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CITY OF BOSTON.

JOINT RULES AND ORDERS

CITY COUNCIL.

Sect. 1. At the commencement of the Munici-
pal year, the following Joint Standing Committees
shall be chosen by ballot, viz :

A Committee on Finance —

To consist of the Mayor and seven members of
the Common Council ;

A Committee on Accounts —

To consist of two Aldermen and three members
of the Common Council.

And the following shall be appointed, viz. :

A Committee on the Public Lands —

To consist of two members of the Board of

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Mayor and Aldermen, and three members of the
Common Council ;

A Committee on Public Buildings —

To consist of three members of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen, and five members of the
Common Council ;

A Committee on Public Instruction —

To consist of the Mayor, two Aldermen, and the
President and four members of the Common Coun-
cil ;

A Committee on the Gaol and the Houses of
Correction, Industry, and Reformation —

To consist of the Mayor, two Aldermen, and five
members of the Common Council ;

A Committee on Fuel —

To consist of three members of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen, and five members of the
Common Council ;

A Committee on Water —

To consist of the Mayor, two Aldermen, and five
members of the Common Council ;

A Committee on the Treasury Department —

To consist of two Aldermen, and three members
of the Common Council ;

A Committee on the Assessors' Department —

To consist of two members of the Board of Alder-
men, and three members of the Common Council ;

Joint Rules of the City Council.

A Committee on Boston Harbor —

To consist of two members of the Board of May-
or and Aldermen, and three members of the Com-
mon Council.

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 provided
that the Mayor shall be a member, in case of the
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 constitute the Joint
Standing Committees, shall be chosen or appointed
by their respective Boards.

The Mayor, the President of the Common Coun-
cil, and the Chairman of the Committee of Finance
on the part of the Common Council, shall, accord-
ing to the ordinance, constitute the Committee on
the Reduction of the City Debt.

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

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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.

Sect. 2. In every case of disagreement between
the two branches of the City Council, if either
Board shall request a conference, and appoint a
Committee of Conference, and the other Board shall
also appoint a Committee to confer, such Commit-
tees shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon
by their Chairmen, meet and state to each other
verbally or in writing, as either shall choose, the
reasons of their respective Boards, for and against
the amendment, confer freely thereon, and report to
their respective branches.

Sect, 3. When either Board shall not concur in
any ordinance sent from the other, notice of such
non-concurrence shall be given by written mes-
sage.

Sect. 4. Either Board may propose tq^the other,
for its concurrence, a time to which both Boards
shall adjourn.

Sect, 5. All By-Laws, passed by the City Coun-
cil, shall be termed " Ordinances," and the enacting
style shall be : — Be it ordained by the Mayor, Al-
dermen, and Common Council of the City of Boston,
in City Council assembled.

Sect. 6. In all votes, when either or both
branches of the City Council expresses any thing

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by way of Command^ the form of expression shall
be ''Ordered;" and whenever either or both
branches express opijiions, principles^ facts^ oi pur-
poses, the form shall be "Resolved."

Sect. 7. In the present and every future finan-
cial year, after the annual order of appropriations
shall have been passed, no subsequent 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.

Sect. 8. Joint Standing Committees shall cause
records to be kept of their proceedings, in books
provided by the City for that purpose. No Com-
mittee shall act by separate consultations, and no
report shall be received, unless agreed to in Com-
mittee actually assembled.

Sect. 9. It shall be the duty of every Joint
Committee, to whom any subject may be specially
referred, to report thereon within four weeks, or
to ask for further time.

Sect. 10. All reports and other papers submit-
ted to the City Council, shall be written in a fair
hand, and no report or endocsement of any kind

8 Joint Rules of the City Council.

shall be made on the reports, memorials, or other
papers referred to the Committees of either branch.
And the Clerks shall make copies of any papers to
be reported by Committees, at the request of the
respective Chairmen thereof.

Sect. 11. No Committee shall enter into any
contract with, or purchase, or authorize the pur-
chase of any articles of any of its members.

Sect. 13. No Chairman of any Committee shall
audit or approve any bill or account against the
City, for any supplies or services, which shall not
have been ordered or authorized by the Committee.

RULES AND ORDERS

COMMON COUNCIL.

Rights and Duties of the President.

Sect. 1. The President shall take the chair
precisely at the hour to which the Council may
;have adjourned ; he shall call the members to order,
and, on the appearance of a quorum, cause the min-
utes of the preceding meeting to be read, and pro-
ceed to business.

In the absence of the President, the oldest
member present shall call the Council to order, and
preside until a President pro tempore shall be chosen
by ballot. If, upon a ballot for President pro tem-
pore, no member shall receive a majority of the votes
given in, the Council shall proceed to a second
ballot, in which a plurality of votes shall prevail.

Sect. 2. He shall preserve decorum and order ;
he may speak to points of order in preference to
other members, and shall decide all questions of or-

10 Rules and Orders of the Common Council,

der, subject to an appeal to the Councilj on motion
of any member regularly seconded.

Sect. 3. He shall declare all votes; but if any
member doubt the vote, the President, without fur-
ther 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.

Sect. 4. He shall rise to address the Council,
or to put a question, but may read sitting.

Sect. 5. The President may call any member
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
who shall take the chair. The President may ex-
press his opinion on any subject under debate ; but
in such case, he shall leave the €hair, and appoint
some other member to take it ; and he shall not
resume the chair while the same question is pend-
ing. But the President may state facts, and give
his opinion on questions of order, without leaving
his place.

Sect. 6. When any member shall require a
question to be taken by yeas and nays, the Presi-
dent shall take the sense of the Council in that man-
ner, provided ojie-third of the members present are
in favor of it.

Rules and Orders of the Common Council. 11

Sect. 7. He shall propound all questions in the
order in which they are moved, unless the subse-
quent motion shall be previous in its nature ; ex-
cept that in naming sums and fixing times, the
largest sum, and the longest time, shall be put first.

Sect. 8. After a motion is seconded, and stated
by the President, it shall be disposed of by vote of
the Council, unless the mover withdraw it before a
decision, or amendment.

Sect. 9. The President shall consider a motion
to adjourn as always in order, unless a member has
possession of the floor, or any question has been put
and not decided ; and it shall be decided without
debate.

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 be decided ; and the previous
question shall not be put, unless a majority of the
whole Council are in favor of it.

Sect. 11. When two or more members happen
to rise at the same time, the President shall name
the member who is first to speak.

Sect. 12. All Committees, except such as the
Council determine to select by ballot, shall be nom-
inated by the President.

12 Rules and Orders of the Common Council.

Rights arid Duties of Members.

Sect. 13. When any member is about to speak
in debate, or deliver any matter to the Council, he
shall rise in his place, and respectfully address the
Presiding Officer ; shall confine himself to the ques-
tion under debate, and avoid personality. He shall
sit down as soon as he has done speaking.

Sect. 14. No member, in debate, shall mention
another member by his name ; but may describe
him by the ward he represents, the place he sits in,
or such other designation as may be intelligible and
respectful.

Sect. 15. No member while speaking, shall be
interrupted by another, but by rising to call to or-
der, or to correct a mistake. But if any member in
speaking, or otherwise, transgress the Rules of the
Council, the President 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 Council, if appealed
to, shall decide on the case without debate.

Sect. 16. When any member shall violate any
of the Rules and Orders of the Council, and the
Council shall have determined that he has so trans-
gressed, he shall not be allowed to speak, unless by
way of excuse for the same, until he has made sat-^
i&faction.

Rules and Orders of the Common Council. 13

Sect. 17. No member shall speak more than
twice to the same question, without first obtaining
leave of the Council ; nor more than once, until all
other members, choosing to speak, shall have spoken.

Sect. 18. When a motion is made and seconded,
it shall be considered by the Council, and not oth-
erwise ; and no member shall be permitted to sub-
mit a motion in writing, until he has read the same
in his place, and it has been seconded.

Sect. 19. 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 post-
pone indefinitely ; which several motions shall have
precedence in the order in which they stand arranged.

Sect. 20. Every motion shall be reduced to
writing, if the President direct, or any member of
the Council request it.

Sect. 21. When a motion has once been made,
and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be
in order for any member voting with the majority,
to move for a reconsideration, and if such motion
is seconded, it shall be open to debate, and be dis-
posed of by the Council. And in case the motion
be made at the same meeting, it shall be competent
for a majority of the members present to pass a vote
of reconsideration ; but if it be not made until the
next meeting, the subject shall not be reconsidered
unless a majority of the whole Council shall vote

14 Rules and Orders of the Common Council.

therefor. But no more than one motion for the
reconsideration of any vote shall be permitted.

Sect, 22. No member shall be permitted to
stand up to the interruption of another, whilst any
member is speaking ; or to pass unnecessarily be-
tween the President and the person speaking.

Sect. 23. Every member, who shall be in the
Council when a question is put, shall give his vote,
unless the Council, for special reasons, excuse him.

Sect. 24. On the "previous question," no mem-
ber shall speak more than once without leave.

Sect. 25. The division of a question may be
called for when the sense will admit of it.

Sect. 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.

Sect. 27. No standing rule or order of the
Council shall be suspended, unless three-fourths of
the members present consent thereto ; nor shall any
rule or order be repealed or amended, without one
day's notice being given of the motion therefor, nor
unless a majority of the whole Council shall concur
therein.

Sect. 28. Every member shall take notice of
the day and hour to which the Council may stand
adjourned, and give his punctual attendance accord-
ingly.

Sect. 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.

Rules and Orders of lite Common Council. 15

Of Communications, Committees, Reports, Resolu-
tions, Duties of Clerk, S^'c.

Sect. 30. All memorials and other papers ad-
dressed to the Council, shall he 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.

Sect. 31. Standing Committees of this Council
shall be appointed on the following subjects, viz :
On Elections and Returns, and on Enrolled Ordi-
nances, each to consist of five members.

Sect. 32. No Committee shall sit during the
sitting of the Council, without special leave.

Sect. 33. The rules of proceeding in Council
shall be observed in Committee of the Whole, so
far as they may be applicable, excepting the rules
limiting the times of speaking ; but no member shall
speak twice to any question, until every member
choosing to speak shall have spoken.

Sect. 34. When Committees of the Council,
chosen by ballot, or Committees consisting of one
member from each ward, have been appointed or
elected, whether joint or otherwise, the first meet-
ing thereof shall be notified by the Clerk, by direc-

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tion 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 person
first named shall be Chairman, and in case of the
absence of the Chairman, the Committee shall have
power to appoint a Chairman pro tern.

Sect. 35. All messages to the Mayor and Al-
dermen, shall be drawn up by the Clerk and sent
by the Messenger.

Sect. 36. All ordinances, resolutions, and or-
ders shall have two several readings, before they
shall be finally passed by this Council ; they shall
then be enrolled by the Clerk, and the Committee
on Enrolled Ordinances, shall, as soon as may be,
examine them, and certify on the back thereof that
they are duly enrolled.

Sect. 37. No ordinance, order, or resolution im-
posing penalties, or authorizing the expenditure of
money, shall have more than one reading on the
same day.

Sect. 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 per-
mission of the President.

Sect. 39. All special Committees of this Coun-
•cil shall consist of three members, unless a different
number be ordered. And no report shall be receiv-

Rules and Orders of the Common Council. 17

ed from any Committee, unless agreed to in Com-
mittee actually assembled.

Sect. 40. The Clerk shall keep brief minutes
of the votes and proceedings of the Council, — en-
tering thereon all accepted Orders and Resolutions ;
— shall notice Reports, Memorials, and other papers
submitted to the Council, only by their titles, or a
brief description of their purport ; but all accepted
Reports from Special Committees of this Board,
shall be entered at length in a separate journal to be
kept for that purpose, and provided with an index.

Sect. 41. All salary officers shall be voted for
by written ballot.

Sect. 42. It shall be the duty of all Standing
Committees of the Council, to keep records of their
doings, in books provided for that purpose by the
Clerk ; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk to at-
tend the meetings of said Committees and of the
Special Committees, and make said records when
required so to do.

Sect. 43. No meeting of any Committee shall
be called upon less notice than twenty-four hours.

Sect. 44. In all elections by ballot, on the part
of the Council, blank ballots and all ballots for per-
sons 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 nominations made by the Mayor and
Aldermen.

18 Rules and Orders of the Common Council.

Sect. 45. It shall be the duty of every Com-
mittee of the Council, to whom any subject may
be specially referred, to report thereon within four
weeks from the time said subject is referred to them,
or to ask for further time.

RECENT ORDINANCES.

An Ordinance regulating the purchase of Fuel for tlie use
of the City.

Be it ordamed hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

Sect. 1. That hereafter all contracts for wood, bark,
coal and other fuel, for the use of the City, in each and
every of its respective branches and departments, as well
for the use of the Public Schools and Primary Schools, as
all other public buildings and offices, excepting the several
Institutions at South Boston, shall be made by a Committee
of the City Council, (of which the Mayor shall be Chair-
man,) whose duty it shall be to advertise in the public
newspapers in which the City Ordinances are printed, for
sealed proposals for furnishing the same — at least one week
previously to making any contract for the same — and the
proposals shall contain the terms for which each particular
description of fuel will be furnished, separately and dis-
tinctly ; and such proposals being considered, shall be ac-
cepted or rejected, according to the terms as may be
deemed advisable by said Committee — and the contract so
made, shall provide for the delivery of the same at such
different times and in such places as may be required by
the Superintendent of Public Buildings during the year —
and such contract shall be made annually, between the
months of May and September.

20 RECENT ORDINANCES.

Sect. 2. All fuel of every description which shall be
contracted for, shall, previously to the delivery thereof, be
weighed or measured by a weigher or measurer appointed
for that purpose by the City ; and it shall be the duty of
the Superintendent of Public Buildings to attend to the de-
livery and reception of the same, and to give certificates
therefor as the same is delivered, to the end that the proper
quantity and quality may be ascertained to have been re-
ceived by the Committee ; and it shall be the duty of the
Chairman of said Committee to certify the bills of the same
previously to the payment thereof.

Sect. 3. So much of the Ordinance relating to the Su-
perintendent of Streets, and prescribing his duties, passed
August 22, 1833, as requires said Superintendent to make
contracts for the purchase of fuel for the use of the City,
and all other parts of that, and any other Ordinance, as are
inconsistent with this Ordinance, be and the same hereby
are repealed. ^Passed May 8, 1843.]

An Ordinance concerning the removal of Buildings through
the Streets of the City.

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Gommon
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

No person shall obstruct any street, lane or other high-
way, or any part thereof, in the City of Boston, by placing
therein any house, barn or other building, for the purpose
of removing the same from any part of the said City — and
no person shall remove or draw through or upon any of
the said streets, lanes or other highways, any house, barn
or other building, unless duly permitted so to do by the
Mayor and Aldermen. Any person who shall ofiend
against the provisions of this Ordinance, and any person

RECENT ORDINANCES. 21

who shall aid and assist therein, shall forfeit and pay a sum
not less than one, nor more than Twenty Dollars, and a
like sum for every twelve hours that the said obstruction
shall continue, or that the said house, barn or other build-
ing shall remain in or upon any such street, lane or other
highway, to be recovered by complaint before the Justices
of the Pohce Court. \_Passcd May 18, 1843.]

An Ordinance concerning the Sale of the Public Buildings.

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows:

Sect. 1. Whenever the City Council shall order the
purchase of any land, for the purpose of erecting any build-
ing thereon, such purchase shall be made under the direc-
tion of the Standing Committee of the City Council on
Public Buildings.

Sect. 2. Whenever any building, or any land appur-
tenant thereto, belonging to the City, shall be ordered, by
the said Council, to be sold, for the purpose of defraying
the cost of any building about to be erected for public uses,
the same shall be sold under the direction of the Standing
Committee of the City Council on Public Buildings, and
the receipts in money on account of such sale, shall, as far
as may be sufficient for that purpose, be applied to the pay-
ment of the cost of erecting such building.

Sect. 3, No public building belonging to the City,
shall be sold by any Committee of the City Council, with-
out an Order from the Council being first passed, author-
izing such sale.

Sect. 4. So much of the Ordinance passed March 10,
1834, entitled "An Ordinance concerning the Public Loans
and Keductiou of the City Debt," and of an Ordinance

23 RECENT ORDINANCES.

passed April lOth, 1834, entitled "An Ordinance to pro-
vide for the care and management of the Public Lands,"
as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, is
hereby repealed. [_Passed October 2, 1843.]

An Ordinance in addition to an Ordinance in relation to
Common Sewers and Drains.

JBe it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

Sect. 1. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and Alder-
men, in making assessments for defraying the expense of
constructing or repairing Common Sewers, pursuant to the
provision of the Ordinance to which this is in addition, to
deduct from the said expense such part, and not less than
one quarter part, as they may deem it expedient, should be
charged to, and paid by the City ; and to assess the remain-
der thereof upon the persons and estates deriving benefit
from such Common Sewer, either by the entry of their
particular Drains therein, or by any more remote means ; —
apportioning the assessment according to the value of the
lands thus benefited, independently of any buildings or
improvements thereon. And also to prescribe and estab-
lish the time when the proportion of tiie said assessments,
which is charged upon persons benefited, shall be paid.

Sect^ 2. The eleventh section of an Ordinance entitled
" An Ordinance in relation to Common Sewers and Drains,"
passed June 14th, 1841, and also so much of the said Ordi-
nance as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance,
are hereby repealed. [^Passed March 7, 1844.]

RECENT ORDINANCES. 23

An Ordinance foi' the regulation of Hackney Carriages,
Cabs, and other Carriages, within the City of Boston.

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

Sect. 1. No owner, or driver, of any Hackney Car-
riage, Cab, or other Carriage, shall place such Hackney
Carriage, Cab, or other Carriage, in any public 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. Be it further ordained, That whoever shall
offend against the provisions of this Ordinance, shall forfeit
and pay, for each offence, a sum not less than two dollars,
nor more than twenty, to be recovered by complaint before
the Justices of the Police Court.

[Passed April 18, 1844.]

An Ordinance relating to Obstructions in the Streets.

