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BOSTON

MUNICIPAL REGISTER

FOR 1961

SEAL OF THE CITY

OF

BOSTON

THE CITY SEAL
As it appeared prior to 1827

The City Seal was adopted by ''An Ordinance to
Establish the City Seal," passed January 2, 1823, which
provides "That the design hereto annexed, as sketched
by John R. Penniman, giving a view of the City, be the
device of the City Seal; that the motto be as follows,
to wit: 'Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis'; and that the
inscription be as follows: — 'Bostonia condita, A.D.
1630. Civitatis regimine donata, A.D. 1822.' " The
motto is taken from 1 Kings, viii, 57: "God be with
us as He was with our fathers."

The seal as it first appeared is shown above.

The seal as it was afterwards changed, and has ever
since continued to be used, was first shown on page 221
of the volume of laws and ordinances, commonly known
as the "First Revision," published in 1827, and is
established as the City Seal at the present time by
Revised Ordinances of 1914, Chapter 1, Section 5,
which provides that "The seal of the City shall be
circular in form; shall bear a view of the City; the
motto 'SicuT Patribus Sit Deus Nobis,' and the
inscription, 'Bostonia Condita, A.D. 1630. Civitatis
Regimine Donata A.D. 1822,' as herewith shown."

The seal as changed in 1827 is shown on the opposite
page.

MUNICIPAL REGISTER

ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF BOSTON

The Royal Patent incorporating the Governor and
Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England passed
the seals March * 4, 1628-29. At a General Court, or
Meeting of the Company, on August * 29 of that year it
was voted "that the Government and patent should be
settled in New England." To that end Governor Win-
throp led the Puritan Exodus in 1630. Soon after his
arrival at Salem on June * 12, 1630, he proceeded with a
large following to Charlestown, where a plantation had
been estabhshed the summer before. The Assistants
held three Courts at Charlestown in the interval, August
* 23 to September * 28, inclusive. At their meeting
on September * 7, they ''ordered that Trimountaine
shall be called Boston; Mattapan, Dorchester; and the
towne upon Charles River, Waterton." Thus Shawmut
of the Indians was named Boston, probably out of grati-
tude to the Merchants of Boston in Lincolnshire, who
had subscribed generously to the stock of the Company.

In the latter part of August, Governor Winthrop
with the patent chose Boston as his abiding place.
The first "Court" held in Boston was a "General Court"
on October * 19, "for establishing of the government."
On October * 3, 1632, Boston was formally declared
to be "the fittest place for pubhque meetings of any
place in the Bay."

Boston was the first town in Massachusetts to become
a city. It was incorporated February 23, 1822, by
St. 1821, c. 110, adopted by the voters March 4, 1822.
This act was revised by St. 1854, c. 448; amended by
St. 1885, c. 266, again by St. 1909, c. 486, and again by
St. 1948, c. 452 as amended by St. 1951, c. 376.

The neck of land called Boston, still called Boston
Proper, contained perhaps 700 acres of land, judging
from the 783 acres shown by the official survey of 1794.
(In the interval 1630-37, Boston acquired jurisdiction
over most of the territory now included in Chelsea,
Winthrop, Revere, East Boston, Brookhne, Quincy,
Braintree, Randolph and Holbrook, besides certain
islands in the harbor.) From 1637 till May 13, 1640,

* Old Style

ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF BOSTON 5

when "Mount Woollaston" was set off as Braintree,
Boston exercised jurisdiction over a territory of at least
40,000 acres. Within its present Umits there are 30,598
acres, including flats and water.

Since 1640, grants of land have been made to Boston
by the General Court as follows: (1) October * 16, 1660,
1,000 acres ''for the use of a free schoole, layd out in
the wildernesse or North of the Merimake River" (in
Haverhill), in 1664. (2) June * 27, 1735, in abatement
of Province Tax, three townships, each six miles square,
or 69,120 acres in all. These townships later became
the Towns of Charlemont, Colrain, and Pittsfield.
Boston sold its interest in them on June * 30, 1737, for
£3,660. (3) June 26, 1794, a township of land in
Maine (23,040 acres) "to build a public hospital." This
tract was sold by the City April 6, 1833, for S4,200.

Muddy River was set off as the Town of Brookline
on November * 13, 1705, and Rumney Marsh was set
off as the Town of Chelsea January * 8, 1739.

The principal annexations of territory included within
the present limits of the City of Boston have been made
as follows :

(1) Noddle's Island by order of Court of Assistants, March
* 9, 1636-37. (2) South Boston set off from Dorchester March
6, 1804, by St. 1803, c. 111. (3) Washington Village set off
from Dorchester May 21, 1855, by St. 1855, c. 468. (4) Rox-
bury January 6, 1868, by St. 1867, c. 359, accepted September
9, 1867. Roxbury received its name by order of the Court of
Assistants October * 8, 1630. It was incorporated as a city
March 12, 1846, by St. 1846, c. 95, accepted March 25, 1846.
(5) Dorchester January 3, 1870, by St. 1869, c. 349, accepted
June 22, 1869. It received its name September * 7, 1630, by
order of the Court of Assistants. (6) Brighton January 5, 1874,
by St. 1873, c. 303, accepted October 7, 1873. Set off from
Cambridge as the Town of Brighton February 24, 1807, by St.
1806, c. 65. (7) Charlestown January 5, 1874, by St. 1873, c.
286, accepted October 7, 1873. Settled July * 4, 1629. It was
incorporated a City February 22, 1847, by St. 1847, c. 29,
accepted March 10, 1847. (8) West Roxbury January 5, 1874,
by St. 1873, c. 314, accepted October 7, 1873. It was set off
from Roxbury and incorporated a Town May 24, 1851, by St.
1851, c. 250. (9) Hyde Park January 1, 1912, by St. 1911, c.
469, and 583, accepted November 7, 1911. Incorporated a
Town April 22, 1868.

* Old Style

CITY OF BOSTON

IN CITY COUNCIL

Ordered, — That the City Clerk be authorized, under
the direction of the Committee on Rules, to prepare
and have printed the "Municipal Register" for the current
year; and that the Clerk of Committees be authorized
to prepare and have printed a pocket edition of the
''Organization of the City Government"; the expense of
said register and organization to be charged to the
appropriation for City Documents.

In City Council January 9, 1961. Passed.
Approved by the Mayor January 11, 1961.

Attest:

W. J. Malloy,

City Clerk. .

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MAYOR OF BOSTON

PRESIDENT BOSTON CITY COUNCIL

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JAMES S. COFFEY

JOHN PATRICK CONNOLLY

WILLIAM J. FOLEY, JR.

CITY COUNCIL

PETER F. MINES

CHRISTOPHER A. lANNELLA

JOHN E. KERRIGAN

FREDERICK C LANGONEtt PATRICK F. McDONOUGH

EDWARD F. Mclaughlin, jr.

THOMAS A. SULLIVAN*

JOSEPH C WHITEt

*To January 5, 1961
**From January 9, 1961

tTo April 27, 1961
ttFrom May 1, 1961

[Document 30 — 1961.]

CITY OF BOSTON

MUNICIPAL REGISTER
FOR 1961

CONTAINING

A REGISTER OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT, CITY
CHARTER OF 1909, AS AMENDED BY STATUTE
1948, CHAPTER 452, AND STATUTE 1951, CHAP-
TER 376, INCLUDING SUBSEQUENT CHANGES,

WITH

LISTS OF EXECUTIVE AND OTHER PUBLIC OFFICERS,

AND

MEMBERSHIP OF FORMER CITY GOVERNMENTS.

COMPILED AND EDITED BY THE CITY CLERK

UNDER THE DIRECTION

OF

THE COMMITTEE ON RULES

OF

THE CITY COUNCIL

CITY OF BOSTON

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT

PRINTING SECTION

1961

8 MUNICIPAL REGISTER r^ --3 r

Contents

Page

Introduction 9, 10

The City Government, 1961 11

Officers of the City Council . J.2

Committees of the City Council 13

Amended City Charter of 1909 (with Plan A charter) . . . 14-41

Officials in charge of executive departments, term, etc. . . 43-45

Notes on executive departments, lists of officials, term, etc. . 47-103

Various City, County and State officials, term, etc. . . . 105-107
Various departments, commissions, courts, etc., lists of officials,

term, etc. . 108-140

Members of City Government, 1909-1961 141-154

Mayors of Boston, 1822-1961 . 155, 156

Chairmen of the Board of Aldermen, 1855-1909 ... . . 156, 157

Presidents of the Common Council, 1822-1909 . . . . 157, 158

Presidents of the City Council, 1910-1961 . . . . . 159

Orators of Boston, 1771-1961 160, 161

Index . 162-168

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

As a public document The Municipal Register is
as old as the City of Boston itself, the first volume
having been published in 1821, a year before the govern-
ment of Boston changed from Town to City. Up to

1840 the title of the volume was: The Rules and Orders
of the Common Council. From 1821 to 1829 the docu-
ment contained merely a register of the City Council
and a list of the officers.

In 1829 the City Charter was published as a part of
the volume, and in 1830 the Acts relating to Boston,
also the ordinances, were added. In 1832 the size of
the volume was increased by the addition of an index
to the contents. The volume published in 1822 con-
tained fifteen pages and for the year 1840 there were
eighty-eight pages, including three pages of index.

The title The Municipal Register was adopted in

1841 when the publication became more ambitious,
incorporating in its pages the Rules and Orders of the
Common Council, joint rules, ordinances of the City,
statutes of the Commonwealth relating to the City, a
list of the public schools, the City Government of 1841,
the committees and departments (consisting at that
time of the treasury, law, police, health, public land
and buildings, lamps and bridges, fire, and public
charitable institutions), and a list of the ward officers.

From 1842 to 1864 it also contained a list of the
members of preceding City Governments, a necrological
record of those members, the latest ordinances and the
special statutes relating to the City. In 1851 a hst of
the annual orators was added, and in 1853 a map of

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the City and the Rules of the Board of Aldermen. In
1876, statistics of registration and voting were included,
carried from 1879 to 1924 in tabulated form.

From 1889 to 1896, inclusive, The Municipal
Register also continued a compilation of the Charter
with the revision of 1854 and the amendments of 1885
and thereafter. The Amended Charter of 1909 (15
pages) was added in 1910, and the various changes
since that year have been indicated by footnotes.

In 1924 the important amendments to the Charter
enacted in that year (10 pages) were included.

The 1925 volume contained, as the latest addition,
descriptions of the ward boundaries as fixed for the 22
new wards (formerly 26) in December, 1924.

This volume contains the City Charter as amended
by Stat. 1948, Chap. 452, and Stat. 1951, Chap. 376,
commonly known as Plan A, including subsequent
changes.

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ASSISTANT
CITY CLERK

FRANCIS X. JOYCE
ASSISTANT
CITY MESSENGER

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CITY GOVERNMENT 11

GOVERNMENT

OF THE

CITY OF BOSTON
1961

JOHN F. COLLINS, Mayor

Residence,
20 Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plain

BOSTON CITY COUNCIL, 1961

Stat. 1948, Chap. 452; Stat. 1951, Chap. 376; Stat. 1952, Chap. 190.

PATRICK F. Mcdonough, President

James S. Coffey

24 White Street, East Boston

John Patrick Connolly
16 Chamblet Street, Dorchester

William J. Foley, Jr.
15 Thomas Park, South Boston

Peter F. Hines
7 Bellaire Road, West Roxbury

Christopher A. Iannella

14 Jaeger Terrace, West Roxbury

John E. Kerrigan

213 West Eighth Street, South Boston

ft Frederick C. Langone

220 Hanover Street
Patrick F. McDonough

11 Barrington Road, Dorchester
* Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr.

6 Calvin Road, West Roxbury
** Thomas A. Sullivan
44 Msgr. Denis F. O'Callaghan Way, South Boston
t Joseph C. White

12 Ruskin Street, West Roxbury
Regular meetings in Council Chamber, City Hall,

fourth floor, Mondays, at 2 p.m.

* To January 5, 1961 f To April 27, 1961

** From January 9, 1961 ft From May 1, 1961

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OFFICERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL

CLERK

Walter J. Malloy

ASSISTANT CLERK

Joseph M. Dunlea

CLERK OF COMMITTEES

Office, City Hall, Room 42, fourth floor

Robert E. Green

The Clerk of Committees acts as the clerk of all committees of the City
Council, keeps the records of their meetings, and has charge of the City
Hall Reference Library.

Assistant Clerks of Committees

Francis W. Leavey John L. Maloney

The Assistant Clerks of Committees assist the Clerk of Committees
in the performance of .his duties, and they act also as Secretaries to the
City Council.

CITY messenger

Office, City Hall, Room 41, fourth floor

William J. O'Donnell

The City Messenger attends all meetings of .the City Council and
committees thereof, keeps the accounts of the e.xpenditures from the city
council appropriations, and has the care and distribution of all documents
printed for the use of the City Council, also the regular department reports.

assistant CITY MESSENGER

Francis X. Joyce

The Assistant City Messenger performs the duties of the City Messenger
in the latter's absence or in case of vacancy of his position.

librarian-archivist

Joseph J. Brogna

DOCUMENT clerk

Nicholas J. DiMella

official REPORTER OF PROCEEDINGS

Elvira Johnson

WALTER J. MALLOY
City Clerk

OFFICERS

OF THE

CITY COUNCIL

ROBERT E. GREEN
Clerk of Committees

WILLIAM J. O'DONNELL
City Messenaer

CITY COUNCIL 13

STANDING COMMITTEES OF CITY
COUNCIL.

19 6 1

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

All the members, Councillor Connolly, Chairman, Councillor Kerrigan,

Vice-Chairman.

On the following committees the first-named member is Chairman,
eecond-named Vice Chairman.

Apphopriations and Finance: Councillors Sullivan, lannella, Coffey,
Kerrigan, Hines, Connolly, Foley.

Claims: Councillors Foley, Connolly, lannella, Coffey, SulUvan.

Confirmations: Councillors Hines, lannella, Connolly, Coffey, Ker-
rigan.

Hospitals: Councillors Langone, Kerrigan, Coffey, Sullivan, Hines.

Inspection of Prisons: Councillors Foley, Coffey, Langone, lannella,
Hines.

Legislative Matters: Councillors Sullivan, lannella, Langone, Hines,
Foley.

Licenses: Councillors Coffey, Kerrigan, Connolly, Hines, lannella.

Ordinances: Councillors Coffey, Kerrigan, Langone, Hines, Connolly.

Public Housing: Councillors lannella, Coffey, Kerrigan, Connolly,
Sullivan.

Public Lands: Councillors Hines, Langone, Kerrigan, Coffey, lannella.

Public Services and Recreation: Councillors Connolly, Kerrigan,
Sullivan, Hines, Foley.

Rules: Councillors Kerrigan, Connolly, Foley, lannella, Coffey.

Urban Redevelopment, Rehabilitation and Renewal: Councillors
lannella, Hines, Coffey, Sullivan, Foley.

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CURRENTLY OPERATIVE- PROVISIONS

OF
CHAPTER 452 OF THE ACTS OF 1948

AS AMENDED BY
CHAPTER 376 OF THE ACTS OF 1951,
■ INCLUDING SUBSEQUENT CHANGES

General Provisions

Section 1. The following words as used in this act shall, unless the
context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:

"City", the city of Boston.

"Board of election commissioners", the board of election commissioners
of the city of Boston.

"Regular municipal election", the biennial election held for electing
officers of the city as provided in this act.

"Prelininary election", the election held for the purpose of nominating
candidates whose names shall appear on the official ballot at a municipal
election.

"Proportional representation", any proportional representation method
of election authorized by chapter fifty-four A of the General Laws.

"Present form of city government", the form of city government in
effect in the city when it first adopts one of the three optional plans of
government provided in this act.

Sect. 2. The city, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, may adopt
from time to time at any regular municipal election any one of the optional
plans of government provided in this act and shall thereafter be governed
by the provisions of the plan so adopted until said provisions are super-
seded by the adoption of another plan under this act. The inhabitants of
the city shall continue to be a municipal corporation under the name
existing at the time of the adoption of any plan provided in this act, and
shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers and
privileges, and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and obligations
provided for in this act, or otherwise pertaining to or incumbent upon
said city as a municipal corporation.

None of the legislative powers of the city shall be abridged or impaired
by this act; but all such legislative powers shall be possessed and exercised
by such body as shall be the legislative body of the city under this act.

Whenever one of the plans provided for in this act shall be adopted, all
ordinances, resolutions, orders or other regulations of the city or of any
authorized body or official thereof, existing at the time when the city

CITY CHARTER WITH AMENDMENTS 15

adopts such plan, and not inconsistent with the provisions of the plan
adopted, shall continue in full force and effect until repealed, modified,
suspended or superseded, and all acts and parts of acts relating to the
city, so far as inconsistent with the plan adopted shall be inoperative.

*************

Sect. 6. Whenever one of the plans provided in this act shall be adopted,
it shall continue in force for a period of at least four j'^ears from the be-
ginning of the terms of ofRce of the officials elected thereunder; and no
petition proposing another of said plans shall be filed until after three
years from the beginning of said terms of office.

Sect. 8. Whenever one of the plans provided in this act shall be adopted,
the terms of office of all elective officers in office, and the position of city
manager if there be one, shall terminate at ten o'clock in the forenoon
on the first Monday of January following the first municipal election
held in accordance with the provisions of the plan so adopted.

Sect. 9. Whenever one of the plans provided in this act shall be adopted,
the fiscal year of the city shall begin on January first and shall end on
December thirty-first next following ; and the municipal year thereof shall
begin on the first Monday in January and shall continue until the first
Monday of the January next following.

Plan A. Government by Mayor, City Council, and School Com-
mittee, Elected at Large with Preliminary Elections

{Plan A was adopted by the voters of the City of Boston at the Municipal
Election held November 8, 1949, Yes, 146,163, No, 73,882.)

Sect. 10. The form of government provided in sections eleven to twenty,
inclusive, and the method of nominating and electing officials thereunder
provided in sections fifty-three to sixty-five, inclusive, shall constitute and
be known as Plan A under this act. When Plan A is adopted, said sec-
tions eleven to twenty, inclusive, and fifty-three to sixty-five, inclusive,
shall become and be operative, subject to the provisions of section four.

Sect. 11. There shall be in the city a mayor who shall be the chief
executive officer of the citj^, a city council of nine members which shall
be the legislative body of the city, and a school committee of five mem-
bers which shall have the powers and duties conferred and imposed by
law.

Sect. 11 A. Every person elected mayor and every person elected or
chosen city councillor or school committeeman shall, before entering upon
the duties of his office, take, and subscribe in a book to be kept by the
city clerk for the purpose, the oath of allegiance and oath of office pre-
scribed in the constitution of this commonwealth and an oath to support
the constitution of the United States. Such oaths shall be administered,
to a person elected mayor, by a justice of the supreme judicial court, a
judge of a court of record commissioned to hold such court within the

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city or a justice of the peace, and to a person elected or chosen city coun-
cillor or school committeeman, by the mayor or any of the persons au-
thorized to administer said oaths to a person elected ijiayor.

Sect. 11 B. Whenever the mayor is absent from the city or unable from
any cause to perform his duties, and whenever there is a vacancy in the
office of mayor from any cause, the president of the city council, while
such absence, inability or vacancy continues, shall perform the duties of
. mayor. If there is no president of the city council or if he also is absent
from the city or unable from any cause to perform such duties, they shall
be performed, until there is a mayor or president of the city council or
the mayor or president of the city council returns or is able to attend
to said duties, by such member of the city council as that body by a vote
which, for the purposes of section seventeen D, shall be deemed to be a
vote electing an official, may elect, and until such election by the city
clerk. The person upon whom such duties shall devolve shall be called
"acting mayor" and he shall possess the powers of mayor only in matters
not admitting of delay, but shall have no power to make permanent
appointments.

Sect. 12. At the next regular municipal election following the adoption
of Plan A and at every second regular municipal election after a regular
municipal election at which a mayor is elected, a mayor shall be elected
at large to hold office for the four municipal years following the municipal
year in which he is elected and thereafter until his successor is elected and
qualified.

Sect. 13. If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor within sixteen
weeks prior to a regular municipal election other than a regular municipal
election at which a mayor is elected, or within sixteen months after a
regular municipal election, or if there is a failure to elect a mayor or a
person elected mayor resignes or dies before taking office, the city council
shall forthwith adopt an order calling a special municipal election for the
purpose of electing at large a mayor for the unexpired term, which election
shall be held on such Tuesday, not less than one hundred and twenty days
nor more than one hundred and forty days after the adoption of such
order, as the city council shall in such order fix. If a vacancy occurs in
the office of the mayor at any other time, a mayor shall be elected at large
at the next regular municipal election to hold office for a term expiring at
ten o'clock in the forenoon on the first Monday of the fourth January
following his election. A person elected mayor under either of the fore-
going provisions shall take and subscribe the oaths required by section
eleven A as soon as conveniently may be after the issuance to him of his
certificate of election. Such person shall hold ofiice from the time of
taking and subscribing such oaths until the expiration of his term and
thereafter until his successor is elected and qualified. The provisions of
this section shall not apply if a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor in
the period beginning on the date of a regular municipal election at which
a new mayor is elected and ending at the time he takes office.

CITY CHARTER WITH AMENDMENTS 17

Sect. 13A. The mayor shall be paid an annual salary of twenty
thousand dollars or such other sum as may from time to time be fixed by
ordinance. The mayor shall not receive for his services any other com-
pensation or emolument whatever; nor shall he hold any other office of
emolument under the city government.

Sect. 14. At the next regular municipal election following the adoption
of Plan A and at every regular municipal election thereafter, there shall
be elected at large nine city councillors, each to hold office for the two
municipal years following the municipal year in which he is elected.

Sect. 15.* If at any time a vacancy occurs in the city council from
any cause, the city clerk shall forthwith notify the city council thereof; and
within fifteen days after such notification, the remaining city councillors
shall choose, as city councillor for the unexpired term, whichever of the
defeated candidates for the office of city councillor at the regular municipal
election at which city councillors were elected for the term in which the
vacancy occurs, who are eligible and willing to serve, received the highest
number of votes at such election, or, if there is no such defeated candidate
eligible and willing to serve, a registered voter of the city duly qualified
to vote for a candidate for the office of city councillor. If at a regular
municipal election there is a failure to elect a city councillor or if a person
elected city councillor at such an election resigns or dies before taking
office, the city clerk shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the
remaining city councillors-elect take office, notify the city council of such
failure to elect, resignation or death; and within fifteen days after such
notification, the members thereof shall choose, as city councillor for the
unexpired term, whichever of the defeated candidates for the office of city
councillor at such election, who are eligible and willing to serve, received
the highest number of votes at such election, or, if there is no such defeated
candidate eligible and willing to serve, a registered voter of the city duly
qualified to vote for a candidate for the office of city councillor. If in
any of the aforesaid events a choice is not made as hereinbefore provided
within fifteen days after the notification of the city council by the city
clerk, the choice shall be made by the mayor, or, if there is no mayor, by
the city councillor senior in length of service, or, if there be more than
one such, by the city councillor senior both in age and length of service.
For the purposes of section seventeen D, votes of the city council under
this section shall be deemed to be votes electing officials.

Sect. 16. Every city councillor shall be paid an annual salary of five
thousand dollars; and no other sum shall be paid from the city treasury
for or on account of any personal expenses directly or indirectly in-
curred by or in behalf of any city councillor.

Sect. 17. The city council shall be the judge of the election and
qualifications of its members; shall elect from its members by vote of a
majority of all the members a president who when present shall preside at
(he meetings thereof; and shall from time to time establish rules for its

* Sect. 15 as amended by Stat. 1952, Chap. 190.

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proceedings. The member eldest in years shall preside untU the president
is chosen, and in case of the absence of the president, until a presiding
officer is chosen.

Sect. 17A. The mayor may, whenever in his judgment the good of
the city requires it, summon a meeting or meetings of the city council
although said council stands adjourned to a more distant day, and shall
cause suitable written notice of such meeting or meetings to be given to
the city councillors.

Sect. 17B. The city council may, subject to the approval of the
mayor, from time to time establish such offices, other than that of clerk,
as it may deem necessary for the conduct of its affairs and at such salaries
as it may determine, and aboUsh such offices or alter such salaries; and
without such approval may fill the offices thus established and remove
the incumbents at pleasure. The city clerk shall act as clerk of the
city council.

