion, at least eighty
per cent, of the criminal business of the Court is clearly
traceable to the pernicious effects of intoxicating liquors.
POLICE AND WATCH.
By the City Marshal's returns, it appears that 886
arrests have been made. Of this number 345 were for
drunkenness. Last year the number of arrests were 893,
of which number 404 were for drunkenness.
The number of complaints made by the Marshal for
violation of the Liquor law have been 52.
The number of Truant children looked up and taken
to school, is about 400.
Persons lodged in the Watch-house, 495.
The expense of Watch and Police . $13,660
Received for officers' fees . . . 2,152
Net cost to the City $11,508
ALMSHOUSI
Prior to 1854 the number of poor persons to be pro-
vided for at our Almshouse averaged from 225 to 300;
consequently, extensive preparations were needed for
their accommodation. In the Spring of that year, all but
eleven were transferred to the State. But no correspond-
ing transfer of expenditure took place. The large estab-
lishment remained, and it was necessary to use it. It
remains still, a large part of it, unoccupied. No feasible
plan has, as yet, been suggested to remedy the difficulty.
The School Committee in their Report for this year say,
that l ' the City Ordinance, in relation to truant children
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and absentees from school, is of little aTail in diminish-
ing the number of idle, vicious boys, about our streets.
The want of some suitable place to which they could be
committed after being arrested by the truant officers, is
sensibly felt." It is worthy of your consideration,
whether such boys may not be provided for at the Alms-
house, and thus, at slight expense, diminish the increas-
ing number of criminal recruits. The number of poor
now in the house is nineteen, and four, paid for by West
Roxbury. There has been paid for assisting those out of
the Almshouse $1617.11. The whole expenditure for
the poor has been $6073.46. All the inmates are well
provided for and kindly treated, and the management of
the premises by the Overseers and Superintendent affords
a most hospitable and comfortable home for the unfortu-
nate. May our Almshouse always present as favorable a
type of our humanity and civilization.
The amount of the City debt at this time is $280,000
The whole expenditures for the year . 268,000
Of this sum about $35,000 were for extraordinary ex-
penses.
Ordinary expenses, about . . $233,000
FOREST HILLS.
It gives me great pleasure to call your attention to the
increasing beauty and prosperity of a spot which has be-
come consecrated ground to us all — Forest Hills. Great
credit is due the Commissioners for the faithful and judi-
cious manner in which they have administered this hon-
orable, but laborious and gratuitous trust. Their Report
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will be laid before, you in February, giving full details of
its affairs. The number of lots sold the past year is
about 80, making in all 1250. After building an orna-
mental cottage, at the entrance of the grounds, for the
Superintendent at a cost of $4000, the Commissioners
have reduced the debt from $16,000 to $13,000 during
this year. About the same number of interments have
been made as last year. Many monuments have been
erected, and the same interest seems to be manifested in
the care of the grounds and the planting of ornamental
shrubs and flowers as formerly. It is gratifying to ob-
serve how completely the sacredness of the place inspires
in the most thoughtless passer, such respect that a simple
border of flowers is sufficient protection to the most costly
monument, thus encouraging taste and refinement to
beautify and ornament the resting place of the loved and
revered.
ANNEXATION.
There is one subject of great magnitude and import-
ance to the citizens of Roxbury, Gentlemen, to which I
wish to call your serious attention ; for I do not propose
to argue that question. I allude to annexation. This
subject was ably and vigorously discussed on both sides
in 1851. A vote of the inhabitants was taken upon it in
1853, resulting in 262 votes in favor and 399 against it.
In 1857 a vote was again taken and resulted in 808 votes
in favor and 762 against it. And the action of those in
favor at the recent municipal election, shows an earnest-
ness and determination indicative of the final result, al-
though, by no means claimed as a test vote. A portion
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of those who favor annexation are engaged in business
in Boston, are taxed there, without the right of voting
there, and they look upon the measure as of great im-
portance and benefit to both places. It is certainly very
desirable for a wise and judicious management of our
municipal affairs, that this question should be, if possible,
settled. It bears directly upon all improvements we may
contemplate, in drainage, streets, schools, water, &c, &c.
As this subject, together with one for dividing the
City, will be brought before the Legislature this win-
ter, it will be your duty to decide what action you will
take.
I have thus, in a very imperfect manner, called your
attention to a few subjects that have seemed to me of
importance. There are many others which I am not un-
mindful of, but with which I am not yet sufficiently famil-
iar. What I have alluded to, together with those things
that will naturally arise and be presented during the
year, in addition to those bequeathed to us by my worthy
predecessor in his valedictory, will give us occupation
for part of our time at least.
From the statistics of building in Roxbury during the
last year, there is every reason to believe that her pro-
gress for years to come will be more rapid and substan-
tial than ever before. Important changes are taking
place in Boston, which will make themselves felt in this
city. The locations of the Post Office, United States
Courts, the Mechanics' Institute, the free Public Library,
are all much nearer to us than last year. The building
of four churches the coming season, at the South part of
Boston, indicate that the growth of that city is near our
borders.
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When the wharves on the lands East of Harrison
Avenue are opened for business, dwellings will he great-
ly in demand here.
If the movement by the Board of Trade in favor of
making Boston the market of all the cotton and woollen
goods manufactured in New England should be carried
out, instead of allowing them to be sold in New York
and other places as now by branch houses, the onward
march of Boston, and consequently of Koxbury, will be
unequalled.