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

Sect. 1. No person shall hereafter construct or place
any portico, porch, window, or step, which shall project
into any street, lane, public place, or any way of the said
City, under a penalty of four dollars for each offence, and
a like penalty for every week that the said portico, porch,
window, or step shall be continued as aforesaid.

Sect. 2. No cellar door or door-way, shall hereafter

^4 RECENT ORDINANCES.

be made in any sidewalk, or projecting into any street,
lane, public place, or way of the said City, for the purpose
of being kept open during the day or night time, nor shall
such cellar door or door-way be kept open or used as a
customaiy entrance or passage-way from any street, lane,
public place, or way of said City, into any cellar or other
part of any building, under a penalty of not less than four
dollars for each and every day that the said cellar door or
door-way shall be used or kept open for such purpose.

Sect. 3. No person being the owner or occupant of
any building, or having the care thereof, shall permit or
suffer any cellar door or cellar door-way, which is now or
shall hereafter be made, and which does or shall project
into any street, lane, public square, or way of the said City,
beyond such building, to remain open, or the platform
thereof to be removed, during any part of the night-time,
or for more than five hours during the day-time, unless
duly permitted so to do by the Mayor and Aldermen, or
by some person authorized by them, under a penalty of not
more than twenty dollars for each and every offence.

Sect. 4. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances here--
tofore passed, which are repugnant to, or inconsistent with,
the provisions of this Ordinance, are hereby repealed.
IFassed May 30, 1844.]

An Ordinance in addition to an Ordinance regulating the
going at large of Cattle.

Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follovjs :

All that part of the sixth section of an Ordinance entitled
" An Ordinance in relation to the Common and Common
lands of the City, and regulating the going at large of Cat-

RECENT ORDINANCES. 26

tie," passed November 4, 1833, whieh provides that any
inhabitant of South Boston shall be allowed to have one
Cow go at large, at South Boston, without a keeper ; and
which further provides that no inhabitant of South Boston
shall permit any Cow, to him belonging, to go at large
without a talley on her neck, and the owner's name thereon,
is hei'eby repealed. [^Passed June 13, 1844.]

An Ordinance abolishing the office of City Attorney.

Be it ordained bi/ the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
€is follows :

That an Ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance establishing
the oifice of City Attorney," passed April iGtli, 1839, be
and the s^ame iy hereby repealed. \_Passed Jane 24, 1844.]

An Ordinance in addition to an Ordinance relating to
Obst ructions in the Streets.

Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled^
as foUoios :

The provisions of the first section of an Ordinance en-
titled " An Ordinance relating to Obstructions in the
Streets," passed May 30, 1844, are hereby repealed, so far
as the same relate to any steps, therein mentioned, whicu
were in progress of completion, or for the erection of which
contracts had been entered into, and plans agreed upon, at
the time of the passage of the said Ordinance — provided

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however, that the said steps shall be finished and completed
on or before the first day of January, in the year 1845.
\_Passed December 5, 1844.]

An Ordinance providing for the discharge of the duties of
Mayor, in certain cases.

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
That during any vacancy in the office of Mayor, all the
powers and duties heretofore exercised and performed by
the Mayor, by virtue of any Ordinance, Order, or Resolve
of the City Council, shall be exercised and performed by
the Chairman of the Board of Aldermen for the time being.
[Passed February 7, 1845.]

An Ordinance in addition to "An Ordinance relating to
the Boston Lunatic Hospital."

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
m follows :

Sect. 1. There shall be chosen by the City Council,
annually, in the month of January or February, seven
persons, including one Alderman and one member of the
Common Council, who shall be a Board of Visiters of the
Boston Lunatic Hospital, who shall hold their offices until
others are chosen in their places, and who shall have all
the powers and perform all the duties prescribed to the

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Board of Visiters of the said Hospital, by the Ordinance to
which this is in addition.

Sect. 2. All rules and regulations which shall be made
by the said Board of Visiters, for the employment, compen-
sation and discharge of the subordinate officers, attendants,
and domestics, and for the government and management of
the said Hospital, shall, within one month alter the same
shall have been made, be submitted to the City Council,
and such rules and regulations shall be in force until re-
pealed by said Boai'd of Visiters, or until disapproved of
by vote of the said City Council.

Sect. 3. The first section of the Ordinance to which
this is in addition, passed October 3d, 1842, and all Ordi-
nances and parts of Ordinances inconsistent herewith, are
hereby repealed. The powers and duties of the present
Board of Visiters shall cease upon the election by the City
Council of the new Board contemplated by this act.
[Passed March 13, 1845.]

An Ordinance concerning the assessment and collection of
Taxes.

£e if ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

Sect. 1. That a Joint Committee on the Assessors' De-
partment, consisting of two of the Board of Aldermen, and
three of the Common Council, shall be annually appointed,
whose duty it shall be to confer with the Principal Assessors,
and make such provision for their assistance in taking a
list of the polls, and in making a valuation of the real and
personal estates in the respective wards, as the exigency of
that department may from time to time require. And also
it shall be the duty of the Assistant Assessors of the respec-

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tive wards to visit in company with one or more of the
Principal Assessors, or with such other person or persons as
the Principal Assessors may, with the concurrence of the
aforesaid Joint Standing Committee, appoint to perform
that duty.

Sect. 2. That so much of the Ordinance concerning
the assessment and collection of Taxes, passed May iG,
1836, as is inconsistent herewith, be, and the same hereby
is repealed. \_Passed May 12, 1845.]

An Ordinance in addition to an Ordinance for the care and
management of the Public Lands.

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled^
as follows :

Sect. 1. That the fourth section of an Ordinance to
provide for the care and management of the Public Lands,
(passed April 10, 1834) is so tar amended that the joint
committee therein named , may consist of two members of
the Board of Aldermen, (or the Mayor and one member of
the Board of Aldermen,) and thi-ee members of the Com-
mon Council, and any pnivisions contained in the said
Ordinance inconsistent herewith, ai'e hereby repealed.

Skct. 2. So much of tlie first section of an Ordinance
regulating the purchase of fu( 1 ibr the use of the City as
renders it imperative that the Mayor shall be Chairman of
the Committee therein appointed, is hereby repealed.
\_Passed February 9, 1846.]

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An Ordinance to regulate the proceedings of the Commis-
sioners for supplying the City of Boston with Pure
Water.

Sect. 1. Be it ordained hj the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common Council of the City of Boston, in City Council
assembled, That the Commissioners who may be ap-
pointed by virtue of the third section of the statute passed
on the thirtieth day of March last, eiitilled "An Act for
supplying the City of Boston with Pure Water," shall be
laiown and called by the name of " The Boston Water
Commissioners," and the salary of each Water Commis-
sioner shall be thirty-five hundred dollars per annum,
payable quarterly.

Sect. 2. Be it further ordained. That the Boston
Water Commissioners aforesaid, shall have full power and
authority, during their continuance in office, to take, by
purchase or otherwise, all such lands, waters and water
rights ; to make, in behalf of the City, all such contracts
and agreements, to appoint and employ all such engineers,
clerks, agents and laborers, and to procure and purchase
all such implements and materials, as may be suitable and
proper for facilitating, expediting and finishing the works,
and for fully accomplishing the objects and purposes of the
said statute in the most speedy, economical, advantageous,
permanent and effectual manner.

Sect. 3. Be it further ordained, That it shall be the
duty of the Boston Water Commissioners aforesaid, to ex-
ercise all reasonable vigilance and care, by personal inspec-
tion, examination and supervision from day to day, or from
time to time, as circumstances may require ; to see that all
the works, matters and things to be done, executed and
performed by and through their agency and under their
superintendence, by virtue of the statute aforesaid, shall be
done, executed and performed in a substantial, economical
and effectual maimer ; tliat all the officers, agents mid other

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persons "who may be employed by them in the works afore-
said, execute and discharge the duties and labors assigned
to them respectively in a diligent and faithful manner ; and
that all contracts and agreements made and concluded by
them in the execution of the duties of their office, are
faithfully and properly executed and performed.

Sect. 4. Be it further ordained, That in order to ena-
ble the City Council seasonably to raise and provide the
funds necessary for defraying the costs and expenses whieh
may from time to time be incurred in the prosecution of
the work, and for carrying into full effect the purposes and
objects of the statute aforesaid, the Boston Water Commis-
sioners aforesaid shall, from time to time, seasonably make
and prepare, with as much particularity as may be useful
and practicable, estimates for the use of the said City
Council of such sums of money as, in their judgment, may
be required, and statements of the purposes for which said
sums respectively are to be appropriated and applied.

Sect. 5. Be it further ordained, That whenever the
Commissioners aforesaid shall take any lands, ponds or
streams of water, for the purposes mentioned in the statute
aforesaid, they shall, without unnecessary delay, make and
deliver to the Mayor of the City of Boston, a certificate
signed by them, containing a statement of the fact of such
taking, and a description of the lands, ponds or streams so
taken, as certain as is required in a common conveyance of
lands, and a statement of the purpose for which they are so
taken, to the end that the Mayor aforesaid may cause such
description and statement, signed by him, to be filed in the
office of the Registry of Deeds, as required by the first sec-
tion of the statute aforesaid.

Sect. 6. Be it further ordained, That in all suits, pro-
cesses and questions in law or equity, which may be com-
menced, prosecuted or pending, by or against the City of
Boston, in any court or before any other tribunal, for or by
reason of any act, proceeding or contract of the Bostoa
Water Commissioners aforesaid, or of the City of Boston,
or for any other cause, arising from the execution of the
powers and authority given by the provisions of the statute

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aforesaid, the said Commissioners shall aid and assist the
counsel employed to appear in behalf of the City, by giving
information of all facts within their knowledge, and furnish-
ing any documents, testimony and evidence in their pos-
session or control, which may be material, important or
useful in establishing the rights and protecting the interests
of the said City.

Sect. 7. Be it further ordained, That the Boston
Water Commissioners aforesaid, shall enter, or cause to be
entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, and which
shall be subject to the inspection and examination of the
Standing Committee of the City Council on Water, or of
any other committee appointed by the City Council for that
purpose, a journal, accoimt or record of all rules, orders,
votes, appointments, resolutions and other official acts,
which may, from time to time, be adopted by them ; and
the said Commissioners shall, at the beginning of each
month, during their continuance in office, make a report in
writing to the said Standing Committee, of their proceed-
ings during the month next preceding such report. And
the said Standing Committee shall, at the expiration of
each period of three months, make a written report to the
City Council, upon the matters committed to them.

Sect. 8. Be it further ordained, That the Boston
Water Commissioners shall be, and they are hereby au-
thorized to draw bills or orders on the Treasurer of the
City, for such sums of money as may from time to time be
necessary for the payment of the current costs and ex-
penses of pei'forming the work and executing and accom-
plishing the purposes provided for, in and by the statute
aforesaid, which drafts or bills shall be countersigned by
the Mayor before payment thereof, and approved in the
usual mode now adopted in the financial arrangements of
the City.

Sect. 9. Be it further ordained, That this ordinance
and all its provisions, shall be subject to such revision,
alteration, amendment, or repeal, at the discretion of the
City CouDcil of the City of Boston aforesaid, as shall not

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te inconsistent with the provisions of the act of the Legis-
lature of Massachusetts aforesaid.

[Passed April 21, 1846.

An Ordinance providing for the appointment of a City
Solicitor, and prescribing his duties.

Sect. 1. Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common Council of the City of Boston, in City Council
assembled, That in the month of June, annually, and when-
ever a vacancy in the office shall occur, there shall be
chosen, by concurrent vote of both bi-anches of the City
Council, a Solicitor for the City of Boston, who shall be a
resident citizen thereof, and who shall have been admitted
an attorney and counsellor of the courts of the Common-
wealth, and who shall not hold any other office under the
City government, during the period for which he is elected ;
and he shall be removable at the pleasure of the City
Council.

Sect. 2. Be it farther ordained. That it shall be the
duly of said City Solicitor, by himself, or by some person
by him duly authorized, for whose conduct, skill and faith-
fulness, he shall be accountable, to draft all bonds, deeds,
obligations, contracts, leases, conveyances, agreements, and
other legal instruments, of whatever nature, which may be
required of him, by any ordinance or order of the Mayor
and Aldermen, or of the City Council, or which by any
ordinance or order heretofore passed may be requisite to
be done and made by the City of Boston and any person
or persons contracting with the City in its corporate ca-
pacity, and which by law, usage or agreement, the City is
to be at the expense of drav,dng.

Sect, 3. Be it further ordained. That it shall be the
duty of said City Solicitor to commence and prosecute all

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actions and suits to be commenced by the City before any
tribunal in this Conimonweahh, whetlier in law or equity ;
and also to af)pear in, defend and advocate the rights aiid
interests of the City, or any of the officers of the City, in
any suit or prosecution for any act or omission in the dis-
charge of their official duties, wherein any estate, right,
privilege, ordinances or acts of the City Government or
any breach of any ordinance may be brought in c|ue3tion.
And said Solicitor shall also appear before the Legislature
of the Commonwealth, or any committee thei^eof, wdiether
of either or both branches of the same, and there in behalf
of the City represent, answer for, defend, and advocate the
interests and welfare of said City, whenever the same may
be directly or incidentally affected, whether to prosecute
or defend the same, and he shall in all matters do all and
every professional act, incident to the office which may be
required of him by the City Government, or by any joint
or special committee thereof, or by any ordinance or order
heretofore passed; and he shall, when required, furnish
the Mayor and Aldermen, the Common Council, or any
joint or special committee of either branch thereof^ — and to
any officer of the City Government, who may require it in
the official discharge of his duties, with his legal opinion
on any subject touching the duties of their respective
offices.

Sect. 4. Be it further ordained, That in full compen-
sation for all the services of said Solicitor, he shall receive
such salai-y as the City Council may from time to time fix
and determine. In all cases, however, w^hen his attendance
may be required out of the City, his reasonable travelling
expenses shall be allowed him ; and in suits and prosecu-
tions he shall be entitled to receive and retain for his own
use the legal taxable costs which may be recovered of the
adverse party, where the City shall recover the same, ac-
cording to the usage and practice of the courts.

Sect. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance or
any provision thereof, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed. ^Passed April 29, 1846.]

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An Ordinance in addition to an Ordinance relating to the
Boston Lunatic Hospital.

Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

Sect. 1. The Superintendent of the Boston Lunatic
Hospital shall, in the month of December annually, repor-
to the Board of Visiters of said institution, upon such matt
ters as they may direct in reference to the general state o-
the Hospital, and condition of the inmates during the pref
ceding year, ending on the thirtieth day of November;
and said Board of Visiters shall communicate said report,
with such further information as they may deem important^
to the City Council forthwith.

Sect. 2. That so much of the 4th section of an ordi-
nance passed October 3d, 1842, as is inconsistent with this
ordinance, is hereby repealed. \_Passed Juneji, 1846.3

An Ordinance for the regulation of Faneuil Hall Market.

Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

Sect. 1. That the Mayor and Aldermen shall annually,
in the month of June or July, appoint a Clerk of Faneuil
Hall Market, who shall be removable at their pleasure,
and shall receive such compensation for his services as the
City Council shall annually direct.

Sect. 2. The Clerk of Faneuil Hall Market shall,
whenever authoi'ized by the Mayor and Aldermen, employ

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one or more Deputies, who sluiU be approved by the
Mayor and Aldermen, and who sliall have power and au-
thority to assist the Clerk in the execution of" his office,
and, on any occasion when said Clerk is not present, to
officiate for him in his stead, and to perform his duties ;
but no Deputy shall remain in office longer than during
the approbation of the Mayor and Aldermen, and the said
Clerk shall be responsible for the conduct of each of his
Deputies, and such Deputies shall receive such compensa-
tion for their services as the City Council shall annually
direct.

Sect. 3. The Clerk of Faneuil Hall Market, and his
Deputies shall, under the control of the Mayor and Alder-
men, have the care and superintendence of said Market;
and it shall be their duty to preserve order in said Market,
and to execute and carry into effect all the regulalions,
orders and ordinances, which may be duly made and estab-
lished from time to time by the City Council, or the Mayor
and Aldermen, for the due regulation of the same ; and it
shall be their duty to enter and prosecute complaints for
any violations of said regulations, orders and ordinances.

Sect. 4. The limits of Faneuil Hall Market shall in-
clude the lower floor, porches and cellars of the building
called Faneuil Hall Market, and the streets on each side
thereof called North Market Street and South Market
Street, and that part of Commercial Street which is be-
tween Long Wharf and Clinton tStreet, and also Merchants'
Eow.

Sect. 5. The said Clerk and his Deputies, under the
direction of the Mayor and Aldermen, shall have the con-
trol of all carts, wagons, sleighs and other vehicles and car-
riages, within the limits of Faneuil Hall Market, and may
assign stands within the limits of the said Market for the
sale of provisions and other articles ; and no person shall oc-
cupy any stand other than such as may be assigned him,
or keep any cart, wagon, sleigh, or other vehicle or car-
riage, horse, or other beast, within the limits of said Mar-
ket for any longer space of time, or shall range or locate
them in any other manner or form, than such as may be

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directed by said Clerk or either of his Deputies ; and said
Clerk and his Deputies shall have power and authority to
remove from place to place within the limits, (if the owner
or possessors thereof neglect or refuse after request so to
remove them, or if the owner or posse-sor be absent there-
from) all such carts, wagons, sleighs, vehicles and carriages,
with their contents remaining therein, and all horses and
other beasts, as shall be ranged or formed in any other
manner than as directed by said Clerk or either of his
Deputies, and the owner or person having charge of any
box, baiTel, cask, crate, basket, package, tub or other ves-
sel, v/hether empty or not, incumbering any place within
the limits of said Market House used as passage ways
either in the said House, or the passage ways to and from
said House to the middle of the streets, or on the side
walks beyond three feet from the walls of said House, shall,
when directed by said Clerk or either of his Deputies, re-
move the same with their contents, or cause the same with
their contents to be removed without delay, as the said
Clerk or either of his Deputies may direct ; and in case of
neglect or refusal so to do by such owner or possessor, or
the absence of them for more than an hour's time, the
owner or possessor thereof, besides being liable for the
penalty hereinafter mentioned for violation of this ordi-
nance, shall be liable to pay the expense of such removal
by the Clerk or either of his Deputies, and the keeping of
the same, and shall not be entitled to redelivery or pos-
session of such property so removed by the Clerk or either
of his Deputies, until the expenses of such removal and
keeping are paid ; and if said expenses are not paid within
twenty-four hours after such removal, so much of said
property so removed may be sold at public auction, after
being advertised for twenty-four hours, as may be neces-
sary to produce the amount in- money of said expenses of
the removal and keeping, and the costs and charges of the
sale and advertising thereof; and the residue of said prop*-
erty shall be subject to the disposal of the owner or person
having charge thereof.