Sect. 17C. All elections by the city council under any provision of
law, including the choosing of a city councillor under section fifteen, shall
be made by a viva voce vote, each member who is present answering to his
name when it is called by the clerk or other proper officer, and stating
the name of the person for whom he votes, or declining to vote, as the
case may be; and the clerk or other proper officer shall record every such
vote. No such election, shall be vaUd unless it is made as aforesaid.

Sect. 17D. Every order, ordinance, resolution and vote of the city
council (except special municipal election orders adopted under section
thirteen, votes relating to the internal affairs of said council, resolutions
not affecting legal rights, votes electing officials, and votes confirming
appointments by the mayor) shall be presented to the mayor for his
approval. If he approves it, he shall sign it; and thereupon it shall be in
force. If he disapproves it, he shall, by filing it wath the city clerk with
his objections thereto in writing, return it to the city council which shall
enter the objections at lai;ge on its records. Every order, ordinance, reso-
lution and vote authorizing a loan or appropriating money or accepting
a statute involving the expenditure of money, which is so returned to the
city council, shall be void, and no further action shall be taken thereon;
but the city council shall proceed forthwith to reconsider every other
order^ ordinance, resolution and vote so returned, and if, after such recon-
sideration, two thirds of all the city councillors vote to pass it notwith-
standing the disapproval of the mayor, it shall then be in force; but no
such vote shall be taken before the seventh day after the city council has
entered the objections at large on its records. Every order, ordinance,
resolution or vote required by this section to be presented to the mayor
which, within fifteen days after such presentation, is neither signed by
him nor filed with his written objections as hereinbefore provided, shall
be in force on and after the sixteenth day following such presentation.

Every order, ordinance, resolution or vote required by this section
to be presented to the mayor shall be approved as a whole or disapproved

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aa a whole; except that, if the same authorizes a loan or appropriates
money, the mayor may approve some of the items in whole or in part
and disapprove other of the items in whole or in part; and such items or
parts of items as he approves shall, upon his signing the same, be in force
and such items or parts of items as he disapproves by filing with the city
clerk his written objections thereto shall be void, and such items or parts
of items as he neither signs nor so disapproves within fifteen days after
the order, ordinance, resolution or vote shall have been presented to him
shall be in force on and after the sixteenth day following such presen-
tation.

Sect. 17E. The mayor from time to time may make to the city council
in the form of an ordinance or loan order filed with the city clerk such
recommendations other than for school purposes as he may deem to
be for the welfare of the city. The city council shall consider each ordi-
nance or loan order so presented and shall either adopt or reject the same
within sixty days after the date when it is filed as aforesaid. If such
ordinance or loan order is not rejected within said sixty days, it shall be
in force as if adopted by the city council unless previously withdrawn by
the mayor. Nothing herein shall prevent the mayor from again presenting
an ordinance or loan order which has been rejected or withdrawn. The
city council may originate an ordinance or loan order and may reduce or
reject any item in any loan and, subject to the approval of the maj^or,
may amend an ordinance. All sales of land other than school lands, all
appropriations for the purchase of land other than for school purposes,
and all loans voted by the city council shall require a vote of two thirds of
all the city councillors and shall be passed only after two separate readings
and by two separate votes, the second of said readings and votes to be
had not less than fourteen days after the first, except that in the case of
loan orders for temporary loans in anticipation of taxes the second of
said readings and votes may be had not less than twenty-four hours after
the first. No amendment increasing the amount of land to be sold or the
amount to be paid for the purchase of land, or the amount of loans, or
altering the disposition of purchase money or of the proceeds of loans
shall be made at the time of the second reading and vote. If a petition
signed by three city councillors requesting that action be taken forthwith
upon a loan order presented by the mayor is filed in the office of the city
clerk not earUer than fourteen days after the presentation of such loan
order, action shall be taken by the yeas and nays on the question of the
adoption of such loan order at the next meeting of the council, or, if one
vote has already been taken thereon, at the next meeting after the expira-
tion of the required interval after such vote; provided, that such action
thereon has not sooner been taken or such loan order has not been with-
drawn by the mayor.

Sect. 17F. The city council at any time may request from the mayor
specific information on any municipal matter within its jurisdiction, and
may request his presence to answer written questions relating thereto
at a meeting to be held not earlier than one week from the date of the

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receipt of said questions, in which case the mayor shall personally, or
through a head of a department or a member of a board, attend such
meeting and publicly answer all such questions. The person so attending
shall not be obliged to answer questions relating to any other matter.
The mayor at any time may attend and address the city council in person
or through the head of a department, or a member of a board, upon such
subject as he may desire.

Sect. 17G. Except as otherwise provided in chapter four hundred and
eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, neither the city council
nor any member, committee, officer or employee thereof shall directly or
indirectly on behalf of the city or of the county of Suffolk take part in the
employment of labor, the making of contracts, or the purchase of materials,
supplies or real estate; nor in the construction, alteration, or repair of
any public works, buildings, or other property; nor in the care, custody,
or management of the same; nor in the conduct of the executive or ad-
ministrative business of the city or county; nor in the appointment or
removal of any city or county employee; nor in the expenditure of public
money except such as may be necessary for the contingent and incidental
expenses of the city council. Any person violating any provision of this
section shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year,
or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or both.

Sect. 17H. No city councillor nor any person elected city councillor
shall, during the term for which he is elected or chosen, be appointed to,
or hold, any office or position which is under the city government or the
salary of which is payable out of the city treasury except the office of city
councillor and any office held ex officio by virtue of being a member, or
president, of the city council; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall prevent a city councillor or any person elected city council-
lor from, during the term for which he is elected or chosen, being appointed
by the governor, with or without the advice and consent of the council,
to, and holding, any such office or position if before entering upon the
duties of such office or position he resigns as city councillor or city council-
lor-elect.

Sect. 18. At the next regular municipal election following the adoption
of Plan A and at every regular municipal election thereafter, there shall
be §lected at large five school committeemen, each to hold office for the
two municipal years following the municipal year in which he is elected.

Sect. 19.* If at any time a vacancy occurs in the school committee
from any cause, the mayor, the president of the city council and the
remaining school committeemen, meeting in joint convention, shall,
within fifteen days after the vacancy arises, choose, as school committee-
man for the unexpired term, whichever of the defeated candidates for the
office of school committeeman at the regular municipal election at which
school committeemen were elected for the term in which the vacancy

* Sect. 19 as amended by Stat. 1952, Chap. 190.

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occurs, who are eligible and willing to serve, received the highest number
of votes at such election, or, if there is no such defeated candidate eligible
and willing to serve, a registered voter of the city duly qualified to vote
for a candidate for the office of school committeeman. If at a regular mu-
nicipal election there is a failure to elect a school committeeman or if a
person elected school committeeman at such an election resigns or dies
before taking office, within fifteen days after the remaining school com-
mitteemen-elect take office, such school committeemen and the then
mayor and the then president of the city council shall meet in joint con-
vention and choose, as school committeeman for the unexpired term,
whichever of the defeated candidates for the office of school committeeman
at such election, who are eligible and willing to serve, received the highest
number of votes at such election, or, if there is no such defeated candidate
eligible and wiUing to serve, a registered voter of the city duly qualified
to vote for a candidate for the office of school committeeman.

Sect. 20. The members of the school committee shall meet and
organize on the first Monday of January following their election. The
school committee shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its
members. The members of the school committee shall serve without
compensation.

Nomination and Election Provisions Under Plan A and

Plan D

Sect. 53. Every municipal officer required by sections twelve, thirteen,
fourteen and eighteen to be elected at large shall be elected at a biennial
municipal election, or, in the case of a mayor for an unexpired term, at a
special municipal election, after, in either case, nomination at a pre-
liminary municipal election, except as otherwise provided in section fifty-
seven C. In sections fifty-three to sixty-five, inclusive, the term "regular
election " shall be construed to refer to the biennial municipal election or
the special municipal election, as the case may be, and the term "pre-
liminary election" to the preliminary municipal election held for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for election at such regular election. Every
preliminary election shall, unless dispensed with under said section fifty-
seven C, be held on the sixth Tuesday preceding the regular election.

Sect. 54. Any person who is a registered voter of the city duly quafified
to vote for a candidate for an elective municipal office therein may be a
candidate for nomination to such office; provided, that a petition for the
nomination of such person is obtained, signed and filed as provided in
sections fifty-five, fifty-five A, and fifty-six, and signatures of petitioners
thereon, to the number required by section fifty-six, certified as provided
in section fifty-seven by the board of election commissioners, in sections
fifty-five to sixty-five, inclusive, called the election commission.

Sect. 55. A nomination petition shall be issued only to a person sub-
scribing after the thirteenth Tuesday, and before the eighth Tuesday

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preceding the preliminary election, in a book kept for that purpose by
the election commission, a statement of candidacy in substantially the
following form: —

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
CITY OF BOSTON

Statement of Candidacy
I, {name with first or middle name in full), under the pains and penal-
ties of perjury declare that I reside at {street and number, if any) in Ward
{number) of the City of Boston; that I am a registered voter of said City
duly quaUfied to vote for a candidate for the office hereinafter mentioned;
that I am a candidate for nomination for the office of (Mayor or City
Councillor or School Committeeman); that I request that my name be
printed as such candidate on the official ballot to be used at the preliminary
municipal election to be held on Tuesday, , 19 , for the
pm-pose of nominating candidates for election to such office; and that
I also request that my nomination petition contain the following state-
ment (not exceeding eight words) concerning the elective pubhc offices
now or formerly held by me : —

Signature of Candidate

Sect. 55A. A nomination petition shall be issued by the election com-
mission not later than twelve o'clock noon on the second day (Saturdays,
Sundays and legal holidays excluded) after the subscription of a statement
of candidacy, except that no such petition shall be issued before the
eleventh Tuesday preceding the preUminary election. A nomination
petition shall not relate to* more than one candidate nor to more than one
office. A nomination petition may state the elective pubhc offices which
the candidate holds or has held under the government of the common-
wealth, the county of Suffolk or the city of Boston or in the congress as a
representative or senator from the commonwealth; provided, that such
statement shall not exceed eight words and shall, with respect to each
such office, consist solely of the title, as hereinafter given, of such office,
preceded, if the candidate is the then incumbent thereof, by the word
"Present", otherwise, by the word "Former", and followed, if, but only
if, the office is that of city councillor, by the words "at Large" or "for
Ward {here insert ward number in numerals, which shall be counted as one
word)", as the case may be. For the purposes of such statement, the
titles of the elective public offices which may be stated shall be deemed
to be as follows: — city councillor, school committeeman, mayor, district
attorney, sheriff, register of deeds, register of probate, county clerk of
superior (criminal) court, county clerk of superior (civil) court, county
clerk of supreme judicial court, state representative, state senator, gov-

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23

ernor's councillor, attorney general, state auditor, state treasurer, state
secretary, lieutenant governor, governor, congressman, and United States
senator.

If the candidate is a veteran as defined in section twenty-one of chapter
thirty-one of the General Laws, his nomination petition may contain the
word "Veteran", which, in the case of a candidate holding or having held
elective public office as aforesaid, shall, for the purposes of this section and
sections fifty-five, fifty-eight and sixty-two, be counted as a part of the
statement concerning the elective public offices held by him, and, in the
case of a candidate who does not hold and has never held elective public
office as aforesaid, shall, for the purposes of said sections, be deemed to be
a statement concerning the elective public offices held by him.

A nomination petition may consist of one or more sheets; but each sheet
shall be in substantially the following form: —

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
CITY OF BOSTON

Nomination Petition

Whereas {name of candidate) residing at {street and number, if any)
in Ward {number) of the City of Boston, {here insert any lawfully requested
statement concerning the elective public offices held by candidate) is a candidate
for nomination for the office of (Mayor or City Councillor or School
Committeeman), the undersigned, registered voters of the City of Boston,
duly qualified to vote for a candidate for said office, do hereby request
that the name of said {name of candidate) as a candidate for nomination
for said office be printed on the official ballot to be used at the prefiminary
municipal election to be held on Tuesday, ,19 .

Each of the undersigned does hereby certify that he or she has not
subscribed {if the petition relates to the office of mayor, here insert: — any
other nomination petition for said office; if the petition relates to the office
of city councillor, here insert: — more than eight other nomination petitions
for said office; and if the petition relates to the office of school committeeman,
here insert: — more than four other nomination petitions for said office).

In case the above-named candidate withdraws his name from nomi-
nation or is found to be ineligible or dies, we authorize {names and resi-
dences of a committee of not less than five persons) or a majority thereof
as our representatives to fill the vacancy in the manner prescribed by law.

Signatures of
Nominators

(To be signed in person
with name as regis-
tered)

Residence
January 1, 19 .

(If registered after above
date, residence when
registered)

"Ward

Pre-
cinct

Present Residence

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk, ss. Boston, ^ 19

The undersigned, being the circulator or circulators of this sheet,
severally certify, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that the persons
whose names are written upon the lines the numbers of which appear
opposite our signatures below, signed the same in person.

Names and Addresses of Persons
Circulating This Sheet

Numbers of Lines Upon Which
Appear Signatures as to Which

Name

Address

Certification is Made Hereby

(Add here or at some other convenient place on the nomination petition
sheet the following. )
I hereby accept the nomination.

Signature of Candidate

This nomination petition sheet filed by

Signature of Filer

Number Street City

Every nomination petition sheet shall, before issuance, be prepared by
the election commission by printing or inserting thereon the matter re-
quired by the first two paragraphs of the foregoing form. Not more than
three hundred nomination petition sheets shall be issued to any candidate
for nomination to the office of mayor under Plan A; not more than one
hundred and fifty such sheets shall be issued to any candidate for nomi-
nation to the office of city councillor under Plan A or D; and not more
than two hundred such sheets shall be issued to any oandidate for nomi-
nation to the office of school committeeman under Plan A or D. No
nomination petition sheet shall be received or be valid unless prepared and
issued by the election commission; nor shall any such sheet be received or
be valid unless the written acceptance of the candidate thereby nomi-
nated is endorsed thereon, anything in section three A of chapter fifty
of the General Laws to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sect. 56. The nomination petition shall be signed, in the case of a
candidate for mayor, by at least three thousand registered voters of the
city qualified to vote for such candidate at the preliminary election, in the
case of a candidate for city councillor, by at least fifteen hundred registered
voters of the city qualified to vote for such candidate at such election,
and, in the case of a candidate for school committeeman, by at least two
thousand registered voters of the city qualified to vote for such candidate
at such election.

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Every voter signing a nomination petition shall sign in person, with his
name as registered, and shall state his residence on January first preceding,
or his residence when registered if subsequent thereto, and the place
where he is then living, with the street and number, if any; but any voter
who is prevented by physical disability from writing may authorize
some person to write his name and residence in his presence. No voter
may sign as petitioner more than one nomination petition for the office
of mayor, nor more than nine nomination petitions for the office of city
councillor, nor more than five nomination petitions for the office of school
committeeman. If the name of any voter appears as petitioner on more
nomination petitions for an office than prescribed in this section, his name
shall, in determining the number of petitioners, be counted, in the case
of the office of mayor, only on the nomination petition sheet bearing his
name first filed with the election commission, in the case of the office of
city councillor, only on the nine nomination petition sheets bearing his
name first filed with said commission, and, in the case of the office of
school committeeman, only on the five nomination petition sheets bearing
his name first filed with said commission. If the name of any voter
appears as petitioner on the same nomination petition more than once,
it shall be deemed to appear but once. The signature of any petitioner
which is not certified by the circulator of the sheet as provided in the
form set forth in section fifty-five A shall not be counted in determining
the number of petitioners.

The separate sheets of a nomination petition may be filed all at one
time or in lots of one or more from time to time, but shall all be filed with
the election commission at or before five o'clock in the afternoon on the
eighth Tuesday preceding the preliminary election. Every nomination
petition sheet shall be filed by a responsible person, who shall sign such
sheet and, if he is other than the candidate, add to his signature his place
of residence, giving street and number, if any; and the election commission
shall require satisfactory identification of such person.

The names of candidates appearing on nomination petitions shall, when
filed, be a matter of public record; but no nomination petition shall be
open to public inspection until the signatures on all nomination petitions
for the same office have been certified.

Sect. 57. Upon the filing of each nomination petition sheet the election
commission shall check each name to be certified by it on such sheet and
shall certify thereon the number of signatures so checked which are the
names of registered voters of the city qualified to sign the same ; provided,
however, that said commission shall not certify, in connection with a
single nomination petition, a greater number of names than required by
section fifty-six with one tenth of such number added thereto. Names
not certified in the first instance shall not thereafter be certified on the
same nomination petition. All nomination petitions not containing
names certified pursuant to this section, to the number required by said
section fifty-six, shall be invalid. The election commission shall complete
the certification required by this section at or before five o'clock in the
afternoon on the thirty-fourth day preceding the preliminary election.

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Sect. 57A. A nomination petition which has been filed and is in ap-
parent conformity with law shall be vahd unless written objection thereto
is made by a registered voter of the city. Such objection shall be filed
with the election commission at or before five o'clock in the afternoon on
the twenty-eighth day preceding the prehminary election. Objections filled
with the election commission shall forthwith be transmitted by it to the
Boston ballot law commission. Certification pursuant to section fifty-
seven shall not preclude a voter from filing objections to the validity of
a nomination petition.

Sect. 57B.* Any candidate may withdraw his name from nomination
by a request signed and duly acknowledged by him; provided, however,
that all withdrawals shall be filed with the election commission at or
before five o'clock in the afternoon on the twenty-eighth day preceding
the prehminary election. If a candidate so withdraws his name from
nomination before five o'clock in the afternoon of the twenty-ninth day
preceding the preliminary election, or is found to be inehgible or dies, the
vacancy may be filled by a committee of not less than five persons or a
majority thereof, if such committee be named and so authorized in the
nomination petition ; provided, however, that all certificates of substitution,
except any certificate of substitution for a deceased candidate for mayor
under Plan A, shall be filed with the election commission at or before
five o'clock in the afternoon on said twenty-ninth day.

The certificate of substitution for a deceased candidate for mayor
under Plan A shall be filed with the election commission (a) at or before
five o'clock in the afternoon on the first Tuesday preceding the prehminary
election if he dies on or before the second Friday preceding such election
(6) at or before five o'clock in the afternoon on the first Friday following
the preliminary election if he dies after the second Friday preceding such
election and before the closing of the polls at such election, (c) at or before
five o'clock in the afternoon on the first Tuesday preceding the regular
election if he dies after the closing of the polls at the prelimiaary election
and on or before the second Friday preceding the regular election, and
(d) at or before five o'clock in the afternoon on the first Friday following
the regular election if he dies after the second Friday preceding such
election and before the closing of the polls at such election; provided,
however, that no certificate of substitution for such a deceased candidate
shall be filed after the closing of the polls at the preliminary election unless
such candidate, if living, would be deemed under either section fifty-
seven C or sixty-one to have been nominated for the office of mayor
under Plan A.

If a certificate of substitution for a deceased candidate for mayor
under Plan A is filed at or before five o'clock in the afternoon on the first
Tuesday preceding the prehminary election, the ballots for use at such
election shall be printed with the name, residence and ward of the sub-
stitute in the place of the name, residence and ward of the deceased;
and the voting machine ballot labels for use at such election, if not pre-

* Sect. 57B as amended by Stat. 1958, chap. 257.

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viously printed, shall be printed with the name, residence and ward of
the substitute in the place of the name, residence and ward of the deceased,
and, if previously printed shall have a slip containing the name, residence
and ward of the substitute pasted over the name, residence and ward of
the deceased. If such a certificate is filed after five o'clock in the after-
noon on the first Tuesday preceding the preliminary election, all ballots
and voting machine ballot labels for use at such election shall bear the
name, residence and Vt^ard of the deceased but shall be deemed as a matter
of law to bear the name, residence and ward of the substitute in the place
of the name, residence and ward of the deceased, and a vote for the de-
ceased at such election shall be counted as a vote for the substitute. If
such a certificate is filed at or before five o'clock in the afternoon on the
first Tuesday preceding the regular election, the ballots for use at such
election other than absent voting ballots shall be printed with the name,
residence and ward of the substitute in the place of the name, residence
and ward of the deceased; and the absent voting ballots for use at such
election, if not previously printed, shall be printed with the name, resi-
dence and ward of the substitute in the place of the name, residence and
ward of the deceased and, if previouslj^ printed, shall be deemed as a
matter of law to bear the name, residence and ward of the substitute in
the place of the name, residence and ward of the deceased so that a vote
thereon for the deceased shall be counted as a vote for the substitute; and
the voting machine ballot labels for use at such election, if not previously
printed, shall be printed with the name, residence and ward of the substi-
tute in the place of the name, residence and ward of the deceased, and,
if previously printed, shall have a slip containing the name, residence
and ward of the substitute pasted over the name, residence and ward of
the deceased. If a candidate for mayor under Plan A in whose nomina-
tion petition a committee of not less than five persons or a majority thereof
is authorized to fill a vacancy dies after the second Friday preceding the
regular election and a certificate of substitution is not filed at or before
five o'clock in the afternoon on the first Tuesday preceding such election,
such election, so far, but only so far, as it is for the purpose of electing a
person for the office of mayor, shall be postponed for four weeks and
no vote cast for any candidate for mayor at the originally scheduled
election shall be counted.

Every certificate of substitution shall state: — (1) the name of the sub-
stitute, (2) his residence, with street and number, if any, and ward, (3) the
office for which he is to be a candidate, (4) the name of the original candi-
date, (5) the fact of his death, withdrawal or inehgibility, and (6) the
proceedings had for making the substitution. The chairman and secre-
tary of the committee shall sign and make oath to the truth of the cer-
tificate; and it shall be accompanied by the written acceptance of the
candidate substituted. A certificate of substitution shall be open to
objection in the same manner, so far as practicable, as a nomination
petition.

Sect. 57C. On the first day, other than a legal holiday or Saturday
or Sunday, following the expiration of the time for filing withdrawals and

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the final disposition of any objections filed, the election commission shall
post in a conspicuous place in the city hall the names, residences and
wards of the candidates for nomination for mayor under Plan A and for
city councillor and school committeeman under Plans A and D who have
duly qualified as such candidates, as they are to appear on the ofiicial
ballots to be used at the preliminary election, except as to the order of the
names. If there are so posted the names of not more than two candi-
dates for the office of mayor under Plan A, the candidates whose names
are so posed shall be deemed to have been nominated for said office, and
the preliminary election for the purpose of nominating candidates therefor
shall be dispensed with; if there are so posted the names of not more than
eighteen candidates for the office of city councillor under Plan A or D,
the candidates whose names are so posted shall be deemed to have been
nominated for said office, and the preliminary election for the purpose of
nominating candidates therefor shall be dispensed with; and if there are
so posted the names of not more than ten candidates for the office of school
committeeman under Plan A or D, the candidates whose names are so
posted shall be deemed to have been nominated for said oflSce, and the
preliminary election for the purpose of nominating candidates therefor
shall be dispensed with.

Sect. 58. On the day of the posting provided for by section fifty-
seven C, or as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the election com-
mission shall draw by lot the position of the candidates on the ballot.
Each candidate shall have an opportunity to be present at such drawing in
person or by one representative. As soon as conveniently may be after
such drawing, the election commission shall cause the ballots to be printed.
Said ballots shall, in addition to the directions and numbers provided for
by section fifty-nine, contain, in the order drajvn by the election
commission, the names posted as aforesaid (except those of candidates
deemed under section fifty-seven C to have been nominated), and no
others, with a designation of residence and ward and the title and term
of the office for which the person named is a candidate, and the statement,
if any, contained in his nomination petition concerning the elective
public offices held by him. Said ballots shall be official and no others
shall be used at the preliminary election. Said ballots shall be headed as
follows :

OFFICIAL PRELIMINARY MUNICIPAL
ELECTION BALLOT

Candidates for nomination for the offices of in the

City of Boston at the preliminary municipal election to be held on
Tuesday, , 19 .

The heading of said ballots shall be varied in accordance with the offices
for which nominations are to be made.