We have been entrusted, Gentlemen, by our fellow
citizens with the care and interests of this favored City
for the coming year. Let us see to it, that nothing shall
be wanting on our part to prepare and fit it for its ad-
vancing prosperity. Let us, by harmony, strict fidelity to
every duty, impartiality and a conscientiousness that knows
nothing but the right and the just, labor for the common
good. Let us disregard no right of the most humble,
nor overlook a wrong if done by the highest.
And above all, let us have faith in the honesty and good
intentions of our fellow citizens and of each other, and
ask of them that we may not be condemned by prejudice,
or on suspicion, or in ignorance of facts. We have no
light task before us to accomplish as many good deeds as
our predecessors have done.
I see before me many of you, Gentlemen, who have
large experience and knowledge in the management of
our affairs, and I shall rely upon your indulgence and
generous assistance in this untried and difficult position
in which I am placed.
Having given no pledge to any man, and I am happy
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to say, not having been asked; having promised patron-
age to no man, and not having been asked, I enter upon
the discharge of my office with but one wish, one thought,
one determination, to do my duty to all the inhabitants
and interests of Roxbury. With the assistance of the Un-
seen Power above only, can I hope this. May He keep,
sustain and strengthen us all, for our labors and duties.
.—No. 2.
REGULATIONS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
ADOFTBI3 ijrj£!i.-mXJJ^JES.lir, ISS©,
EOXBUEY:
L. B. & O. E. WESTON, PRINTERS, GUILD ROW.
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Citg of lUsbttrg.
In School Committee, January 5, 1859.
Messrs. Crafts, Williams, and Seaver were appointed a Committee to
prepare and report to this Board, Rules and Regulations for their govern-
ment the present year.
January 19.
The Committee on Rules and Regulations submitted the Report of said
Committee, which was read, amended, and adopted ; whereupon it was
Ordered, That 1000 copies of the Rules and Regulations, accompanied
by the Course of Studies, and Text-Books allowed in the several Schools
of the City, be printed, for the use of the Schools and Committee.
JOSHUA SEAVER, Secretary.
HEGULA-TIOlSrS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE OE BOXBUBY.
CHAPTER I.
Organization.
Section. 1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held
on the Wednesday next succeeding the organization of the
City Government. A Chairman and a Secretary shall then
be chosen by ballot.
Sect. 2. There shall also be appointed at the same
meeting, Local Committees for the several schools in the
City, to consist of three members for the High and each of
the Grammar Schools, and one member for each Primary
and Intermediate School; a Committee on Intermediate
and Primary School Teachers, and on Books, each consist-
ing of five members, one of whom shall be the Chairman of
the Board; a Committee on Rules and Regulations, and on
Finance, each consisting of three members.
Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of the Committee on In-
termediate and Primary School Teachers to receive the
names and credentials of all applicants over eighteen years
of age ; to examine the qualifications of those present at
any regular meeting called by the Chairman ; to grant a
certificate to those who pass a satisfactory examination ;
and to keep a list of approved applicants, from whom
teachers to fill vacancies in Primary or Intermediate
Schools shall be appointed, and substitutes provided in
the temporary absence of teachers.
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Sect. 4. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Books
to propose the text-books to be used in the schools, which
shall, in all cases, be submitted to the Board for approv-
al, but shall not be finally acted upon until said books
have been before the Board at least one week, and not un-
til every member of the Board has been supplied with a
copy of the book or books proposed to be introduced into
the schools. Nor shall any change of books be allowed,
except on condition that the publisher of the book pro-
posed to be introduced into the schools, shall give a copy
of said book to each pupil for the one in use by such pupil,
which said new book shall displace.
Sect. 5. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Fi-
nance, to confer with any committee of the Board of Al-
dermen and Common Council on the subject of appropria-
tions for the Public Schools.
Sect. 6. Stated quarterly meetings of the Board shall
be held on the Wednesday after the third Monday in Feb-
ruary — on the second Wednesday in June — on the
Wednesday after the last Monday in July — and on the
second Wednesday after Thanksgiving Day.
Sect. 7. At the last quarterly meeting in the year, the
teachers of the public schools shall be elected, and their
salaries voted.
Sect. 8. Seven members shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business.
Sect. 9. All meetings of the Board shall be held in
public, except when otherwise ordered by special vote, and
notice thereof shall be given to all the members at least
four days previous.
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CHAPTER II.
Rights and Duties of the Chairman.
Sect. 1. The Chairman shall take the chair precisely
at the hour appointed for the meeting of the Board ; he
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 Chairman, the Board shall choose a Chairman pro tem-
pore.
Sect. 2. The Chairman shall call a special meeting of
the Board whenever he may deem it necessary, or at the
request in writing of any two members.
Sect. 3. He shall appoint all committees, unless the
Board shall otherwise direct.
Sect. 4. He shall preserve order in the meetings ; he
may speak to points of order in preference to other mem-
bers, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an
appeal to the Board, on motion of any member.
Sect. 5. He shall declare all votes, but if any member
doubt the vote, he shall, without further debate upon the
question, require the members voting to rise and stand un-
til they are counted, and he shall declare the result.
Sect. 6. The Chairman may call any member to the
chair, provided such substitution shall not continue longer
than one meeting. When the Board shall determine to go
into Committee of the Whole, he shall appoint the mem-
ber who shall take the chair. He may express his opin-
ion 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 he may state facts, and give his opinion
on questions of order, without leaving his place.