Sect. 6. All horses and other beasts shall be taken

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from the carts, wagons, sleighs and other vehicles having
provisions or articles of any kind for sale therein, and
which shall stand within the limits aforesaid; and the same
shall be conducted to a stable, or otherwise removed from
said limits, by the owner or driver having charge of the
same ; and it shall be lawful for the said Clerk or either of
his Deputies, whenever he, or either of them, shall find any
cart, wagon, sleigh, vehicle or other carriage, or any ox,
horse or other beast, standing or being within the said
limits in a manner or in a place not authorized by law and
by the ordinances of said City, and not permitted by the
consent and direction of said Clerk or either of his Depu-
ties, or abandoned and left unprotected for more than one
hour's time, or found within the limits of the Market on
any part of the Lord's day or evening., to cause such cart,
wagon, sleigh, vehicle, or other carriage with its contents
therein, and such ox, horse or other beast, to be conducted
to some stable or other suitable place ; and the owner or
person having the care or keeping thereof shall be liable to
pay, before the redelivery thereof to him, the entire cost
and expense of the removal and keeping thereof, during
the time it shall be in said stable or other suitable place,
together with such further sum of money to the City, not
exceeding Two Dollars, for the trouble arising in that be-
half, as the said Clerk or either of his Deputies shall de-
mand, the same to be paid to, and accounted for by, said
Clerk or his Deputies, to said City.

Sect. 7. No person shall at any time, without the per-
mission of said Clerk or either of his Deputies, occupy any
stand within the limits of said Market, with cart, wagon,
sleigh, vehicle, carriage, bench, box, basket, barrel, cask,
crate, tub, or other vessel or otherwise, for the purpose of
vending any articles within the limits of said Market, un-
less he shall, before selling or offering for sale such arti-
cles, satisfy the Clerk or either of his Deputies, upon the
request of either of them by legal proof, or his own certifi-
cate in writing, that all the said articles, enumerating them,
are the produce of his own farm, or of some farm not more
distant than three miles from his own dwelling house ; and

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every person occupying any such stand in any of the above-
mentioned manners, or v/ith any of said carriages or ves-
sels, contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, shall,
when directed by the said Clerk or either of his Deputies,
forthwith remove without the limits of said Market, and
cause his cart, or other carriage and all his boxes and other
vessels, with their contents also, to be removed out of the
limits of said Market; and if said certificate be false, the
signer thereof shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding
Twenty Dollars, and also the said Clerk and his Deputies
shall have power and authority to remove the same in the
manner provided in the fifth and sixth sections of this
Ordinance, or either of them.

Sect. 8. When any person occupying any stand in the
streets within the limits of said Market shall employ any
agent or servant to sell in said Market any articles for
him, or on his account, such servant or agent shall not sell
any articles upon account of or for any other person than
the person so employing him, nor shall any person occupy-
ing a stand as aforesaid, or his servant or agent, be permit-
ted to purchase any provisions or other articles within the
limits of said Market, for the purpose of selling the same
therein again, or exposing the same therein for sale, or per-
mitting any person to sell the same for him therein ; nor
shall he be permitted to sell within said limits, or expose
for sale therein, any jDrovisions or other articles for, or on
account of, any person not entitled to a stand therein by
the terms of this Ordinance.

Sect. 9. All butter brought within the limits of said
Market for sale, shall be sold by weight, and if it is in
lumps, each lump shall contain one or more even or inte-
gral pounds, half or quarter pound's weight, and the Clerk
and his Deputies shall have power and authority to take
and weigh all butter in lumps so exposed for sale in said
Market, and if found deficient in weight thereof, to destroy
the form of said lumps.

Sect. 10. If any person shall, within the limits of said
Market, sell, or offer to sell or exhibit for sale, any article
which shall be deficient in the weight or measure for which

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he sells the same or offers or exhibits the same for sale, or
shall practice any fraudulent dealing within said limits, and
shall be convicted thereof, or shall be convicted of any
breach of this Ordinance, or either of the offences enume-
rated in it, he shall not be permitted to use or hire a stall,
or have or occupy a stand within the limits of said Market,
either as principal, servant or agent, for the purpose of
selling or offering for sale any articles in said Market, for
the term of one year from and after such conviction, unless
specially authorized by the Mayor and Aldermen so to do,
after such conviction, and their knowledge of the same.

Sect. 11. The several stalls in said Market shall he
leased to the respective occupants by written leases, the
conditions of which shall be prescribed by the Mayor and
Aldermen ; and the rent thereof, together with the rent of
the cellars under said stalls, shall be paid to the said Clerk
of the Market, or to such person as the JNIayor and Aldei"-
men shall appoint, and at such times as the IMayor and
Aldermen shall determine ; and such lessees shall not un-
derlet the same, or any part of said stalls or cellars, nor
permit the same, or any part thereof, to be occupied by
any other person without the assent of the Mayor and
Aldermen, under the penalty of forfeiting the right to their
respective cellars, stalls and leases.

Sect. 12. The said lessees shall not throw, or permit
to be thrown, or to remain within the precincts of their
respective stalls, any offal, animal substance, scrapings, or
any kind of dirt, filth, useless or offensive matter, but shall
forthwith remove the same, or cause the same to be depos-
ited in some tight vessel, to be approved of by the said
Clerk or either of his Deputies, and to be removed by said
lessee as the said Clerk or either of his Deputies shall
direct.

Sect. 13. No person shall throw or sweep any offal,
animal or vegetable substance, scrapings or sw^eepings,
damaged salt or pickle, or foul w^ater, from the stalls or
cellars into the passage ways, or on the side walks, or into
the streets adjoining said Market House, at any time during
the day or night. Nor shall any person within the limits

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"of said Market, sell, or offer to sell or expose for sale, or
liave in his possession, any meat, fish, bread, vegetables,
tallow, skins, pelts, poultry or otlier articles, which in the
opinion of said Clerk or either of his Deputies, shall be
diseased, corrupted, tainted or unwholesome ; but such per-
son shall, when directed by said Clerk or either of his
Deputies, forthwith remove all such articles from said
limits to such suitable place as the said Clerk or either of
his Deputies shall order ; and if such person shall refuse
or neglect to comply with such direction, or if the owner or
person having charge of such articles be absent for more
than one hour's time, the said Clerk or either of his Depu-
ties shall forthwith remove the same or cause the same to
be removed from said limits to such suitable place as afore-
said, at the expense of such person ; and if in the judgment
of said Clerk or either of his Deputies, it shall be necessary
for the public health, it shall be their duty to destroy the
same, and if any person shall hinder, obstruct or molest
said Clerk or any of his Deputies in the premises, he shall
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars for
■each offence.

Sect. 14. When the lessee of any stall or occupant of
any cellar in said Market House, shall from any cause
whatever vacate the same, or shall receive notice from the
Mayor and Aldermen to vacate the same, or shall neglect
or refuse to pay his rent for the space of twenty -four hours,
or shall neglect or refuse to comply with any regulations
established for the good order and cleanliness of the said
Market House, and its entries, passage ways, side walks
and the streets adjoining said House, the stall or stalls and
cellar of such lessee shall thereupon revert to the City and
l)e at the disposal of the Mayor and Aldermen.

Sect. 15. No person shall, within the walls of Faneuil
Hall Market House, or on the side walks of the same, nor
within the aforesaid limits of the said Market, play at any
game, or lie down, or sleep, or behave in a disorderly, noisy
or riotous manner ; nor shall any person within the limits
of said Market, smoke, or have in his possession, any
lighted pipe or segar. And it shall be the duty of the said

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Clerk and his Deputies to prevent idle and disorderly per-
sons, itinerant pedlers, and transient persons selling news-
papers, matches or other articles, or making outcries or
noises, from frequenting or tarrying in said Market House
or within the limits of said Market, and to cause all such
persons so offending to be removed and to be prosecuted.

Sect. 1G. No horse or other beast, and no cart, wagon,
sleigh or other vehicle, shall be permitted to stand within
the limits of said Market on any part of the Lord's Day
or evening, nor shall any person continue to do business
within the limits of said Market on any week day after the
sunsetting of such day excepting on Saturdays, and on the
evenings immediately preceding Thanksgiving and Christ-
mas days, nor on any evening after the closing of the Mar-
ket House ; and if any person shall place or leave any
wagon, cart, sleigh or other vehicle, box, barrel, crate, cask
or other vessel, empty or otherwise, within the limits of
said Market on any part of the Lord's day or evening, or
any week day after sunset, excepting on Saturdays, and on
the evenings immediately preceding Thanksgiving and
Christmas days, or on any evening after the closing of the
Market House, he shall forfeit a penally not exceeding
Twenty Dollars ; and the said Clerk or either of his Depu-
ties may cause the same to be removed, in the manner pro-
vided in the fifth and sixth sections of this Ordinance, or
either of them.

Sect. 17. Lessees of stalls and occupants of stands
shall not incumber the main passage way or cross passages
within the said Market House, nor the passage ways out-
side of said House in front of the door ways and leading
into the middle of the streets, nor any of the avenues lead-
ing to and from the said Market, with any casks, barrels,
^ meat, or other articles or incumbrances.

Sect. 18. No person, unless duly authorized by the
Mayor and Aldermen, shall stand in any of the streets,
lanes, alleys, squares, or public places of said City, with
any cart, wagon, sleigh or other vehicle, horses or other
beasts, having meat, poultry, vegetables or other articles of
provision for sale ; nor be allowed to place any stall, bench,

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box, basket, barrel, block or table therein, on which to ex-
hibit any such articles for sale.

Sect. 19. Every person offending against any of the
provisions of this Ordinance, shall, in addition to the penal-
ties before prescribed, forfeit and pay a sum not less than
Two Dollars, nor more than Twenty Dollars, to be recov-
ered on complaint before the Police Court of the City of
Boston ; but in no case shall all the penalties for one
offence exceed the sum of Twenty Dollars.

Sect. 20. The Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance for
the Regulation of Faneuil Hall Market," passed on the
second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-three, is hereby repealed ; but na
Ordinance or by-law which was repealed by the passing of
the same shall be revived by the repeal thereof; and all
officers appointed under said Ordinance shall continue to
hold their offices until others are appointed in their stead ;
and the repeal of said Ordinance shall in nowise affect or
terminate any prosecution now pending for the violation of
any of its provisions. [^Passed October 26, 1846.J

An Ordinance relating to the Preservation of Eoston
Harbor.

Be it ordained hij the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows :

There shall be appointed annually, a Joint Standing ,
Committee of the City Council, consisting of two members
of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, and three members
of the Common Council, whose duty it shall be to suggest
such measures, and do and perform such acts, as may by
them from time to time be deemed necessary for the preser-
vation of Boston Harbor, and the security of the rights and

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interests of the City therein ; provitled no expense shall be
incurred exceeding the appropriation previously made Ijy
the City Council for these purposes.

[Passed November 12, 1846.]

An Ordinance in addition to an Ordinance to provide for
the care and management of the Public Lands.

Be it ordained hy the Mayoi\ Aldermen, and Common
Coancil of the City of Boston, in City Council assemblect,
as follovjs :

Sect. 1. There shall be chosen annually in the month
of February or March, and whenever a vacancy may occur,
by concurrent vote of the two branches of the City Coun-
cil, a Superintendent of Public Lands. He shall be re-
movable at the pleasure of the City Council, and shall
receive such compensation as the said City Council shall
from time to time fix and determine.

Sect. 2. The said Superintendent shall execute and
perform all the duties now required of the said ofBcer by
the Ordinance to which this is in addition, passed April 1(3,
1834.

Sect. 3. There shall be annually chosen in the month
of April or May, and whenever a vacancy shall occur, by
concuiTent vote of the two branches of the City Council, a
Superintendent of Public Buildings, who shall execute and
perform all the duties prescribed for the said officer, by an
Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance in addition to an Ordi-
nance to provide for the care and management of the Pub-
lic Lands," passed September 17, 1840.

Sect. 4. The first section of an Ordinance entitled
"An Ordinance to provide for the care and management of
.the Public Lands," passed April 10th, 1834, and the first

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section of an Ordinance in addition thereto, passed Septem-
ber 17, 1840, are hereby repealed.

[_Fa$sed December 24, 1846.]

An Ordinance relating to Printing.

Be it ordained hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled,
as follows:

Sect. 1. That there be appointed annually, in the month
of January, a Joint Standing Committee of the City Coun-
cil, to be called the Committee on Printing, consisting of
one member of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, and
two members of the Common Council, whose duty it shall
be to contract for the City Printing, to see that the work
performed, and the materials provided, are in conformity
with the terms of the contract ; and to approve all bills for
Printing.

Sect. 2. That the Committee on Printing be directed
to advertise for sealed proposals for executing all the City
Printing, said proposals to be sent to the City Auditor on
or before the first day of February, 1847, according to the
following scale, viz :

Composition, on all Book and Pamphlet work,
Ordinances, Reports, &c. &c., per 1,000 M's, -
(Rule and Figure work, and tabular work, to
be charged double price for the composition.
All work on Scrip Type to be measured in
Bourgeois.)

Press Work, of 250 sheets, (both sides) pep
token, --___--

(All less than 250 sheets to be charged one
token, all above pro rata.) ,

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All Blanks on Folio Post Paper, for 1 quire, -
For each additional quire to 17, -
For one Ream, and all over, per Ream,

All Blanks on Letter, Pot, or Foolscap Paper,
For one quire, ------

For each additional quire to 17, -

For one ream and all over, at - - -

All Blanks and Billet notices on half a sheet of
letter, or other paper, for 50 or a less number, -

For 100,

For each additional 100 copies, - - -

Hand Bills, (quarto or otherwise) for 100 or less, -
For each additional 100 to 900, -
For 1,000 copies and all over, at - - ,-

Voting Lists, three to each Ward, (37 forms) the
usual number of copies (24) per form, -

Cards, of all sizes, per Pack, - - -

Notifications for Ward and Public Meetings,
For one thousand, _ - - - -

For each additional 1,000, - - - -
All other work not herein enumerated, at proportional

rates.

The paper used on the above work to be of as good

quality as that used on the same class of work the past

year.

Paper, Binding, and Stationery furnished, to be paid for

at the market price, and vouchers to be produced when

required. \_Passcd, December 24, 1846-]

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An Act concerning the House for the Reformation and
Employment of Juvenile Offenders in tlie City of Boston.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and hy the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. The City of Boston is hereby authorized to
establish, in any building or buildings, or part of any build-
ing, used by said City, as a House of Industry, or for any
other purpose, a separate branch or branches of said House
of Reformation and Employment for Females, or for the
separate classification of such females.

Sect. 2. The Municipal or Police Court of said City,
upon the complaint, under oath, of the Mayor, or any Alder-
man thereof, or of any of the Directors of the House of
Industry, or of the said House of Reformation and Employ-
ment, or of the Overseers of the Poor of said City, that
any child or children live an idle and dissolute life, and that
their parents are dead, or, if living, do, from vice, or any
other cause, neglect to provide suitable employment for, or
to exercise salutary control over, such child or children,
shall have power, upon conviction thereof, to sentence such
child, or children, to such House of Reformation and Em-
ployment, to be kept and governed according to law.

Sect. 3. Nothing herein is to be construed to take away
the right of appeal, in the cases aforesaid, from the Police
Court to the Municipal Court aforesaid.

[^Approved by the Governor, March 21, 1843.]

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An Act relating to the Registry and Returns of Births,
Marriages, and Deaths.

■ Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. Tlie Clerks of the several Cities and Towns
in this Commonwealth shall, annually, in tlie month of June,
transmit to the Secretary of the Commonwealth a certified
copy of their record of births, marriages and deaths, which
have occurred within their respective Cities and Towns
during the year next preceding the first day of said month.

The births shall be numbered and recorded in the order
in which they are received by the Clerk. The record of
births shall state in separate columns the date of the birth,
the place of birth, the name of the child, (if it have any,)
the sex of the child, name and surname of one or both of
the parents, occupation of the father, residence of the
parents, and the time when the record was made.

The marriages shall be numbered and recorded in the
order in which they are received by the Clerk. The record
of marriages shall state in separate columns, the date of the
marriage, the place of the marriage, the name, residence
and official station of the pei'son by whom married, the
names and surnames of the parlies, the residence of each,
the age of each, the condition of each, (whether single or
widowed,) the occupation, names of the parents, and the
time when the record was made.

The deaths shall be numbered and recorded in the order
in Avhich they are received by the Clerk. The record of
deaths shall state in separate columns the date of the death,
the name and surname of the deceased, the sex, condition,
(whether single or maiTied,) age, occupation, place of
death, plaee of birth, names of the parents, disease or
causes of death, and the time when the record was made.

Sect. 2. The School Committee of each City or Town

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sliall, annually, in tlie month of May, ascertain from actual
inquiry or otherwise, all the births which have happened
within such City or Town, during the year next preceding
the first day of said May, together with the facts concern-
ing bii-ths required by the first section of this act, and shall
make- an accurate return thereof to the Clerk of such City
or Town, on or before the last day of said May ; and the
said School Committee, or other person authorized by them
to make such returns, shall be entitled to. receive from the
Treasury of such City or Town, five cents for each and
every birth so returned.