Sect. 59. At every preliminary election, and every regular election,
under Plan A, each voter shall be entitled to vote for not more than one
candidate for the office of mayor, not more than nine candidates for the

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office of city councillor, and not more than five candidates for the office
of school committeeman. On the ballots and voting machine ballot labels
for use at each of said elections, there shall, as a direction to the voter,
be printed in capital letters, near the title of each office to be voted for,
the words "vote for (here insert in words the number of candidates specified
in this section with respect to such office)." The election commission, when
drawing under section fifty-eight the position on the ballot of the candi-
dates for nomination at every preliminary election, shall draw the posi-
tions of all candidates for mayor, if any are to be drawn, before drawing
the position of any candidate for city councillor or school committeeman
and shall draw the positions of all candidates for city councillor, if any are
to be drawn, before drawing the position of any candidate for school
committeeman. The election commission shall number consecutively,
regardless of office, all candidates drawn, — the candidate first drawn
being assigned the number 1 and the candidate last drawn being assigned
the last number assigned. No position shall be drawn for, nor shall any
number be assigned to, any candidate deemed under section fifty-seven C
to have been nominated; nor shall any number be assigned to any blank
space provided under section sixty-four or to any sticker candidate, so
called; and no vote by sticker, which term shall not be construed to in-
clude the slip provided for by section fifty-seven B, shall be counted if
any candidate number appears thereon. The numbers assigned under
this paragraph shall be separate and distinct from the alphabetical or
numerical code of any voting machine. On the ballots and voting
machine ballot labels for use at every preliminary election, there shall, as
an aid to the voter, be printed in numerals, before the name of each candi-
date and with type the same size as the name, the number assigned to the
candidate by the election commission under this paragraph.

Sect. 60. The election officers shall, immediately upon the closing
of the polls at preliminary elections, count the ballots and ascertain the
number of votes cast in the several voting places for each candidate, and
forthwith make return thereof upon the total vote sheets or, if voting
machines are used, the general or precinct record sheets, as the case may
be, to the election commission which shall forthwith canvass said returns
and, subject to the provisions of the first sentence of section one hundred
and thirty-seven of chapter fifty-four of the General Laws, determine and
declare the result thereof, publish said result in one or more newspapers
in the city, and post the same in a conspicuous place in the city hall.

Sect. 61. The two persons receiving at a preliminary election under
Plan A the highest number of votes for nomination for the office of mayor
shall be deemed to have been nominated for said office; and the eighteen
persons receiving at such an election under Plan A or D the highest num-
ber of votes for nomination for the office of city councillor shall be deemed
to have been nominated for said office; and the ten persons receiving at
such an election under Plan A or D the highest number of votes for
nomination for the office of school committeeman shall be deemed to have
been nominated for said office. If a preliminary election under Plan A

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or D results in a tie vote among candidates for nomination receiving the
lowest number of votes, which, but for said tie vote, would entitle a person
receiving the same to be deemed to have been nominated, all persons
participating in said tie vote shall be deemed to have been nominated,
although in consequence there be printed on the official ballot to be used
at the regular election names to a number exceeding twice the number to
be elected.

Sect. 62. The name of every person deemed under section fifty-seven
C or section sixty-one to have been nominated, together with his residence
and ward and the title and term of the office for which he is a candidate,
and the statement, if any, contained in his nomination petition concerning
the elective public offices held by him, shall, in addition to the directions
provided for by section fifty-nine, be printed on the official ballots to be
used at the regular elections; and said persons shall be the sole candidates
whose names may be printed on such ballots. As soon as conveniently
may be after the sixth Tuesday preceding every regular election, the elec-
tion commission shall draw by lot the position of said names on said
ballots; and said names shall be printed on such ballots in the order so
drawn. Each candidate shall have an opportunity to be present at such
drawing in person or by one representative.

Sect. 63. No ballot used at any preliminary or regular election shall
have printed thereon any party or political designation or mark, and
there shall not be appended to the name of any candidate any such party
or political designation or mark or anything showing how he was nomi-
nated or indicating his views or opinions.

Sect. 64. On every ballot to be used at a preliminary or regular
election, there shall be left, at the end of the list of candidates for each
office, blank spaces equal to the number for whicL a voter may vote for
such office, in which blank spaces the voter may insert the name of any
person not printed on the ballot for whom he desires to vote for such
office.

Sect. 65. At every preliminary election, and every regular election
under Plan D, each voter shall be entitled to vote for not more than six
candidates for the office of city councillor and not more than three candi-
dates for the office of school committeeman. On the ballots for use at
both^of said elections, there shall be printed directions to the voters that
each voter shall not vote for more than the number of candidates specified
in this section.

CITY CHARTER WITH AMENDMENTS 31

CURRENTLY OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

OF

CHAPTER 486 OF THE ACTS OF 1909
AS AMENDED

The Mayor and City Council

Sect. 3.* All appropriations, other than for school purposes, to be
met from taxes, revenue or any source other than loans, shall originate
with the mayor, who, not later than the first Monday in February of each
year, shall submit to the city council the annual budget of the current
expenses of the city and county for the current fiscal year, and may
submit thereafter such supplementary appropriation orders as he may
deem necessary. The city council may reduce or reject any item, but,
except upon the recommendation of the mayor, shall not increase any
item in, nor the total of, a budget, nor add any item thereto, nor shall it
originate a budget. Not later than the first Monday in April the city
council shall take definite action on the annual budget by adopting,
reducing or rejecting it, and in the event of their failure so to do the items
and the appropriation orders in the budget as recommended by the mayor
shall be in effect as if formally adopted by the city council and approved
by the mayor. It shall be the duty of the city and county officials, when
requested by the mayor, to submit forthwith in such detail as he may
require estimates for the next fiscal year of the expenditures of the depart-
ment or office under their charge, which estimates shall be transmitted to
the city council.

Sect. SA.f In the period after the expiration of any fiscal year, and
before the regular appropriations have been made by the city council and
the school committee, city and county officers who are authorized to
make expenditures, and the school committee, may incur liabilities in
carrying on the work of the several departments and offices entrusted to
them, and payments therefor shall be made from the treasury from any
available funds therein and charged against the next annual appropri-
ation, or special appropriation, if any is made ; provided, that the liabilities
incurred during such interval for regular employees do not exceed in
any one month the average monthly expenditure of the last three months
of the preceding fiscal year, and that the total habilities incurred during
said interval do not exceed in any one month the sums spent for similar

* Sect. 3 as amended by Stat. 1924, Chap. 479, Sect. 2, and Stat. 1941,
Chap. 604, Sect. 1.

t Sect. 3A as inserted by Stat. 1941, Chap. 604, Sect. 1, and as amended
by Stat. 1947, Chap. 120.

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purposes during any one month of the preceding fiscal year; and provided,
further, that said officers who are authorized to make expenditures may
expend in any one month for any new officer or board la\<ffully created
an amount not exceeding one twelfth of the estimated cost for the current
fiscal year; and provided, further, that until a regular or special appro-
priation has been made for snow removal, expenditures may be made for
that purpose to an amount not exceeding the average of the annual ex-
penditures for snow removal in the five preceding fiscal years. Notwith-
standing the foregoing limitations upon the authority of city officers to
incur liabilities during said interval, such officers may incur liabilities to
such extent as may be necessary for the purpose of compensating first
assistant assessors for their regular duties.

Sect. 3B.* After an appropriation of money has been duly made by
the city of Boston for any specific purpose, or for the needs and expendi-
tures of any city department or county office, no transfer of any part of
the money thus appropriated shall be made except in accordance with
and after the written recommendation of the mayor to the city council,
approved by a yea and nay vote of two thirds of all the members of the
city council; provided, that the city auditor, with the approval in each
instance of the mayor, may make transfers, other than for personal service,
from any item to any other item within the appropriations for a depart-
ment, division of a department or county office. After December tenth in
each year the city auditor may, with the approval of the mayor in each
instance, apply any income and taxes not disposed of and make transfers
from any appropriation to any other appropriation for the purpose only
of closing the accounts of the fiscal year.

(See Stat. 1942, Chap. 4, Sect. 3, reading as follows:

"During the continuance of the existing state of war between the United
States and any foreign country, notwithstanding the provisions of section
three B of chapter four hundred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred
and nine, inserted in said shapter by section one of chapter six hundred and
four of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-one, the vote required for ap-
proval by the city council of the city of Boston of any transfer of appropriation,
other than a loan appropriation, shall be by a yea and nay vote of a majority
of all the members of the city council.")

Sect. 4A.t The mayor may designate one clerical assistant for whose
acts he shall be responsible to sign his name in approval of all vouchers of
less than five hundred dollars each.

* Sect. 3B as inserted by Stat. 1941, Chap. 604, Sect. 1, and as amended
by Stat. 1954, Chap. 24.

+ Sect. 4A inserted by Stat. 1924, Chap. 479, Sect. 3.

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Sect. 5.* The city council with the approval of the mayor may from
time to time make by-laws or ordinances for any or all of the following
purposes: — (a) to create a new department or agency; (b) to abolish, in
whole or in part, any department or agency; (c) to reorganize, in whole
or in part, any department or department head or any agency or agency
head; (d) to confer or impose on any department or agency any power
or duty of the city not appertaining at the time of the making of the
by-law or ordinance to any department or agency; (e) to transfer any or
all of the powers, duties and appropriations of any division of any depart-
ment or agency to another division of the same department or agency;
(/) to transfer any or all of the powers, duties and appropriations of any
department or division thereof or of any agency or division thereof either
to another department or division thereof or to another agency or division
thereof; and (g) to increase, reduce, establish or aboUsh the salary of any
department or agency head. Every department or agency head created
by, or resultmg from a reorganization effected by, a by-law or ordinance
made under this section shall, unless ex officio, be appointed by the mayor
without confirmation by the city council for a term expiring on the first
Monday of the January following the next biennial municipal election at
which a mayor is elected or, in the case of a person serving without com-
pensation or of a person serving on the board of appeal, the board of
examiners, the board of examiners of gasfitters or other like board, for
such other term as the by-law or ordinance may prescribe. Every person
holding an office or position subject to the civil service laws and rules
shall, if the office or position is aboHshed by a by-law or ordinance made
under this section and the by-law or ordinance so provides, be reappointed
without civil service examination or registration to a similar office or
position with similar status in any new department or agency, or division
of either, thereby created or in any department or agency, or division
of either, not thereby abofished; and every such person shall upon such
reappointment, retain all rights to retirement with pension that shall
have accrued or would thereafter accrue to him; and his services shall be
deemed to have been continuous to the same extent as if such abolition
had not taken place. As used in this section, the term "agency" shall
be construed to mean any office in charge of a board or officer not subject
to the direction of a department head. Nothing in this section shall
authorize any action in conflict with the civil service laws or rules ex-
cept as expressly provided herein; nor shall any by-law or ordinance made
under this section affect in any way the school committee or any board
or officer of the school committee or school department, or the board of
commissioners of school buildings or the superintendent of construction,
or the board of trustees of the teachers' retirement fund or the board of
trustees of the permanent school pension fund, or the Boston retirement

* Sect. 5 as amended by Stat. 1953, Chap. 473.

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board, or the city clerk, or the board of election commissioners, or the
Boston traffic commission, or any board or officer appointed by the
governor.

Sect. 6. No contract for lighting the public streets, parks, or alleys,
or for the collection, removal, or disposal of refuse, extending over a
period of more than one year from the date thereof, shall be valid without
the approval of the mayor and the city council after a public hearing
held by the city council, of which at least seven days' notice shall have
been given in the City Record.

*************

Sect. 8. Neither the city council, nor any member or committee,
officer, or employee thereof shall, except as otherwise provided in this
act, directly or indirectly on behalf of the city or of the county of Suffolk
take part in the employment of labor, the making of contracts, the
purchase of materials, supplies or real estate; nor in the construction,
alteration, or repair of any public works, buildings, or other property;
nor in the care, custody, and management of the same; nor in the conduct
of the executive or administrative business of the city or county; nor in
the appointment or removal of any municipal or county employee; nor in
the expenditure of public money except such as may be necessary for the
contingent and incidental expenses of the city council. . . .

It shall be unlawful for the mayor or for a member of the city council
or for any officer or employee of the city or of the county of Suffolk or for
a member of the finance commission directly or indirectly to make a con-
tract with the city or with the county of Suffolk, or to receive any com-
mission, discount, bonus, gift, contribution or reward from or any share
in the profits of any person or corporation making or performing such
contract, unless such mayor, member of the city council, officer, or em-
ployee or member of the finance commission immediately upon learning
of the existence of such contract or that such contract is proposed, shall
notify in writing the mayor, city council, and finance commission of such
contract and of the nature of his interest in such contract and shall abstain
from doing any official act on behalf of the city in reference thereto. In
case of such interest on the part of an officer whose duty it is to make such
contract on behalf of the city, the contract may be made by any other
officer of the city duly authorized thereto by the mayor, or if the mayor
has Slich interest by the city clerk: provided, however, that when a con-
tractor with the city or county is a corporation or voluntary association,
the ownership of less than five per cent of the stock or shares actually
issued shall not be considered as being an interest in the contract within
the meaning of this act, and such ownership shall not affect the validity
of the contract, unless the owner of such stock or shares is also an officer
or agent of the corporation or association, or solicits or takes part in the
making of the contract.

A violation of any provision of this section shall render the contract in
respect to which such violation occurs voidable at the option of the city or

CITY CHARTER WITH AMENDMENTS 35

county. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be
punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by im-
prisonment for not more than one year, or both. . . .

The Executive Department
Sect. 9. All heads of departments and members of municipal boards,
including the board of street commissioners, as their present terms of
office expire (but excluding the school committeee and those officials by
law appointed by the governor), shall be appointed by the mayor without
confirmation by the city council. They shall be recognized experts in
such work as may devolve upon the incumbents of said offices, or persons
specially fitted by education, training or experience to perform the same,
and (except the election commissioners, who shall remain subject to the
provisions of existing laws) shall be appointed without regard to party
affiliation or to residence at the time of appointment except as hereinafter

provided.

*************

Sect. 12. A vacancy in any office to which the provisions of section
nine of this act apply, shall be filled by the mayor under the provisions of
said section and pending a permanent appointment he shall designate
some other head of a department or member of a board to discharge the
duties of the office temporarily.

Sect. 13.* Members of boards shall be appointed for the terms estab-
lished by law or by ordinance. Heads of departments shall be appointed
for terms of four years beginning with the first day of May of the year in
which they are appointed and shall continue thereafter to hold office
during the pleasure of the mayor.

Sect. 14. The mayor may remove any head of a department or member
of a board (other than the election commissioners, who shall remain subject
to the provisions of existing laws) by filing a written statement with the
city clerk setting forth in detail the specific reasons for such removal, a
copy of which shall be delivered or mailed to the person thus removed, who
may make a reply in writing, which, if he desires, may be filed with the
city clerk; but such reply shall not affect the action taken unless the mayor
so determines. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the school
committee or to any official by law appointed by the governor.

Sect. 15. The positions of assistants and secretary authorized by
section twenty of chapter four hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-five except those in the election depart-
ment are hereby abolished, and except as aforesaid the said section is
hereby repealed.

The civil service laws shall not apply to the appointment of the mayor's
secretaries, nor of the stenographers, clerks, telephone operators and
messengers connected with his office, and the mayor may remove such
appointees without a hearing and without making a statement of the
cause for their removal.

* Sect. 13. Affected by Stat. 1953, Chap. 473.

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Sect. 16. No official of said city, except in case of extreme emergency
involving the health or safety of the people or their property, shall expend
intentionally in any fiscal year any sum in excess of the appropriations
duly made in accordance with law, no involve the city in any contract for
the future payment of money in excess of such appropriation, except as
provided in section six of this act. Any official who shall violate the
provisions of this section shall be punished by imprisonment for not
more than one year, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars,
or both.

Sect. 16A.* Anything in section three A or section sixteen to the
contrary notwithstanding, city and county officers who are authorized
to make expenditures, and the school committee, may, during any fiscal
year, at the time of, or after, contracting for the performance or delivery
during the remainder of such year of any work, services or supplies of a
constantly recurrent nature, contract, without an appropriation, upon
like or more favorable terms and conditions, for the performance or de-
livery of such work, services or supplies for the whole or any part of the
first three months of the next fiscal year; provided, that in no event shall
the average monthly liability incurred with respect to the next fiscal
year exceed the average monthly liability for such work, services or supplies
during the last nine months of the then current fiscal year.

The Finance Commission

Sect. 17. Within sixty days after the passage of this act the governor
with the advice and consent of the council shall appoint a finance com-
mission to consist of five persons, inhabitants of and qualified voters in
the city of Boston, who shall have been such for at least three years prior
to the date of their appointment, one for the term of five years, one for
four years, one for three years, one for two years, 'and one for one year,
and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a
term of five years. Vacancies in the commission shall be filled for the
unexpired term by the governor with the advice and consent of the council.
The members of said commission may be removed by the governor with
the advice and consent of the council for such cause as he shall deem
sufficient. The chairman shall be designated by the governor. His
annual salary shall be five thousand dollars, which shall be paid in monthly
instalments by the city of Boston. The other members shall serve without
pay.

Sect. 18. It shall be the duty of the finance commission from time to
time to investigate any and all matters relating to appropriations, loans,
expenditures, accounts, and methods of administration affecting the city
of Boston or the county of Suffolk, or any department thereof, that may
appear to the commission to require investigation, and to report thereon
from time to time to the mayor, the city council, the governor, or the
general court. The commission shall make an annual report in January
of each year to the general court.

* Sect. 16A. Inserted by Stat. 1951, Chap. 182.

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Sect. 19. Whenever any pay roll, bill, or other claim against the city
is presented to the mayor, city auditor, or the city treasurer, he shall, if
the same seems to him to be of doubtful validity, excessive in amount, or
otherwise contrary to the city's interest, refer it to the finance commission,
which shall immediately investigate the facts and report thereon; and
pending said report payment shall be withheld.

Sect. 20.* The said commission is authorized to employ such experts,
counsel, and other assistants, and to incur such other expenses as it may
deem necessary, and the same shall be paid by said city upon requisition
by the commission, not exceeding in the aggregate in any year the sum of
sixty-five thousand dollars, or such additional sums as may be appropri-
ated for the purpose by the city council and approved by the mayor. A
sum sufficient to cover the salary of the chairman of the commission and
the further sum of at least sixty-five thousand dollars to meet the expenses
as aforesaid each year shall be appropriated by said city. The com-
mission shall have the same right to incur expenses in anticipation of its
appropriation as if it were a regular department of said city.

Sect. 21. For the purpose of enabling the said commission to perform
the duties and carry out the objects herein contemplated, and to enable
the mayor, the city council, the governor or the general court to receive
the reports and findings of said commission as a basis for such laws, or-
dinances, or administrative orders as may be deemed meet, the commission
shall have all the powers and duties enumerated in chapter five hundred
and sixty-two of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight and
therein conferred upon the commission designated in said act; but counsel
for any witness at any public hearing may ask him any pertinent question
and may offer pertinent evidence through other witnesses subject to
cross-examination by the commission and its counsel.

The City Clerk
Sect. 22. The present city clerk shall hold office for the term for
which he has been elected, and thereafter until his successor is chosen and
qualified. In the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and every third
year thereafter, a city clerk shall be elected by a majority of the members
of the city council, to hold office until the first Monday in February in the
third year following his election, and thereafter until his successor has
been duly chosen and qualified, unless sooner removed by due process of
law. . . .

The City Auditor
Sect. 23. All accounts rendered to or kept in the departments of the
city of Boston or county of Suffolk shall be subject to the inspection and
revision of the city auditor, and shall be rendered and kept in such form
as he shall prescribe. The auditor may require any person presenting for
settlement an account or claim against the city or county to make oath

* Sect. 20 as amended by Stat. 1921, Chap. 81, Stat. 1924, Chap. 369,
Stat. 1948, Chap. 175, and Stat. 1961, Chap. 40.

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before him in such form as he may prescribe as to the accuracy of such
account or claim. The wilful making of a false oath shall be perjury
and punishable as such. The auditor may disajlow and refuse to pay, in
whole or in part, any claim on the ground that it is fraudulent or unlawful
and in that case he shall file a written statement of his reasons for the
refusal.

Sect. 24. Whenever, in response to an advertisement by any officer or
board of the city or county, a bid for a contract to do work or furnish
materials is sent or delivered to said officer or board, a duplicate of the
same shall be furnished by the bidder to the auditor, to be kept by him
and not opened until after the original bids are opened. After the original
bids are opened, the auditor shall open and examine the bids submitted
to him, and shall compare the same with the original bids. In case any
of the bids submitted to the auditor differ from the corresponding original
bids, those submitted to the auditor shall be treated as the original bids.
The contract shall not be awarded imtil after both sets of bids are opened.

Sect. 25. The auditor shall furnish monthly to each head of depart-
ment a statement of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for that
department, and he shall furnish to the mayor and city council a statement
of the unexpended balances of all the departments. He shall furnish
quarterly to the city council an itemized statement showing the amount
of money expended by the mayor and the city council for contingent
expenses.

Miscellaneous Provisions

Sect. 26.* AH loans issued by the city after the passage of this act
shall be made payable in annual instalments in the manner authorized by
section thirteen of chapter twenty-seven of the Revised Laws as amended
by section one of chapter three hundred and forty-one of the acts of the
year nineteen hundred and eight. No sinking fund shall be established
for said loan. All bonds shall be offered for sale in such a manner that the
premiums, if any are received, shall be applied in accordance with the
provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-nine of the acts of the
year nineteen hundred and ten. No city or county money shall be
deposited in any bank or trust company of which any member of the
board of sinking fund commissioners of said city is an officer, director, or
agent. Nothing herein shall apply to transit bonds of the city of Boston
issued'under the provisions of the several acts authorizing the construction
of tunnels and subways in said city by the Boston Transit Commission,
and said bonds may be issued as heretofore and secured by sinking fund.

Sect. 27. f Every officer and board in charge of a department of the
city of Boston or county of Suffolk shall, on or before the sixth day of

* Sect. 26 as amended by Stat. 1910, Chap. 437, Sect. 1, and Stat. 1911,
Chap. 165, Sect. 1.

t Sect. 27 as amended by Special Stat. 1919, Chap. 168, Sect. 1, Stat.
1922, Chap. 133, Sect. 1, Stat. 1938, Chap. 263, Sect. 1, and Stat. 1951,
Chap. 111.

CITY CHARTER WITH AMENDMENTS 39

February in each year, prepare and furnish to the city auditor a list of
the officials and employees under said officer or board and paid by the
city or county on the first day of such February. Such list shall give the
name, residence by street and ward, designation, compensation, and date
of election or appointment of each of said officials and employees and the
date when each first entered the employ of the city or county. It shall
be the duty of the city auditor to verify said lists by the pay rolls and to
keep a copy of said lists open for public inspection, and to prepare and
publish in the City Record on or before the tenth day of April in each
year a comparative table containing the number of such officials and
employees holding office or employed in each such department or board
and paid by the city or county on the compilation date in each of the ten
years next preceding such publication. The term "compilation date,"
as herein used, shall be construed to mean, with respect to the year nine-
teen hundred and fifty-one or any prior year, the first day of January,
and with respect to the year nineteen hundred and fifty-two or any subse-
quent year, the first day of February.

Sect. 28. The jurisdiction now exercised by the board of aldermen
concerning the naming of streets, the planting and removal of trees in the
public ways, the issue of permits or licenses for coasting, the storage of
gasoline, oil, and other inflammable substances or explosive compounds
and the use of the pubhc ways for any permanent or temporary obstruction
or projection in, under, or over the same, including the location of con-
duits, poles, and posts for telephone, telegraph, street railway, or illumi-
nating purposes, is hereby vested in the board of street commissioners, to
be exercised by said board with the approval in writing of the mayor; and
the mayor and city council shall have authority to fix by ordinance the
terms by way of cash payment, rent, or otherwise, upon which permits or
licenses for the storage of gasoline or oil, or other inflammable substances
or explosive compounds, and the construction or use of coal holes, vaults,
bay windows, and marquises, in, under, or over the public ways shall be
issued.