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Sect. 7. When any member shall require a question to
be taken by Yeas and Nays, the Chairman shall take the
sense of the Board in that manner, provided any one of the
members present is in favor of it.
Sect. 8. After a motion has been stated by the Chair-
man, it shall be disposed of by a vote of the Board, unless
the mover withdraw it before a decision or an amendment.
Sect. 9. The Chairman shall consider a motion to ad-
journ as always in order, unless a member has possession
of the floor, or a question has been put and not decided ;
and said motion to adjourn shall be decided without de-
bate.
Sect. 10. He shall put the previous question in the
following form : " Shall the main question be now put ?"
and all amendments or further debate of the main question
shall be suspended, until the previous question shall have
been decided ; and the previous question shall not be put
unless a majority of the members present are in favor of
it.
Sect. 11. When two or more members happen to rise
at the same time, the Chairman shall name the member
who is first to speak.
CHAPTEE III.
Duties of the Secretary.
Sect. 1. The Secretary shall have charge of the records
of the Board, and of all papers directed by them to be
kept on his files; he shall keep a fair and full record of
all the proceedings of the Board ; shall notify all stated
and special meetings ; he shall notify the Chairman of any
committee appointed, stating the commission, and the
names of the members; shall notify the meetings of all
committees when requested by their Chairman; he also
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shall notify the instructors of their appointments, and shall
give other notices as the Board may require.
Sect. 2. He shall prepare the annual report required
by the statute of the Commonwealth.
CHAPTER IV.
Rights and Duties of Members.
Sect. 1. When any member is about to speak in de-
bate, or to deliver any matter to the Board, he shall rise
in his place, and respectfully address the Chairman ; shall
confine himself to the question in debate, and avoid per-
sonality.
Sect. 2. No member, in debate, shall notice another
member by his name ; but may describe him by the Ward
he represents, the place he sits in, or such other designa-
tion as may be intelligible and respectful.
Sect. 3. No member speaking shall be interrupted by
another, but by rising to call to order, or to correct a
mistake. But if any member, in speaking or otherwise,
transgress the rules of the Board, the Chairman shall, or
any member may, call him to order; in which case the
member so called to order shall immediately sit down,
unless permitted to explain ; and the Board, if appealed
to, shall decide on the case, but without debate.
Sect. 4. When a motion is made, it shall be considered
by the Board; and when a question is under debate, no
motion shall be received but to adjourn — to lay on the
table — for the previous question — to postpone to a day
certain — to commit — to amend — or to postpone indefi-
nitely ; which several motions shall have precedence in the
order in which they stand.
Sect. 5. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if
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the Chairman desire, or any member of the Board request
it.
Sect. 6. When a motion has once been made and car-
ried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for
any member to move a reconsideration. And in case the
motion be made at the same meeting, it shall be compe-
tent for a majority of the members present to pass a vote
of reconsideration; but if it be made at a subsequent
meeting, the subject shall not be reconsidered unless a
majority of all the members of the Board shall vote there-
for. But no more than one motion for the reconsideration
of any vote shall be permitted.
Sect. 7. Every member who shall be present when a
question is put, shall give his vote, unless the Board, for
special reasons, excuse him.
Sect. 8. On the " previous question," no member shall
speak more than once, without leave of the Board.
Sect. 9. 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 Board.
Sect. 10. All proposed amendments to the Regulations
shall lie over until the next meeting. Any rule may be
suspended for the time being by a vote of two-thirds of
the members present.
CHAPTER V.
Duties of Local Committees.
Sect. 1. The Local Committees shall visit their re-
spective schools at least once a month, and oftener if con-
venient.
Sect. 2. The Local Committees shall give their advice
to the instructors on any emergency ; and take cognizance
of any difficulty which may have occurred between the in-
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structors and parents or guardians of pupils, or between
the instructors themselves, relative to the government or
instruction of the School. An appeal, however, to the
whole Board, is not hereby denied to any citizen or in-
structor.
Sect. 3. The several chairmen of the Local Commit-
tees of the High and Grammar Schools shall be the or-
gan of communication between said committees and the
schools ; but shall not act on any matter of interest to the
school, without the sanction of a majority of the Local
Committee.
Sect. 4. In case of a vacancy in the office of principal
in the High or Grammar Schools, nominations and elec-
tions for the place shall be made by the Board.
Sect. 5. In case of a vacancy in the High or Grammar
Schools, in the place of any teacher, other than the princi-
pal, the Chairman with the Local Committee shall exam-
ine his or her qualifications, and the Local Committee
shall appoint a teacher pro tempore, and give notice of
such vacancy, at the next quarterly meeting of the Board,
that it may be filled by election. And no such teacher
shall be appointed by the Board, until he or she shall
have been examined as aforesaid, and shall have received
a satisfactory certificate thereof. The masters or heads
of departments shall be consulted in the appointment of
their assistants.
Sect. 6. In case of a vacancy in the place of a teacher
of any Primary or Intermediate School, it shall be the
duty of the Local Committee, in concurrence with the
Chairman, to fill such vacancy from the list of approved
applicants, as provided in Chapter 1, Sect. 3 ; such ap-
pointment to be submitted to the Board, for confirmation,
within three months.
Sect. 7. In addition to these specific duties of the Lo-
cal Committees, it shall be their duty, generally, to make
10 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
any temporary arrangement which they may find neces-
sary, relative to their schools, or the convenience of the
instructors, in cases not provided for by the general regu-
lations.
Sect. 8. Although the interest of the schools demands
Local Committees, yet each member of the Board shall
consider it his duty to watch over all the public schools in
the city, to attend their examinations, and to visit them at
other times so far as practicable.