Skct. 3. Every justice, minister and clerk, or keeper
of the records of the meeting wherein any marriages among
the Friends or Quakers shall be solemnized, shall make a
record of each marriage solemnized before him, together
with all the facts relating to marriages required by the first
section of this act ; and each such justice, minister, clerk
or keeper, shall, between the first and tenth days of each
month, xeturn a copy of the record for the month next pre-
ceding, to the Clerk of the City or Town in which the mar-
riage was solemnized ; and every person as aforesaid, who
shall neglect to make the returns required by this section,
shall be liable to the penalty provided in the eighteenth sec-
tion of the seventy -fifth chapter of the Revised Statutes.

Sect. 4. Each sexton, or other person, having the
charge of any burial gi'ound in this Commonwealth, shall,
on or before the tenth day of each month, make returns of
all the facts required by the first section of this act, con-
nected with the death of any person whose burial he may
have superintended during the month next preceding, to
the Clerk of the City or Town in which such deceased per-
son resided at the time of his death. And such sexton, or
other person, shall be entitled to receive fi-om the Treasury
of the City or Town to which the return is made, five cents
for the return of each death made agreeably to the pro-
visions of this act.

Sect. 5. The Clerk of each City or Town shall be en-
titled to receive from the Treasuzy of such City or Town^

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eight cents for the record of each birth and death : provided
such Clerk shall comply with this act in all respects.

Sect. 6. It shall be the duty of the Clerks of the sev-
eral Cities and Towns, to make such distribution of blank
forms of returns as shall be designated by the Secretary of
the Commonweahh.

Sect. 7. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
prepare and furnish to the Clerks of the several Cities and
Towns in this Commonwealth, blank books of suitable
quality and size, to be used as books of record, according
to the provisions of this act, and also blank forms of returns,
as herein before specified, and shall accompany the same
with such instructions and explanations as may be neces-
sary and useful ; and he shall receive said returns, and
prepare therefrom such tabular results, as will render them
of practical utility, and shall make report thereof annually
to the Legislature, and generally shall do whatever may be
required to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

Sect. 8. Any Clerk who shall neglect to comply with
the requirements of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of
ten dollars, to be recovered for the use of any City or Town
where such neglect shall be proved to have existed.

Sect. 9. An act entitled "An Act relating to the Regis-
try of Births, Marriages, and Deaths," passed on the third
day of March, in the year one thousand, eight hundred and
forty-two, is hereby repealed.

Sect. 10. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage. \_Approved hy the Governor, March 16, 1844.]

An Act concerning Alien Passengers.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in Genercd Court assembled, and hy the authority of
the same, as follows :

The Treasurer of every Town and City in this Common-

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wealth, shall pay into the Treasury of the Commonwealth,
the sums now remaining in their hands, received from alien
passengers ; and said Town and City Treasurers shall annu-
ally, hereafter, in the month of 31 ay, pay into the Treasury
of the Commonwealth, all balances remaining in their hands,
under the provisions of the two hundred and thirty-eighth
chapter of the statutes of the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and thirty-seven.

\_Approved by the Governor, February 26, 1845.] '

An Act regulating the use of Steam Engines and Furnaces.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court asseynbled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. No furnace for melting of iron, or stationary
steam engine, designed for use in any mill for the planing
or sawing of boards, or turning of wood in any form, or
when any other fuel than coal is used to create steam, shall
hereafter be erected, or put up to be used, in any city or
town in this Commonwealth, unless the Mayor and Alder-
men of such city, or Selectmen of such town, shall have
previously granted license therefor, designating the place
where the building or buildings shall be erected, in which
such steam engine or furnace shall be used, the materials
and construction thereof, and such other provisions and
limitations, as to the height of flues, and protection against
fire, as they shall judge necessary for the safety of the
neighborhood ; such license to be granted on written appli-
cation, and to be recorded in the records of such city or
town.

Sect. 2. Whenever the Mayor and Aldermen of any
city, or the Selectmen of any town, after due notice in writ-
ing to the owner of any such steam engine or furnace here-

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tofore erected, or in use, and a licaring of the mattci', shall
adjudge the same to be dangerous, or a nuisance to the
neighborhood, they may make and record an order^ pre-
scribing such rules, restrictions and alterations, as to the
building in which such steam engine or furnace is con-
structed or used, the construction and height of its smoke
flues, or other provisions, as they shall deem the safety of
the neighborhood to require ; and it shall be the duty of
the city or town clerk to deliver a copy of such order to a
constable, who shall serve such owner with an attested
ccpy thereof, and make return of his doings thereon to said
clerk, within three days from the delivery thereof to him.

Sect. 3. Any such engine or furnace hereafter erected
without license, made and recorded as aforesaid in section
first, shall be deemed and taken to be a common nuisance,
without any other proof thereof than proof of its use ; and
any steam engine or furnace used contrary to the provis-
ions of section second of this act, shall be taken and deemed
to be a common nuisance.

Sect. 4. The Mayor and Aldermen of any city, or
Selectmen of any town, shall have the same power and au-
thority to abate and remove any such steam engine or fur-
nace erected or used contrary to the provisions of this act,
as are given to the Board of Health, in the tenth and
eleventh sections of the twenty-first chapter of the Revised
Statutes.

Sect. 5, Wlienever application shall be made for license
as aforesaid, the Mayor and Aldermen of any city, or Select-
men of any town, shall assign a time and place for the con-
sideration of the same, and shall cause public notice thereof
to be given at least fourteen days beforehand, in such man-
ner as said Mayor and Aldermen or Selectmen may direct,
and at the expense of the applicant, in order that all pei'-
sons interested may be heard before the granting of a
license.

Sect. 6, Any owner of a steam engine or furnace, ag-
grieved by any such order, as provided in section second
of this act, may apply to the Court of Common Pleas, if
sittting in the county, in which such engine or furnace is

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situated, or to any justice thereof in vacation, for a jury,
and such court or justice shall issue a warrant for a jury to
be impannelled by the sheriff, in the same manner as is
provided in tlae twenty-fourth chapter of the Revised Stat-
utes, in regard to the laying out of highways ; such appli-
cation shall be made within three days after such order is
served upon the said owner; and the said jury shall be
impannelled within fourteen days from the issuing of said
warrant.

Sect. 7. Upon any application to said Court of Com-
mon Pleas, or to any justice thereof, for a jury, said court
or justice, on granting the same, may, in its or his discre-
tion, issue an injunction restraining the farther use of said
engine or furnace, until the final determination of such ap-
plication by the jury and court to which such verdict may
be returned.

Sect. 8. The jury shall find a verdict either affirming
or annulling the said order in full, or making alterations
therein, as they may see fit ; which verdict shall be returned
to the next term of the said court by the sheriff for accept-
ance, in like manner as in the case of highways, and, which
verdict being accepted, shall be binding to the same effect
as the original order would have been without such appeal.

Sect. 9. If the verdict shall affirm such order, costs
shall be recovered by the city or town against such appli-
cant ; if the verdict shall annul such order in whole, dam-
ages and costs shall be recovered by the complainant against
such city or town ; and in case the verdict shall alter such
order in part, the court may render such judgment as to
costs, as to justice shall appertain.

Sect. 10. This act shall not be in force in any town or
city, unless the inhabitants of the town, or the City Council
of the city, shall adopt the same at a legal meeting of said
inhabitants or City Council called for that purpose.

Sect. 11. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage.

[^Approved hy the Governor, March 25, 1845.^]

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An Act providing, in certain cases, for the Election of
City Officers.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. Whenever it shall appear, by the regular re-
turns of the elections of the City otHcers, in any City in this
Commonwealth, which, by a vote of its City Councils, shall
adopt this act, that a Mayor has not been chosen, or that a
full Board of Aldermen has not been elected, such of the
Board of Aldermen, whether they constitute a quorum or
not, as may have been chosen, shall issue their warrant, in
usual form, for the election of a Mayor, or such nxembers of
the Board of Aldermen as may be necessary, and the same
proceedings shall be had and repeated, until the election of
a Mayor and Aldermen shall be completed, and all vacancies
be filled in the said Board; and in case neither a Mayor
nor any Aldermen shall be elected at the usual time for
electing the same, and after the powers of the former Mayor,
and Mayor and Aldermen, shall have ceased, it shall be the
duty of the President of the Common Council, to issue his
warrant, in the same manner as the Board of Aldermen
would have done, if elected, and the same proceedings shall
be had and repeated, until a Mayor, or one or more Alder-
men, shall be elected.

Sect. 2. Whenever it shall appear to the Mayor and
Aldermen, that there is a vacancy in either the Board of
Aldermen, or in the Common Council, or in any of the City
or Ward offices, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and
Aldermen to issue their Avarrant for elections, in due form,
to fill all such vacancies in each and all of the said Boards
and offices, at such time and place as in their judgment may
be deemed advisable.

Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of all Ward officers, au-
thorized to preside and act at such elections, to attend and

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perfoi'm their respective duties, at the times and places ap-
pointed for elections of any officers, whether of the United
States, State, City, or Wards, and to make and sign the
regular returns of the same ; and in case of the absence of
any or either of the Ward officers, at any meeting for elec-
tions, or other purposes, such office may be filled, pro tem-
pore, by the legal voters present, which may be done by
nomination and hand votes, if the voters present so deter-
mine.

Sect. 4. In case of the non-election of a Mayor, the
Chairman of the Board of Aldermen shall discharge all the
duties incumbent on the Mayor of the City, prescribed by
the City Charter, or any other law, or any ordinance of any
City adopting this act, which now or hereafter may be re-
quired of him, until a Mayor shall be chosen and duly
sworn to the discharge of his duties ; and such Chairman,
with the Board of Aldermen, shall discharge all the duties
incumbent on the Mayor and Aldermen.

Sect. 5. All City officers, after their election, shall be
held to discharge the duties to which they have been
elected, being residents of the Ward at the time of their
election, notwithstanding their removal afterwards out of
their Ward into any other Ward of the City.

'[Approved by the Governor, March 25, 1845.]

All Act concerning Streets and Ways in the City of
Boston.

£e it enacted ly the Senate 'and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 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

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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 tlie lots abutting thereon, to
grade such street or way at their own expense, in such
manner as tlie safety and convenience of the public shall,
in the opinion of the Mayor and Aldermen of said City, re-
quire ; 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 Alder-
men to cause the same to be graded as aforesaid, and the
expense thereof shall, after due notice to the parties inter-
ested, be equitably assessed upon the owners of such abut-
ting lots, by the said Mayor and Aldermen, in such propor-
tions as they shall judge reasonable ; and all assessments so
made shall be a lien upon such abutting lands, in like man-
ner as taxes are now a lien upon real estate : provided,
always, that nothing contained in this act shall be construed
to atfect 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. Is'o street or way shall hereafter be opened as
aforesaid in said City, of a less width than thirty feet, ex-
cept with the consent of said Mayor and Aldermen, in
writing, first had and obtained for that purpose.

Sect. S. 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.
^Apj)rQved hy the Governor, March 26, 1845.]

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All Act to provide for the Government and Management
of Houses of Correction, in certain cases.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assemhledj and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. Whenever any House of Correction shall be
united in one and the same building or establishment with
the Jail in any county, except Suffolk, the Sherif of such
county shall have the custody, rule and charge of the same,
and of all prisoners therein, and shall keep the same him-
self, or by his Deputy or Jailer, for whom he shall be respon-
sible ; and the powers and duties of such keeper shall be
the same as those of a master of a House of Correction by
law now are.

Sect. 2. The county commissioners in such county,
shall have the same authority to appoint overseers of Houses
of Correction, so situated, as by law they now have ; and
the powers and duties of said overseers shall be the same
as by law they now are : provided, that they shall make no
contracts for the labor of prisoners, to be performed without
the yards of said house, or whereby the safe-keeping of any
prisoner may be endangered, unless the Sheriff consent to
the same.

Sect. 3. The said commissioners, in such county or
counties, shall, in the months of May and November, in
each year, make an allowance to the said keeper, of a rea-
sonable sum, for his services, and for the support of the
prisoners under his charge, and other necessary expenses ;
and in case the said commissioners shall neglect or refuse
to make such allowance, or the said keeper shall be dissat-
isfied with the amount thereof, he may present his petition,
showing the facts, to the Court of Common Pleas next to
be holden in and for said county, who shall cause notice
thereof to be given the chairman of said commissioners, and
after hearing the matter of said petition, may determine the

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amount of such allowance, and pass such further order in
the premises as law and justice may require.

Sect. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent wiili the
provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

[^Approved hy the Governor, February 4, 1846.]

An Act concerning the City of Boston.

Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. All and singular the acts and doings of the
Board of Aldermen of the City of Boston, or of the Chair-
man thereof, during the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-five, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-
six, purporting to have been official acts and doings on be-
half of said City, in the absence of the Mayor thereof, and
which might have been legally done and performed by said
Mayor alone, or by said Mayor and Aldermen together,
whether in relation to any deeds, leases, agreements, inden-
tures or assurances, drafts on the City Treasury, or any
other matter or thing within the official powers and duties
of the said Mayor alone, or said Mayor and Aldermen to-
gether ; and whether by concurrent vote with the Common
Council or otherwise, shall be deemed to have, and shall
have the same force and effect, to all intents and purposes,
as if said acts and doings had been done and performed by
said Mayor alone, or by said Mayor and Aldermen to-
gether.

Sect. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage. [Approved by the Governor, February 1 9, 1846.]

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An Act relating to the erection of Furnaces for the making
of Glass.

Be it enacted hj the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and hy the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. No furnace for tlie making of glass shall be
hereafter erected or put up for use in any City or Town in
this Commonwealth, unless a license therefor shall be first
granted in the manner provided in the first section of the
one hundred and ninety-seventh chapter of the acts of the
Legislature, passed in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-five, and such license shall be applied for, granted
and recorded in the manner provided in said act.

Sect. 2. Any such furnace hereafter erected, without
such license, shall be deemed and taken to be a common
nuisance, without any other proof than proof of its use,
and may be abated and removed in the manner provided in
said act.

Sect. 3. This act shall not be in force in any Town or
City, unless the same shall be adopted in the manner pro-
vided in the tenth section of the act aforesaid.

Sect. 4. This act shall be in force from and after its
passage. \_Approved hy the Governor, March 12, 1846.]

An Act for supplymg the City -of Boston with Pure Water.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as folloios :

Sect. 1. The City of Boston is hereby authorized, by
and through the agency of three commissioners, to be ap-

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pointed in the manner hereinafter provided, to take, hold
and convey to, into and through the said City, the water of
Long Pond, so called, in the Towns of Natick, Wayland
and Framingham, and the waters which may flow into and
from the same, and any other ponds and streams within the
distance of four miles from said Long Pond, and any Avater
rights connected therewith ; and may also take and hold, by
purchase or otherwise, any lands or real estate necessary
for laying and maintaining aqueducts for conducting, dis-
charging, disposing of, and distributing water, and for form-
ing reservoirs ; and may also take and hold any land on
and around the margin of said Long Pond, not exceeding
five rods in width, measuring from the verge of said pond,
when the same shall be raised to the level of eight feet
above the floor of the flume at the outlet thereof, and on
and around the said other ponds and streams, so f;xr as
may be necessary for the preservation and purity of the
same, for the purpose of furnishing a supply of pure water
for the said City of Boston. The City of Boston shall,
within sixty days from the time they shall take any lands
or ponds or streams of water for the purposes of tliis act,
file, in the office of the Registry of Deeds, for the county
where they are situate, a description of the lands, ponds or
streams of water so taken, as certain as is required in a
common conveyance of lands, and a statement of the pur-
pose for which taken, which said description and statement
shall be signed by the said Mayor.

Sect. 2. The said City may, by and through the same
agency, make and build one or more permanent aqueducts,
from any of the aforesaid water sources, to, into and through
the said City, and secure and maintain the same by any
works suitable therefor ; may connect the said water sources
with each other ; may erect and maintain dams to raise and
retain the waters therein ; may make and maintain reservoirs
within and without the said City ; may make and establish
such public hydrants, in such places as may, from time to
time, be deemed proper, and prescribe the purposes for
which they may be used, and may change or discontinue
the same ; may distribute the water throughout the City,

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and for this purpose may lay down pipes to any house or
building in said City, the owner or owners thereof having
notice and not objecting thereto ; may regulate the use of
the said water within and without the said City, and estab-
lish the prices or rents to be paid therefor. And the said
City may, for the purposes aforesaid, carry and conduct any
aqueducts, or other works, by them to be made and con-
structed, over or under any water-course, or any street,
turnpike-road, rail-road, highway, or other way, in such
manner as not to obstruct or impede travel thereon ; and
may enter upon and dig up any such road, street or way,
for the purpose of laying down pipes beneath the surface
thereof, and for maintaining and repairing the same ; and,
in general, may do any other acts and things necessary, or
convenient and proper, for the purposes of this act.

Sect. 3. Three commissioners shall be appointed by
the City Council, who shall, during their continuance in
office, execute and perform, and superintend and dii'ect, the
execution and performance of all the works, matters and
things mentioned in the preceding sections Avhich are not
otherwise specially provided for in this act ; they shall be
subject to such ordinances, rules and regulations, in the exe-
cution of their said trust, as the City Council may, from
time to time, ordain and establish, not inconsistent with the
provisions of this act and the laws of this Commonwealth ;
they shall respectively hold their said offices for the term
of three years next after their said appointment, unless the
aqueducts and works aforesaid shall be sooner completed ;
but they, or either of them, after having had an opportunity
to be heard in his or their defence, may be removed at any
time, by a concurrent vote of two thirds of each branch of
the City Council ; and in case of a vacancy in the board of
commissioners, by death, resignation or removal, such va-
cancy shall be filled by the appointment of another commis-
sioner, in manner aforesaid, who shall hold his said office
for the residue of the said term of three years, with all the
powers and subject to all the restrictions aforesaid. A ma-
jor j)art of said commissioners shall be a quorum for the
exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties of

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the said office ; they shall, once in every six months, and
whenevex' required by the City Council, make and present
in writing, a particular report and statement of all their
acts and proceedings, and of the condition and progress of
the works aforesaid.