Sect. 29.* Within ninety days after the passage of this act and there-
after there shall be published at least once a week and distributed and sold
under the direction of the mayor and on terms to be fixed by the city
council and approved by the mayor a paper to be known as the "City
Record." All advertising with reference to the sale of property for non-
payment of taxes shall appear exclusively in the City Record. All other
advertising, whether required by law or not, with reference to the pur-
chase or taking of land, contracts for work, materials or supplies, and the
sale of bonds, shall appear in said paper, and in such newspaper or news-
papers as the mayor, in his discretion, may order; a list of all contracts of
one thousand dollars or more, as awarded, with the names of bidders, and
the amount of the bids; appointments by the mayor; and changes in the

* Sect. 29 as amended by Stat. 1934, Chap. 185, Sect. 1, and Stat. 1947,
Chap. 447, Sect. 1.

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number and compensation of employees in each department, shall be
published in the City Record. Failure to pubHsh in such jnewspaper or
newspapers as the mayor may order shall not invalidate any purchase,
contract or sale made or action taken by the city. The proceedings of the
city council and school committee together with all communications from
the mayor, shall be published in the City Record; provided, that the sub-
stance of debates by and among the members of the city council shall not
be so published or published elsewhere at the expense of said city.

Sect. 30.* Every officer or board in charge of a department in said
city and every officer, board or official of the county of Suffolk having
power to incur obligations on behalf of said county in cases where said
obligations are to be paid for wholly from the treasury of said city, when
authorized to erect a new building or to make structural changes in an
existing building, shall make contracts therefor, not exceeding five, each
contract to be subject to the approval of the mayor; and when about to
do any work or to make any purchase, the estimated cost of which alone,
or in conjunction with other similar work or purchase which might properly
be included in the same contract, amounts to or exceeds two thousand
dollars, shall, unless the mayor gives written authority to do otherwise,
invite proposals therefor by advertisements in the Citj'' Record. Such
advertisements shall state the time and place for opening the proposals in
answer to said advertisement, and shall reserve the right to the ofiicer,
board or official to reject any or all proposals. No authority to dispense
with advertising shall be given by the mayor unless the said officer, board
or official furnishes him with a signed statement which shall be published
in the City Record giving in detail the reasons for not inviting bids by
advertisement.

Sect. 31. At the request of any department, and with the approval of
the mayor the board of street commissioners, in the name of the city, may
take in fee for any municipal purpose any land within the limits of the
city, not already appropriated to public use. Whenever the price pro-
posed to be paid for a lot of land for any municipal purpose is more than
twenty-five per cent higher than its average assessed valuation during the
previous three years, said land shall not be taken by purchase but shall
be taken by right of eminent domain and paid for in the manner provided
for thp taking of and the payment of damages for land for highways in
said city. No land shall be taken until an appropriation by loan or other-
wise for the general purpose for which land is needed shall have been
made by the mayor and city council by a two thirds vote of all its members;
or in case of land for school purposes by the school committee and school-
house department in accordance with law; nor shall a price be paid in
excess of the appropriation, unless a larger sum is awarded by a court of
competent jurisdiction. All proceedings in the taking of land shall be

* Sect. 30 as amended by Stat. 1939, Chap. 156, Sect. 1, and Stat. 1955,
Chap. 60, Sect. 2.

CITY CHARTER "WITH AMENDMENTS 41

under the advice of the law department, and a record thereof shall be
kept by said department.

Sect. 32.* Beginning in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five,
the municipal election in said city shall take place biennially in every odd
numbered year on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

Sect. 34. In Boston beginning with the current year political com-
mittees shall be elected at the state primaries instead of at the municipal
primaries.

* Sect. 32 as amended by Stat. 1914, Chap. 730, Sec. 1, Stat. 1921,
Chap. 288, Sect. 1, and Stat. 1924, Chap. 479, Sect. 4.

ORGANIZATION OF BO:

GOVERNOR

FINANCE
COMMISSION

CITY
COUNCIL

CITY
MESSENGER

CITY
CLERK

CLERK OF
COMMITTEES

ADMINISTRATIVE

L

BOSTON n

HOUSING

B

AUTHORITY

BOSTON

REDEVELOPMENT

AUTHORITY

PUBLIC

L

REAL
PROPERTY

r^o

nDMMITTEEON
'ORECLOSED
iEAL ESTATE

BOARD OF
COMMISSION
ERS OF
SINKING FUNE

WELFARE

VETERAN
SERVICES

LEGEND

LICENSING
BOARD

B= Board

— Full Control

■zz. Partial Control

■^ Board or Commissions

attacked for Administrativi

Purposes.

PUBLIC
HEALTH
COUNCIL

COMMITTEE

LICENSES

31

BOARD OF
APPEAL

3N'S CITY GOVERNMENT

SCHOOL
COMMITTEE

CHIEF OFFICIALS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

43

OFFICIALS

OF THE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

The following table shows the manner in which the administrative officers
of the Executive departments are appointed or elected, the time of appointment
or election and the term of office as prescribed by statute or ordinance. (Stat.
1953, Chap. 473; Ord. 1953, Chap. 8; Ord. 1954, Chaps. 2 and 3; Ord. 1956,
Chaps. 1 and 3; Ord. 1957, Chap. 2; Ord. 1958, Chap. 4 and Ord. 1961, Chap. 1.)

Officials.

How
Created.

Appointed

OH Elected.

Teem.

By Whom.

When.

Begins.

Length.

Administrative Services,
Director of

Ord.

Mayor

*

*

*

Appeal, Board of (Five)

Statute
and Ord.

"

Annually,
one

May 1

5 yrs.

Art Commission (Five)

Statute
and Ord.

u

Annually,
one

May 1

5 JTS.

Assessing, Commission-
er of

Statute
and Ord.

Statute
and Ord.

*

*

*

Assessing, Associate
Commissioner of
(Two)

*

Auditor

Ord.
Statute

u

t

Annually,
one

t

May 1
*

t

5 JTS.
*

Beacon Hill Architec-
tural Commission
(Five)

Budgets, Supervisor of. .

Ord.

"

*

Building Commissioner,

Statute

"

Quinquen-
niallj'

May 15

5 JTS.

City Clerk

Statute

City
Council

Triennially,

1st Mon.
in Feb.

3 yrs.

Civil Defense Director...

Statute
and Ord.

Mayor

t

Julyl

+

+

Collector-Treasurer ....

Statute
and Ord.

«

*

*

*

Corporation Counsel . . .

Ord.

u

Quadren-
nially

May 1

4 JTS.

Election Commissioners
(Four)

Statute

"

Annually,
one

AprU 1

4 yrs.

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial municipal
election at which a mayor is elected.

t Position placed under Civil Service bv vote of electorate, November 2, 1943.
J Determined by Stat. 1953, Chap. 491.

44

MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Officials.

How
Created.

Appointed or Elected.

By Whom.

When.

Term.

Begins.

Length.

Examiners, Board of
(Three)

Fire Commissioner .

Gasfitters, Board of Ex-
aminers of (Three) . . .

Health Commissioner.. .

Hospital Trustees
(Five)

Library Trustees (Five)

Parks and Recreation,
Commissioner of

Parks and Recreation,
Associate Commission-
ers of (Four) ,

Penal Institutions Com-
missioner

Personnel, Supervisor of

Public Health Council
(Nine)

Public Works, Commis-
sioner of

Purchasing Agent

Real Estate, Committee
on Foreclosed (Three)

Real Property, Com-
missioner of

Real I'toperty, Assist-
ant C'ommissioner of . .

Real Property, Associ-
ate (Commissioners of
(Throe)

Retirement Board
(Three)

Statute
and Ord.

Statute

Statute
and Ord.

Ord.

Statute
Ord.

Statute
and Ord.

Statute
and Ord.

Ord.
Ord.

Ord.

Ord.
Ord.

Ord.

Ord.

Ord.

Ord.

Statute

Mayor

Annually,
one

Quadren-
nially

Annually,
one

Annually,
one

Annually,
one

Annually,
one

Quadren-
nially

Annually,
three

May 1

May 1

May 1
*

May 1

May 1

*

May 1

May 1
t

May 1

3 yrs.

4 yrs.

1 yr,
*

5 yrs.
5 yrs.

4 yrs.

4 yrs.
t

3 yrs.

*

*

*

*

§

§

*

*

*

*

Annually,
one

May 1

Triennia lly ,
one

Oct. 1

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

* For a terra expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial municipal
electioii at which a mayor is elected.

§ Th(! Chairman and two other members of the Real Property Board are appointed by the
Mayor from the Real Property Board.

t Position placed under Civil Service by Stat. 1959, Chapter 603.

CHIEF OFFICIALS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

45

Officials.

How
Created.

Appointed ok Elected.

By Whom.

When.

Term.

Begins. Length

Review, Board of
(Three)

Sinking Funds Com-
missioners (Six)

Traffic Commissioner

Veterans' Benefits and
Services Commissioner

Veterans' Graves and
Registration, Super-
visor of

Weights and Measures,
Sealer of

Welfare, Overseers of
Public (Twelve)

Zoning Adjustment,
Board of (Twelve)

Alternates (Eleven) . . . .

Zoning Commission
(Eleven)

Statute
and Ord.

Statute
and Ord.

Statute

Statute
and Ord.

Statute
and Ord.

Statute
and Ord.

Statute
and Ord.

Statute

Statute

Statute

Mayor

See footnote

Annually,
two

Annually,
four

Annually,
two

Annually,
two

Annually,
four

See footnote

May 1

*

*

t

t

May 1

May 1

May 1

May 1

See foot-
note

3 yrs.

t

t

3 yrs.

5 yrs.
5 yrs.
3 yrs.

* For a term expirmg on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial municipal
election at which a mayor is elected,
t Position placed under Civil Service by Stat. 1949, Chap. 245.
J Position placed under Civil Service by Stat. 1909, Chap. 382.

Note: — The Mayor appoints three persons to this Board as follows: — (1)
such person in the service of the real estate appraisal division of the assessing
department as the mayor, by a writing filed with the city clerk after the com-
mencement of a municipal year, shall designate to serve ex officio on said board
at his pleasure during such year, who, while so serving, shall be chairman of
said board, (2) such person in the service of the statistical research division of
the assessing department as the mayor in like manner shall designate to serve
ex officio on said board at his pleasure during such year, and (3) such person
as the mayor shall appoint from the public at large to serve on said board for
a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial
municipal election at which a mayor is elected.

Executive Departments

THE DEPARTMENTS AND BOARDS OF THE CITY WERE
REORGANIZED AND CONSOLIDATED BY CHAPTER 8 OF
THE ORDINANCES OF 1953, WHICH TOOK EFFECT ON JANU-
ARY 1, 1954, CHAPTER 2 OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1954, WHICH
TOOK EFFECT ON MAY 1, 1954, AND CHAPTER 3 OF THE OR-
DINANCES OF 1954, WHICH TOOK EFFECT ON JUNE 30, 1954.

FOR CONVENIENT REFERENCE THE FOLLOWING DE-
PARTMENTS ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING
TO THE PRINCIPAL WORD OF THEIR TITLE. THE DEPART-
MENTS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY TITLES IN CAPITAL LET-
TERS AND THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE IN ITALICS.

(47)

DEPARTMENT OF THE MAYOR

49

DEPARTMENT OF THE MAYOR

Office, 27 City Hall, second floor

[Stat. 1885, Chap. 266; Stat. 1895, Chap. 449; Stat. 1904, Chap.''450;
Stat. 1905, Chap. 341; Stat. 1906, Chap. 259; Stat. 1907, Chaps. 274,
463; C. C, Title II., Chap. 3; Stat. 1908, Chaps, 292, 494; Stat. 1909,
Chap. 486; Stat. 1910, Chap. 373; Stat. 1911, Chap. 413; Stat. 1912,
Chap. 550; Stat. 1913, Chaps. 280, 387, 788; Stat. 1914, Chaps. 274,
730; Spec. Stat. 1915, Chaps. 184, 348; Spec. Stat. 1918, Chap. 94;
Gen. Stat. 1919, Chap. 75; Stat. 1920, Chaps. 6, 312, 613; Stat. 1921,
Chaps. 169, 407, 497; Stat. 1922, Chaps. 35, 399, 521; Stat. 1924,
Chaps. 453, 479; Stat. 1930, Chap. 167; Stat. 1938, Chap. 300;
Stat. 1945, Chaps. 4, 8; Rev. Ori. 1947, Chap. 2; Stat. 1948, Chap.
452; Stat. 1951, Chap. 376.]

JOHN F. COLLINS, Mayor
John H. O'Neill, Jr., Administrative Assistant
Albert Kramer, Administrative Assistant
William J. Devine, Assistant Secretary
Mary V. Callanan, Appointment Secretary
Margaret J. Leahy, Clerk

Elmer C. Foster, Community Relations Advisor
Richard J. Sinnott, Director of Public Information
and Chief of Licensing Division

the city record
Office, 40 City Hall
Thomas F. O'Day, Editor
P. Nicholas Petrocelli, Associate Editor

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES^DEPARTMgNT

Office, 50 City Hall
lOrd. 1953, Chap. 8, Sec. 9; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, Sec. 13; Ord. 1956,
Chap. 3; Stat. 1959, Chap. 203.]

Administrative Services Board
Henry A. Scagnoli, Director of Administrative Services, Chairman*
John T. Leonard, Supervisor of Budgets*
Duncan T. Foley, Supervisor of Personnel
Michael A. DeSimone, Purchasing Agent*
Joseph P. Lally, City Auditor, ex officio
James E. Gildea, Collector-Treasurer, ex officio
Robert A. Grimes, Commissioner of Assessing, ex officio
Lawrence W. Costello, Administrative Secretary

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial
municipal election at which a mayor is elected.

t Stat. 1959, Chapter 603 placing the office of Supervisor of Personnel under Civil
Service was accepted by the City Council on October 19, 1959, and approved by the Mayor
on October 20, 1959.

50 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The Administrative Services Department represents a consolidation of
the activities formerly conducted by the Budget, Printing, and Supply
Departments, and the acquisition of 2 new activities — the receipt and
processing of general complaints and the establishment of an o£Bce machine
repair unit. It is under the charge of a board known as the Administrative
Services Board, consisting of the Director of Administrative Services as
chairman, the Supervisor of Budgets, the Supervisor of Personnel, the
Purchasing Agent, the City Auditor, the Collector-Treasurer, and the
Assessor, ex ofiiciis. It is the duty of this board, and more especially of
the Director of Administrative Services, to make, under the Mayor,
studies and recommendations with respect to the organization, activities,
policies, and procedures of all departments, boards, and officers so that the
administration thereof shall be economical and efficient.

The regular activities of the department are divided into six divisions —
administrative, budget, personnel, purchasing, complaints, and office ma-
chine servicing. The Director, in addition to his regular duties, as set forth
above, directs the operations and procedures of the Complaints Division
and the Office Machine Repair Unit. The Supervisor of Budgets is the
budget officer of the city and county and under the direction of the Mayor
and in consultation with the Director is responsible for the preparation
of the annual and all supplementary budgets as well as all subsequent
revisions of the items in any budget. The Supervisor of Personnel is in
charge of all personnel records as well as the administration of all com-
pensation plans established for city and county emploj^ees. He makes a
continuing study of personnel problems, employment conditions, and
economic changes affecting all departments and recommends to the Mayor
and department officials programs and administrative policies designed
to improve and co-ordinate the handling of personnel matters. The
Purchasing Agent is responsible for the furnishing of all materials or
supplies requisitioned by the several departments. He has charge of the
printing plant and supplies the printing or .binding requisitioned by
departments to whom the City is required by law to furnish the same.
He is the custodian of all surplus personal property of the city and may
reallocate any such items among the several departments or, with the
required approvals, sell or otherwise dispose of the same.

The department also contains a board of five commissioners known a^
the Art Commission, which has the custody and care of all works of art
owned by the City. While not subject to the direct supervision or control
of the Administrative Services Board, this commission shall not communi-
cate with the Mayor or make any annual or other report except through
the board.

Art Commission
Office, Faneuil Hall

fStat. 1898, Chap. 410; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 4; C. C, Title IV., Chap. 1 1 ;
Spec. Stat. 1919, Chap. 87; Ord. 1953, Chap. 8; § 9.]

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT 51

OFFICIALS

Nelson W. Aldrich, Chairman
, Secretary

COMMISSIONERS*

, nominated by the Trustees of the Public Library

of the City of Boston. Term expiring May 1, 1961.
Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, nominated by the Copley Society of

Boston. Term expiring May 1, 1962.
Alice M. Maginnis, nominated by the Museum of Fine Arts. Term

expiring May 1, 1963.
Nelson W. Aldrich, nominated by the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. Term expiring Maj)- 1, 1964.
Marvin Goody, nominated by the Boston Society of Architects. Term

expiring May 1, 1965.

David McKibbin, Clerk, lOf Beacon street, Boston

The Art Commission, formerly the Art Department, established in
1898, is composed of five commissioners, appointed by the Mayor. Each
year one of the following-named bodies, namely, the Museum of Fine
Arts, the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, the Boston Society of Architects, and
the Copley Society of Boston, submits a list of three persons to the Mayor;
and the Mayor appoints one person as Art Commissioner from the list so
submitted, to serve for five years. Whenever the term of a member of the
commission expires, the Mayor appoints his successor from a list selected
by the body which made the original selection, as aforesaid.

No work of art can become the property of the City of Boston withou t
the approval of the Art Commission, which may also be requested by the
Mayor or the City Council to pass upon the design of any municipal
building, bridge, approach, lamp, ornamental gate or fence, or other struc-
ture to be erected upon land belonging to the City. No work of art, the
property of the City of Boston, shall be removed except by order of the Art
Commissioners and with the approval of the Mayor. Moreover, all con-
tracts or orders for the execution of any painting, monument, statue, bust,
bas-relief, or other sculpture for the City shall be made bj^ said Commission
acting by a majority of its members, subject to the approval of the Mayor.
By Chap. 87, Special Acts of 1919, all works of art owned by the City were
placed in the custody and care of the Art Commissioners.

Public Safety Commission
Office, 50 City Hall
[Stat. 1959, Chap. 203; Stat. 1961, Chap. 194]
Henry A. Scagnoli, Director of Administrative Services, ex officio.

Chairman

* The Commiasioners serve without compensation.

52 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Charles W. Sweeney, Director of Civil Defense, ex officio

Robert E. York, Building Commissioner, ex officio

Thomas J. Griffin, Fire Commissioner, ex officio

James W. Haley, Public Works Commissioner, ex officio

Thomas F. Carty, Traffic Commissioner, ex officio

Frederick J. Gillis, Superintendent of Schools, ex officio

Leo J. Sullivan, Police Commissioner, ex officio

Frank Robert Freckleton, M.D., Health Commissioner, ex officio

Thomas L. McLernon, General Manager, Metropolitan Transit Authority,
ex officio
Lawrence W. Costello, Secretary

It is the duty of this Commission to co-ordinate the work of all depart-
ments of the City concerned with public safety to the end that there
may be efficient and concerted action by said departments, particularly
in times of emergency or disaster. The Commission shall meet at least
once each month, at the call of the Director of Administrative Services,
for the purpose of discharging said duty.

ASSESSING DEPARTMENT

Office, 301 City Hall Annex, third floor

[Stat. 1854, Chap. 448, § 37; Stat. 1884, Chap. 123; Stat. 1903, Chap.
279; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 5; Ord. 1900, Chap. 5; Ord. 1901, Chap.
8; C. C, Title IV., Chap. 12; Ord. 1910, Chap. 1; Stat. 1911, Chap.
89; Stat. 1913, Chaps. 155, 484; Stat. 1914, Chap. 198; Rev. Ord.
1914, Chap. 5; Gen. Stat. 1915, Chap. 91; Gen. Stat. 1916, Chaps. 87,
173, 294; Spec. Stat. 1918, Chap. 93; Stat. 1920, Chaps. 93, 96, 183,
552; Stat. 1921, Chaps. 283, 399; Stat. 1922, Chap. 6; Stat. 1924,
Chap. 410; Stat. 1938, Chap. 257; Stat. 1945, Chap. 263; Stat. 1949,
Chap. 313; Stat. 1951, Chap. 601; Ord. 1954, Chap. 3; Ord. 1958,
Chap. 4; Ord. 1961, Chap. 1.]

board

Robert A. Grimes, CorHmissioner of Assessing*

Adolph H. Brauneis, Associate Commissioner of Assessing*

William F. Morrissey, Associate Commissioner of Assessing*
board of review

John M. Corcoran, ex officio, C/iairman . f

Paul M. Finan, ex officio §

James J. Walsh*

John P. Doherty, Executive Secretary

The Assessing Department, is under the charge of a board consisting
of an officer, known as the Commissioner of Assessing, and two other
officers, known as Associate Commissioners of Assessing. The mayor

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial
municipal election at which a mayor is elected.

t Such person in the service of the real estate appraisal division of the assessing depart-
ment as the mayor, by a writing filed with the city clerk after the commencement of a
municipal year, shall designate to serve ex officio on said board at his pleasure durirg such
year, who, while so serving, shall be chairman of said board. (See Ord. 1961, Chap. 1,
Sect. 4.)

§ Such person in the service of the statistical research division of the assessing depart-
ment as the mayor, by a writing filed with the city clerk after the commencement of a
municipal year, shall designate to serve ex ozcio on said board at his pleasure during such
year. (See Ord. 1961, Chap. 1, Sect. 4.)

ASSESSING DEPARTMENT 53

shall from time to time by a writing filed with the city clerk designate
one of the associate commissioners of assessing as the associate com-
missioner of assessing for motor vehicle excises and the other as the as-
sociate commissioner of assessing for poll taxes.

Said board shall divide the assessing department from time to time
into a real estate appraisal division, a statistical research division, and
such other divisions as said board shall adjudge necessary for the proper
conduct of the department.

The commissioner of assessing shall, for the assessing department
including the board of review, exclusively have the power, and perform
the duties, conferred or imposed by law on the assessor in existence im-
mediately prior to April 26, 1961, with respect to the acquisition and
disposal of property, the making of contracts, and the appointment,
suspension, discharge, compensation and indemnification of subordinates.
The commissioner of assessing shall also have the powers and perform
the duties conferred or imposed by law on the assessor and the board
of review in the assessing department in existence immediately prior to
April 26, 1961, with respect to taxes other than poll and motor vehicle
excise taxes, and shall further have the powers and perform the duties
from time to time conferred or imposed on assessors of cities in Massa-
chusetts by general laws applicable to Boston with respect to taxes other
than poll and motor vehicle excise taxes.

The associate commissioners of assessing shall have the powers and
perform the duties conferred or imposed by law on the assessor in existence
immediately prior to April 26, 1961, with respect, in the case of the asso-
ciate commissioner of assessing for motor vehicle excises, to motor vehicle
excise taxes, and in the case of the associate commissioner of assessing for
poll taxes, to poll taxes, and shall also have the powers and perform the
duties from time to time conferred or imposed on assessors of cities in
Massachusetts by general laws applicable to Boston with respect, in the
case of the associate commissioner of assessing for motor vehicle excises,
to motor vehicle excise taxes, and in the case of the associate commis-
sioner of assessing for poll taxes, to poll taxes. In addition, each asso-
ciate commissioner of assessing may, at such time as he shall have been
so authorized by written designation signed by the commissioner of as-
sessing, approved by the mayor and filed with the city clerk and such
authorization shall not have been revoked in like manner, exercise the
powers and perform the duties of commissioner of assessing in relation to
such matters as may be specified in such designation. In the event of the
absence, disability or vacancy in office of an associate commissioner ot
assessing, the powers and duties conferred or imposed upon him by or
under this section shall be exercised and performed by the other associafe
commissioner of assessing.

The Board of Review, consists of (1) such person in the service of
the real estate appraisal division of the assessing department as the
mayor, by a writing filed with the city clerk after the commencement of
a municipal year, shall designate to serve ex officio on said board at his
pleasure during such year, who, while so serving, shall be chairman of

54 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

said board, (2) such person in the service of the statistical research division
of the assessing department as the mayor in hke manner shall designate
to serve ex officio on said board at his pleasure, during such year, and (3)
such person as the mayor shall appoint from the public at large.

It shall be the duty of the board of review to review every application
for the abatement of a real estate or personal property tax and report
to the commissioner of assessing its findings and recommendations with
respect thereto, including such suggestion for settlement, if any, as, after
discussion with the applicant, the board may think proper.