Sect. 9. No teacher or other person in the employ of
the School Committee, shall purchase anything at the ex-
pense of the city without a written order from the Local
Committee of the School for which such purchase is to be
made, or from the Chairman or Secretary of the Board,
and all bills for salaries, repairs, books and furniture, shall
be approved by the Local Committees, or in case of
absence or any other inability, by the Secretary of the
Board.
REaULA.TIOISrS
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
CHAPTER I.
Teachers.
Sect. 1. All the teachers shall be responsible to the
Board for the faithful discharge of their duties. They
shall punctually observe the hours for opening and dismis-
sing the school, and during school hours shall devote them-
selves to the public service.
Sect. 2. When any teacher is reported as very deficient
by the quarterly examining committee, and placed on pro-
bation by order of the Board, the Secretary shall notify
such teacher of the same, and state the deficiency report-
ed.
Sect. 3. The morning exercises of all the schools shall
be commenced by reading from the Holy Scriptures, fol-
lowed by the Lord's Prayer.
Sect. 4. The teachers shall open the school rooms of
their respective schools, for the reception of scholars, at
least ten minutes before the time prescribed for commen-
cing the school.
Sect. 5. The teachers shall give the children constant
employment, and endeavor by judicious and diversified
modes, to render the exercises of the school pleasant as
12 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
well as profitable ; — they shall maintain firm, prudent and
vigilant discipline ; they shall punish as sparingly as possi-
ble, consistent with securing obedience, and shall govern
by persuasive and gentle measures as far as practicable. —
They shall never resort to corporal punishment, until oth-
er means of influencing the pupils shall have failed; and
when it shall be necessary, it shall be administered in such
a manner as to operate on the moral sense of the pupil in
the strongest manner. As far as practicable, they shall al-
so exercise a general inspection over their scholars, as
well out of, as within the school, and on all suitable occa-
sions inculcate upon them the principles of truth and vir-
tue.
Sect. 6. The teachers shall keep a list of the scholars
under their instruction, and shall record the page of the
text-book at which every class commences in each term,
and also the page to which it shall have advanced during
said term, and this record shall be open to the inspection
of the School Committee.
Sect. 7. The principals of the Grammar Schools are
authorized under the direction of the Local Committees, to
make such classification of their respective schools, and
such regulations for the discipline and government thereof,
(not in violation of the regulations of this Board,) as they
may deem expedient. And it shall be the duty of the
principals to examine the pupils under the care of the as-
sistant teachers, in said schools, as often as they can, con-
sistent with proper attention to those who are under their
immediate charge.
Sect. 8. The teachers of the several Grammar Schools
shall impart oral instruction to their pupils, at stated times,
by assigning topics for their consideration, referring them
to approved works for information, questioning them upon
the themes assigned, and communicating such information
thereon as they may think necessary. These exercises
shall take place as frequently as may be thought practica-
1859.] SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 13
ble by the Local Committee and teachers. A list of the
topics shall be open to the inspection of the examining
committee.
Sect. 9. In all the classes of the High and Grammar
Schools, (provided the pupils are able to write a fair, legi-
ble hand,) the teachers shall require, at least once in two
weeks, regular exercises in Composition, to consist of Es-
says, Letters, Descriptions, or Abstracts of Lessons, accord-
ing to the age and capacity of the pupils. These exerci-
ses shall be corrected by the teachers, and preserved with
their dates respectively, in writing books, to be inspected
by the committee, as evidence of the proficiency of the pu-
pils in penmanship, punctuation, use of capitals, spelling
and the grammatical construction of sentences. In the
first division of the Washington and Dearborn schools
there shall also be regular exercises in declamation.
Sect. 10. In the Grammar Schools for Girls, no lessons
shall be assigned expressly for study out of the regular
school hours; and in all the schools, except the High
School, the programme of daily study shall be arranged,
and the time apportioned, as far as possible, so that the
lessons assigned may be prepared in school, and not re-
main for study out of school. Of the pupils in the High
School, a moderate amount of study out of school may be
required.
Sect. 11. When the example of any pupil is very inju-
rious, and in all cases where reformation appears hopeless,
it shall be the duty of the teacher, with the approval of
the Local Committee, to suspend or expel such pupil from
the school. But any child under this public censure, who
shall have expressed to the teacher regret for such misde-
meanor, as openly and implicitly as the nature of the case
may require, and shall have given evidences of reform, shall,
with the previous consent of said committee, be reinstated
in the privileges of the school.
Sect. 12. It shall be the duty of the teachers to take
14 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
good care of the apartments of the public buildings which
they occupy, and of the appurtenances thereof, that there
may be no unnecessary injury sustained by them ; also to
attend to the ventilation and temperature of the school
rooms, and to the cleanliness and comfort of the pupils.
Sect. 13. No subscription or contribution, for any pur-
pose whatever, shall be allowed by the teachers, in any
public school.
Sect. 14. Any teacher may, by permission of the Local
Committee, take half a day each term, for visiting such oth-
er school in this city, or in the vicinity, as may be designa-
ted, and the name of the school thus visited shall be en-
tered in the teacher's register, with the date of the visit.
Sect. 15. YHien the teachers in the Grammar and Pri-
mary Schools leave their divisions, temporarily, and require
their places to be supplied by others, they shall notify their
Local Committees, who shall provide the substitutes ; and
as far as practicable, these substitutes shall be taken from
the list of approved applicants in the hands of the Commit-
tee on Intermediate and Primary School Teachers, and the
salary shall be at least two-thirds that which is paid to the
teacher of the division.