Sect. 4. Before the appointment of the commissioners
aforesaid, the City Council shall establish and fix the sala-
ries, or compensation, to be paid to the commissioners for
their services ; and the said salaries of the said commission-
ers, so established and fixed as aforesaid, shall not be re-
duced during their continuance, respectively, in said office.

Sect. 5. Whenever the said office of commissioners
shall cease, either by the expiration of the said term of three
years from the original appointment, or by the completion
of the aqueducts and works mentioned in the preceding sec-
tions of this act, all the rights, powers and authority, given
to the City of Boston by this act, shall be exercised by the
said City, subject to all the duties liabilities and restrictions
herein contained, in such manner, and by such agents, offi-
cers and servants, as the City Council shall, from time to
time, ordain, appoint, and direct.

Sect. 6. The said City of Boston shall be liable to pay
all damages that shall be sustained by any persons in their
property, by the taking of any land, water, or water rights,
or by the constructing of any aqueducts, reservoirs, or other
works, for the purposes of this act. And if the owner of
any land, water, or water rights, which shall be taken as
aforesaid, or other person who shall sustain damage as
aforesaid, shall not agree upon the damages to be paid
therefor, he may apply, by petition, for the assessment of
his damages, at any time within three yeai'S from the taking
of the said land, water or water rights, as aforesaid, and not
afterwards, to the Court of Common Pleas, in the county
in which the same are situate ; such petition may be filed
in the clerk's office of said court, in vacation or in term
time, and the clerk shall thereupon issue a summons to the
City of Boston, returnable, if issued in vacation, to the then
next term of the said court, and if in term time, returnable

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on sucli day as the said court shall order, to appear and an-
swer to the said petition ; the said summons shall be served
fourteen days, at least, before the return day thereof, by
leaving a copy thereof, and of the said petition, certified by
the officer who shall serve the same, with the Mayor or
Clerk of the said City ; and the said court may, upon de-
fault or hearing of the said City, appoint three judicious
and disinterested freeholders of this Commonwealth, who
shall, after reasonable notice to the parties, assess the dam-
ages, if any, which such petitioner may have sustained as
aforesaid, and the award of the said freeholders, or of the
major part of them, being returned into and accepted by
the said court, shall be final, and judgment shall be ren-
dered and execution issued thereon for the prevailing party,
with costs, unless one of the said parties shall claim a trial
by jury, as hereinafter provided.

Sect. 7. If either of the parties mentioned in the pre-
ceding section, shall be dissatisfied with the amount of dam-
ages awarded as therein expressed, such party may, at the
term at which such award was accepted, or the next term
thereafter, claim, in writing, a trial in said court, and have
a jury to hear and determine, at the bar of said court, all
questions of fact relating to such damages, and to assess the
amount thereof; and the verdict of such jury being ac-
cepted and I'ecorded by the said court, shall be final and
conclusive, and judgment shall be rendered and execution
issued thereon ; and cost shall be recovered by the said
parties respectively, in the same manner as is provided by
law, in regai'd to proceedings relating to the laying out of
highways.

Sect. 8. No application shall be made to the court, for
the assessment of damages for the taking of any water
rights, until the water shall be actually withdrawn or di-
verted by the said City vmder the authority of this act ; and
any person or corporation, whose water rights may be thus
taken and affected, may make his application aforesaid, at
any time within three years from the time when the waters
shall be first actually withdrawn or diverted as aforesaid.

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Sect. 9. For the purpose of defraying all the costs and
expenses of such lands, estates, waters and water rights, as
shall be taken, purchased or held, for the purposes men-
tioned in this act, and of constructing all aqueducts and
works necessary and proper, for the accomplishment of the
said purposes, and all expenses incident thereto, the City
Council shall have authority to issue, from time to time,
notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, to be denominated, on
the face thereof, " Boston Water Scrip" to an amount
not exceeding in the whole, the sum of three millions of
dollars, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding the legal
rate of mterest in this Commonwealth ; and said interest
shall be payable semi-annually, and the principal shall be
payable at periods not more than forty years from the issu-
ing of the said scrip, notes, or certificates respectively.
And the said City Council may sell the same, or any part
thereof, from time to time, at public or private sale, or
pledge the same for money borrowed for the purposes afore-
said, on such terms and conditions as the said City Council
shall judge proper.

Sect. 10. In addition to the sum of three millions of
dollars mentioned in the preceding section, the said City
Council may, whenever and so far as may be necessary,
issue and dispose of notes, scrip, or certificates of debt, in
the manner prescribed in the preceding section, to meet all
payments of interest which may accrue upon any scrip by
them issued ; p'^ovided, however, that no scrip shall be
issued for the payment of interest as aforesaid, after the
expiration of two years from the completion of said aque-
ducts and other works ; but payment of all interest that
shall accrue after that time, shall be made from the net in-
come, rents, and receipts for the use of the water, if they
shall be sufficient for that purpose ; and if not, then the
payment of the deficiency shall be otherwise provided for
by the City Council. All notes, scrip, and certificates of
debt to be issued as aforesaid, shall be signed by the Treas-
urer and Auditor, and countersigned by the Mayor of the
said City, and a record of all such notes, scrip, and certifi-

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cates shall be made and kept by the said Treasurer and
Auditor respectively.

Sect. 11. The City Council shall, from time to time,
regulate the price or rents for the use of the water, with a
view to the payment, from the net income, rents and re-
ceipts therefor, not only of the semi-annual interest, but
ultimately of the principal also of the " Boston "Water
Scrip," so far as the same may be practicable and reasona-
ble. And the said net surplus income, rents and receipts,
after deducting all expenses and charges of distribution,
shall be set apart as a sinking fund, and shall be appro-
priated for and towards the payment of the principal and
interest of the said scrip ; and shall, under the management,
control, and direction of the Mayor, Treasurer, and Auditor
of the City, or the major part of them for the time being,
Avho shall be Trustees of the said fund, be applied solely to
the use and purpose aforesaid, until the said scrip shall be
fully paid and discharged. And the said Trustees shall,
whenever thereto required by the City Council, render a
just, true, and full account to the said City Council, of all
their receipts, payments, and doings under the provisions of
this section.

Sect. 12. At any time after the expiration of two
years, from the completion of the works mentioned in the
second section of tliis act, and before the reimbursement of
the principal of the " Boston Water Scrip" herein before
mentioned, if the surplus income and receipts for the use of
the water distributed under the provisions of this act, at the
price estabUshed by the City Council, after deducting all
expenses and charges of distribution, shall, for any two suc-
cessive years, be insufficient to pay the accruing interest on
the said scrip, then the Supreme Judicial Court, on the pe-
tition of one hundred or more of the legal voters of the said
City, praying that the said price may be raised and in-
creased so far as may be necessary for the purpose of pay-
ing, from the said surplus income and receipts, the said
accruing interest, and upon due notice of the pendency of
such petition given to the said City in such manner as the

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said court shall order, may appoint three commissioners,
who, upon due notice to the parties interested, may raise
and increase the said price, if they shall judge proper, so
far as may be necessary, in their judgment, for the purpose
aforesaid, and no farther. And the award of said commis-
sioners, or the major part of them, being returned to the
said coui't, at the then next tenn thereof for the county of
Suffolk, and accepted by the said court, shall be binding
and conclusive, for the term of three years next after the
said acceptance, and until the pi'ice so fixed by the commis-
sioners shall, after the expiration of said term, be changed
or altered by the City Council.

Sect. 13, If the surplus income and receipts for the
use of the water, distributed under the provisions of this
act, at the price established by the City Council, after de-
ducting all expenses and charges of distribution, shall, for
any two successive years, be more than sufficient to pay
the accruing interest on the " Boston Water Scrip" herein
before mentioned, then the Supreme Judicial Court, on the
petition of one hundred or more of the legal voters of the
said City, who may deem the said price unreasonably high,
and pray for a reduction thereof; and upon due notice of
the pendency of said petition given to the said City in such
manner as the said court shall order, may appoint three
commissioners, who, upon due notice to the parties inter-
ested, may, if they shall judge proper, reduce the price es-
tablished by the City Council ; provided, that such reduc-
tion shall not be so gi-eat that the surplus income and
receipts aforesaid, will, in the judgment of the said commis-
sioners, be thereafter insufficient for the payment of the
said accruing interest. And the award of the said commis-
sioners, or the major part of them, being returned and
accepted as mentioned in the preceding section, shall be
binding and conclusive, in the same manner, and to tlie
same extent, as therein provided in regard to awards made
pursuant to the provisions of that section.

And the said court may, at their discretion, order the
costs on such petitions as are mentioned in this and the

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preceding section, and of the proceedings thereon, or any
part thereof, to be paid by either of the said parties, and
may enter judgment and issue execution therefor accord-
ingly.

Sect. 14. The occupant of any tenement shall be lia-
ble for the payment of the price or rent for the use of the
water in such tenement; and the owner thereof shall be
also liable, if, on being notified of such use, he does not
object thereto ; and if any person or persons shall use any
of the said water, either within or without the City, without
the consent of the City, an action of trespass on the case
may be maintained against him or them, by the said City,
for the recovery of damages therefor : provided, however,
that this act shall not be so construed as to prevent the
inhabitants of Natick, Framingham, Sherburne, and Way-
land, from using so much of the water hereby granted as
shall be necessaiy for extinguishing fires and for all ordi-
nary household purposes, under such regulations of the said
City Council as may be essential for the preservation of the
purity of the same.

Sect. 15. If any person or persons shall wantonly or
maliciously divert the water, or any part thereof, of any
of the ponds, streams, or water sources, which shall be
taken by the City pursuant to the provisions of this act, or
shall corrupt the same or render it impure, or destroy or
injure any dam, aqueduct, pipe, conduit, hydrant, machinery
or other property, held, owned or used by the said City, by
the authority and for the purposes of this act ; every such
person or persons shall forfeit and pay, to the said City,
three times the amount of the damages that shall be assessed
therefor, to be recovered by any proper action. And every
such person or persons may, nioreover, on indictment and
conviction of either of the wanton and malicious acts afore-
said, be punished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dol-
lars, and imprisonment not exceeding one year.

Sect. 16. The said City of Boston is hereby authorized
to purchase and hold all the property, estates, rights and
privileges of the Aqueduct Corporation, incorporated by an

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act passed February 27th, in the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-five, and by any convenient mode may
connect the same with their other works.

Sect. 17. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Boston shall notify and warn the legal voters of the said
City, to meet in their respective wards, on such day as the
said Mayor and Aldermen shall direct, not exceeding thirty
days from and after the passing of this act, for the purpose
of giving their written votes upon the question, whether they
will accept the same ; and if a majority of the votes so
given upon the question afoi'esaid, shall be in the negative,
this act shall be null and void.

Sect. 18. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage. [^Approved by the Governor, March 30, 1846.]

An Act concerning the Dedication of Public Ways, and for
other purposes.

Se it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa-
ttives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

Sect. 1. No way heretofore opened and dedicated t<5
the public use and not already become a public way, and
no way hereafter opened and dedicated to the public use,
shall become chargeable upon any City or Town, unless
such ways shall be laid out and established by such City or
Town, in the manner prescribed by the statutes of this
Commonwealth.

■ Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and Alder-
men of each City, and of the Selectmen of each Town in
this Commonwealth, and they are hereby authorized and
requix'ed, whenever, and so long as the public safety may
demand it, to direct and cause the entrances of all the ways

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aforesaid, entering on and uniting with any existing public
way, to be closed up, or, by other sufficient means, to cau-
tion the public against entering upon such ways.

Sect. 3. In case any City or Town shall not close up
the entrances to the ways aforesaid, or give other sufficient
notice that the same are dangerous, such City or Town so
neglecting, shall be liable for any damages arising from any
defects therein, in the same manner as if such ways were
dulyjaid out and estabhshed.

^Approved by the Governor, April 9, 1846.]

GOVERNMENT

OF THE

CITY OF BOSTON,

18 4.7.

MAYOR,

JOSIAH QUINCY, Jr., 5 Park Street.

[Salary $2,500. Charter, § 12.]

ALDERM

THOMAS WETMORE, .
WILLIAM PARKER, . .
JOHN HATHAWAY, . .
FREDERICK GOULD, .
THOMAS JONES, ....
GEORGE E. HEAD, . .
JOHN H. WILKINS, . .
BILLINGS BRIGGS, . . .

EN,

5 Bussey place,
62 Boylston street.
23 Poplar street.
Prince, cor. Hanover st.
50 Bowdoin street.
114 Tremont street.
52 Bowdoin street.
9 Myrtle court.

COMMON COUNCIL,

GEORGE S. HILLARD, President.
Ward No. 1.
John P. Ober, 22 Charter street,

Samuel P. Oliver, 96 Salem street,

Samuel C. Nottage, 122 Salem street,

Noah Lincoln, jr., 30 North Bennet street.

John Turner,
Noah Harrod,
George Carlisle,
William Wildes,

James Whiting,
James Boynton,
George W. Felt,
Edwin C. Bailey,

Ward No. 2.

10 Short Prince street,
4 New Prince St.,
2 Lathrop place,

24 Ann street.

Ward No. 3.

6 Hawkins street,
39 Portland street,

6 Salem street,
30 Nashua street.

Ward No. 4.

Samuel W. Hall, Webster st., E. Boston,

W. W. Greenough, 56 Temple street,

Darwin E. Jewett, 17 Howard street,

W. B. Spooner, 6 Bowdoin square.

Ward No. 5.

Benjamin Seaver,
Eliphalet Jones,
W. D. Coolidge,
George W. Abbot,

52 Chambers street,

4 McLean street,
52 Allen street,
64 Poplar street.

Ward No. 6.

George S. Hillard,
Thomas Haviland,
Charles Henry Parker,
Richard B. Carter,

54 Pinckney street,
63 Chestnut street,

55 Mount Vernon street,
70 Chestnut street.

Ward No. 7.

Gideon F, Thayer,
T. R. Marvin,
W. G. Brooks,
-Samuel E. Guild,

12 Essex street,
7 Hayward place,
3 Rowe street,

24 Beacon street.

Ward No. 8.
Samuel Topliff, 32 Washington square,

George Whittemore, 27 Washington square,

W. A. Harrington, 1 Purchase place,

Francis Gardner, 4 Gridley street.

Ward No. 9.
Walter Bryent, 1 Bussey place,

Henry Waldo Gushing, 28 High street,
WiUiam Blake, 6 Winthrop place,

Tisdale Drake, 42 Sea street.

Ward No. 10.
Henry W. Dutton, 524 Washington street,

George R. Sampson, 563 Washington street,

Ezra Lincohi, jr., 502 Washington street,

Samuel Wales, jr., 28 Albany street.

Ward No. 11.
John Green, jr., 659 Washington street,

Edward S. Erving, 79 Pleasant street,

Stephen Tucker, 807 Washington street,

George W. Frothingham, 14 Florence street.

Ward No. 12.
William Eaton, B street, near Silver,

Jabez Coney, Broadway,

S. S. Perkins, Broadway, cor. Dorchester,

Alvan Simonds, Broadway, cor. Turnpike.

CITY CLERK

SAMUEL F. McCLEARY, 21 Pitts street.

Salary $1,500, and for Assistant Cieri<s, $600. [Cliosen by City

Council, on tlie first Monday in January. Charter, § 10.]

CLKRK OF COMMON COUNCIL,

WASHINGTON P. GRKGG, 2 Lyman place.

Salary $800. [Chosen on the first Monday in January. Ciiarter,

§ 11-]

MESSENGER,

JOHNSON COLBY, 1 Prospect street.
Salary $800, [Charter, § 13 ]

JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.

ON THE REDUCTION OF THE CITY DEBT.
[Ord. p. 295.]
The Mayor, President of the Common Council, and the Chairman
of the Committee on Finance on the part of the Common

Council.

Mdermen.
Thomas Wetmore,
John Hathaway.

The Mayor.

ON ACCOUNTS.

[Ord. p. 29.]

ON FINANCE.

[Ord. p. 295.]

Common Council.
Edward S. Erving,
James Whiting,
Henry W. Dutton.

Com.mon Council.
Benjamin Seaver,
George Whittemore,
Samuel W. Hair,
James Boynton,
Samuel Topliff,
William Blake..

ON PUBLIC LANDS.
[Ord. p. 298. Mun. Keg. p 28.]

The Mayor.

Mdermaft.
George E. Head.

Common Council.
John P. Ober,
Walter Bryent,
Stephen Tucker.

Mdermen.
Billings Briggs,
Thomas Jones,
John H. Wilkins.

ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

[Sap. Ord. p. 55.J

Common Council.
John Green, jr.
John Turner,
Thomas Haviland,
Samuel C. Nottage,
S. S. Perkins.

The Mayor, ex officio.
Aldermen.
John Hathaway,
Frederick Gould;

ON PUBL-IC INSTRUCTION.

Common Council.
George S. Hillard, ex officioy
Gideon F. Thayer,
Alvan Simonds,
Samuel E. Guild,
W. D. Coolidge.

ON JAIL, HOUSES OK CORRECTION AND REFORMATION.

The Mayor.

Mderment
Thomas Wetmore,
Thomas Jones.

Aldermen.
John Hathaw.-iy,
Billings Briggs,
John H. Wilkins.

ON FUEL.

[Ord. Wun. Keg. ]

Commnn Council.
Charles Henry Parker,
William Eaton,
W. B. Spooner,
W. G. Brooks,
W. A. Harrington.

19.1
Common Council.
Noah Harrod,
Stephen Tucker,
Noah Lincoln, jr.,
Tisdale Drake,
Jabez Coney.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Aldermen.
William Parker,
George E. Head.

Common Council.
Samuel Wales, jr.,
Edward S. Erving,
Edwin C. Bailey.

The Mayor.

Aldermen.
William Parker,
George E. Head.

Common Council.
James Whiting,
Samuel W. Hall,
Henry W. Button,
Jabez Coney,
W. W. Greenough.

ON THE ASSESSORS DEPARTMENT.

Aldermen.
John H. Wilkins,
Frederick Gould.