Every application for abatement filed with the assessing department
shall be deemed to be filed with, and shall be forthwith transmitted to,
in the case of an application for the abatement of a real estate or personal
property tax, the commissioner of assessing, in the case of an application
for the abatement of a motor vehicle excise tax, the associate commissioner
of assessing for motor vehicle exicses, and in the case of an application
for the abatement of a poll tax, the associate commissioner of assessing
for poll taxes.

AUDITING DEPARTMENT

Office, 11 City Hall, first floor

Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 6; Ord. 1901, Chap. 10; Stat. 1909, Chap. 486,
§§3, 23, 24, 25; Stat. 1911, Chap. 413; Stat. 1913, Chaps. 367, 788;
Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 6; Spec. Stat. 1917, Chap. Ill; Spec. Stat.
1919, Chap. 168; Ord. 1921, Chap. 1; Stat. 1922, Chap. 133; Stat.
1924, Chap. 479; Ord. 1925, Chap. 6; Ord. 1S34, Chap. 5; Ord. 1949,
Chap. 9.]

Joseph P. Lallt, City Auditor

John F. Fitzpatrick, Deputy City Auditor

The office of Auditor was established by ordinance on August 2, 1824.
Undej- provisions of Chapter 414 of the Acts of 1941, the office of City
Auditor was placed under Civil Service on November 2, 1943, by a refer-
endum vote of 60,139 to 12,409.

The office of Deputy City Auditor was established by ordinance on July
11,1934.

Regular annual reports of receipts and expenditures have been pub-
lished by the Auditor since 1825. Less complete reports were pub-
lished by finance committees from 1811 to 1824, inclusive. Since June 1,
1867, the Auditor has pubhshed monthly exhibits of all City, School, and
County expenditures.

BUILDING DEPARTMENT 55

The City Auditor is also Auditor of the County of Suffolk, Secretary of
the Board of Commissioners of Sinking Funds, a member of the Board of
Trustees of the George Robert White Fund, a member of the Boston
Retirement Board and a member of the Administrative Services Board.
(Rev. Ord. 1947, Chaps. 3, 6.)

BUILDING DEPARTMENT

Office, 901-910 City Hall Annex, ninth floor

RoBEKT E. York, Building Commissioner. Term expiring May 15,

1961
Thomas L. Fltnn, Deputy Building Commissioner and Head of

Technical Services.
Frank J. Coughlin, Executive Secretary and Head of Office Services.
Edmund J. Morgan, Head of Construction and Safety Inspections.
Edward P. Lang, Head of Mechanical Inspections.
Leo F. Murphy, Superintendent, Head of Electrical Inspections.

The duty of the Building Commissioner, under the provisions of
Chapter 479 of the Acts of 1938, as amended (the Building Code), is to
inspect all buildings and structures in the City of Boston except bridges,
quays or wharves, buildings owned and occupied by the United States
or the Commonwealth, railroad stations and structures used primarily for
railway purposes, voting booths, tanks of certain specified capacities,
tunnels constructed and maintained by the public authority, tents cover-
ing an area of less than one hundred square feet, fences less than six feet
in height, signs or bUlboards upon the ground and signs less than one
square foot in area, and flagpoles less than twenty feet in length.

The Code authorizes the Commissioner to issue permits to erect,
enlarge, alter, substantially repair, move, demoUsh or change the occu-
pancy of any building or structure; or to install, alter, or substantially
repair plumbing, gas fitting, fire extinguishing apparatus and elevators;
or to install steam boilers, furnaces, heaters or other heat producing
apparatus the installation of which is regulated by the Code; or to install
engines or djTiamos,

The Zoning Act also is administered by the Building Commissioner.
Under the provisions of this Act the city is divided into use districts,
defined as Residential, Business, Industrial and Unrestricted. With
minor exceptions, no building shall be erected or altered, nor shall any
building or premises be used, for any purpose other than the use per-
mitted in the district in which such building or premises is located.
(Chapter 488, Acts of 1924, as amended — the Zoning Act.)

56 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The Commissioner also licenses gas fitters, both master and journeyman;
registers master plumbers; establishes the qualifications of welders and
licenses operators of elevators.

In addition, Chapter 143 of the General Laws, in so far as applicable
to Boston, is administered by the Building Commissioner under delegated
authority from the State Commissioner of Public Safety.

The primary purpose of the public safety regulations promulgated
under this chapter is to establish a minimum code of safety for the entire
state. Cities and towns may make further exactions in accordance with
local building ordinances and not inconsistent with law, but in no case may
the provisions of state law be avoided or minimized.

The law falls with particular force on all places of assembly —
restaurants, taverns, dance halls, meeting halls and all places of similar
occupancy in which fifty or more persons may be accommodated. Lodg-
ing houses and apartment houses in which there are eight or more rooms
above the second floor, or in which ten or more persons are accommodated
above the second floor come also within the provisions of this Act. All
such buildings must be certified by the Building Commissioner as to com-
pliance with these particular regulations in addition to the Boston Code
requirements.

On May 1, 1954, in accordance with Ordinances of 1954, Chapter 2,
Section 30, the powers, duties, appropriations and personnel of the Elec-
trical Inspection Division of the Fire Department were transferred to the
Building Department.

By Chapter 2 of the Ordinances of 1954 the Board of Appeal, the Board
of Examiners, the Board of Examiners of Gasfitters, and the Committee
on Licenses were placed in the Building Department and the Board of
Zoning Adjustment and the Zoning Commission were placed in the said
Department bj'^ Revised Ordinances of 1961, Chapter 9, Sections 9 and 10,
but none of said Boards, Commission or Committee is subject to the
supervision or control of the Building Commissioner, but unless otherwise
ordered by the Mayor none of said Boards, Commission or Committee
shall communicate with the Mayor or make any annual or other report,
except through the Building Commissioner.

Board of Appeal

Ofiice, 907 City Hall Annex, ninth floor

[Stat. 1938, Chap. 479, § 117, as amended by Ord. 1943, § 42 (Building
Code); Stat. 1924, Chap. 488, § 19, as amended by Stat. 1941, Chap,
373, § 18 (Zoning Law); Stat. 1948, Chap. 165; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2.
§21.]

OFFICIALS

Samuel J. Tomasello, Chamnan
Merton p. Ellis, Secretary

BUILDING DEPARTMENT

57

THE BOARD

Members

Nominated by

Term ending

John J. Grigalus. . . .
Samuel J. Tomasello .
James J. Boyle

George W. Judkins.

Merton P. Ellis.

Mayor's selection.

/Boston Society of Architects

\Boston Society of Civil Engineers.

Building Trades Council of Boston and
Vicinity

fBoston Real Estate Board

\Massachusetts Real Estate Association.

'Master Builders Association of Boston

Building Trades Employers' Association of
the City of Boston

Associated General Contractors of Massa-
chusetts, Inc

May 1, 1962

May 1, 1963
May 1, 1964

May 1, 1965

May 1, 1966

The Board consists of five members appointed by the Mayor in the
following manner: One member from two candidates, one to be nominated
by the Boston Real Estate Board and one by the Massachusetts Real
Estate Association; one member from two candidates, one nominated by
the Boston Society of Architects and one by the Boston Society of Civil
Engineers; one member from three candidates, one to be nominated by
the Master Builders' Association of Boston, one by the Building Trades
Employers' Association of the City of Boston, and one by the Associated
General Contractors of Massachusetts, Inc. ; one member from two candi-
dates nominated by the Building Trades Council of Boston and Vicinity;
and one member selected by the Mayor. The term of office is five years.
Each member is paid $25 per diem for actual service, but not more than
$3,500 in any one year for the aggregate services rendered by him under
building code and zoning law.

Any applicant for a permit from the Building Commissioner whose
application has been refused in re building law or in re zoning law may
appeal therefrom within ninety days, and a person who has been ordered
to incur expense may within thirty days after receiving such order (or
in the case of its being a hazardous condition in the opinion of the Building
Commissioner within a shorter period as the Building Commissioner
designates) appeal to the Board of Appeal by giving notice in writing to
the commissioner. All cases of appeal are settled by the Board after a
hearing, and a decision rendered on same open for public inspection.

58 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Board of Examiners
OflSce, 1002 City Hall Annex, tenth floor '

[Stat. 1912, Chap. 713; Ord. 1912, Chap. 9; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 8;
Ord. 1920, Chap. 10; Ord. 1925, Chap. 5; Stat. 1938, Chap. 479
as amended by Ord. 1943; Stat. 1945, Chap. 626; Stat. 1952, Chap.
212; Ord. 1952, Chap. 6; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 22.]

OFFICIALS

Falk Nathan, Chairman

Mary D. McMackin, Permanent Secretary

THE BOARD

George R. McNeil, Term expu-ing May 1, 1961.
Falk Nathan. Term expiring May 1, 1962.

John Guarino. Term expiring May 1, 1963.

The Board of Examiners, as an adjunct of the Building Department,
was established in 1912. It consists of three members appointed by the
Mayor, the duty of said members being to act upon the quaUfications of
persons desiring to be registered as construction superintendents in the
City of Boston. Under the law the personnel of the Board includes an
architect or engineer, a contractor, and a lawyer. Compensation for
service by said members is established at fifteen dollars a day, the yearly
salary not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars.

Applicants qualifying for registration pay an initial fee of ten doUare,
three dollars for annual renewal.

Board of Examiners of Gasfitiers

Office, 901 City Hall Annex, ninth floor
[Stat. 1897, Chap. 265; Stat. 1924, Chap. 63; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 24.]

THE BOARD

Robert E. York, Building Commissioner, ex officio. Chairman
Frank Robert Freckleton, M.D., Health Commissioner, ex officio
George Robbins (term ending May 1, 1962)

The appointive member is appointed by the Mayor for a term of one
year and he shall be a licensed master gasfitter who shall have been con-
tinuously engaged in business as a master gasfitter during the five years
next preceding his appointment.

BUILDING DEPARTMENT

59

Committee on Licenses

Office, 901 City Hall Annex

[Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 25; Stat. 1959, Chap. 203, § 2.]

COMMITTEE

Robert E. York, Building Commissioner, ex officio
Thomas F. Carty, Traffic Commissioner, exofficio
Thomas J. Griffin, Fire Commissioner, exofficio
Frank J. Coughlin, Secretary

The Committee on Licenses is in the Building Department. This com-
mittee shall have the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed
on the board of street commissioners by Chapter 148 of the General
Laws, as amended, by Chapter 577 of the Acts of 1913, as amended, by
Chapter 488 of the Acts of 1924, as amended, and by Chapter 349 of the
Acts of 1953.

Beacon Hill Architectural Commission

Office, 901 City Hall Annex

[Stat. 1955, Chap. 616; Stat. 1958, Chaps. 314, 315.]

officials

John Codman, Chairman
Robert E. Minot, Vice Chairman
Frank J. Coughlin, Secretary

the commission

Members

Nominated by

Term ending

Robert E. Minot

Beacon Hill Civic Association, Inc

May 1, 1961
May 1, 1962
May 1, 1963

May 1, 1964
May 1, 1965

John Codman

Boston Real Estate Board

Carmen DiStefano

Boston Society of Architects

Andrew H. Hepburn. . .

Society for the Preservation of New England
Antiquities

Dorothy W. Bisbee

Mayor's Selection

60 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission was formed for the purpose
of promoting the "educational, cultural, economic and gener-al welfare of
the public through the preservation of the historic Beacon Hill District
and to maintain said district as a landmark in the history of architectura
and as a tangible reminder of Old Boston as it existed in the early days of
the Commonwealth".

The District, as defined in the Act comprises the area bounded as
follows: — southerly by the northerly side line of Beacon street; westerly
by a line parallel with, and one hundred and fifty feet distant westerly
from, the westerly side line of Beaver street; northerly by Beaver place;
easterly by Brimmer street; northerly again by Byron street; westerly
again by a line parallel with, and eighty feet distant westerly from, the
westerly side line of Charles street; northerly again by the southerly side
line of Revere street; easterly again by the westerly side line of Myrtle
street; northerly again by the southerly side line of Myrtle street; and
easterly again by the westerly side line of Hancock street and said side
line extended southerly to Beacon street; excluding, however, from said
area land of the commonwealth and the estates numbered twenty-six to
eighty-eight, inclusive, and ninety-eight to one hundred and thirty-six,
inclusive, on Myrtle street.

Under the provisions of Stat. 1958, Chap. 315, the following addition
was made to the Historic District. The area bounded as follows: southerly
by Byron street; westerly by Brimmer street; southerly again by Beaver
place; westerly again by Embankment road; northerly by Pinckney street;
and easterly by a line parallel with, and eighty feet distant westerly from,
the westerly line of Charles street.

It is the function of the Commission to regulate and control all con-
struction, reconstruction and alteration to buildings and structures within
the District in which exterior architectural features are involved. Under
the terms of the Act, an "Exterior Architectural Feature" is the "archi-
tectural style and general arrangement of such portion of the exterior of a
structure as is designed to be open to view from a public way, including
kind, color and texture of the building materials of such portion and type
of all windows, doors, lights, signs and other fixtures, appurtenant to such
portion".

The members of the Commission are appointed by the Mayor as follows :
— one from two candidates nominated by the Beacon Hill Civic Associ-
ation, Inc., one from two candidates nominated by the Boston Real Estate
Board, one from two candidates nominated by The Boston Society of
Architects, one from two candidates nominated by the Society for the
Preservation of New England Antiquities, and one member selected at
large by the Mayor. As the term of any member expires his successor
shall be appointed by the Mayor for a term of five years. The members
shall serve without compensation.

BUILDING DEPARTMENT

61

Board of Zoning Adjustment
Office, 1108 City Hall Annex, eleventh floor
[Stat. 1924, Chap. 488, Section 20; Stat. 1925, Chap. 219; Stat. 1926,
Chap. 350; Stat. 1927, Chap. 220; Stat. 1928, Chaps. 70, 137; Stat.
1929, Chap. 88; Stat. 1930, Chap. 347; Stat. 1931, Chaps. 16, 180;
Stat. 1932, Chap. 143; Stat. 1933, Chap. 204; Stat. 1934, Chap. 210;
Stat. 1936, Chap. 240; Stat. 1941, Chap. 373, Stat. 1946, Chap. 198;
Stat. 1948, Chaps. 165, 203, 214; Chap. 537, 1949; Chap. 328, 1950;
Stat. 1952, Chap. 109; Stat. 1952, Chap. 143; Stat. 1953, Chap. 411;
Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, §§ 27, 28; Stat. 1959, Chap. 193; Stat. 1960,
Chap. 652; Rev. Ords. 1961, Chap. 9, § 9.]

OFFICIALS

Albert V. Colman, Chairman
William L. Hyland, Vice Chairman
Mary T. Downey, Secretary
Thomas E. McCormick, Engineer

THE BOARD

Members

Nominated by

Term ending

Carroll P. Sheehan . .

Raymond P. Delano

Samuel S. Risenberg ,

F. Paul Morgan ....
Elliott Henderson . . .
Albert V. Colman . . .
Philip M. Horan. . . ,

David F. Supple

Robert T. Fowler, Jr
Theodore W. Paul..
Charles Spillane. . . .
William L. Hyland. .

Mayor's Appointment See Stat. 1960, Chap.

652, Sec. 12

United Improvement Association

Boston Society of Architects \

Boston Society of Landscape Architects . . . . /

Massachusetts Real Estate Association

Boston Chamber of Commerce

Mayor's Selection

Master Builders' Association of Boston

Associated Industries of Massachusetts

Boston Real Estate Board

Massachusetts Motor Truck Association, Inc.

Boston Central Labor Union

Boston Society of Civil Engineers

At pleasure

of Mayor

May 1, 1958

May 1

May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1

1960

1960
1961
1961
1961
1962
1962
1963
1964
1964

Alternate Members*

Nominated by

Term ending

Francis D. Harrigan .

Douglas B. Footit . .

Thomas M. Horan . .
Arthur J. Kelly ....
William A. MacLeod

Leo J. Glennon

C. Clark Macomber.

John Codman

Allan J. Wilson

Mark Linen thai ....
John J. Cotter

United Improvement Association

Boston Society of Architects \

Boston Society of Landscape Architects . . . . /

Massachusetts Real Estate Association

Boston Chamber of Commerce

Master Builders' Association of Boston

Mayor's Selection

Associated Industries of Massachusetts

Boston Real Estate Board

Massachusetts Motor Truck Association, Inc..

Boston Society of Civil Engineers

Boston Central Labor Union

May 1

May 1

May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1

1958

1960

1960
1961
1961
1961
1962
1962
1963
1964
1964

* Alternate members as provided in Chap. 109, Acts of 1952.

62 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The Board consists of one member appointed by the Mayor to serve at
his pleasure and eleven other members, and eleven alternates, appointed by
the Mayor, as follows : — one member from two candidates, and one
alternate from two other candidates, nominated by the Associated In-
dustries of Massachusetts, one member from two candidates, and one
alternate from two other candidates, nominated by the Boston Central
Labor Union, one member from two candidates, and one alternate from
two -other candidates, nominated by the Boston Chamber of Commerce,
one member from two candidates, and one alternate from two other
candidates, nominated by the Boston Real Estate Board, one member from
two candidates, and one alternate from two other candidates, nominated,
both in the case of the member and in the case of the alternate, one by
The Boston Society of Architects and one by the Boston Society of Land-
scape Architects, one member from two candidates, and one alternate
from two other candidates, nominated by the Boston Society of Civil
Engineers, one member from two candidates, and one alternate from two
other candidates, nominated by the Massachusetts Motor Truck Associ-
ation, Inc., one member from two candidates, and one alternates from two
other candidates, nominated by the Massachusetts Real Estate Asso-
ciation, one member from two candidates, and one alternate from two
other candidates, nominated by the Master Builders' Association of
Boston, one member from two candidates, and one alternate from two
other candidates, nominated by the United Improvement Association,
and one member, and one alternate, selected at large by the Mayor. All
appointive members, and all alternates, shall be residents of or engaged
in business in Boston. The term of office is five years.

The members of the Board serve without compensation. Any petition
for changing the zoning map must be accompanied by a fee of thirtj"-
five dollars before being considered by the Board. '

Either upon petition or otherwise, the Board may, by a decision of not
less than four fifths of its members, rendered after a public hearing follow-
ing advertisement and due»notice to the owners of all property deemed by
the Board to be affected, change the boundaries of districts by changing
the zoning map on file at the state secretary's office, to meet altered needs
of a locality, to avoid undue concentration of population, to provide ade-
quate light and air, to lessen congestion in streets, to secure safety from
fire, panic and other dangers, to facilitate the adequate provision of trans-
portation, water, sewerage, and other public requirements and to promote
the health, safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the City
of Boston.

No decision of the Board of Appeal permitting the erection or altera-
tion of a building to an extreme height greater than that otherwise author-
ized under the provisions of the zoning law for the lot or building in ques-
tion is effective until and unless confirmed by the decision of not less than
two thirds of the members of the Board of Zoning Adjustment.

If a change in the boundaries of districts is favorably decided upon or if
a decision of the Board of Appeal is confirmed, any person aggrieved o-i
any municipal officer or Board, may within fifteen days after the entry
of such decision, appeal to the Superior Court sitting in equity, for the
County of Suffolk.

BUILDING DEPARTMENT

63

Zoning Commission

1108 City Hall Annex, Boston

iStat. 1956, Chap. 665, Stat. 1957, Chap. 408, Stat. 1958, Chap. 77,
Stat. 1960, Chap. 652; Rev. Ords. 1961, Chap. 9, § 10.]

OFFICIALS

Albert V. Colman, Chairman
William L. Hyland, Vice Chairman
Mary T. Downey, Secretary
Thomas E. McCormick, Engineer

Members

Nominated by

Term ending

Alfred Gross

Theodore W. Paul. . .
Timothy J. Regan, Jr
William L. Hyland. . .
Antonino F. lovino . . .
Nathaniel J. Young . .

Stanley Underhill ....

Albert V. Colman . . .
Robert T. Fowler....
Charles F. Spillane. . .
David Fo Supple

Master Builders' Association of Boston

Massachusetts Motor Truck Association, Inc

Mayor's Selection

Boston Societjr of Civil Engineers

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

Mayor's Selection

Boston Society of Architects

Boston Societ}^ of Landscape Architects ....

Ma3^or's Selection

Boston Real Estate Board

Boston Central Labor Union

Associated Industries of Massachusetts

May 1
May 1
May 1

May 1
May 1
May 1

May 1

May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1

1962
1962
1962
1963
1963
1963

1963

1961
1961
1961
1961

The Commission consists of eleven commissioners appointed by the
Mayor subject to confirmation by the City Council as follows: one com-
missioner from two candidates nominated by the Associated Industries
of Massachusetts, one commissioner from two candidates nominated by
the Boston Central Labor Union, one commissioner from two candidates
nominated by the Boston Real Estate Board, one commissioner from two
candidates nominated one by The Boston Society of Architects and one
by the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, one commissioner from
two candidates nominated by the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, one
commissioner from two candidates nominated by the Greater Boston
Chamber of Commerce, one commissioner from two candidates nominated
by the Massachusetts Motor Truck Association, Inc., one commissioner
from two candidates nominated by the Master Builders' Association of
Boston, and three commissioners selected at large by the Mayor, one of
whom shall own alone or with one or more other persons, and shall occupy
in whole or in part as his place of residence, a dwelling house having not
more than three dwelling units. All zoning commissioners shall be residents
of Boston; provided that any person who on May 22, 1958, is a member
of the Board of Zoning Adjustment of said city may be a zoning commis-
sioner irrespective of his place of residence. The term of ofHce is for three
years and the commissioners serve without compensation.

64 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The commissioners may adopt a zoning regulation and from time to
time amend it upon petition or otherwise, by the concurrent vote of not
less than seven of its members, rendered after a public hearing following
advertisement.

A zoning regulation shall be designed among other purposes to lessen
congestion in the streets; to conserve health; to secure safety from fire,
panic and other dangers; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent
overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population, to fa-
cilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools,
parks and other public requirements; to conserve the value of land and
buildings; to encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the
city; and to preserve and increase its amenities.

Votes of the zoning commission adopting a zoning regulation or amend-
ment thereof shall be subject to the same provisions of law in respect to
approval by the mayor as orders or votes of the city council of the city,
except that the concurrent vote of not less than nine members of the
zoning commission shall be necessary to pass such a regulation or amend-
ment over the vote of the mayor.

If any zoning regulation or amendment thereof is favorably decided
upon, any person aggrieved or any municipal officer or board, may within
fifteen days after the entry of such decision, appeal to the Superior Court
sitting in equity, for the County of Suffolk.

CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT

Ofiice, 22 City Hall, second floor

[Stat. 1821, Chap. 110, § 10; Stat. 1854, Chap. 448, § 30; Stat. 1885,
Chap. 266, § 2; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 11; G. L., Chap. 41, §§ 12-19;
C. C, Title IV., Chap. 8; Stat. 1909, Chap. 486, § 22; Rev. Ord.
1947, Chap. 10; Stat. 1951, Chap. 376, § 17B.]
Walter J. Mallot, City Clerk
Joseph M. Dun lea. Assistant City Clerk

The City Clerk is elected by the City Council for the term of three
years. He has the care and custody of the records of the City Council
and of all city records, documents, maps, plans and papers, except those
otherwise provided for. He also records chattel mortgages, assignments of
wages, and other instruments, issues licenses and badges to minors when so
directed by the City Council, and performs other duties imposed by statute.

The City Clerk and Assistant City Clerk are, respectively. Clerk and
Assistant Clerk of the City Council.

The Assistant City Clerk is appointed by the City Clerk, subject to the
approval of the Mayor. By Gen. Laws, Chap. 41, § 18, the certificate or
attestation of the Assistant City Clerk has equal effect with that of the
City Clerk.

CIVIL DEFENSE DEPARTMENT 65

CIVIL DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

Office, 115 Southampton Street

[Stat. 1950, Chap. 639; Ord. 1950, Chap. 8; Stat. 1952, Chap. 269; Stat.
1953, Chap. 491.]
Charles W. Sweeney, Director. Term ends July 1, 1962.

The functions of the department are set forth in Chapter 8 of the
Ordinances of 1950, which is as follows:

Section 1. Department op Civil Defense. There is hereby estab-
lished a department of civil defense (hereinafter called the "department").
It shall be the function of the department to have charge of civil defense
as defined in Section 1, Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, and to perform civil
defense functions as authorized or directed by said chapter or by any and
all executive orders or general regulations promulgated thereunder, and
to exercise any authority delegated to it by the governor under said
Chapter 639.