Sect. 16. No teacher shall be allowed to relinquish the
charge of his or her school without giving at least three
weeks' notice to the Local Committee; and in ordinary
cases no teacher shall be required to give up the charge of
his or her school without having received at least three
weeks' notice to that effect.
Sect. IT. Any teacher who shall persist in violating
the Eules of this Board, shall be put on probation by the
Local Committee or the Chairman, who shall report the
delinquency at the next meeting of the Board.
Sect. 18. The teachers are required to make vocal
music one of the exercises of the school.
1859.] SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 15
CHAPTER II.
Pupils.
Sect. 1. All children residing within the limits of this
City, shall, on application to the Local Committee, have
free admission to such public schools as, in the opinion of
said Committee, they may be qualified to enter, provided
they be five years of age ; and no obstacle shall be inter-
posed by any teacher or any member of this Board.
Sect. 2. But no child shall be admitted into any of the
public schools without a certificate from his parent, or a
physician, that he has been vaccinated, or otherwise secured
against the contagion of the small -pox.
Sect. 3. Children of the age of eight years and upwards,
who may pass a satisfactory examination in the reading
books used in the Primary Schools, in spelling words se-
lected from the reading lessons and from the spelling book
used in the Primary Schools, in explaining the use of the
marks of punctuation, in enunciating clearly and accurately
the elementary sounds of our language, in writing words
in script hand upon the slate, in reading and writing Arabic
numbers containing four figures, and in the Arithmetic
used in Primary Schools, shall be entitled to admission
into the Grammar Schools. Children above eight years
of age, though not possessing the requisite qualifications,
may be admitted into the Grammar Schools by special per-
mission from the Local Committees.
The examination for admission into the Grammar Schools
shall be made by the principal or assistant teachers there-
of, and shall take place on the first Monday of the first
and third terms ; and no pupil shall be admitted into the
Grammar Schools from the Primary and Intermediate
Schools except at those times. Provided, however that,
16 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
the Local Committees shall have discretionary power to
admit pupils, possessing the necessary qualifications, at
other times than those mentioned. Pupils changing resi-
dence, shall be transferred from one school to another of
the same rank, provided they bear a certificate from the
teacher of the school they leave, expressing their standing
and character, as a condition of their admission by the
teacher to whom they apply for that purpose.
No pupil shall be admitted into an Intermediate School,
from a Primary, except by the express permission of the
Local Committee of the Intermediate School, and in such
case, only on the first week of the month. The examina-
tion for admission into the High School, shall take place
during the last week of the second term. Pupils who
shall have reached the age of twelve years, and shall pre-
sent a certificate of good moral character, and of presumed
literary qualifications, from the Principal of the school
which they last attended, and shall pass a satisfactory ex-
amination in the following studies, viz : Spelling, Reading,
"Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Modern Geography,
and the History of the United States, shall be regarded
by the School Committee as qualified to enter the High
School.
Sect. 4. No pupil, whilst under sentence of suspension
from one school, shall be admitted to the privileges of
another, unless by a vote of this Board.
Sect. 5. In the Grammar Schools, each session, there
shall be a recess for every pupil, of ten or fifteen minutes ;
and in the Primary Schools of from fifteen to twenty min-
utes.
Sect. 6. Pupils shall be prompt and punctual at school,
and shall not absent themselves from school except on
account of sickness or other urgent reason; and no re-
quest for absence shall be deemed valid, unless it be a
written one from parents or guardians. Every pupil en-
tering after the time prescribed for the commencement
1859.] SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 17
of school, shall be marked tardy ; and whenever any pupil
shall absent himself or herself for two weeks in succession,
such pupil shall be considered no longer a member of the
school.
CHAPTER III.
Periods of Instruction.
Sect. 1. There shall be four Terms in the year. The
first shall commence the Monday after the third Monday
in February.*
The second shall commence the Monday following the
last Wednesday in May.f
The third shall commence the first Monday in Septem-
ber.^:
The fourth shall commence on the Monday after Thanks-
giving Day.
Sect. 2. The schools shall be kept three hours in the
forenoon, and three in the afternoon of each day, Sundays
and the holidays and vacations hereinafter specified, ex-
cepted. Schools shall begin at eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, from May to August inclusive ; — at other times, at
nine in the morning ; and shall commence at two in the
afternoon, except the Girls' High School, which shall com-
mence at nine in the morning, and close at two in the af-
ternoon. Scholars may, however, be detained for delin-
quencies a reasonable time after the regular school hours.
Sect. 3. There shall be the following Vacations :
1. One week commencing on the third Monday in Feb-
ruary.!
2. One week commencing on the Monday before the
last Wednesday in May.||
3. Six weeks next preceding the first Monday in Sep-
tember.^
* Feb. 28th. f May 30th. J Sept. 5th.
§ Feb. 21st. || May 23d. *tf Juty 25th.
3
18 . CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 2. [Jan.
4. One week, commencing on the Monday before Thanks-
giving Day.
Sect. 4. The following holidays shall be granted alike
to all the schools : — Every Wednesday and Saturday af-
ternoon; Fast Day; Independence Day; Christmas Day;
New Year's Day ; May Day. No holiday not herein speci-
fied shall be given except by a vote of the Board, or by a
written certificate, signed by at least seven members of
the School Committee ; and in such case it shall be given
alike to all the schools in the city.