Aldermen.
George E. Head,
Thomas Jones.

Alderman.
John H. Wilkins.

[Ord. Mun. Reg. p. 27.]

I Common Council.

I Eliphalet Jones,

I Francis Gardner,

Tisdale Drake.

ON BOSTON HARBOR.

[Ord. Mun. Reg. p. 42.]

i Common Council.

George R. Sampson,
I Ezra Lincoln, jr.,

Samuel Toplift'.

ON PRINTING.

[Ord. Mun. Keg. p. 44.]

Common CmniciL
T. R. Marvin,
Richard B. Carter.

74
STANDING COMMITTEES

OF THE

MAYOR AND ALDERMEN

ON THE POLICE OF THE CITY.

The Mayor.

ON EXTERNAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Aldermen Jones, Head and Gould.

ON INTERNAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Aldermen Parker, Hathaway and Jones.

ON THE COBIMON, MALLS, FORT HILL, AND COPP's HILL.

The Mayor, Aldermen Head and Gould.

ON LAYING OUT AND WIDENING STREETS.

Aldermen Parker, Gould and Wetmore.

ON PAVING AND REPAIRS OF STREETS.

Aldermen Head, Gould and Briggs.

ON LICENSES.

Aldermen Parker, Head and Wilkins.

ON ORDINANCES.

Aldermen Head, Wilkins and Gould.

ON COMMON SEWERS AND DRAINS.

Aldermen Wetmore, Jones and Briggs.

ON THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND RESERVOIRS.

The Mayor, Aldermen Hathaway and Wilkins.

ON THE MARKET.

Aldermen Hathaway, Wilkins and Jones.

ON BURIAL GROUNDS AND CEMETERIES.

Aldermen Gould, Jones and Wilkins.

ON LABIPS, BELLS AND CLOCKS.

Aldermen Gould, Jones and Wilkins.

ON THE BRIDGES.

Mdermen Jones and Briggs. •

ON COUNTV ACCOUNTS.

Mdermen Wetmore and Hathaway.

ON STEAM ENGTNES.

The Mayor, Mdermen Parker and Briggs.

STANDING COMMITTEES

COMMON COUNCIL

ON ELECTIONS AND RETURNS

(Jeorge W. Frotliingham,
Samuel E. Guild,
William Wildes,

Darwin E. Jewett,
George W. Abbot.

ON E.\ROLLED ORDINATJCES.

Samuel P. Oliver,
Henry W. Gushing,
George Carlisle,

George W. Felt,
Noah Lincoln, jr.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

James C. Dunn, C«f?/ and Comity Treasurer and Collector — Salary
$2,000 ; and $2,700 for Assistant Clerks. [Chosen by the City
Council in Convention, in May. City Charter, § 18.]

Wiliard (/lough, ^ Deputy Collectors. Salary $170 each and fees.
James Pierce, > Appointed by Treasurer. Statutes, Chap. 15,

Thomas Sewards, j § 60. Ordinance, p. 275.

Elisha Copeland, jr.. City Auditor — Salary $1,500. [Chosen by
concurrent vote of the City Council in May. City Ordinances,
p. 29.]

Assessors, Samuel Norwood, George Jackson, Henry Sargent. Sal-
ary, $1,200 ; and $400 for Assistant Clerks.

Assistant Assessors, residing in different Wards.

Ward 7 — Ezra C. Hutchins,
Minor S. Lincoln.
8 — Thomas J. Shelton,

( Ine vacancy.
9 — Bela Hunting,
One vacancy.
10— Samuel Millard,

Francis C. Whiston.
11 — Henry R. Andrews,

Nathan Brown.
12 — Adam Bent,
Isaac Adams.

Ward 1 — Benjamin Dodd,
Samuel Prince.
2— Timothy C. Kendall,

Ephraim Milton.
3 — Osmyn Brewster,

James Fernald.
4 — William Denton,
Thomas French.
5 — Philip Greely,jr.,

Nathaniel Hammond.
6 — Nathaniel Curtis, jr.
One vacancy.

Samuel Norwood, Secretary.
[The Assessors and Assistant Assessors are chos'en by concurrent
vote of City Council, in March or April. Sup. City Ordinance,
p. 68.]
The Judge of Probate and the Justices of the Police Court, consti-
tute the Board of Accounts for the County. [Revised Statutes,
p. 164. Act 1843, chap 7.]

William Knapp, Secretary to the Board. Salary $150.

CITY SOLICITOR.

Peleg W. Chandler, City Solicitor. Salary $2,500. [Chosen by
concurrent vote in June, City Ord. p. 38, and Mun. Reg. p. 32.]

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

The duties o? Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston,
are performed by the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, or
some one of them. [Act 1843, chap. 7.]

Samuel D. Parker, Attorney.
Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk.
Henry Homer, Crier and Messenger.
Joseph Eveleth, Sheriff.
Jabez Pratt, "]

Watson Freeman, |

Silas P. Tarbell, } Deputies.

Daniel J. Coburn, I

Erastus Rugg, of Chelsea, J
Coroners, Jabez Pratt, William Andrews, Charles Smith.

John Gray Rogers, ^ j^^gH^^g ^j^/jg pgn^.^^ Q^^^^f a„^ ^y-^/^g justices'

James C JMerriU, > /-• , a i ai -/in ri-\ j uo ^

,,,,.,. ' i Court, balary *l,oUO. fOrd. p. 88.1

Abel Lushing, ) j ii » l i j

Thomas Power, Clerk. Salary |1,400. fOrd. p. 89]

William Knapp, .Assistant Clerk. Salary $9.00. [Ord. p. 90.]

Jonas Stratton, Messenger. Salary $32 per month.

Francis Tukey, City Marshal. Salary .f 1,100.
[Appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen in May or June. City
Ordinances, p. 226.]

I a^G'Vb ' ^"^ ' ( Deputy City Marshals. Salary $700.

[Nominated by the Marshal, and approved by the Mayor and Al-
dermen. City Ordinances, p. 226.]

APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.

Police Officers — on duty daily.
Jotham B. Munroe, Superintendent of Coaches^ Cabs, 8^0.
James Arnold, Superintend ent of Trucks, Wagons, i^c.

Samuel G. Adams, John Bordman, Joshua Dunbar, Samuel B.
Fuller, Alexander Hopkins, Jacob Hook, Rufus Leighton, James
£. Spear, Simeon Pendleton, James W. Pierce, Charles B. Rice,
Lysander Ripley, Elijah K. Spoor, Ebenezer Shute, jr., Archibald
£. Towle.

On duty on Sundays. — Alvah Cloutman, Samuel Dillaway, Harry
C. Henry, Atwell Richardson, C. B. Starkweather, Thomas Dol-
liver.

Police Officers who have Warrants, hut icho are not on duty. —
William Allen, Stephen Burrows, Samuel Belding, William P.
Bascom, John liowden, Edward Barnicoat, Samuel Bowden, Mo-
ses Binney, Constant T. Benson, John VV. Baxter, Martin T.
Champney, Moses VV. Clark, Simpson Clark, John Crocker, Sain-
uel A. Cushing, Ephraim Cummings, Silas Carleton, John (?urran,
James H. Dixon, Samuel Dudley, Daniel L. Glidden, William
Griffith, George Hardy, Lyman B. Hanaford, Thomson K. Homer,
Joseph F. Hall, George Johnson, Woodbury Jenness, Ezekiel
Kemp, Bowen G. Mansfield, John J. Miller, Daniel Pepper, Henry
Preble, Ebenezer Poole, Alexis Poole, George F. Poole, Joseph
Puffer, La'nson B. Patterson, Paschal Paine, Edward G. Richard-
son, Theodore Stanwood. Nathaniel F. Stevens, Ira E. Sanborn,
Merrick R. Stevens, H.B. Skinner, Elijah K. Spoor, James J.
Tucker, Robert Taylor, William S. Tyler, William A. Vaughn,
Homer L. Whiting, Joel Wait.

Constables. — Francis M. Adaras, Joseph W. Andrews, William
P. Baker, Josiali Baldwin, Derastus Clapp, Willard Clough, Na-
thaniel Cooledge, Isaac A. Cooledge, George J. Cooledge, Lucien
B. Drury, William Easlerbrook, Elisha V. Glover, Richard Hosea,
John Henry, James Hunkins, Isaac B. Kimball, William Coring,
William Munroe, David Patterson, James Pierce, Thomas P. Ryder,
Erastus W Sanborn, Kbenezer Shute, Thomas Sewards, Thomas
M Smith, Charles Smith, Ebene/er Trescott, Heniy Taylor, Jona-
than Whipple, William Whitwell, William J. Whiting, Samuel S.
Vialle, Joniis Stratton, Jacob U. Tallant, Jonathan Prescott, George
J. Dexier, I'^dwin Rice, John C. Harrington, John T. Lawion,
Joseph W. Leighton.

James Barry, Captain of the City Watch. Salary $400. [Appoint-
ed by the Mayor and Aldermen. City Ordinances, p. 282.]

The JVight Police, a Watch Department, consists of seven divis-
ions, viz : The East, West, North, South — above Orange
street and Boylston, from Summer street to Orange street, and
South Boston and East Boston.

There are 14 Constables of the Watch, at $1,00 per night.
152 Watchmen, at 90 cents per night.

Nathaniel Coolidge, Deputy Jailor.

The Judge of Probate, and the Justices of the Police Court, are
the Inspectors of Prisons. [Revised Statutes, p. 784. Act
lti43, chap. 7 ]

William Knapp, Secretary to the Inspectors.

City Printer. — -Jrthn H. Eastburn. Work done by contract.
[Mun. Reg. 1847, p. 44.]

Jfcwspapers in which the City Ordinances, .Advertisements, &/-c., are
published -^l);u\y Advertiser, (."ourier. Atlas, Post — morning pa-
pers. Daily Evening Transcript, Boston Journal, Daily Evening
% Traveller — evening papers. [Elected by joint order of the
City Council. Compensation $150 each per annum.]

HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Jerome V. C. Smith, Port Physician. Salary $1,400. [Chosen
by the concurrent vote of the City Council, in May or June.
Sup. Ordinances, p 34.]

Jonathan Bruce, Keeper of Rainsford Island and Captain of the
Quarantine Boat. Salary $300 per annum, exclusive of the pay
for services of the assistant boatmen. [Appointed by the Mayor
and Aldermen. Sup. Ordinances, p. 175.]

Consulting Physicians, John C. Warren, George Hayward, George
C. Shattuck, .facob Bigelow, John Ware. [Chosen by concur-
rent vote in May or June. City Ordinances, p. .57 ]

Francis Lincoln, Superintendent of Burials. Salary .$1,000.

t Chosen by (;oncurrent vote of the City Council, in May or
une. "To be always first acted upon by the Mayor and Al-
dermen." City Ordinances, p.'lbO]

UNDERTAKERS.

Samuel Winslow,
Martin Smith,
Henry Davis, -
Joseph Wilcutt,
Thomas HasUell,
Tiiomas Andrews, -
Francis Diilaway,
Rodney Gove,
Caleb I. Pratt,
Oren Faxon,
Franklin ISriiith,
J{icliard Dillon, *

John Peak,
William A. Brabiner,
Timotliy Nunan,
Charles I louffhton, -
Levi L. VVhitcotnb, -
(-onstant T. Benson,
George Johnson,
Haram Merrill,
Joseph W. Andrews,
John White, -
Obed Pratt,
Levi Whitcomb,
John Wilcutt, -
Seth Hall,
John S. Emerson,

14 Commercial street.

15 Prospect street.
179 Hanover street.

47 kSalem street.
51) Prince street.

1 Bartiett street.
46 Kliot street.
Reai of St. Paul's Clmrch.
8it Summer street.

n Orange street.

y r^eaver place.

3 Fayette court.

I Leverett street.
Bolton street.

Fourth street, South Boston.
C street, South Boston.
Saratoga street. East Boston.
6"> Prince street.
Rear li-'j Pjtts street.
22 North Russell street.
27 Hull street.
Lewis stieet, East Boston.
i.'4 Vine street.
1- Purchase street.
20 Silver street, South Boston.
Church St , under Meeting house.
Pembroke street.

Charles B. Wells, Superintendent of Common Sewers. Salary
$l,10-'. [Cliosen by concurrent vote in May or June. Sup.
City Ordinances, p. 63 ]

The Mayor and Aldermen, Surveyors of Hig/apays. [Ordinance,
pp. 105 and 258.]

Thomas Hunting, Superintendent of Streets. Salary $1,100.
[Chosen by concurrent vote, (first acted on by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen,) in January or February. City Ordinances, p. 260.]

PUBLIC LANDS AND BUILDINGS, LAMPS
AND BRIDGES.

Freeman L. Cushman, Superintendent of Public Buildings. Salary
^1,1()0. [Chosen by concurrent vote in April or May. City
Ordinances^ p. 298. Sup. Ord. p. 55.]

, Superintendent of Public Lands. [Chosen in Feb-
ruary or March. Mun. Reg. p. 43 ]

Daniel Rliodes, Clerk of Faneuil Hall Market. Salary $1,000.
[Appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen, in June or July. Sup.
City Ordinances, p. 71.]

Sullivan Sawin, Weigher. Salary $35 per month.

Thomas Kettell, Assistant Clerk, Salary $1 25 per day.

James Barry, Superintendent of Lamps. Salary $500 per annum.
[Appointed by Mayor and Aldermen. City Ordinances, p. 214.]

There are 496 Gas Lamps, 1,317 Oil Lamps, 7 Gas Lighters and
20 Oil Lighters. Tlie Gas Lighters receive 25 cents per Lamp per
month. The Oil Lighters receive 32| cents per Lamp per month.

Samuel Jenkins, Superintendent of the JVorth Free Bridge. Salary
$6;)0. [Chosen by concurrent vote, " first acted upon by the
Mayor and Aldermen," in January or February. City Ordi-
nances, p. 268.]

Abner J. Gaffield, Superintendent of the South Free Bridge. Sal-
ary $3ii0. [Chosen by concurrent vote, "first acted upon by
the Mayor and Aldermen," in January or February. Sup.
Ord. p. 6.]

Daniel Merrill, Keeper of the County Court House. Salary

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

CHIEF ENGINEER,

WILLIAM BARNICOAT, 273 Tremont street. Salary $1,200.

ASSISTANT ENGINEERS. Salary $150 each.
Henry Smith, 25 Portland street.

James G. Sanderson, 3 Myrtle street.

Charles S. Clark, Unity street.

John Shelton,
Joshua Jacobs,
George W. Bird,
Thomas French,
Brewster Raynolds,

Henry Hart, Clerk

8 Hartford place.

133 Court street.

Suffolk street.

Webster street, East Boston.

Corner of E street. South Boston.

Salary $500.

FOREMEIi OF ENGINES.

Washington Co. JVo. 3.
William Dyke,

Lyman Co. JVo. 5.
Luther L. Estabrooks,

Hero Co. JVo. 6.
Franklin E. Whitney,

Howard Co. JVo. 7.
Caleb S. McClennen,

Tremont Co. JVo. 8.
James M. Welch,

Despatch Co. JVo. 9.
William E. Hearsay,

Hancock Co. JVo. 10.
James Quinn,

J\Iaverick Co. JVo. 11.
Thomas Brown,

Eagle Co. JVo. 12.
Edward W. W. Hawes,

J]Ielvill Co. JVo. 13.
William Jepson,

Boston Co. JVo. 15.
Robert Taylor,

Perkins Co. JVo. 16.
John Davis, jr.,

Mazeppa Co. JVo. 17.
John R. Butler,

Lafayette Co. JVo 18.
Benjamin J. Morrill,
n

Salem street.
13 Snowhill street.

Dock square.
13 Morton street.

Dcrnc street.
Blossom street.

Purchase street.
12 Belmont street.

Tremont street.
17 London street.

Court square.
Essex street.

Friend street.
13. North Margin street.

Paris street, East Boston.
Sumner street.

Washington, near Dover street.
36 Porter street.

Levcrett street.
70 Poplar street.

Commercial street.
19 Charter street.

Broadway, South Boston.
Broadway.

Broadway, South Boston.
Silver street.

Tremont Row.
44 Temple street*

Extinguisher Co. JVo. 20. East street,

Jonathan Pierce, 29 Tyler street.

Warren H. &/• L. Co. J\'o. t. Friend street.

Dennis Smith, 4 Warren square.

City Hose Co. JVo. 1. Tremont Row.

Richard S. Martin, 118 Charles street.

There are attached to the Department, 16 Foremen of Engine,
Hook and Ladder, and Hose Companies, at $125 each ; 16 Assistant
Foremen, at $101) each ; 16 Clerks, at $100 each ; 16 Stewards, at
$100 each ; 544 members, at $80 each ; one Company, officers and
members, at $30 each ; 4 Stewards of Volunteer Companies, at
$50 each.

The Engineers are chosen annually by the Mayor and Alder-
men, with the concurrence of the Common Council. [Ordinances,
pp. 129, 293, and Sup. Ordinances, p. 16,]

SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LUMBER.

[By concurrent vote in February. Sup. Ord. p. 39.}

FRANCIS BULLARD,

Office No. 112 Milk street.

Deputy Surveyors appointed by the Surveyor General.

Surveyors of Pine Lumber,

No. 8 Fayette street.

" 45 Warren street.

" 4 Brook line street.

" 233 Tremont, south of Pleasant
North Russell street. [street.

No, 38 Harrison avenue.

" • 39 Oak street.

" 52 Allen street.
Ly.ndeboro' place.
Centre street. East Boston.
Broadway, South Boston.
No. 3 Snelling place.

" 29 Marion street.

" 83 Warren street.

" 27 Oak street.

Charles Bullard,
George W. Cram,
George Davis, -
George Dupee, -
George Hall,
Rolun Hartshorn,
Joseph F. Huntress, -
Charles Hersey,
William Keith,
John Lefavor, -
George Page,
Eben M. Plumer,
Amasa G. Smith,
Seth Thaxter, -
Samuel Waldron,

Surveyor of Mahogany and Cedar.
Nathaniel Bryant, . . - _ . 31 Dover street.