Sect. 2. Director of Civil Defense. The department shall be
under the direction of a director of civil defense (hereinafter called the
"director"), who shall be appointed as prescribed by law. The director
shall have direct responsibility for the organization, administration,
and operation of the department subject to the direction and control of
the appointing authority and shall receive such salary as may be fixed
from time to time by the appointing authority. The director may, within
the limits of the amount appropriated therefor, appoint such experts,
clerks, and other assistants as the work of the department may require,
and may remove them, and may make such expenditures as may be
necessary to execute effectively the purposes of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950.
The director shall also have authority to appoint district co-ordinators
and may accept and may receive on behalf of the city, services, equip-
ment, supplies, materials, or funds by way of gift, grant, or loan for pur-
poses of civil defense, offered by the federal government or any agency or
officer thereof or any person, firm or corporation, subject to the terms of
the offer and the rules and regulations, if any, of the agency making the
offer. The director shall cause appropriate records to be kept of all
matters relating to such gifts, grants, or loans.

Sect. 3. Civil Defense Advisory Council. There is hereby estab-
lished a civil defense advisory council (hereinafter called the "council").
Said council shall serve without pay and shall consist of the director of
civil defense, such other department heads and such other persons as the
authority appointing said director may deem necessary. Such member of
said council as said appointing authority shall designate shall serve as
chairman of said council. Said council shall serve subject to the direction
and control of the appointing authority and shall advise said appointing
authority and the director on matters pertaining to civil defense.

Sect. 4. Police Aid to Other Cities and Towns in Event op
Riots and Other Violence Therein. The police department is hereby

66 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

authorized to go to aid another city or town at the request of said city
or town in the suppression of riots or other forms of violence therein.

Sect. 5. Termination of Ordinance. This ordinance shall remain
in force during the effective period of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, and any
act in amendment or continuation thereof or substitution therefor.

Sect. 6. Definition. All references to Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, as
now in force shall be applicable to any act or acts in amendment or con-
tinuation of or substitution for said Chapter 639.

ELECTION DEPARTMENT

Office, 111 City Hall Annex, first floor
:Stat. 1906, Chap. 311; Stat. 1907, Chap. 560, § 78; Rev. Ord. 1898,
Chap. 15; C. C, Title IV., Chap. 16; Stat. 1909, Chap. 486, §§ 53-61;
Stat. 1910, Chap. 520; Stat. 1911, Chaps. 304, 469, 517, 550, 735;
Stat. 1912, Chaps. 275, 471, 483, 641; Stat. 1913, Chaps. 286, 835;
Stat. 1914, Chap. 730; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 15; Gen. Stat. 1915,
Chaps. 48, 91; Gen. Stat. 1916, Chaps. 16, 43, 81, 87, 179; Gen.
Stat. 1917, Chap. 29; Gen. Stat. 1918, Chap. 74; Stat. 1920, Chaps.
129, 142; Stat. 1921, Chaps. 65, 93, 114, 209, 288, 340, 387; Ord. 1921,
Chap. 7; Stat. 1924, Chaps. 311, 410, 453, 479; Stat. 1925, Chaps.
39, 136; Stat. 1926, Chap. 105; Ord. 1938; Stat. 1938, Chap. 287;
Stat. 1939, Chap. 450; Stat. 1941, Chap. 472; Stat. 1945, Chap. 139;
Stat. 1947, Chaps. 227, 446; Stat. 1948, Chap. 452; Stat. 1949, Chap.
347; Stat. 1951, Chap. 376.]

officials
David Lasker, Chairman
Gertrude A. Pfau, Secretary
commissioners
Joseph Russo Term ending April 1, 1962

Gertrude A. Pfau Term ending April 1, 1963

David Lasker Term ending April 1, 1964

Maurice L. Smith Term ending April 1, 1965

One Election Commissioner is appointed by the Mayor each year, term
beginning April 1. The two leading political parties must be equally
represented on the Board and the Chairman is designated annually by the
Mayor.

The Board of Registrars of Voters was appointed in May, 1874, and
was succeeded July 1, 1895, by the Board of Election Commissioners.

This department exercises all the powers and duties formerly conferred
upon the Board of Registrars of Voters (including the preparation of the
jury list), except the power and duty of giving notice of elections and
fixing the days and hours for holding the same.

The Board also exercises all the powers and duties formerly conferred
upon the City Clerk and other officers by chapter 504 of the Acts of 1894.
The voting precincts in the 22 wards number 275.

FIRE DEPARTMENT 67

POLICE LISTING BOARD

Chapter 287 of the Acts of 1938 provides: "In Boston there shall be a
listing board composed of the police commissioner of the city and the board
of election commissioners. In case of disagreement between the members
of the listing board, the chief justice of the municipal court of the city of
Boston, or, in case of his disability, the senior justice of said court whoia
not disabled, shall, for the purpose of settling such disagreement, be a
member of said listing board and shall preside and cast the deciding vote
in case of a tie. "

The duties of said board are further provided for in Sections 8, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16 of Chapter 29 of the Acts of 1917; and all other acts in
amendment and addition thereto.

FIRE DEPARTMENT

Office, 115 Southampton Street
[Stat. 1850, Chap. 262; Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, § § 9-11; Rev. Ord. 1898,
Chap. 17; Stat. 1909, Chap. 308; Stat. 1912, Chap. 574; Ord. 1912,
Chaps. 4, 6; Ord. 1913, Chap. 1; Stat. 1913, Chap. 800; Stat. 1914,
Chaps. 519, 795; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 16; Ord. 1917, Chap. 4;
Ord. 1919, Chap. 2; Stat. 1920, Chaps. 60, 68; Stat. 1921, Chap.
196; Stat. 1923, Chap. 309; Stat. 1939, Chap. 237; Ord. 1944, Chap.
10; Stat. 1945, Chap. 413; Ord. 1959, Chap. 3.]

Henry A. Scagnoli, Fire Commissioner. Term ending May 1, 1962.

William D. Slattery, Executive Secretary of the Department

John A. Martin, Chief of Department

John E. Clougherty, Assistant Fire Chief in Charge of Fire Pre-
vention Division

John F. Howard, Assistant Fire Chief in Charge of Fire Fighting Force

William A. Terrenzi, Assistant Fire Chief in Charge of Personnel and
Training

Richard A. Ash, Deputy Fire Chief

John J. Breen, Deputy Fire Chief

Frederick P. Clauss, Deputy Fire Chief

John J. Crehan, Deputy Fire Chief

James J. Flanagan, Deputy Fire Chief

Edward J. Gaughan, Deputy Fire Chief

Joseph F. Kilduff, Deputy Fire Chief

John J. Ryan, Deputy Fire Chief

Albert L. O'Banion, Superintendent, Fire Alarm Division

Thomas F. Connors, Superintendent, Maintenance Division

The Boston Fire Department was organized in 1837. It is in charge
of 1 Commissioner, 1 Executive Secretary, 1 Chief of Department, 3
Assistant Fire Chiefs, 8 Deputy Chiefs, 45 District Chiefs, 3 Chaplains,
1 Superintendent of Fire Alarm, 1 Superintendent of Maintenance, 1
Medical Examiner, 1 Engineer of Motor Vehicles, 89 Captains, 215

68 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Lieutenants, 1,560 Engineers, Apparatus Operators, Masters, Aides,
Fire Fighters, 45 Clerks, 28 Fire Alarm Operators, and 119 Mechanics,
Painters, Linemen, Repairers, Electricians, Workmen, and other em-
ployees.

Total officers, engineers, privates and employees, 2,117, of whom 10
are- serving in the armed forces of the United States.

There are 46 fixe stations, a fire alarm branch with 71 employees, oper-
ating 2,123 signal boxes. Annual reports have been published since 1838.

Yearly salaries of assistant fire chiefs, $9,840; deputy chiefs, $8,840;
district chiefs, $8,000; captains, $6,960; lieutenants, $6,280; first-year
privates, $4,880; second year, $5,030; third year, $5,500.

Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
By Chapter 308, Acts of 1909, amended by Chapter 134, Acts of 1911,
and Chapter 186, Acts of 1949, the Fire Commissioner and 12 members
of the Fire Department, to be elected annually by all the members, are
constituted a corporate body for the purpose of holding and administering
the Firemen's Relief Fund.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Main Office, Health Department Building, Haymarket Square
[Stat. 1854, Chap. 448, § 40; Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, § 19; Stat. 1897, Chap.
219; Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 18; C. C, Title IV., Chap. 19; Stat. 1902.
Chaps. 206, 213; Stat. 1906, Chap. 225; Stat. 1907, Chaps. 386, 445,
480; Stat. 1908, Chaps. 329, 411; Stat. 1909, Chap. 380; Stat. 1910,
Chaps. 269, 640; Stat. 1911, Chap. 287; Stat. 1912, Chaps. 448, 486;
Stat. 1913, Chap. 586; Stat. 1914, Chaps. 627, 628; Rev. Ord. 1914;
Chaps. 17, 40; Ord. 1914, 2d Series, Chap. 1; Ord. 1915, Chap. 1; Spec.
Stat. 1915, Chap. 346; Ord. 1915, Chaps. 3, 4; Spec. Stat. 1919, Chap.
163; Stat. 1920, Chap. 100; Stat. 1921, Chaps. 94, 111; Stat. 1922,
Chap. 61; Ord. 1926, Chap. 3; Ord. 1931, Chap. 2; Stat. 1941, Chap.
446; Ord. 1950, Chap. 4; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 31.]

OFFICIAL

Feank Robert Freckleton, M.D., M.P.H., Health Commissioner*

Health Division
directors
Leo E. Diamond, Director, Section of General Services.
John T. Foley, M.D., Director, Section of Medical Services.

• , M.D., Director, Section of Local Health Services.

Francis W. Gens, Director, Section of Environmental Sanitation.

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial
municipal election at which a mayor is elected.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT

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OTHER SUPBRVISINO OFFICERS

Catharine Atwood, Head Bacteriologist, Bureau of Diagnostic Laboratory.
George Kahn, M.D., Chief, Bureau of Disease Control.
Francis A. Berrigan, Chief, Bureau of Housing and Sanitation.
Katherine E. Fitzgerald, Director, Bureau of Public Health Education

(temporary) .
Patrick J. Foley, D.M.D., Director, Bureau of Dental Service.
William J. Kane, Chief, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Henry Mazer, Chief, Bureau of Milk and Chemistry.
Daniel G. Milano, Chief, Bureau of Food.
Mary E. Welsh, R.N., Director, Bureau of Public Health Nurses.

The first Board of Health in Boston was established in 1799, under the
special statute of February 13, 1799. It was abolished by the first
City Charter and from 1822 to 1873 its functions were exercised through
the City Council. The last Board of Health was established by an ordi-
nance of December 2, 1872. It published annual reports, beginning
with 1873. By Chap. 1, Ord. 1914, 2d Series, the department was placed
in charge of one executive, the Health Commissioner, who appoints the
deputy commissioners. Chap. 1, Ord. 1915, provided that the quarantine
service should pass from the control of the Health Department when the
property was leased to the United States, in effect June 1, 1915.

On March 31, 1927, an ordinance was enacted abolishing the Boston
Sanatorium Department and placing the Tuberculosis Hospital at Matta-
pan under the jurisdiction of the Trustees of the Boston City Hospital;
all other powers and duties, as well as the Out-Patient Department, were
transferred to the Health Commissioner by Chap. 1 of the Ordinances
of 1927, as amended February 16, 1931.

Public Health Council

Office, Health Department Building, Haymarket Square

[Ord. 1956, Chap, l.)

OFFICIALS

Albert A. Hornor, M.D., Chairman
Hugh R. Leavell, M.D., Vice Chairman

the board

Elmer C. Foster

Hugh R. Leavell, M.D.
Roy J. Heffernan, M.D.
Paul E. Landry
George P. Condakes
Robert G. Hill, D.D.S,
Albert A. Hornor, M.D.
Hon. Charles J. Artesani

Term
Term
Term
Term
Term
Term
Term
Term
Term

ending
ending
ending
ending
ending
ending
ending
ending
ending

May 1

May I
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 1

1960
1961
1962
1962
1962
1963
1963
1964
1964

The Public Health Council is a Board in the Health Division of the
Health Department, consisting of nine members appointed by the Mayor,

70 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

of whom at least one shall be a registered physician, one a registered
dentist, one a representative of an industry engaged in handling food, one
a representative of another industry, one a representative of labor, and
one a housewife. As the term of any member expires his successor shall
be appointed by the Mayor for a term of three years. The members
shall serve without compensation. The Mayor shall from time to time
designate one of the members as Chairman and another as Vice Chairman.

The duties of said Board shall be (a) to make, upon its own initiative
or at the request of the Mayor, the Director of Administrative Services or
the Health Commissioner, studies and recommendations with respect to
the organization,. activities, policies, procedures and budget of the Health
Division, (6) to review from time to time such rules and regulations of the
Health Commissioner as may then be in force and report to the Health
Commissioner its findings with respect to the adequacy thereof and its
recommendations, if any, for the amendment or repeal thereof or for new
rules and regulations, and (c) to advise the Health Commissioner on such
matters within the scope of his duties as he may refer to said council.
Registry Division
Office, 1004 City Hall Annex, tenth floor
[Stat. 1892, Chap. 314; Stat. 1898, Chap. 389; Gen. Laws, Chap. 46; Rev.
Ord. 1925, Chap. 28; C. C. Title IV., Chap. 28; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2,
§31.]

Charles H. Mackie, City Registrar

Mary E. Manning, Acting First Assistant City Registrar (temporary)

Helen T. Collins, Acting Second Assistant City Registrar (temporary)

, Third Assistant City Registrar

The City Registrar keeps the records of births, deaths and marriages,
issues certificates of the same and marriage licenses, receives and records
affidavits of, additions to, and amendments and corrections of said records,
and forwards copies of all records to the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth and to oiltside cities and towns when nonresidents are
involved. Annual reports have been published since 1849, except in 1860
and 1861.

By ordinance, approved July 12, 1892, the Department of Ancient
Records and the office of Record Commissioners (established July 6, 1875)
were kbolished, and the duties of the Record Commissioners, including
the pubUcation of documents relating to the early history of Boston, were
transferred to the City Registrar.

Weights and Measures Division

Office, 105 City Hall Annex, first floor

[Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 31.]

John F. McCarthy, Sealer
Edward F. Lownie, Chief Deputy Sealer
Grace E. Gaston, Principal Clerk
The duties of the division are set forth in the General Laws, Chapters
94, 98 and 101, with amendments and additions thereto.

HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT

71

The Sealer is required to give public notice annually by advertisement
to all persons having places of business in the city and using weighing
and measuring devices for the purpose of buying or selling of goods, wares
or merchandise, to bring them into this office to be tested and sealed.
After giving the said notice, he shall visit the places of business not com-
plying and shall test, adjust, seal or condemn in accordance with the
results of tests made, the weighing and measuring devices of said persons.
In addition the department is charged with the enforcement of all laws
relative to the licensing of hawkers, peddlers and transient vendors, the
giving of false or insufficient weight or measure, the reweighing of coal,
the examination of coal for quality and the inspection of certain con-
tainers as to size, shape and dimensions. The division must investigate
all complaints registered with the department and, when the evidence
warrants, shall prosecute violations of the law.

HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT

Office at the Boston City Hospital, 818 Harrison Avenue
[Stat. 1858, Chap. 113; Stat. 1880, Chap. 174; Stat. 1885, Chap. 266,
§ 1; Stat. 1889, Chap. 336; Stat. 1890, Chap. 418; Stat. 1893,
Chap. 91; Stat. 1901, Chap. 518; Stat. 1906, Chap. 189; Stat. 1907,
Chap. 248; Stat. 1908, Chap. 225; Stat. 1908, Chap. 627; Stat. 1909,
Chap. 486; Stat. 1911, Chap. 167; Spec. Stat. 1915, Chap. 34; Spec.
Stat. 1915, Chap. 190; Stat. 1921, Chap. 86; Stat. 1922, Chap. 521,
§ 18; Stat. 1924, Chap. 70; Stat. 1924, Chap. 352; Ord. 1927, Chap.
1; C. C, Title IV., Chap. 20; Stat. 1928, Chap. 237; Stat. 1930,
Chap. 167; Stat. 1931, Chap. 40; Stat. 1932, Chap. 215; Rev. Ord.
1947, Chap. 18, as amended by Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 32; Stat. 1955,
Chap. 39.]

OFFICIALS

William H. Ellis, Jr., President
Thomas J. Giblin, D.M.D., Secretary

TRUSTEES *

Henry E. Foley
Henry C. Berlin
Thomas J. Giblin, D.M.D.
Loots J. Guaragna
William H. Ellis, Jr.

Term ending May 1, 1962
Term ending May 1, 1963
Term ending May 1, 1964
Term ending May 1, 1965
Term ending May 1, 1966

The Boston City Hospital was opened on June 1, 1864. Besides the
Main Hospital, the Trustees have charge of the South Department for
contagious diseases, the Sanatorium Division at 249 River Street, Matta-
pan (for tuberculosis patients). Long Island Division (for chronic diseases)
and East Boston ReHef Station.

* The Trustees serve without compensation.

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Relief Stations were closed to patients on March 15, 1938; East Boston
Relief Station was reopened on a twenty-four hour basis on October 15,
1945.

The Convalescent Home in Dorchester was closed in March, 1932.

The Trustees are incorporated and authorized to receive and hold
real and personal estate bequeathed or devised to said hospital corporation
to an amount not exceeding $10,000,000.

HOSPITAL OFFICERS

John F. Conlin, M.D. — Director of Hospitals and Superintendent of The

Boston City Hospital. Office at the Hospital.
James V. Sacchetti, M.D. — Assistant Superintendent

SANATORIUM DIVISION

Superintendent and Medical Director — David S. Sherman, M.D.

LONG ISLAND DIVISION

Superintendent — John R. McGillivray

LAW DEPARTMENT

Office, 11 Beacon Street
[Ord. 1904, Chap. 23; Rev. Ord. 1947, Chap. 20.]

Arthur G. Coffey, Corporation Counsel
J, Edward Keefe, Jr., Assistant Corporation Counsel
William A. McDermott, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Paul J. Burns, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Louis K. Nathanson, Assistant Corporation Counsel
John J. Murphy, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Damd J. Saliba, Assistant Corporation Counsel
R. Gaynor Wellings, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Mario Misci, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Nicholas C. Crossen, Jr., Assistant Corporation Counsel
Alexander J. Gillis, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Francis B. Kenney, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Patrick J. O'Connell, Assistant Corporation Counsel
AsHELEN P. Senopoulos, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Arthur M. Blasi, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Edward J. Boyle, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Reuben S. Dawkins, Assistant Corportion Counsel
Leo J. Dooley, Assistant Corporation Counsel
John J. Kerrigan, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Steven T. Ladoulis, Assistant Corporation Counsel
John J. McDonough, Assistant Corporation Counsel
William E. O'Brien, Assistant Corporation Counsel
'IHOMAS J. Roche, Assistant Corporation Counsel

LIBRARY DEPARTMENT 73

Francis G, Stapleton, Assistant Corporation Counsel
James R. Lawler, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Gerard A. Powers, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Lawrence J. Moore, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Thomas L. McCormack, Workmen's Compensation Agent
George H. Schwartz, M.D.,

Workmen's Compensation Medical Director

William H. Kerr, Chief Legal Assistant

Richard Sullivan, Head Administrative Clerk

The office of "Attorney and Solicitor" was established in 1827; the
office of City Solicitor in 1846 and that of Corporation Counsel in 1881.
The office of City Solicitor was abolished and the department placed under
the sole charge of the Corporation Counsel in 1904.

The Law Department consists of a Corporation Counsel, twenty-six
assistant corporation counsel, a workmen's compensation agent and work-
men's compensation medical director, a chief legal assistant, and thirty-
seven other employees, including the staff of the Administrative, Coun-
selling and Miscellaneous Litigation, General Trial and Collection Divisions
of the Law Department.

The Law Department has general charge of the legal work of the city,
represents the city in all litigation to which it is a party, prosecutes certain
criminal proceedings, does the conveyancing work for the various munic-
ipal departments, performs the legal work incidental to tax title fore-
closures, prepares and approves all municipal contracts and bonds,
furnishes legal opinions to the Mayor and the City Council and to the
various department heads and city officials, including the School Com-
mittee, on matters relating to the discharge of their official duties, pre-
pares petitions for and drafts of legislation in which the city has an
interest and appears and represents the city before the various committees
of the legislature, and before other boards, commissions and adminis-
trative agencies, including the Interstate Commerce Commission, Civil
Aeronautics Board and other federal agencies, the Appellate Tax Board,
Industrial Accident Board, and the Department of Public Utilities.

LIBRARY ^DEPARl^ENT

Office, Central Library Building, Copley Square

(Stat. 1878, Chap. 114; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 24; C. C, Title IV., Chap.
23; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 21; Spec. Stat. 1919, Chap. 116; Spec.
Stat. 1931, Chap. 50; Spec. Stat. 1943, Chap. 218; Spec. Stat. 1953;
Chap. 167.]

74 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

OFFICIALS

Sidney R. Rabb, President
Edward G. Murray, Vice President '
Milton E. Lord, Director, and Librarian
Elizabeth B. Brockunier, Clerk

TRUSTEES *

Patrick F. McDonald Term ending May 1, 1961

Edward G. Murray Term ending May 1, 1962

Erwin D. Canham Term ending May 1, 1963

Sidney R. RaSb Term ending May 1, 1964

AuGUSTiN H. Parker, Jr. Term ending May 1, 1965

The Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, five in num-
ber, are appointed by the Mayor, one each year, for a term of five years.
They were incorporated in 1878, and authorized to receive and hold real
and personal estate to an amount not exceeding $1,000,000. This amount
was changed to $10,000,000 in 1919, to $20,000,000 in 1931, and to
$50,000,000 in 1953. The first Trustees were appointed under an ordi-
nance of October 14, 1852.

The old Ubrary building on Boylston street was opened to the public
in September, 1858, and closed finally in January, 1895. The Central
Library Building in Copley square, costing $2,756,384, was first opened
on March 11, 1895.

The Library is maintained by an annual appropriation made to the
Trustees by the City Government.

The annual reports, the first of which appeared in 1852, have been
continued without interruption.

THE LIBRARY SYSTEM

The Hbrary system consists of the Central Library in Copley square,
the Kirstein Business Branch in the Edward Kirstein Memorial Library
Building at 20 City Hall avenue, twenty-six Branch Libraries, and three
Bookmobiles. In addition, through an agreement with Harvard Uni-
versity, the Baker Library of the Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration is a branch of the Boston Public Library. By similar
arrangement, the Boston Medical Library at 8 Fenway serves as a medical
branch.

The component parts of the library system are the following:
Director's Office

Division of Home Reading and Commimity Services
Division of Reference and Research Services
Division of Library Operations
Division of Information
Division of Personnel

* The Trustees serve without compensation.

LIBRARY DEPARTMENT 75

director's office
The general administration of the Ubrary system as a whole is centered
in the Director's Office, which acts in close relationship with the Trustees'
Office, with an interchangeable staff acting for the two offices. There is
also supervised from the Director's Office the work of the Office of Records,
Files, Statistics, and the general publishing activities of the Library.

DIVISION OF HOME READING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

The greater part of the circulation of books to borrowers is centered in
the Branch Libraries and the Bookmobiles. The purely library activities
of the Branch Libraries and the Bookmobiles are therefore considered as
a unit which is designated as the Division of Home Reading and Com-
munity Services. Within this division there are closed departments and
public departments. The main grouping of the pubUc departments is
that of the Branch Libraries and the Bookmobiles, and the Audio-Visual
Department, Central Charging Records, and the Open Shelf Department
in the Central Library. In direct relationship with the work of the Branch
Libraries and the Bookmobiles is the Work with Adults, the Work with
Young Adults, and the Work with Children.

The dosed departments are:

1. Cataloguing and Classification Department

2. Book Selection Department

3. Central Book Stock, Branch Issue Section

These departments are concerned with the selection of library materials
and with the preparation of these materials for use by the public.