Sect. 5. The Norfolk County Convention of Teachers
may be attended by all the teachers belonging to the
schools in this city, for which purpose their respective
schools may be dismissed ; it being understood, however,
that this permission is not granted, except to those teach-
ers who actually attend said Convention.
CHAPTER IV.
Examinations.
Sect. 1. Quarterly. The Chairman, or some member
or members of the Board designated by him, shall visit
and examine every public school in the City, at least once
each quarter, without giving previous notice to the teach-
ers, according to the provisions of the Statute. It shall
be the duty of this committee to obtain accurate informa-
tion of the condition of each school, and at the next quar-
terly meeting to make a report to the Board, in writing,
of their examination and its results ; of the condition of
the school houses, and of any occurrences affecting the
standing and usefulness of the schools.
Sect. 2. Annual. During the last two weeks of the
first term, a committee of seven members of the Board
shall examine the High and all the Grammar Schools, and
1859.] SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 19
a committee, also of five members, shall examine all the
Primary and Intermediate Schools in the city, and report
upon the same, at the next quarterly meeting of the
Board.
CHAPTEE Y.
Books and Studies.
Sect. 1. The studies pursued, and the Text-Books
authorized, in the High School for Girls, shall be the fol-
lowing :
FIRST YEAR.
First and Second Terms.
1. Arithmetic — Greenleaf s Higher ;
2. History — Worcester's;
3. Physiology — Comings's Class Book of;
4. Reading — Hillard's First Class Reader, and Cleaveland's
Compendium ;
5. [Spelling and Defining — ^Worcester's and Webster's
Dictionaries ;
6. English Grammar — Butler's ;
7. Composition and Rhetoric — Quackenbos's ;
8. Linear Drawing — Bartholemew's System ;
9. Penmanship — Dunton's System.
Third and Fourth Terms.
1. Arithmetic — Continued ;
2. History — Continued ;
3. Botany — Wood's ;
4. Reading, Spelling and Defining, Composition, Analysis;
5. Penmanship, and Linear Drawing.
SECOND YEAR.
First and Second Terms.
1. Algebra — Sherwin's ;
2. Latin — Andrews' Latin Lessons ;
* Worcester's Dictionary to be the standard in orthography in all
the Schools.
20 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
3. Physical Geography — Cartee's ;
4. Natural Philosophy — Tate's (larger) ;
5. English Literature and Biography — Continued ;
6. Composition and Rhetoric — Quackenbos's ;
7. Perspective Drawing — Bartholomew's System.
Third and Fourth Terms.
1. Algebra — Continued;
2. Latin — Nepos, or Caesar ;
3. French — Fasquelle, and Le Grand-Pere ;
4. Chemistry — Stockhardt's ;
5. English Literature and Biography — Continued ;
6. Composition and Rhetoric — Continued ;
7. Perspective Drawing — Continued.
THIRD YEAR.
First and Second Terms.
1. Geometry — Da vies' Legendre ;
2. Latin — Virgil (Bowen's Ed.) ;
3. French — Le Grand-Pere ; Conversations sur lie Grand-
Pere;
4. Astronomy — Olmstead's, and Burritt's Geography of the
Heavens ;
5. Composition and Rhetoric — Continued ;
6. English Literature and Biography — Continued ;
7. Drawing from Nature.
Third and Fourth Terms.
1. Latin — Virgil — Continued ;
2. French— he Grand-Pere, Collot's Dialogues, Collot's An-
ecdotes :
3. Intellectual Philosophy— W ayland' s ;
4. Moral Philosophy — Wayland's ;
5. English Literature and Biography — Continued ;
6. Composition and Rhetoric — Continued :
7. Drawing from Nature.
[Note. — Any parent or guardian desiring a change made in the
course of studies, in reference to the pupils under his or her charge, is
requested to confer with the Local Committee and Teacher.]
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1859.] SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 21
Sect. 2. The studies pursued, and the Text-Books
authorized, in the Grammar Schools, shall be the follow-
ing:
FIRST YEAR.
1. Reading — Hillard's Fourth Reader;
2. Spelling — The Reader, and Worcester's Speller ;
3. Mental Arithmetic — Colburn's First Lessons ;
4. Geography — Cornell's Primary ;
5. Penmanship.
SECOND YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Third Reader;
2. Spelling — Continued ;
3. Mental Arithmetic — Continued ;
4. Written Arithmetic — Leach and Swan's ;
5. Geography — Cornell's Primary, and Grammar School ;
6. Penmanship, {Drawing by the Girls — Bartholomew's
system.)
THIRD YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Third and Fourth Readers ;
2. Spelling — Continued;
3. Defining — Worcester's and Webster's Dictionaries ;
4. Geography — Cornell's Grammar School ;
5. Mental and Written Arithmetic — Continued ;
6. Grammar — Tower's Elements of;
7. Penmanship, Map-Drawing, {Drawing — Continued.)
FOURTH YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Fourth Reader ;
2. Spelling and Defining — Continued ;
3. Geography — Continued ;
4. Mental and Written Arithmetic — Continued ;
5. Grammar — Continued ;
6. Composition — Tower's Grammar of;
7. History — Quackenbos's United States ;
8. Penmanship, Map-Drawing, {Drawing — Continued;)
22 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
FIFTH YEAR.