Surveyors of Oak, Hard Wood, <^c.

Seth Brooks, ... - Saratoga street, East Boston.

Gad Leavitt, ... - Franklin House.

The following officers are first elected by the Mayar and Alder-
men, with the concurrence of the Common Council. They are all

paid by fees. [Ordinances, p. 105.]

Inspectors of Lime. — Zephaniah Sampson, Joel Wheeler.

Fence Viewers. — Romanus Emerson, Rolun Hartshorn.

Culler of Dry Fish. — Benjamin Luckis.

Culler of Hoops and Slaves. — James Brown.

■Mssay Master. — Isaac Babbitt.

Field Drivers and Pound Keepers. — William Fisk, Thomas Ger-
rish, Timothy Mclntire, Ira E. Sanborn.

Surveyor of Hemp. — Benjamin Ricli.

And the following officers are appointed by the Mayor and Al-
dermen.

Superintendent of Mien Passengers. — Calvin Bailey. Salary $.500,
and lU per cent, on all moneys received, but not to exceed the
further sum of $5iU), [tiup. Ordinances, p. 3.]

Weighers of Hay, ^,. — Ebenezer Clough, John R, Bradford. [Or-
dinances, p. 15i), and Sup. Ordinances, p. 33]

Measurer of Upper Leather. — William Bragden.

Measurers of Wood and Bark, brought ly Land. — Jolin R. Brad-
ford, Amos Bates, William Shattuck, William Fiske, Moses
Hadley, Hollis Moore. [Ordinances, p. ii89.]

Measurers of Wood, brought by Water. — Jonathan Thaxter, Warren
Bowker, Daniel A. Rogers, John Paul.

Weigher of Boats and Lighters. — Edward l.iOring. [Appointed in

April or May. Ordinances, p. 43]
City Crier. — Samuel T. Edwards. [Licensed from time to time,

until the first day of May following. Ord. p. 97 ]
Sealers of Weights and Measures. — John M. Dearborn, Edward

Loring. [Ordinances, p. 284.]

PUBLIC CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.

The Directors, Overseers and Visiters of the Houses, the Master
of the House of Correction, and the Superintendent and Stew-
ard of the Boston Lunatic Hospital, are chosen by concurrent
vote of the City Council. The other officers are appointed by
the Directors of the different Houses.

HOUSES OF INDUSTRY AND REFORMATION.

Directors. — Joseph Lewis, Daniel Henchman, Artemas Simonds,
James Means, Thomas Mollis, Nathaniel H. Emmons, Thomas
Tarbell, Samuel Leeds, Alfred A. Wellington. [Chosen in
May. Ordinances, p. 196.]

Superintendent. — Daniel Chandler. Salary $1,000, and board in
House.

Assistant Superintendent. — Thomas Seward. Salary $650.

Clerk of Directors. — Artemas Simonds. Salary $800.

In the House of Industry, there is paid to a Teamster, $300; Ma-
tron's Assistant, Overseer of Clothing and Overseer of Kitchen,
each $156. There is also paid by the Trustees of the Boylston
and Mason Funds, to the Chaplain, $500 ; Teacher of Boys,
I ; and three females each $156.

In the House of Reformation Department, there is also paid to
the Male Teacher, .$400, and his Assistants, $300; and to the
Matron, $200. [Appointed by the Directors.]

The Gate Keeper receives $275 ; and two Assistant Farmers, one
at a salary of $300, and one at $240, whose services are for both
Houses.

HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

Overseers. — William T. Andrews, George Darracott, Uriel Crocker,
Joseph Moriarty, and one vacancy. Chosen from time to time,
generally in the month of May. [Ordinance, p. 193. Sup.
Ord. p. 38.]

Master. — Charles Robbins. Salary $1,000, and board in House.

Clerk to Master. — R. W. Crossett. Salary $300, and board in

House.
Clerk to O^erseers.—Eliphalet P. Hartshorn. Salary $700.

Chaplain. — Rev. Charles Cleveland. Salary $600.

There is also paid to six male Assistants, $300 each, and board ;
and three female Assistants, $200 each. Also, to one Cook,
$3 00 per week ; and one Domestic, $1 50 per week.

BOSTON LUNATIC HOSPITAL.

Visiters. — William Parker, Gideon F. Thayer, Otis Clapp, Charles
Edward Cook, Bradley N. Cumings, George Savage, Andrew T.
Hall. [Chosen in January or February. Mun. Reg. p. 26.]

Secretory.— Samuel F. McCleary, jr. Salary, $100.

C. H. Stedman, M. D., Superintendent and Physician to the above
Institutions. Salary $1,200. [Chosen in September or October.
Sup. Ord. p. 50.]

There are also attached to this Institution,

Sumner Crosby, Steward, Salary $G00 per year.
Harriot Crosby, Matron, " $200 " "
five male Attendants, $180 each ; four female Attendants, $130
each ; one Laundress and one Housekeeper, at $156 eacii ; two
male Assistants, at $180 each per year; two assistant Cooks, at
$2 25 per week ; one Sempstress, at $2 per week ; Table and
Cl'.amber Girl, at $2 per week.

-OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.

[Charter, $ 19, 34.]
[Chosen in each Ward where they reside.]
Ward 1 — Elijah Stearns.
2— Ephraim Milton.
3 — Joseph Moriarty.
4 — William Freeman.
5 — Daniel Henchman.
6 — Paul Adams.

Ward 7— Thomas Tarbell.

8 — John W. Warren, jr.

9 — Joseph Lewis.
10— Charles F. Barnard.
11— William Willett.
12— Thomas Blasland.

James Phillips, Secretary. Salary $800.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

[Sup. Ord. p. 58.J

Josiah Quincy, Jr., Mayor, Chairviun, ~> rr. ..

George S. Hillard, President of Common Coitncil, )

[The following are chosen in each Ward.]

Wardl

Henry G. Clark,

Rev. Amos Smith.
2 — James H. Barnes,

James Ayer.
3 — Daniel P. Simpson,

Moses C. Greene.
4 — Richard Soule,jr.,

George B. Emerson.
5 — Frederick Emerson,

Ninian C. Betton.
6 — Theophilus Parsons,

John Phelps Putnam

Samuel F. McCleary, Secretary

Ward 7 — Rev. Charles Brooks,
Edward G. Loring.
8— Rev. Daniel M. Lord,
John B. Hutchinson.
9 — Thomas M. Brewer,
George T. Curtis.
10 — Rev. Nehemiah Adams,
Rev. J. I. T. Coolidge.
11— Manlius S. Clarke,

Joseph M. Wiffhtman.
12— Rev.Theodore^D. Cook,
Rev. Geo. W. Bosworth.

SUB-COMMITTEES.

Books — Messrs. Parsons, Loring, G. B. Emerson, Simpson and
Putnam.

To confer with Primary School Committee — Messrs. F. Emerson
Ayer and Greene.

Music — Messrs. Brooks, Lord and Coolido;e.

SCHOOLS.

LOCATION.

COMMITTEES.

Latin, - - -

Bedford street, - -

Messrs. The Mayor, Parsons, Betton, Ad-
ams and Lord.

English High,

Bedford street, - -

" Curtis, Wightman,G. B.Emerson,
Putnam and M. S. Clarke.

Lyman, - -

East Boston, - - -

" Soule, Barnes and H. G. Clark.

Eliot, - - -

North Bennet St., -

" H. G. Clark, Smith and Ayer.

Endicott, - -

Cooper street, - -

" Smith, Barnes and Greene.

Hancoclc, - -

Hanover street, -

" Barnes, S.mith and Simpson.

May hew, - -

Hawkins street, -

" Simpson, Soule and Curtis

Bowdoin,

Derne street, - -

" G. B.Emerson, Parsons andBrewer.

Boylslon, - -

Washington place.

" Lord, Hutchinson and Bosworth.

Adams, - -

Mason street, - -

" Adams, Loring and Hutchinson.

Franklin,- -

Washington street,

" Coolidge, Conk and Wighlman.

Wells, - - -

McLean street, - -

" Betton, F. Emerson and Soule.

Hawes, - -

South Boston, - -

" Bosworth, Cook and M. S. Clarke.

Mather, - -

South Boston, - -

" Cook, Bosworth anil Greene.

Johnson, - -

Tremont street, -

" Loring Brooks and Adams.

Winthrop, -

East street, - . -

" Brewer. Coolidge and Putnam.

Brimmer, - -

Common street, -

" Wightnian, M. S. Clarke and F.
Em;rson.

Phillips, - -

Pinckney street, -

" Betton, Brooks and Hutchinson.

Otis,- - - -

Lancaster street, -

" Simpson, Greene and Ayer.

Dvvight, - -

Concord street.

" Loring, Wightman and Brewer.

Smith, - - -

Belknap street, - -

" Brooks, Coolidge and G. B. Em-
erson.

INSTRUCTERS IN THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS.

Note. — All Grammar and Writing Masters have a salary of
$],.500 each; all Ushers in the Grammar and Writing Schools
have a salary of $600 each; and ail Assistants $300 each; [All
the salaries are fixed by the School Committee.]

LATIN.

Epes S. Dixwell, Master. Salary $2,400.
Francis Gardner, Sub-Master. Salary $1,800,
Timothy D. Chamberlain, Salary $800, and John P. Reynolds and
W. L. Ropes, Ushers. Salaries $700.

ENGLISH HIGH.

Thomas Sherwin, Master. Salary $2,400.
Luther Robinson, Sub-Master. Salary $1,500.
Francis S. Williams, Usher. Salary $1,000. Samuel M. Weston,
Usher. Salary $700.

L T M A N .

Hosea H. Lincoln, Master hoys' school.
Aaron L. Ordway, Master girls' school.

Mary Atherton, Julia M. Wiggin, Eliza L. Pierce, Mary E. Grant,
F. L. Prescott and Sarah S. French, Jlssistants .

ELIOT.

Edwin Wright, Grammar Master.
Levi Conant, Writing Master.

Caroline W. Carter, Hannah Daman, Elizabeth Skinner, Lydia F.
Pool, Anna S. Carter and Eliza L. Felt, Assistants.

HANCOCK.

William J. Adams, Grammar Master.
Peter Mackintosh, Writing Master.

Adeline Howe, Henrietta L. Peirce, Catherine W. Snelling, Celia
L. Gale, Sarah A. Dyke and Sarah E. White, Assistants.

ENDICOTT.

George Allen, jr.. Grammar Master.
Loring Lothrop, Writing Master.

Mary A. Torrin, Angeline A. Brigham, Ann M. Wight, Malvina
R. Brigham, Caroline Keith, M. P. Coi^sworihy.,' Assistants.

M A T H E W .

William D. Swan, Grammar Master.

J. D. Philbrick, Writing Master.

Winslow Battles and Harvey Jewell, Ushers.

Mary J. Walker and Eliza L. West, Assistants.

B O WD O IN ,

Abraham Andrews, Grammar Master.

James Robinson, Writing Master.

Mary A. Murdock, Rebecca Lincoln, Caroline E. Andrews, Mary

S. Robinson, Sarah D. Adams, Eliza B. Mitchell and Elizabeth

P. Snow, Assistants.

BOTLSTON.

Thomas Baker, Grammar Master.
Charles Kimball, Writing Master.
Henry Seaver, Usher.

Clarinda R. F. Treadwell, Matilda Oliver, Susan J. M. Jones,
Catharine H. Grover and Mary A. Harris, .Assistants.

ADAMS.

Samuel Barrett, .Grammar Master.

Samuel W. Bates, Writing Master.

Joel Brown and Ira Cheever, Ushers.

Mary S. Brigham and Mary E. Beck, Assistants.

FRANKLIN.

Barnum Field, Grammar Master.
Nathan Merrill, Writing Master.

Hannah S. Tirrell, Sarah Ann Gale, Catharine T. Simonds, S. A,
M. Gushing, Lucy M. Beck and Caroline A. Green, Assistants.

/
"WELL S.

Cornelius Walker, Grammar Master.
Reuben Swan, jr., Writing Master.
William H. Swan, Usher.

Matilda A. Gerry, Caroline F. Housely, Frances A. Collins and
Adeline F. Dinsmore, Assistants.

HAWES, S. BOSTON.

Frederick Crafts, Grammar Master.
John A. Harris, Writing Master.
Charles A. Mo»rill, Usher.

Julia M. Baxter, Mary E. Clark, Mary Ann Burnum and H.Maria
Manning, Assistants.

MATHER, S. BOSTON.

Josiah A. Stearns, Grammar Master.
Jonathan Battles, jr., Writing Master.
George T. Angell, Usher.

Mary A. Moody, Lucy Floyd, Rebecca A. Chipman and Ann J,
Drake, Assistants.

J O HN SON.

Richard G. Parker, Grammar Master.
Joseph Hale, Writing Master.

Rebecca P. Barry, Martha E. Town, Emma J. Knapp, Mary H.
Stodder, Helen E. Vans and Mary Jane Danforth, Assistants. '-

WINTHROP.

Henry Williams, jr.. Grammar Master.
Samuel L. Gould, Writing Master.
Charles E. Valentine, Usher,

Harriet D. Williams, E. W. Shelton, Olive E. Reynolds, F. M,
Oliver and Mary E. Weed, Assistants.

B R, I M M E K ,

Joshua Bates, Grammar Master.
William A. Sliepard, IVrltmg Master,
Percival W. Bartlett and Joljn Butler, Ushers.
Abba F. Goodridge and Mary A. Collier, Assistants.

PHILLIPS

Samuel S. Green, Grammar Master.

Samuel Swan, Writing Master.

Amphion Gates and John M. Colcord, Ushers.

Ellen M. Coolidge and Sarah H. ^xaQtson ., Assistants .

OTIS.

Isaac F. Shepard, Grammar Master.
Benjamin Drew, Writing Master.
Joshua R. Lothrop, Usher.

S. W. J. Copeland, Harriet N. Decker, Emeline French and C. S
Palmer, Assistants.

D WIGH T.

George B. Hyde, Master.

James A. Page, Usher.

Caroline A. Green, Frances A. Tyler, Caroline G. Woodman, Cla-
rissa Belknap, Mary A. Richards, Clarissa Guild and Elizabeth
G. [Jnderhill, Assistants.

SMITH.

Ambrose Wellington, Master.

Chloe A. Lee, Julia A. Smith and Helen James, Assistants.

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WARD OFFICERS

Ward No. 1.

Warden,
William Palfrey.

Cler^,
Alexander Wood.

Warden,
Alfred A. Lane.

Clerk,
Nathaniel Budd, ji*.

Warden,
William Bellamy.

Clerk,
Reuben Carver.

Wa7'de7i,
George W. Crockett.

Clerk,
John Mandell

Inspectors,
Charles F. Wells,
Robert Ripley,
Thomas T. Hayden,
Jonas liall,
James M. Badger.

Ward No. 2.

Inspectors,
John T. Thompson,
Emery Goss,
David Whilehouse,
Samuel F. Rogers,
Samuel Bentley, jr.

Ward No. 3.

Inspectors,
Ignatius Winter,
James M. Stevens,
Thomas Sprague,
William F. Stetson.

Ward No. 4.

Inspectors,
S. H. Pingry,
J. L. Edmonds,
Frederick Brown,
Thomas H. Russell,
Benjamin Pond, jr.

Warden,
George Wheelwright.

Clerk,
Theodore H. Bell.

Warden,
Ezra Lincoln.

Clerk,
"William B. Howes.

Warden,
Alfred C. Hersey.

Clerk,
J. W. Thornton.

Warden,
Joseph H. Thayer.

Clerk,
William H. Kelley.

Warden,
William B. Bradford.

Cerk,
Stephen G. Deblois.

Ward No, 5.

Inspectors,
David Austin,
Andrew Floyd,
H. G. Ware, jr.,
James W. Baldwin,
William Pratt.

Ward No. G.

Inspectors,
E. W. Pike,
Hartwell Lincoln,
Gardner G. Hubbard,
Robert Andrews,
Daniel Sharp, jr.

Ward No. 7.

Inspectors,
Paschal P. P. Ware,
George Dickinson,
Francis Kendall,
Tliomas B. Hall,
William L. Plummer.

Ward No. 8.

Inspectors,
Daniel B. Badger,
George W. Goddard,
Jonathan H. Lane,
William A. Bell,
Alfred Lane.

Ward No. 9.

Inspectors,
John Carter, jr.,
John Perry, jr.,
Abi-am Fi-ench,
P. L. jNIeriani,
J. W. Meriam.

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Ward No. 10.

Warden,
George "Woodman.

Cleric,
P. S. Wheelock.

Warden,
William Pope.

Clerh,
Isaac P. Clark.

Warden,
Charles H. White.

Olerh,
Horace Smith.

Inspectors,
William D. WiUard,
Jesse Tirrell,
Robert W. Hall,
Enoch H. Tucker,
Samuel L. Bass,
Enoch H. Tucker, jr.

Ward No. 11.

Inspectors,
Francis H. C. Blanchard,
O. J. Faxon,
Benjamin H. Greene,
James M. Tower,
Henry R. Andrews.

Ward No. 12.

Inspectors,
Samuel Burnham, jr.,
Lewis Smith,
William G. Read,
W. H. Tilden,
George W. Sprague.

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WARDS",

^s divided and established bij an Ordinance of the City, passed
September 20, 1838.

No. 1. — Beginning at Winnisimet Ferry, thence on tlie west side
of Hanover st. to Riciimond st. ; thence on the north side of Rich-
mond St., crossing Salem st. to Cooper st. ; on north side of Cooper
St.; crossing Charlestovvn st. to Beverly st. ; thence on the east-
erly side of Beverly st. to the water.

No. 2. — Beginning at Winnisimet Ferry, thence on the easterly
side of Hanover st. to Union st. ; thence on the east side of Union
St. to Dock square ; thence on the north side of North Market st.
to the water on the north side of City wharf.