The public departments are the Audio-Visual Department, Central
Charging Records, and the Open Shelf Department (Adults' Section,
Young Adults' Section, Children's Section) in the Central Library, the
three Bookmobiles, and the 26 Branch Libraries distributed throughout
the city as follows:

City Proper:
North End, 3A North Bennet street
South End, 65 West Brookline street
Bookmobile I, Central Library, Copley square
Bookmobile II, Central Library, Copley square
Bookmobile III, Central Library, Copley square

Brighton:

Allston, 161 Harvard avenue
Brighton, 40 Academy Hill road
Faneuil, 419 Faneuil street

Charlestovm:

Charlestown, 43 Monument square

Dorchester:

Adams Street, 690 Adams street
Codman square, 6 Norfolk street
Dorchester, 1 Arcadia street

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Lower Mills, 1110 Washington street
Mattapan, 10 Hazleton street
Mount Bowdoin, 275 Washington street
Uphams Corner, 500 Columbia road

East Boston:

East Boston, 276 Meridian street
Orient Heights, 18 Barnes avenue

Hyde Park:

Hyde Park, 35 Harvard avenue

Jamaica Plain:

Connolly, 433 Centre street
Jamaica Plain, 12 Sedgwick street

Roxhury:
Egleston Square, 2440 Columbus avenue
Memorial, 205 Townsend street
Mount Pleasant, 12 Vine street
Parker Hill, 1497 Tremont street

South Boston:

South Boston, 646 East Broadway
Washington Village, 290 Old Colony avenue

West Roxhury:

Roslindale, 4220 Washington street
West Roxbury, 1961 Centre street

DIVISION OF REFERENCE AND RESEARCH SERVICES

The more important part of the reference work of the library system
as a whole is carried on in the Central Library. The purely library activi-
ties of the Central Library are therefore considered as a unit which is
designated as the Division of Reference and Research Services. Within
this division there are closed departments and public departments.

The closed departments are:

1. Cataloging and Classification Department

2. Book Selection Department

These departments are concerned with the selection of library materials
and with the preparation of those materials for use by the public.
The public departments are:

GENERAL REFERENCE SERVICES

1. General Reference Department, and Public Catalog

2. Periodical and Newspaper Department

3. Maps Department (proposed)

THE ARTS

4. Music Department

5. Fine Arts Department

6. Picture Collection Department

LIBRARY DEPARTMENT 77

THE HUMANITIES

7. History Department

8. Literature and Languages Department (proposed)

9. Religion, Philosophy, Psychology Department (proposed)

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

10. Social Sciences Department (including Economics and Political

Science)

11. Government Documents Department

12. Education Department

13. Kirstein Business Branch

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

14. Engineering Sciences Department (including Patents)

15. Biological Sciences Department (proposed)

16. Physical Sciences Department (proposed)

In addition to the above public departments there is also a Print De-
partment and a Rare Book Department. The general nature of all of
these public departments is indicated by the names which they bear.

The general book stock is under the supervision of a department known
as the Book Stack Service.

DIVISION OP LIBRARY OPERATIONS

All of those aspects of the Library's activities that are not of a purely
library nature, and are not provided for otherwise, are considered as a
unit constituting the Division of Library Operations.

The departments constituting the division are:

1. Accounting Department

2. Book Preparation Department

3. Book Purchasing Department

4. Binding Department

5. Buildings Department

The general nature of the work of these departments is indicated by
the names which they bear.

DIVISION OP INPORMATION

The public relations program of the Library is to tell the story of the
Library's services to the community at large and to aid in achieving in-
creasing understanding and support of the Library's programs and needs.

There is supervised from the division office the work of the Information
Office and the Exhibits Office.

DIVISION OP PERSONNEL

The personnel program of the Library is administered by the Division
of Personnel within the framework of the policies established by the
Trustees and the Director.

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SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

In addition to the regular activities of the various departments, the
Library carries on programs of free lectures and concerts which are given
in its lecture hall several times each week from October through April each
year. Exhibits in the Main Lobby, the Treasure Room, and in the
Puvis de Chavannes, Sargent, and Wiggin Galleries in the Central Library
Building afford opportunities for emphasizing the Library's valuable
resources. Storytelling in the Children's Section, Open Shelf Depart-
ment, and in many branch libraries by trained storytellers is a part of the
Library's program of work with children.

STATISTICAL DATA

City appropriation for support of the Library, 1960 . . $3,241,900 00

For purchase of books and library materials . . . 182,868 48

Books lent to borrowers, 1960 3,225,800

Employees, January 1, 1961:

Full-time 496

Part-time, in terms of full-time equivalents ... 98

Number of volumes, January 1, 1961 2,162,176

Trust funds, approximate value, January 1, 1961 . . $6,713,585 00

HOURS OF SERVICE

Central Library: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to
6 P.M., Saturday; 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday. June 1 to September 30;
closed Sunday.

Kirstein Business Branch: 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Monday through Friday;
closed Saturday and Sunday.

Branch Libraries {except nine small Branch Libraries): 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
Tuesday and Wednesday; 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to
6 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday.

Small Branch Libraries (Allston, Dorchester, Faneuil, Lower Mills, Mt,
Bowdoin, Mt. Pleasant, North End, Orient Heights, and South End: 9 a.m.
to 6 P.M., Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday; 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., Monday and
Thursday; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday. Memorial: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday
through Friday; closed Saturday.

Note: All Branch Libraries are closed on Sunday, and from May 1
through October 31, are closed on Saturday.

Baker Library: 8.30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday; 8.30 a.m-
to 5 P.M., Saturday; 1 p.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday. June 15 to September 15;
9 A.M. to 5 P.M., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.,
Wednesday; closed Saturday and Sunday.

Boston Medical Library: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Friday; 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday.
June 1 to September 30; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m., Saturday, except closed on Saturday July 1 through September 1,

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 79

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT

Office, 33 Beacon Street.
[Stat. 1875, Chap. 185; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 28; C. C. Title IV., Chap. 24
Stat. 1911, Chaps. 435, 540; Ord. 1912, Chap. 10; Ord. 1913, Chap. 6
Ord. 1914, Chap. 3; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 24; Ord. 1920, Chap. 13
Ord. 1922, Chaps. 5, 7; Stat. 1923, Chap. 309; Ord. 1923, Chaps. 8,
12; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 37.]

Parks and Recreation Commission

* Martin F. Walsh, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, Chairman
O. Philip Snowben, Associate Commissioner of Parks and Recreation.

Term ending May 1, 1964.
Daniel G. O'Connor, Associate Commissioner of Parks and Recreation.

Term ending May 1, 1963.
Thomas J. Carty, Associate Commissioner of Parks and Recreation. Term

ending May 1, 1961.
Harry J. Blake, Associate Commissioner of Parks and Recreation.

Term ending May 1, 1962.

officials

Martin F. Walsh, Commissioner

Arthur J. O'Keefe, Administrative Assistant and Secretary to Com-
mission

Daniel J. Byrne, Jr., Chief Engineer

Patrick J. Ryan, Director of Recreation

Arthur A. English, General Superintendent

John J. Butler, Superintendent of Baths

The first Board of Park Commissioners was appointed on July 8, 1875.
The Board consisted of three members who served without compensation.
As thus constituted, the department continued up to 1913, when, by the
provisions of Chapter 10, Ordinances of 1912, it was merged with the
Public Grounds, Bath and Music Departments, under the name of Park
and Recreation Department. In 1920, the Cemetery Department was
merged with the Park Department, the latter title being substituted for
Park and Recreation Department. On May 1, 1954, the department
became the Parks and Recreation Department. The four Associate
Commissioners serve without compensation.

A fist of the statutes was published in the 1932 Municipal Register.

Parks and Parkways with Location, Area and Year Acquired.
main park system

Acres

zArborway, Prince street to Franklin Park, 1892 . . . 24. 19
fArnold Arboretum and Bussey Park, South, Centre and Walter

streets, 1882, 1895 223.00

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the nexi biennial
municipal election at which a Mayor is elected.

z The roadway portions of these areas have been transferred to the Metropolitan
District Commission on October 30, 1956 under Stat. 1956, Chap. 581.

t Of this park, only the roads and walks are maintained by the City.

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Acres
AAvenue Louis Pasteur, Longwood avenue to the Fenway,

1922 ' . 3.19

zBack Bay Fens, Beacon street to Brookline avenue, 1877 . 114.60
JBoston Common, Tremont to Park street. Beacon, Charles

and Boylston streets, 1634 48.40

Commonwealth avenue, Arlington street to Beacon street,

1894-1905 32.00

Franklin Park (18S3-84) and Zoological Garden, Blue Hill
avenue, American Legion Highway, Forest Hills street,
Walnut avenue, Columbus avenue and Seaver street . . 496 . 00
zOlmsted Park, Huntington avenue to Prince street, 1890 . 180.00
Public Garden, Charles to Arlington and Beacon to Boylston

streets, 1823 24.25

zRiverway, Brookline avenue to Huntington avenue, 1890 . 40.00
West Roxbury Parkway, from Centre street, near Arboretum,
to the Metropolitan District Commission Parkway, 1894.
Roadway under care and control of M. D. C. . . . 65.97

Total Acres, Main Park System 1,251.60

MARINE PARK SYSTEM

Castle Island now joined to mainland of Marine Park (land
and flats), 1890, "care and control" 104.00

Columbia road (southerly side) from Edward Everett square

to Moseley street, including Dorchester Way, 1892, 1899 . 5. 60

§Marine Park and Aquarium, Farragut road, City Point (land

and flats), 1883, including beach 57.61

-}|Strandway at Carson street and Columbus Park, Columbia
Road railroad bridge to Marine Park (land and flats), 1890-
1901, including portion of Columbia road at this section . 254.30

Total Acres, Marine Park System 421.51

MISCELLANEOUS PARKS

*Adams, Irving W. Park, Junction of Washington and South

streets, Roslindale, 1919 0.78

Chestnut Hill Park, Beacon street and Commonwealth ave-
nue, Brighton, 1898-1902 40.35

Chiswick road. Commonwealth avenue, Sidlaw road, Brighton,

W49 0.60

JCopp's Hill terraces. Commercial and Charter streets. North

End, 1893 0.60

A Acquired by Ordinance, chap. 7 of 1922.

t This area of the Common is exclusive of the old cemetery on Boylston Street side,
containing 1.40 acres.

§ This area, with the exception of the Aquarium, has been turned over to the M. D. C.
of the Commonwealth under Chap. 92, Sec. 87, G. L. Final transfer not completed.

The Aquarium was transferred to the Metropohtan District Commission by Stat.
1959, Chap. 240.

II This area with the exception of Columbus Park and L Street Beach has been turned
over to the M . D. C. of the Commonwealth under Chap. 92, Sect. 87, G. L. Final transfer
not completed.

* Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 1.

t Children's playground.

z The roadway portions of these nreas have been transferred to the Metropolitan Dis-
trict Commission on October 30, 1956 under Stat. 1956. Chap. 581.

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Acres
*Corbett, William B. Park, between Washington and Clay-
bourne streets, Dorchester, 1917 0.94

Cummings Memorial Park, located partially in Woburn and

Burlington, Mass., 1930 234.00

xDoherty, Ensign, John J., Jr., Bunker Hill and Medford

streets (4.30), 1891 4.30

Dorchester Park, Dorchester avenue and Richmond street,

1891 31.47

Freeport Street (Malloch's) Wharf and grounds, Dorchester

(land 0.94; flats 1.40), 1912 1.42

North End Beach, Commercial and Charter streets (land

and flats), 1893 6.70

*Ringer, Stanley A. Park, Allston street and Griggs place,

Allston, 1916 (playground area 2.32) 12.38

Rogers Park, Lake and Foster streets, Brighton, 1899 (play-
ground 6.00 acres) 8.20

Savin Hill Park, Grampian Way, Dorchester, 1909 . . 8.26

Statler Park, Columbus avenue, Stuart and Church streets,

1925 0.25

Town Meeting Park, Pleasant and Pond streets, Dorchester,

1921 0.22

Washington, East Dedham and Mystic streets. South End,

1945 0.32

Total Area, Miscellaneous Parks 350 . 79

Playgrounds and Play Areas, with Location, Area, and Year

Acquired

Almont Street Playground, Mattapan, 1924 . . . . 17.81

Alsen, Carl Henry Playground, Victory road at Park street,

Dorchester, 1916-1943 4.27

American Legion Playground, Condor and Glendon streets,

East Boston, 1924 3.38

*Barry, William J. Playground, Chelsea street and Mystic

river, Charlestown, 1897 5.72

Beecher Street Play Area, Jamaica Plain, 1942 (undevel-
oped) . . 0.18

Billings Field, La Grange and Bellevue streets, West Roxbury,

1896 10.83

fBoston Common, Charles Street side 3 . 50

Bradford Street Play Area, South End, 1954 . . . . 0.04

Bruce Street, West Roxbury, 1945 (undeveloped) . . . 0.80

JBrookside Avenue Playground at Cornwall street, Jamaica

Plain, 1925 1.32

JBuckley, Rev. Fr. Playground, West Third and Bolton streets.

South Boston, 1925 0.65

xByrne, Joseph M. Playground, Everett and Elm streets, Dor-
chester, 1939 1.16

Cabot Street Extension-Bath-Land, Roxbury, 1954 . . 0.13

Carleton and Canton streets. South End, 1945 . . . 0.05

* Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 1.

t Playgrounds located in parks, and included in areas of parks.

t Children's playground.

X Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 2.

82 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Acres

Carroll Pond, Carrolton Rd., West Roxbury (undeveloped),

1921 , . . . . 0.47

Carson street, Dorchester, 1945 0 . 47

*Carter, William E. Playground, Columbus avenue at Camden

street, 1899 5.02

fxCassidy, Walter F. (Chestnut Hill) Playground, Beacon

street, Brighton, 1898 9.44

Ceylon Street Playground, Ceylon and Intervale streets, Dor-
chester, 1923 4.03

JCharter Street Playground, Charter street and Greenough

Lane, North End, 1940 0.23

Cherry Street Playground, South End, 1922 . . . . 0.55

fColumbus Park, Strand way, including beach, South Boston 79.00
*Connolly, John J. Playground, Marcella and Highland streets,

Roxbury, 1903 5.10

*Cronin, James L. Playground, Brent street, at Wainwright

street, Dorchester, 1899 2.24

Cumston Street Play Area, South End, 1952 . . . . 0.02

*tCutillo, Vincent Playground, Morton and Stillman streets.

North End, 1917 0.29

*|DeFilippo, Private John Playground (Snow Hill street).

North End, 1937 1 . 13

*Doherty, John A.. Playground, Dorchester and Geneva

avenues, 1897 1.47

xfDoherty, Ensign John J., Jr. Playground, Bunker Hill and

Medford streets, Charlestown Heights, 1891 . . . 4.30

fDorchester Park, Dorchester avenue and Richmond street,

1891 5.40

Douglass Court Play Area, West End, 1952 . . . . 0.01

Dover Street Extension— Bath— Land, 1952 .' . . . 0.06

Draper, Mary Playground, Washington and Stimson streets.

West Roxbury, 1932 . . . 5.76

East Boston Recreation Area, Porter . street. East Boston,

1954 ..." 17.67

East Glenwood Avenue Play Area, East Glenwood avenue,

Hyde Park, 1958 0.47

*tEmmons, Frederick D. Playground, Rutherford avenue,

Charlestown, 1912 1.07

Eustis, William Playground, Norfolk avenue and Proctor

street, Roxbury, 1909 . . 7.60

Factory Hill Playground, Town and Sunnyside streets, Hyde

Park, 1912 5.20

*Fallon Field, South and Robert streets, Roslindale, 1899 and

1931 7.57

JFoster Street Playground, Foster street, place and court.

North End, 1930 0.10

Franklin Field, Blue Hill and Talbot avenues, Dorchester,

1892 48.67

* Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 1.

t Playgrounds located in parks, and included in areas of parks.

J Children's playground.

X Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 2.

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 83

Acrea
tFranklin Park, 1883-1884 22.00

Gallagher, Alice E. Memorial Park, Brighton, 1937-1943-

1948 1601

*Garvey, William H. Playground, Neponset avenue, opposite

Chickatawbut street, Dorchester, 1896 8.72

Gibson, Christopher Playground, Dorchester and Geneva

avenues, 1897 4.34

Hannon, Mary Playground, Howard avenue and Folsom

street, Dorchester, 1940-1945 1 • 69

Hanson Street Play Area, Hanson street, South End, 1957 . 0.07

Harbor View Street Play Area, Harbor View street at Dor-
chester avenue, Dorchester, 1960 0 . 64

Harrison avenue, 624-634, South End Play Area (1950) . 0. 12

Harvard, John Mall, Main street, near City Square, Charles-
town, 1943 0.85

Haverhill and Perkins Streets Play Area, Charlestown, 1951 0.73

*Healey, James F. Playground, Washington street and Firth

road, RosUndale, 1902 9.63

Hemenway, Mary Playground, Adams and Gustine streets,

Dorchester, 1919 4.41

Hill and Cook Streets Play Area, Charlestown, 1942 . . 0. 10

*tHolland, John F. Playground, Mozart and Bolster streets,

Roxbury, 1917 107

Holyoke Street Play Area, South End, 1951 . . . . 0.04

Howes, Gertrude Playground, Winthrop, Fairland and More-
land streets, Roxbury, 1930 1-88

Jefferson Playground, Heath, Cranford and Floyd streets,

Roxbury, 1924 4.38

xKiley, Richard Playground, Albion street, South End, 1943 . 0.41

King Street Play Area, Roxbury, 1943 0.32

Lasell street at Addington road, West Roxbury, vacant land,

1958 0.09

Lee, Christopher J. Playground, First street at M street.

South Boston, 1897 5.20

tLee, Joseph Playground, The Fens, Back Bay, 1877 . . 5.00

Maiden street, South End, northerly side (undeveloped), 1941 0.21

JMcCarthy, Leo F. Playground, Mead and Ludlow streets,

Charlestown, 1938 0.28

*||McConnell Park (formerly Savin Hill Playground), Spring-
dale and Denny streets (land and flats), 1899, 1914, includ-
ing beach 57 . 40

McKinney Playground, Faneuil street, Brighton, 1930 . . 5.94

xMcLaughlin, Joseph D. Playground, Parker Hill and Fisher

avenues, Roxbury, 1912 11.54

* Named for U. '■. serviceman killed in World War No. 1.
t Children's playground.

X Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 2.
t Playgrounds located in parks, and included in areas of parks.

H The beach section of this area was turned over to the M. D. C. of the Commonwealth
under Chap. 92, Sec. 87, G. L. Final transfer not completed.

84 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Acres
*JMcLean, Arthur F. Playground, Saratoga and Bennington

streets, near Moore street, East Boston, 1917 . '. . 0.43

Mission Hill Playground, Tremont and Smith streets, Rox-
bury, 1913-1915-1947 2.75

*Murphy, John W. Playground, Carolina avenue, Jamaica

Plain, 1912 4.17

Myrtle Street Play Area, West End, 1949 . . . . 0.17

fNorth End Beach and Playground, Commercial street, 1893 3.00

Noyes, John H. L. Playground, Saratoga and Boardman

streets, East Boston (land and flats), 1909 .... 8.31

Oak Square Playground, Brighton, 1948 1.48

fOlmsted Park, Jamaicaway, 1890 3.00

JParis Street Playground, East Boston, 1912 . . . , 1.27
JParkman, Francis Playground, Wachusett street, Forest Hills,

1924 2.06

Paul Gore street, Jamaica Plain, 1913 (undeveloped) . . 0.74

Penniman and Hano streets, Brighton, 1945 . . . . 0.94

JPhillips Street Play Area, West End, 1941 .... 0.13

JPitts and Hale Streets Play Area, West End, 1942 . . . 0. 10

Plymp ton Street Play Area, South End, 1926 . . . . a0.09

Poplar and Hillside Streets, Roslindale, 1951 . . . . 0.44

Portsmouth Street Playground, Brighton, 1912 . . . 4.29

JPrince Street Playground, North Bennet and Prince streets.

North End, 1897 0.40

Quincy and Stanley Streets, Dorchester, 1955 . . . . 0.38
Readville Playground, Bullard, Milton and Regent streets,

Hyde Park, 1924 5.03

Revere, Paul Mall, Hanover and Unity streets. North End,

1925 ' . . . 0.76

fRinger, Stanley A. Playground, Allston street and Griggs

place, Brighton, 1916 . . . . . . . . 2.32

ARipley Playground, Ripley road, near Harvard street, Dor-
chester, 1913 .V . . 0.86

Roberts, Thomas J. Playground, Dunbar avenue, Dorchester,

1930 . . . . . . 10.40

tRogers Park, Lake and Foster streets, Brighton, 1899-1931 . 6.00
Ronan Park (formerly Mt. Ida), Adams street and Mt. Ida

, road, Dorchester, 1912 11.65

Ross, Henry Estate, Forest Hills street. Forest Hills, 1943-

1945 4.13

xRoss, Wesley G. Playground, Westminster street, near Wood

avenue, Hyde Park, 1936 13.03

*Rotch, Lester J. Playground, Albany and Randolph streets.

South End, 1903 2.80

Rutherford Avenue and Union Streets, Charlestown, 1951 . 0.21

xRyan, John J. Jr. Playground, Main and Alford streets,

Charlestown (land and flats), 1891 12.70

* Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 1.

t Children's playground.

t Playgrounds located in parks, and included in areas of parks.

A Acquired by gift.

X Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 2.

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 85

Aorea
Smith's Pond Playground, Brainard near Cleveland street,

Hyde Park, 1914 12.91

*Smith, William F. Playground, Western avenue and North

Harvard street, Brighton, 1894 14.00

Sorrento, Hooker and Goddard Streets, Brighton, 1951 . . 1 . 00
*Sullivan, J. M. and J. J. Playground, Fellows and Hunneman

streets, Roxbury, 1897 0.85

Sumner and Lamson Streets, East Boston, 1955 . . . 0.48
*tSweeney, Matthew J. Playground, West Fifth street. South

Boston, 1909 0.47

IITenean Beach and Playground, Neponset, 1915-1933 . . 15.25

Thetf ord Avenue and Evans Street, Dorchester . . . 0 . 66

Thornton Street, Roxbury — No. 134 (undeveloped), 1941 . 0.06
Tobin, Margaret and James Play Area, Albion street. South

End, 1941 0.16

JTyler Street Playground, South End, 1912 . . . . 0.26

Union Street Playground, Brighton, 1949 1.31

Vernon Street, Roxbury, between Cabot and Lamont streets

(undeveloped), 1941 0.40

Hynes, Thomas J. Playground, V. F. W. Parkway at Bruce-
wood street, West Roxbury, 1950 6.42

Wallingford road and Chestnut Hill avenue (playground site),

1950 10.50

*Walker, George H. Playground, Norfolk street, opposite

Evelyn street, Mattapan, 1912 6.21

XX Walsh, William Gary Playground, Gallivan Boulevard, corner

Washington street, Dorchester, 1946 6.97

Washington and Stimson streets. West Roxbury, 1938 . . 0.30
West Rutland Square Play Area, South End, 1953 . . . 0. 13
IWest Third Street Playground at B street. South Boston, 1909 0 . 28
Wilkes Street Play Area, South End, 1954 . . . . 0.06
Winthrop, John Playground, Dacia and Danube streets, Dor-
chester, 1911 1.57

Wright, George Golf Course, West street, Hyde Park, 1930-

1931 158.48

Total area of the 122 Playgrounds and Play Areas^ Acres), 768 . 52
Area of 11 Playgrounds in Parks (Acres) . . . 142.96

Area of the 111 Separate Playgrounds (Acres) . . . 625.56

The first separate playground acquired by the City was the Charles-
town Playground, purchased in 1891 for $172,923. With that included,
122 playgrounds (111 separate and 11 located in parks) have been estab-
lished, most of them equipped with first-class shelter and sanitary build-
ings containing lockers, also drinking fountains, shower baths, etc.
Recreation Centers, Beaches, Pools and Public Baths
Recreation Centers

Cabot Street, Roxbury
Columbia Road, Dorchester

t Children's playground.

* Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 1.

X Named for U. S. servicenman killed in World War No. 2.

XX Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 2. Congressional medal of
honor.

II Much of this area has been turned over to M. D. C. of the Commonwealth under
Chap. 92, Sec. 87, G. L. Final transfer not completed.