1. Reading — Sargent's Fifth Reader;
2. Spelling and Defining — Continued;
3. Geography — Continued ;
4. Mental and Written Arithmetic — Continued;
5. Grammar — Butler's ;
6. Composition — Continued;
7. History — Continued ;
8. Penmanship ) Map-Drawing, ( Drawing — Continued ;)
9. Book-Keeping — Hannafordand Payson's (by the Boys) ;
10. Declamation — (by the Boys).
Sect. 3. The Exercises, Studies and Text-Books au-
thorized in the Primary Schools, shall be the following :
FIRST YEAR.
1. Charts, and Sargent's Primer ;
2. Spelling, from the Charts and Primer ;
3. Enunciating the elementary sounds of letters and
words ;
4. Oral Instruction ;
5. Exercises on the Slate ;
6. Singing.
SECOND YEAR.
1. Sargent's First and Second Readers ;
2. Spelling, from the Readers and Swan's Primary Spelling
Book;
3. Enunciating the elementary sounds of letters and
words ;
4. Marks of Punctuation;
5. Arithmetical cards ;
6. Reading and Writing Arabic numbers ;
7. Exercises on the slate ;
8. Oral Instruction ;
9. Singjng.
1859.] SCHOOL KEGULATIONS. 23
THIRD YEAR.
1. Sargent's Second, and Hillard's Fourth Reader;
2. Spelling, from the Readers and Swan's Primary Spelling
Book ;
3. Enunciating the elementary sounds of letters and
words ;
4. Leach and Swan's Primary School Arithmetic ;
5. Geography, taught orally, (Cornell's Primary;)
6. Oral Instruction ;
7. Writing words in script-hand, and other exercises on
the slate;
8. Singing.
Sect. 4. Scholars requiring books shall be directed by
their teacher to provide them. If not so provided within
three days, the teacher shall notify the parent or guardian
iu writing, of the kind of book required, and in case of his
neglect to provide in two days thereafter, shall then make
a requisition upon the Local Committee, in which shall be
expressed the name of such scholar, the name of the parent
or guardian, and the name of the book ; and it shall be the
duty of the Local Committee thereupon to furnish the book,
and make return thereof, according to law, to the Asses-
sors of the city.
24 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
CHAPTER VI.
Morals.
The attention of teachers is particularly directed to the
following section of the Revised Statutes :
" Sect. 7. It shall be the duty of the president, profes-
sors and tutors of the University of Cambridge, and of the
several Colleges, and of all preceptors and teachers of
Academies, and all other instructors of youth, to exert their
best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and
youth, committed to their care and instruction, the princi-
ples of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to
their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety,
industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance?
and those other virtues which are the ornament of human
society, and the basis upon which a republican consti-
tution is founded : and it shall be the duty of such instruc-
tors to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and ca-
pacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the ten-
dency of the above-mentioned virtues to preserve and per-
fect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of
liberty as well as to promote their future happiness, and
also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite
vices."
SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1859.
ELECTED AT LARGE.
George Putnam, Highland, near Cedar Street.
Arial I. Cummings, 121 Dudley Street.
William A. Crafts, Washington, near Francis Street.
elected by wards.
Ward 1. — Horatio G-. Morse, 65 Zeigler Street.
Franklin Williams, 73 Zeigler Street.
" 2. — Joshua Seayer, Cabot Street, cor. Sumner PI.
Ira Allen, Cabot, cor. Sudbury Street.
u 3.— Timothy R. Mute, 163 Dudley Street.
Richard Garyey, Cabot St., op. Sumner PI.
" 4. — Joseph N. Brewer, 37 Centre Street.
John W. Olmstead, Centre, cor. Cedar Street.
" 5. — Edwin Ray, Warren, near Walnut Street.
Robert P. Anderson, 37 Winthrop Street.
Horatio G. Morse, Chairman. Joshua Seayer, Secretary.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
Regulations. — Messrs. Crafts, Williams, Seaver.
Finance. — Messrs. Seaver, Anderson, Garvey.
Music and Drawing. — Messrs. Nute, Allen, Williams.
Books. — Messrs. Morse (ex. off.), Putnam, Brewer,
Nute, Crafts.
Intermediate and Primary School Teachers. — Messrs.
Morse (ex. off.), Ray, Olmstead, Cummings, Allen.
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CITY DOCUMENT.— No. 2.
[Jan.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND LOCAL COMMITTEES. -
[Each School for both Sexes. — Salary of each Teacher $300.]
Teachers.
Location.
Committees.
1.
Morse.
2.
Morse.
3.
Morse.
4.
Morse.
5.
Williams.
6
Maria L. Youno-
Williams.
7.
Williams.
8.
Williams.
9.
Harriet H. Fay
Cummings.
10.
Cummings.
11.
Allen.
12.
Allen.
13.
Allen.
14
Sarah E. Field
Avon Place
Allen.
15
Garvey.
Garvey.
Allen.
16,
17
Mill Dam
18.
Seaver.
19.
Heath Place
Seaver.
<>0
Anna M. Eaton
Nute.
^1
Smith Street
Nute.
22.
Crafts.
33
Mary A. Morse
Centre Street
Brewer.
*>A
25.
Caroline N. Heath
Putnam.
Bfi.
Olmstead.
27.
Olm stead.
28.
Margaret G. Chenery. . . .
Ray.
29.
Elm Street
Anderson.
30
Elm Street
Anderson.
31.
Heath Place
Seaver.
32.
Anderson.
33.
Seaver.
NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE CITY CHARTER IN 1846.
At Large.
George Putnam, 1346, '48, '56, '57, '58, '59.