No 3. — Beginning at tlie water, thence on the westerly side of
Beverly st. to (Jharlestown st. ; thence on the southerly side of
Cooper st. and Richmond st. to Hanover st. ; thence on the north-
westerly side of Hanover st. to Union st. ; thence on the westerly
side of Union st. to Elm st. ; thence on the northerly side of Elm
St. to Hanover st. ; thence across Hanover st. to Portland st. ;
thence on the easterly side of Portland st. to Sudbury st. ; thence
on the north-westerly side of Sudbury st. to Hawkins st. ; thence
on the north-easterly side of Hawkins st. to Chardon st. ; thence
on the north-westerly side of Chardon st. to Green st. ; thence on
the north-easterly side of Green st. to Lyman place ; thence on the
east and north sides of Lyman place to Prospect st; thence on the
eastern side of Prospect st. to Causeway st. ; thence on the north-
easterly side of Lowell st. to the water.

No. 4. — Beginning at the north-easterly corner of City wharf;
thence on the northerly side of City wharf to North Market st. ;
thence on the southerly side of North Market st. ; across Dock
square, to Elm st. ; thence on the southerly side of Elm st. to Han-
over St. ; crossing Hanover st. to Portland st. ; thence on the
south-westerly side of Portland st. to Sudbury st. ; thence on the
south-easterly side of Sudbury st. to Hawkins st. ; thence on the
Bouth-westerly side of Hawkins st. to Chardon st. ; thence on the
south-easterly side of Chardon st. to Bowdoin square ; thence on
the south-westerly side of Green si. to Staniford st. ; thence on the
easterly side of Staniford st. to Cambridge st. ; thence on the
southerly side of Cambridge st. to Belknap st. ; thence on the
easterly side of Belknap st. to Mount Vernon st. ; thence on the

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llortheriy ailtj easterly sides of Moant Vernon st. to Beacon st. ;
thence on the nortlierly side of* Beacon st. to Tremontst. ; thence
on the north-westerly side of Tremont st. to Court st. ; thence on
the northerly side of Court st. and State st. to Long wharf; thence
on the southerly side of said wharf to the end thereof, including
East Boston and all the islands in the harbor.

ISo. 5. — Beginning on the easterly end of Cambridge bridge,
thence on the northerly side of Cambridge st. to Staniford st. ;
thence on the westerly side of Staniford st. to Green St., crossing
Green st. to Lyman place; thence on the westerly side of Lyman
place to Prospect st. ; thence on the westerly side of Prospect st.,
crossing Causeway st. to Lowell st. ; thence on the south-westerly
side of Lowell st. to the water.

No. 6. — Beginning at the easterly end of Cambridge bridge,
thence on the southerly side of Cambridge street to Belknap St.;
thence on the westerly side of Belknap st. to Beacon st. ; thence
on the northerly side of Beacon st. to the boundary line between
Boston and Koxbury, on the Western Avenue.

No. 7. — Beginning at the corner of Beacon st. and Belknap st. ;
thence on the easterly side of Belknap st. to Mount Vernon st. ;
thence on the southerly side of Mount Vernon st. to Beacon st. ;
thence on the southerly side of Beacon st. to Tremont st. ; thence
on the southeasterly side of Tremont st. to Court st. ; thence on
the southerly side of Court st., crossing Washington st. to State st. ;
thence on the southerly side of State st. to Congress st. ; thence on
the westerly side of Congress st. to Milk st. ; thence on the north-
erly side of Milk st. to Federal st. ; thence on the westerly side of
Federal st. to Franklin place ; thence on the northerly side of
Franklin place to Hawley st. ; thence on the westerly side of
Hawley st. to Summer st. ; thence on the soutlierly side of Sum-
mer St. to Chauncy place ; thence on the westerly side of Chauncy
place and Bedford place, crossing Bedford St., on the westerly side
of Rowe St., to Essex st. ; thence on the northerly side of tssex st.
to Washington st. ; thence on the westerly side of Washington st.
to Boylston st. ; thence on the northerly side of Boylston st. to
Tremont st. ; thence on the easterly side of Tremont st. to Park st;
thence on the north-easterly side of Park st. to Beacon st. ; thence
on the northerly side of Beacon st. -to the corner of Belknap st.

No. 8 — Beginning at the water on the southerly side of Long
wharf, thence on the soutlierly side of State stieet to Congress street;
thence on the easterly side of Congress street to Milk street; thence
on the southerly side of Milk street to Federal street ; thence on the
easterly side of Federal street to Berry street ; thence on the north-
erly side of Berry street to Atkinson street ; thence on the north-
easterly side of Atkinson street, crossing Purchase street and Broad
street, to the water on the southerly side of Russia wharf.

No. 9. — Beginning at the water on the southerly side of Hobbs's
wharf, thence crossing Sea street to Beach street ; thence on the

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northerly side of Beacli street to Washington street; thence on the
easterly side of Washington street to Essex street ; thence on the
southerly side of Essex street to Rowe street; thence on tlie east-
erly side of Rowe street, crossing Bedfoi'd street, on the easterly
side of Bedford place and Chniincy place to Summer street; thence
on the northerly side of Summer street to Hawley street ; thence on
the easterly side of Hawley street to Franklin place ; thence on
the southerly side of Franklin place to Federal street ; thence
crossing Federal street to Berry street ; thence on the southerly
side of Berry street to Atkinson street ; thence on the south-
westerly side of Atkinson street, crossing Purchase street and Broad
street, to the water on the southerly side of Russia wharf.

No. 10. — Beginning at the water on the southerly side of Hohbs"s
wharf, thence crossing Sea street to Beach street ; thence on the
southerly side of Beach street to Washington street ; thence on the
westerly side of Washington street to Boylston street; thence on
the southerly side of Boylston street to Pleasant street; thence on
the easterly side of Pleasant street to Eliot street; thence on the
northerly side of Eliot street to Carver street; thence on the east-
erly side of Carver street to Pleasant street; thence on the north-
easterly side of Pleasant street to Washington street ; thence cross-
ing Washington street to Indiana street ; thence on the northerly
side of Indiana street to Harrison avenue ; thence on the easterly
side of Harrison avenue, to a new street crossing the South Cove ;
thence on the northerly side of said street to the water on the
southerly side of Guild and Cowdin's wharf

No. 11 — IJeginning at the corner of Boylston street and Pleasant
street; thence on the westerly side of Pleasant street to Eliot
street ; thence on the southerly side of Eliot street to Carver street ;
thence on the westerly side of Carver street to Pleasnnt street;
thence on the south-westerly side of Pleasant street to Washington
street ; thence crossing Washington street to Indiana street ; thence
on the southerly side of Indiana street, to Harrison avenue ; thence
on the westerly side of Harrison avenue, to a new street crossing
the South Cove ; thence on the southerly side of said street, to the
water on the southerly side of Guild & Cowdin's wharf — all south
and west of the above described line, to Koxbury.

No. 12.— All South Boston.

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REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.

The following table shows the value of the Real and Personal
Estate, with the number of persons assessed from the year 1794,
and every subsequent fifth year to 1844.

Year.

Real Estate.

Personal Estate.

Aggregate.

No. Bills.

£. s. d

£. s. d.

1794

602,312 10 0

824,812 10 0

1,427,125 0 0

, 2953

DOLLARS.

1799

3,'224,100

3,766,200

6,990,300

3600

1804

13,753,000

15,328,300

29,081,300

5230

1809

19,712,000

16,617,200

36,329,200

6772

1814

17,871,400

15,164,800

33,037,200

6617

1819

22,795,800

16,583,400

39,379,200

7851

18-^4

27,303,800

22,540,000

49,807,800

]0980

1829

36,963,800

24,104,200

61,068,000

13311

1834

43,140,600

31,665,200

74,805,800

lr-652

18:;9

58,577,800

33,248,600

91 ,826,400

18151

1844

72,048,000

46,402,300

118,450,300

24817

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Aldermen, names and
residences,

Vacancies in,
. No choice of,
Standing Commit

tee of.
Chairman of,
Doings of, in 1845-
46, confirmed.
Adjournments, .
Appropriations, annual
Additions to,
Transfers of,
Amendments of Rules
and Orders,
Ordinances,
Attorney, City, .
Accounts, Commit, on

County, do.
Assessors' Department
Committee on.
How chosen, i&c.
Assistant,
Ordinance, .
Assessment of Taxes,
Alien Passengers,

Superintendent of.
Auditor, when chosen

«&c., . 5

Assay Master, .
Appeal to Council,

Page.

69
53
53

74
5,26

57
6,11,14

7
7
7

75,76

73
75,76

27,76
27
27
49

75
83
12

Page.

By-laws, titles to,

Ballot, election by,

Blank,

Buildings, removal of

Public, sales of,

Committee on,

Superintendent of

Births, registry of.

Burial Grounds, Super

intendent of, .

Committee on.

Boston Harbor, Com-

mittee on,

Ordinance, .

Bridges, Committee on

Superintendent of

Bells and Clocks, Com-

mittee on,

Board of Acc'ts, who

Bark, &c., Measu'rs of.

Boats, «fcc.. Weighers

of, ... .

Conferences, Commit

tee of,
Commit's, Joint Stand
ing,

not to act sepa'

rately,
Joint, Reports of,

7
7

CONTENTS

Page.
Committees,not to con-
tract, ' . . . 8
not to approve cer-
tain Bills, . 8
of the Whole, . 10,15
of Common Coun-
cil, how appoint-
ed, . . . 11
Standing, how ap-

appointed, . 15
of how many mem-
bers may be on, 14
Chairmen of, . 5, 14, 16
when not to sit, . 15
of Common Coun-
cil, ... 15
chosen by ballot, . 15
Chairman of, pro

tem., . . 16
Special, . , 16
notice of meetings, 17
when to report, . 18
of Board of Alder-
men, . . 5, 74
Clerks to make copies, 8
to attend commit-
tee meetings, . 17
Chairmen of Commit-
tees, . . .5, 14, 16
of Board of Alder-
men, . . 5, 26
City Debt, vote to in-
crease, ... 7
Committee on, . 5
Communications, &c., 15
Clerk of Council, du-
ties, ... 17
Coaches, &c., law reg-
ulating, ... 23
Superintendent of, 77
Cellar Doors, &c., . 24
Cattle going at large, 24
City Attorne}'^, . . 25
City Officers, election

of, ... . 53

names, &c., of, . 69

Council, vacancies in, 53

Page.

Copies, &c., made by

Clerks, ... 8

Contractors, Commit-
tees not to be, . 8

CityClerk,Salary,&c., 71

Officers, election

of, . . . 53

Call to order, . . 12

County Accounts, Com-
mittee on, . . 75

Common, &c., Com-
mittee on, . . 74

Constables, . . 78

Clocks, &c., Commit-
tee on, . . . 74

Court House, Keep-

er of, . . .

Cullers of Fish, .

Hoops, &c.,

Crier, City,

Charitable Institutions,

Debt, City,

increase of, .

reduction of.

Dedication of Streets,

&c.,

Deaths, registry of.

Division of Questions,

Drains, &c., Commit-

tee on,

Deputy Collectors,

Excuses for not voting

Enrolment of Ordi

• nances, .

15,16

Committee on.

16,75

Expenditures, orders

for.

7,16

Elections by ballot,

Elections, &c.. Com-

mittee on.

Ex. Health, Commit

tee on,

Engines, officers of,

Engineers, pay, «fec.,
Estates, valuation of,

Goal, Committee on,

&c.,
Grading Streets and

Ways,
Glass Furnaces, .

Hackney Coaches, «&c.,
Harbor of Boston, Or
dinance, .

Committee on.
House of Correction,
Overseers, &,c., of,
Committee on,
Reformation,
House of Industry, &c

Directors, «fec..
Hard Lumber, Survey

ors of.
Hospital, Lunatic,
Visiters of, .
Health, Committee on
Health Department,
Hemp, Surveyors of.
Hay Weighers, .
Highways, Surveyors
of, . . ■ .

Page.

80,82

104

Fuel, Ordinance con-

cerning, .

Committee on.

Finance, Committeeon,

Furnaces, &c., .

50,58

Faneuil Hall Market,

Fire Department, Com-

mittee on.

officers of, .

account of, .

Fence Viewers, .

Field Drivers, .

Fiirther time to report.

: NT s .

Internal Health, Com

Page,

mittee on,

■ 74

Industry, House of,

Instruction, Pub., Com

mittee on,

Inspectors of Prisons,

Joint Standing Com

mittee's, .

records to be kept

Chairman of,

to report,

Journal, by Clerk,

Jail, Committee on.

Jailor, Deputy, .

Justices, Police Court,

Keeper of Rainsford
Island,

Lunatic Hospital, Ordi-
nance,

Visiters, &c.,

Laws, recent.

Licenses, Committee
on, ....

Lands, Public, Ordi-

26,34
84
46

nance,

Committee on.

Superintendent of,

Lamps, number of,&c..

Lighters, pay,&c..

Committee on.

Superintendent of,

26,34

Lumber, Surveyors of.

Lime, Inspectors of, .

Leather, Measurer of,

Motions seconded,

to be in writing, .

Members, rights and

duties of,

,12

CONTENTS.

Page.

Members, not to speak

more than once,

13,15

not to stand up, .

when called to or-

der, .

not to be inter-

rupted.

not to be on more

than two Com-

mittees, .

not to be named, .

all to vote, .

two or more rising

Messages to Aldermen

Mayor, vacancy of,

No choice of,

Main question, .

Memorials, &c.,

15,16

Market Ordinance,

Committee on,

Clerk and assist-

ants of,

Mahogany, &c., Sur-

veyors of,

Municipal Court, offi

cers of, .

Minutes to be kept.

Messenger to C. C,

Meetings of Commit

tees, notice of.

Marriages and Regis

try of.

Marshals. City, how

chosen, &c., .

Non concurrence.

Notice, of Repeal o

Orders, &c., .

of adjournment.

to Committees,

15,17

Newspapers taken b^

City,

Night Police, .

Ordinances, titles of,

Page.
Ordinances, reading of, 16
recent, . . 19
to be enrolled, . 16
Committee on, . 74
Orders, titles of, . 7
Opinions, &c., title of, 7
Overseers of the Poor, 85
Obstruction of Streets, 23, 25
Oak Lumber, &c., Sur-
veyors of, . . 82
Order, questions of, . 9
Officers, election of^ . 53

Primary Schools, . 90
Police Department, . 76
Committee on, . 74
Court, . . 77
Officers, . . 77
Night, . . 78
Paving, &c.. Commit-
tee on, . . . 74
Prisons, Inspectors of, 78
Physician, Port, how

chosen, ... 78

Consulting, . . 79

Pound Keepers, . . 83

Plurality of votes,— . 9
Personal Estate, valu-
ation of, . . . 104
President of Council,

Duties, &c., . . 9
Absence of, . 9
Substitution of, . 10
Pro tem., . . 9
to call to order, . 12
Physicians, Consulting, 79
. Port, ... 78
Previous Question, . 11, 14
Public Buildings, Com-
mittee on, . . 72
Superintendent of, 80
Lands, Superin-
tendent of, . . 80
Committee on, . 72
Printer, City, how

chosen, &c., . . 78

CONTENTS.

Page.

Printing, Ordinance, .

Commilee on,

Pub. Instruction, Com-

mittee on,

Penalties, imposition

of, ... .

Questions propounded

Under debate,

Seconded, .

Division of, .

Q.uar'ine Island, keep

er, .

Reduction City Debt,

Committee on,

Reports, clerks to make

copies.
Resolves, what are, .

8
7

Records of J. S. Com-

mittees, .

Reports, to be in writ-

ing,

Joint, .

7
7

agreed to by Com-

mittee,

time allowed,

Rules concerning.

Reconsideration,

Reading of Papers,

Repealing of Ordinan-
ces, &c..

Orders,

Real Estate, valuation

of, . . . .

104

Resolutions, two read-

ings, .

Reformation, House of.
Registry of Births, tfec.

,84
47

Rules and Orders,

Suspension of,

Repeal or amend-
ment of, .
Reservoirs, Committee

on, .

Page.
Rainsford Island, keep-
er, ... . 78

Standing Committees,

Joint, . . . 3, 72
of Council, . . 15,75

how chosen, . 5

Members of, . 75

Chairman of, . 5
Meetings of, how

called, . . 6
of Board of Alder-
men, . . 74
Rules, &c. . . 14
to keep Records, . 17
Sums and times, votes

on, .... 11
Suspension of Rules,

&c. ... 14

Seats of Members, . 16

Special Committees, . 16
Sewers and Drains,

Ordinance, . . 22
Committee on, . 74
Sewers, &c., Superin-
tendent of, . . 79
Salaried OlBcers, how

chosen, ... 17
Solicitor, City, Ordi-
nance, ... 32
when chosen, . 76
Steam Engines, Ordi-
nance, ... 50
Committee on, . 75
Streets and Ways,

Grading of, . . 54
Committee on, . 74
Width of, . . 55
Obstructions of, . 23, 25
Widening, Com-
mittee on, . 74
Superintendent of, 79
Surveyors of High-
ways, ... 79
Staves, &c., cullers of, 83

CONTENTS.

Substitution of Presi-
dent,

Sealers of Weights and
Measures,

Separate consultations,

Schools, Public Gram-
mar,

Primary,

Transfers of Appropri-
ations,

Times and Sums, votes
on,

Taxes, asesssment of,
Ordinance,

Treasury, Department,
Committee on,
Officers, &c..

Titles to Ordinances,
«fcc.

Trucks, &c., Superin-
tendent of,

Undertakers,

Votes, one-third,
two-thirds,

Page.
10

85
90

7
11
27

6,7

Votes, three-fourths, .

when doubted,
Votes, of all required,
Violation of Rules and
Orders, .

Papp.
14
10
14

Water Commissioners,

Committee on,

Ordinance, .

Act, .

Ward Officers, vacan-

cy in, .

Officers,

Ways and Streets,

width of.

Dedication of.

Grading of, .

Widening Streets

Committee on.

Watch, Captain of,

Wood, &c , Measur-

ers of,

Weights and Measures

Sealers of.

Wards, Boundaries o;

101

Yeas and Nays,

7, 10

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