Cyrus H. Fay, 1846, '48.
*Samuel H. Walley, Jr., 1846, '48.
George R. Russell, 1847.
Thomas F. Caldicott, 1847.
George W. Bond, 1847.
John Wayland, 1849, '50, '51.
William R. Alger, 1849, '50, '56.
William Hague, 1849, '50.
Theodore Dunn, 1851.
Thomas D. Anderson, 1851.
Horatio G. Morse, 1852, '53, '54.
William H. Ryder, 1852, '53, *54, '57, '58.
William A. Crafts, 1852, '53, '54, '59.
Bradford K. Peirce, 1855.
Joseph H. Streeter, 1855,
John S. Flint, 1855.
Julius S. Shailer, 1856, '57, '58.
Arial I. Cummings, 1859.
Ward 1.
Allen Putnam, 1846.
Henry B. Wheelright, 1846, '47.
Horatio G. Morse, 1847, '48, '49, '50, '51, '55, '56, '57, '58, '59.
William R. Alger, 1848, '52.
Bradford K. Peirce, 1849, '50, '51, '52.
John Jones, 1853, '54.
Joseph Bugbee, 1853, '54.
Henry W. Farley, 1855, '56, '57.
Franklin Williams, 1858, '59.
Ward 2.
Thomas F. Caldicott, 1846.
Joshua Seayer,1846, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58, '59
Alfred Williams, 1847, '48.
Ira Allen, 1849, '50, '51, '52, '56, '57, '58, '59.
Arial I. Cummings, 1853.
Charles Marsh, 1854, '55.
* The junior dropped in 1850.
30 CITY DOCUMENT. — No. 2. [Jan.
Ward 3.
Charles K. Dillaway, 1846, '47.
Francis Iiilliard, 1846, '48, '49.
Theodore Otis, 1847.
Julius S. Shailer, 1848, '50, '51, '52, '53, '64.
William Gaston, 1849, '50, '51.
Timothy R. Nute, 1852, '57, '58, '59.
Joseph H. Streeter, 1853, '54.
William H. Ryder, 1855.
Benjamin Mann, 1855.
Arial I. Cummings, 1856, '57, '58.
William A. Crafts, 1856.
Richard Garvey, 1859.
Ward 4.
Benjamin E. Cotting, 1846, '47, '49.
David Green, 1846, '47, '48.
Henry Bartlett, 1848.
Henry W. Fuller, 1849, '50, '51.
John S. Flint, 1850, '51, '52.
John Wayland, 1852, '53, '54, '55.
Theodore Otis, 1853.
*John W. Olmstead, 1854, '56, '58, '59.
James Waldock, 1855, '56.
Joseph N. Brewer, 1857, '58, '59.
Jonathan P. Robinson, 1857.
Ward 5.
Augustus C. Thompson, 1846.
Daniel Leach, 1846, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55.
Samuel Walker, 1847, '56.
John H. Purkett, 1848.
Charles F. Foster, 1849, '50, '51, '52.
Bradford K. Peirce, 1853, '54.
Edwin Ray, 1855, '57, '58, '59.
Theodore Otis, 1856.
Alfred P. Putnam, 1857.
Robert P. Anderson, 1858, '59.
t Ward 6.
George W. Bond, 1846.
Edward Turner, 1846.
Edmund F. Slafter, 1847, '48, '49, '50, '51.
Dan. S. Smalley, 1847.
George Faulkner, 1848.
Edward D. Boit, 1849, '50, '51.
Ward 7.
John O. Choules, 1846, '47.
Joseph H. Allen, 1846.
Theodore Dunn, 1847, '48, '49, '50.
Grindall Reynolds, 1848, '49, '50, '61.
Stephen M. Allen, 1851.
* Resigned in 1856, and Joseph N. Brewer elected.
f Wards 6, 7 and 8, with parts of Wards 4 and 5, were set off and incorporated, by Act
of the Legislature, May 34, 1851, under the name of the Town of West Roxbury.
1859.] SCHOOL REGULATIONS. 31
Ward 8.
Theodore Parker, 1846.
George R. Russell, 1846.
Dexter Clapp, 1847, '48, '50, '51.
Matthews W. Green, 1S47.
Abijah W. Draper, 1848, '49.
Joseph H. Billings, 1849.
Cornelius Cowing, 1850, '51.
Chairmen.
Charles K. Dillaway, 1846, '47.
George Putnam, 1848.
Daniel Leach, 1849, '50, '51.
Julius S. Shailer, 1852, '53.
John Wayland, 1854.
Bradford K. Peirce, 1855.
*William H. Ryder, 1856, '57, '58.
Horatio G. Morse, 1859.
Secretaries.
Joshua Seaver, 1846, '47 ,48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '58, '59.
Ariall. Cummings, 1856, '57.
* Resigned in 1858, and Horatio G. Morse elected Chairman ad interim.
Curator op School Buildings,
j o kt .a. s i> i e ir, o e , jr
Residence on Bartlett Street.
NOTE TO TEACHERS.
As articles which may be needed for the Schools cannot
be purchased without written orders from Local Commit-
tees, the Chairman, or Secretary of the Board, Teachers
will perceive the necessity of procuring such orders, when
they desire to have anything purchased for the use of their
Schools at the expense of the Committee. All such or-
ders, if the Teachers prefer, may be given to the Curator,
or deposited in his box in the Post Office,* as it is his
duty, in such cases, to see that the articles needed are pur-
chased and promptly delivered.
* Box 336.
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