86 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Curtis Hall, Jamaica Plain
Hyde Park Municipal Building
J. J. Williams Building, South End
Lexington Street, Charlestown
North Bennet Street, North End
Paris Street, East Boston
. Roslindale Municipal Building
South Boston Municipal Building
Tyler Street, South End
Vine Street, Roxbury
Tobin Memorial Building, Roxbury

Beaches and Swimming Pools
Cabot Street Pool, indoor
Curtis Hall Pool, indoor
Charlestown Pool, outdoor
North End Pool, outdoor

L Street Beach (3 beaches — men, women, boys)
L Street Solarium (men, women)

Public Baths

Brighton Municipal Building
Cabot Street, Roxbury
Columbia Road, Dorchester
Copley School, Charlestown
Curtis Hall, Jamaica Plain
Dover Street, South End
Hyde Park Municipal Building
Lexington Street, Charlestown
North Bennet Street, North End
Paris Street, East Boston.
Roslindale Municipal Building
South Boston Municipal Building
Tobin, Maurice J. Memorial Building
Tyler Street, South End
Vine Street, Roxbury
Williams, John J. Building, South End

Public Grounds, Squares, etc., with Locations and Areas
city proper

Square Feet
Blackstone Square, Washington street, between West Brookline

and West Newton streets 105,100

Braddock Park, between Columbus avenue and N. Y., N. H. &

H. R. R 3,800

City Hall Grounds, School street 7,700

Columbus Square, Columbus and Warren avenues ... 2,250

Concord Square, between Tremont street and Columbus avenue. 5,000
Copley Square, between Huntington avenue, Boylston and

Dartmouth streets 28,399

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 87

Square Feet

Dock and Faneuil squares 707

Franklin Square, Washington street, between East Brookline

and East Newton streets 105,205

Abraham Lincoln Square (formerly Park Square), Columbus

avenue, Eliot street and Broadway 2,867

Massachusetts Avenue Malls, four sections, between Albany

street and Columbus avenue 106,500

Post Office square 6,747

Rachael Revere Square, North End, 1945 3,509

Rutland Square, between Tremont street and Columbus avenue. 7,400

St. Stephen Square, corner St. Stephen and Batavia streets . 100

Trinity Triangle, Huntington and St. James avenues, 1885. . 7,841

Union Park, between Tremont street and Shawmut avenue . 16,000

Waltham Square, Harrison avenue, opposite Union Park street . 3,000
Worcester Square, between Washington street and Harrison

avenue 16,000

Total 428,125

HOXBtTRY

Cedar Square, Cedar street, between Jimiper and Thornton streets 26, 1 63
Elm Hill Avenue Tree Reservation, between Seaver and Schuyler

streets 2,650

Elm Hill Park, off 550 Warren street 6,920

*Hanlon, Francis G. Square, junction of Huntington avenue,

Tremont and Francis streets 1,662

Harris, Horatio Park, Walnut avenue, Munroe, Townsend and

Harold streets 110,040

Heath, General Square, Old Heath, New Heath and Parker

streets 2,416

Highland Park, Fort avenue and Beech Glen street . . . 158,421

Joslin Park, Deaconess road and Brookline avenue . . 16,061

Kittredge, Alvah Park, Highland street and Highland avenue . 5,600

Linwood Park, Centre and Linwood streets 3,625

Madison Park, Sterling, Marble, Warwick and Westminster

streets 122,191

Orchard Park, Chadwick, Orchard Park and Yeoman streets . 104,492

Public Ground, corner Blue Hill avenue and Seaver street . . 2,500

Walnut Park, between Washington street and Walnut avenue . 5,736

Warren Square, Warren, St. James and Regent streets . . 1,380

Washington Park, Dale and Bainbridge streets .... 396,125
*Wolf, Herbert J. Square, Crawford, Abbotsford and Harold

streets 966

Total 966,948

* Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 1.

88 MUNICIPAL REGISTER.

Square Feet
BRIGHTON

Brighton Square, Chestnut Hill avenue and Academy Hill road . 25,035
*Cunninghani, Edward M. Square, Cambridge, Murdock and

Sparhawk streets 7,449

Fern Square, between Franklin and Fern streets .... 1,900
Jackson Square, Chestnut Hill avenue. Union and Winship

streets 4,300

Oak Square, Washington and Faneuil streets 9,796

Public Ground, Cambridge and Henshaw streets .... 1,434
llWilliam Boyden Park, Commonwealth avenue at Lake Street

Extension . • —

Total • • • 49,914

CHARLESTOWN

City Square, junction of Main and Park streets .... 8,739

Essex Square, Essex and Lyndeboro' streets . . . . ■ . 930

Hayes Square, Bunker Hill and Vine streets 4,484

Sullivan Square, Main, Cambridge, Sever and Gardner streets . 14,542

Winthrop Square, Winthrop, Common and Adams streets . . 38,450

Total 67,145

DORCHESTER

Algonquin Square, Algonquin and Bradlee streets . . . 1,728

*Andrew, Henry Square, Adams and Granite streets . . . 2,068

Centervale Park, Upland avenue and Bourneside street . . 9,740
Coppens, Reverend Francis X., Square, Adams and Bowdoin

streets ' . . . 13,280

*Denton, Gordon E., Square, Magnolia street .... 3,605

♦Donovan, John F., Park, Meeting House Hill .... 56,200

Drohan Square, Edison Green . . 10,241

Florida Street Reservation, King to Ashmont streets (7 sections) 24,193

*Kane, Francis G., Square, Bowdoin, Winter and Hancock streets 1,600

Mt. Bowdoin Green, summit of Mt. Bowdoin .... 25,170
*01son, Fred C. W., Square, junction of Adams and Codman

streets 700

Peabody Square, Ashmont street and Dorchester avenue . . 1,963

Richardson Square, between Pond and Cottage streets . . 46,035
Monsignor O'Donnell Square, junction of Freeport street and

Neponset avenue . 6,263

Tremlett Square, Tremlett street, between Hooper and Waldeck

streets 7,107

Wellesley Park, Wellesley park 28,971

Total 238,864

* Named for U. S. serviceman killed in World War No. 1
11 Part of Chestnut Hill Park.

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT

89

Square Feet
EAST BOSTON

Brophy, Michael J., Park, Webster, Sumner, Lamson and Seaver

streets 30,000

Central Square, Meridian and Border streets 40,310

Maverick Square, Sumner and Maverick streets .... 4,396

Prescott Square, Trenton, Eagle and Prescott streets . . . 12,284

Putnam Square, Putnam, White and Trenton streets . . . 11,628

Total 98,618

HYDE PARK

Greenwood Square, junction of Greenwood street and Central

avenue

*Jones, Lieut. Parker B., Square, Milton avenue and Highland

street

Webster Square, junction of Webster street and Central avenue
Williams Square, Williams avenue and Prospect street
Wolcott Square, Hyde Park avenue, Milton and Prescott streets
*Woodworth, Horace Campbell, Square, Beacon street and
Metropolitan avenue

220

220
220
700
220

220

Total

SOUTH BOSTON

Independence Square, Broadway, Second, M and N streets
Lincoln Square, Emerson, Fourth and M streets .
Thomas Park, Telegraph Hill (Dorchester Heights^

1,800

279,218

9,510

190,000

Total 478,728

2,200

WEST ROXBURY

Duffie, Arthur, Square, Clement avenue. West Roxbury
*Gustav Emmet Square, S. Conway, S. Fairview and Robert

streets 750

*Mahoney, Cornelius J., Square, Centre and Perkins streets . 3,200

Oakview Terrace, off Centre street 5,287

Soldiers' Monument Lot, South and Centre streets, Jamaica

Plain 5,870

Total .... 17,307

Total area of Public Grounds, etc., 2,347,449 Square Feet, or
53.89 Acres.

RECAPITULATION

Parks and Parkways:

Acres

Main Park System . . . ,

.1,251.60

Marine Park System . ...

. 421.51

Miscellaneous Parks ....

. 350.79

Playgrounds (separate) . ...

. 624.92

Public Grounds, Squares, etc ...

. 53.89

Grand total (acres) . . .

.2,702.71

* Named for U. S. servicemau killed in World War No. 1

90

MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Monuments and Memorials Belonging to City, Located on
Public Grounds

Year-
Name or Designation and Location Erected Artist or Architect

Blackstone Memorial Tablet, Boston

Common 1914 R. Clipston Sturgis

Crispus Attucks and Other Patriots
of 1770, Boston Common (Boston
Massacre) 1888 Robert Kraus

William EUery Channing, Public Garden. 1903 Herbert Adams

Patrick A. Collins Memorial, Common-
wealth Ave 1908 Henry H. Kitson

T. Alice Kitson

Declaration of Independence Tablet,

Boston Common 1925 John F. Paramino

Dorchester Heights (Revolutionary), Tele-
graph HUl, South Boston 1902 Peabody and Stearne

Ether Memorial, Public Garden 1867 John Q. A. Ward

Football Tablet, Boston Common 1925

Curtis Guild Memorial Entrance, Boston

Common 1917 Cram and Ferguson

John Harvard Tablet, John Harvard Mall,

Charlestown 0000

Kosciuszko Tablet, Public Garden 1927 Mrs. T. A. R. Kitson

Lafayette Tablet, Boston Common 1924 John F. Paramino

Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation,

Abraham Lincoln Sq 1879 Thomas Ball

Donald MacKay, Castle Island W. T. Aldrich

John Boyle O'Reilly, Back, Bay Park 1896 Daniel C. French

Francis Parkman Memorial, Olmsted

Park, Jamaica Plain 1906 Daniel C. French

George F. Parkman Memorial Bandstand,

Boston Common 1912 Robinson and Shepard

Paul kevere, Paul Revere Mall, Boston. . 1940 Cyrus E. Dallin
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Augustus Saint Gaudens

Mass. Regiment, Boston Common 1897 McKim, Mead & White

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Boston

Common 1877 Martin Milmore

Soldiers' Monument, Charlestown, Wuj-

throp Sq 1872 Martin Milmore

Soldiers' Monument, Dorchester, Meeting

House Hill 1867 D. F. Dwight

Soldiers' Monument, Jamaica Plain, ^

Centre and South Sts., Jamaica Plain . . 1871 W. W. Lummis

PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT

91

George Robert White Memorial, Public

Garden 1924 Daniel C. French

Founding of Boston Memorial Tablet,

Boston Common 1930 John F. Paramino

Statues Belonging to City, Located in Parks and Public Grounds,

Year
Name Location Erected Artist

Samuel Adams, Adams Sq 1880 Anne Whitney

Robert Burns, Back Bay Fens 1919 Henry H. Kitson

Colonel Thomas Cass, Public Garden .... 1899 Richard E. Brooks
John Endicott, Back Bay Fens (at For-
syth Way) 0000 Jennewien

Leif Ericsson, Commonwealth Ave 1886 Anne Whitney

Edward Everett, Richardson Pk 1867 WilUam W. Story

Admiral David G. Farragut, Marine Park,

South Boston 1895 Henry H. Kitson

Benjamin Franklin, City Hall Grounds. . . 1856 Richard S. Greenough
William Lloyd Garrison, Commonwealth

Ave 1886 OUn L. Warner

General John Glover, Commonwealth Ave.1875 Martin Milmore

Edward Everett Hale, Pubhc Garden 1913 Bela L. Pratt

Alexander Hamilton, Commonwealth Ave. 1865 William Rimmer

Wendell Phillips, PubUc Garden 1915 Daniel C. French

Josiah Quincy, City Hall Grounds 1879 Thomas Ball

Charles Sumner, Public Garden 1878 Thomas Ball

General Joseph Warren, Warren Sq., Rox-

bury 1904 Paul W. Bartlett

George Washington,* Pubhc Garden 1869 Thomas Ball

John Winthrop, Marlborough St. at

Berkeley St., First Church Grounds. . .1880 Richard S. Greenough

Labor Group,** Franklin Park 1930 Daniel G. French

Science Group,** Franklin Park 1930 Daniel G. French

* Equestrian Statue.

** Removed from Old Post Office Building in Boston to the Zoological
Garden.

Fountains Belonging to City, Located on Public Grounds.
Brewer Fountain, Boston Common.
Coppenhagen Memorial Fountain, Richardson square.
Johnson Memorial Fountain and Gateway, entrance to Back Bay Park,
Westland avenue.

"Maid of the Mist" and three other fountains, Pubhc Garden.

92 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

One fountain on each of the following locations: —

Blackstone, Franklin, Central, Independence and Sullivan squares,
Donovan Park, Thomas Park, Madison Park, -Union Park, and Massa-
chusetts avenue. Lyman Fountain, Eaton square.

Bridges Located in Parks and Parkways.
Public Garden
Foot Bridge, over Pond.

The Fens
Boylston, over outlet of the Fens.
Fens, over outlet of Muddy River.

Riverway
Bellevue, over Muddy River from Francis street.
Brookline avenue, over Muddy River.
Berners street Foot Bridge, over Muddy River.
Berners street Foot Bridge, over Bridle Path.

Olmsted Park
Foot Bridges at Leverett Pond and over outlets of Willow Pond and
Ward's Pond.

Franklin Park
Ellicott Arch, carrying Circuit Drive over walk at Ellicottdale.
Forest Hills, carrying entrance to Franklin Park over traffic road.
Scarboro, carrying Circuit Drive over Scarboro Pond.
Scarboro Pond Foot Bridge, carrying the walk over Scarboro Pond.

George H. Walker Playground
Foot Bridge over Midland Division of New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad.

CEMETERY DIVISION

The burying grounds, cemeteries and tombs which are owned by and in

charge of the City of Boston are as follows, with a total area of about

7,000,000 square feet:

Square Estab-
Feet lished

Bennington Street, East Boston 157,500 1838

Bunkef Hill, Bunker Hill street, Charlestown . . . 48,202 1807

Central, Boston Common, City 60,693 1756

Copp's Hill, Hull street, City ...... 89,015 1659

Dorchester North, Uphams Corner, Dorchester . . . 142,587 1633

Dorchester South, Dorchester avenue, near Gallivan

Boulevard, Dorchester 95,462 1814

Eliot, Eustis street, Roxbury 34,830 1630

Evergreen, Commonwealth avenue, near Wade street,

Brighton 604,520 1848

Fairview, Fairview avenue, Hyde Park, about 50 acres . 1892

Granary, Tremont street. City 82,063 1660

Hawes, Emerson street, South Boston 11,232 1816

PENAL INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT

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King's Chapel, Tremont street, City 19,344 1630

Market Street, Brighton 18,072 1764

Mount Hope, Walk Hill, Paine and Canterbury streets,

125 acres and 14,330 square feet 1851

Phipps Street, Charlestown 76,740 1630

South End South, Washington street, near East Newton

street. City 64,670 1810

Union, East Fifth street, South Boston .... 5,470 1841

TFaZ^er S/ree<, West Roxbury 35,100 1711

Westerly, Centre street. West Roxbury .... 39,450 1683

CITY TOMBS

Twenty-five in the South Ground; six in Phipps Street Ground, Charles-
town; one tomb for infants in South Ground; one tomb for infants and
one for adults in Copp's Hill Ground; one for adults and one for infants
in the Granary Ground; one for infants in King's Chapel Ground; one for
infants in the Central Ground; two receiving tombs in East Boston;
one receiving tomb in Dorchester North; one receiving tomb in Dor-
chester South; one receiving tomb in Evergreen Cemetery, Brighton;
one receiving tomb in Mount Hope Cemetery, and one receiving tomb in
Fairview Cemetery, Hyde Park.

PENAL INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT

Office, 805 City Hall Annex

[Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, § 14; Stat. 1896, Chap. 536, § 9; Stat. 1897, Chap.
395, § 5; Ord. 1924, Chap. 9.j

Joseph V. McBrine, Commissioner.

The Penal Institutions Commissioner is the executive and administrative
head of the Penal Institutions Department, and he is also charged with
paroling power from Charles Street Jail and Suffolk County House of
Correction.

House of Correction
William P. Kelley, Master
This institution dates from 1895, and now includes land and buildings
valued at $2,552,100; land appraised at $605,900, and buildings at
$1,946,200.

94 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

PUBLIC WORKS' DEPARTMENT

511 City Hall Annex

James W. Haley, Commissioner

The Public Works Department was created in 1911 under the provisions
of Chapter 486, Acts of 1909, through the consolidation of the existing
street, water, and engineering departments. The Department was placed
in the charge of a Commissioner who was required by Ordinance to be a
civil engineer of recognized standing. The Department now operates
through its Central Office and five (5) major divisions, each in the charge
of a Division Engineer. These divisions carry out the major programs of
the Department; namely, the maintenance and construction of highways,
street Ughting, snow removal, sewerage construction and maintenance,
water construction and maintenance, sanitation, street cleaning, removal
of refuse and garbage. All engineering in connection with the foregoing
programs is performed by the Engineering Division. The Central Office
performs general administrative functions including personnel manage-
ment, payrolls, cost accounting, purchasing, inventory control, property
and equipment maintenance. The functions of the Automotive Division,
which was abolished on March 16, 1960, and the maintenance shops of the
Sanitary Division are now in the Central Office. The several division per-
mit offices and the administration of the Public Improvement Commission
were all transferred to the Central Office on March 16, 1960.

Central Office
,511 City HaU Annex

The Central Office, created on March 16, 1960, when the functions of the
various divisions of the Public Works Department were rearranged, is
intended to bring about more efficient control by the concentration of key
responsibilities under one division. It eliminates duplication of efforts in
personnel and payroll management, overstocking of supplies, and a tighter
control of inventories, accounting, etc.

A. Maintenance Branch

The Maintenance Branch is responsible for the care, control, and mainte-
nance of all department-owned motor vehicles, and for the operation, care,
and maintenance of all real estate and related facilities of the Public Works
Department, as well as a protectivegroup to safe guard department
property. It operates the maintenance shops — formerly of the Sanitary
Division.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT 95

B. Permit Branch

The Permit Branch, organized on March 16, 1960, issues all permits to
open, occupy, and obstruct portions of the streets, as well as Water and
Sewer permits.

Highway Division

501 City Hall Annex

RuTHFORD J. Kellet, Division Engineer

This Division has charge of the construction and maintenance of all
public streets, street cleaning and flushing by Department forces, the care
and upkeep of electric and gas lamps on public streets, parks, and public
grounds. The functions of the former Bridge Division were transferred to
the Highway Division on March 16, 1960. This includes the construction,
operation, and maintenance of the highway bridges under the control of
the Department, and the abolition of grade crossings.

Sanitary Division

507 City Hall Annex

John F. Flaherty, Division Engineer

The Sanitary Division has charge of the contract collection, removal, and
disposal of ashes, garbage, and refuse. It also supervises the removal of
commercial wastes under contractual arrangement between the producer
and the contractor.

Sewer Division

603 City Hall Annex

Edward G. A. Powers, Division Engineer

The Sewer Division handles and disposes of the domestic and commercial
sewage of the city. It still maintains the disposal works at Moon Island
in the City of Quincy where raw sewage is discharged into Boston Harbor
from the original disposal system — the Boston Main Drainage System.
It also discharges into the Metropolitan System at Nut Island where sewage
is discharged after primary treatment, and at Deer Island where a Metro-
politan treatment plant is under construction. The Division constructs
and maintains the main sewers, common sewers and surface drains of the
City.

Engineering Division

403 City Hall Annex

John J. McCall, Division Engineer

On March 15, 16, 1960, the functions and employees of the Bridge,
Highway, Water, and Sewer Divisions engaged in engineering design were
transferred to the Engineering Division.

This Division performs engineering services for the Divisions of the
Public Works Department and other City departments.

96 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Water Division

607 City Hall Annex

Daniel M. Sullivan, Division Engineer

This Division has the control, care, and maintenance of all pipes and
appurtenances for supplying wholesome water to the City. Its source of
supply is the Metropolitan District Commission which charges eighty
dollars ($80.00) per million gallons of water to its members. Boston's
requirements were 116,054,000 gallons per day in 1960, or 166 gallons per
capita. Under present rates the consumer pays the City one cent for
37| gallons of pure water.

The Division maintains and operates a high pressure fire service for the
central business section of Boston.

Public Improvement Commission
Office, 511 City Hall Annex

THE BOARD

James W. Haley, Commissioner of Public Works, ex officio, Chairman

James J. Sullivan, Jr., Commissioner of Real Property, ex officio. Vice
Chairman

Thomas J. Griffin, Traffic Commissioner, ex officio
Robert P. Mehegan, Secretary

The Pubhc Improvement Commission was established May 1, 1954.
This Commission was assigned many of the powers and duties of the
former Board of Street Commissioners, including the authority to lay out,
widen, relocate, alter, or discontinue highways, and to order specific repairs
to be made therein; to name or rename public highways and private ways;
to order the construction of sanitary sewers and storm drains; to take land
by eminent domain for municipal purposes (except for Public Housing and
Off-Street Parking) ; to permit the opening of private ways for public travel;
to levy assessments for street, sidewalk, and sewer betterments and to
issue permits for the location of wire-carrying poles, conduits, pipes, tracks,
and similar uses of the public ways.

The administration functions include the processing of petitions, arrang-
ing public hearing, preparing estimates and orders relating to land damages
and street and sewer betterments, preparing orders for the laying out of
streets and the construction of streets and sewers, for eminent domain
land takings, and for the granting of permits for use of public highways,
erection of poles, etc.

REAL PROPERTY DEPARTMENT 97

REAL, PROPERTY DEPARTMENT

Office, City Hall Annex, Room 809

[Stat. 1938, Chap. 358; Stat. 1939, Chap. 123; Stat. 1941, Chap. 296;
Stat. 1943, Chap. 434; Stat. 1945, Chaps. 78, 433; Stat. 1946, Chap. 474;
Stat. 1948, Chap. 612; Stat. 1949, Chaps. 317, 776; Stat. 1950, Chaps.
316, 318; Stat. 1951, Chaps. 159, 282, 326, 625, 734; St. 1952, Chap.
196; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 58; Stat. 1955, Chaps. 247, 318, 450; Stat.
1958, Chap. 273; Stat. 1959, Chap. 270; Stat. 1960, Chaps. 413,
449, 652.]

REAL PROPERTY BOARD

James J. Sullivan, Jr., Commissioner of Real Property, Chairman*
Albert F. Donnelly, Assistant Commissioner of Real Property*
Carroll P. Shbehan, Associate Commissioner. Term expires May 1, 1963.
David L. Currier, Associate Commissioner. Term expires May 1, 1964.
William F. Keesler, Associate Commissioner. Term expires May 1, 1962.
Joseph B. Burke, Executive Secretary

The Real Property Board has the powers and performs the duties con-
ferred or imposed on the Board of Real Estate Commissioners by the
Statutes of 1943, Chapter 434, as amended, and by the Statutes of 1946,
Chapter 474, as amended, and has also the powers and performs the duties
conferred or imposed by statute on the Board of Street Commissioners in
relation to the abatement of taxes.

By the Ordinances of 1954, Chapter 2, Section 43, the Public Buildings
Department, including the office of Superintendent of PubUc Buildings,
was abolished, and the powers, duties and appropriations of the Superin-
tendent of Public Buildings with respect to the appointment, suspension,
discharge, compensation, and indemnification of subordinates were trans-
ferred to the Commissioner of Real Property, and all other powers, duties,
and appropriations of the Public Buildings Department were transferred
to the Assistant Commissioner of Real Property.

Committee on Foreclosed Real Estate
[Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 58.]
Office, 809 City Hall Annex
James J. Sullivan, Jr., Chairman
William F. Keesler
David L. Currier

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the rext biennial
municipal election at which a Mayor is elected.

98

MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The Committee on Foreclosed Real Estate consists of the chairman
and two other members of the Real Property Board appointed by the
Mayor from said Board. The Committee has the powers and performs
the duties conferred or imposed by law on the Committee on Foreclosed
Real Estate established under Section 4 of Chapter 434 of the Acts of
1943.

RETIREMENT B0ARJ), BOSTON

Office, 30 City Hall, third floor
[Stat. 1922, Chap. 521; Stat. 1923, Chaps. 284, 381, 426; Stat. 1924,
Chaps. 89, 249, 250, 251; Stat. 1925, Chaps. 18, 90, 152; Stat. 1926,
Chap. 390; Stat. 1933, Chap. 243; Stat. 1937, Chap. 163; Stat. 1939,
Chap. 131; Stat. 1943, Chap. 204; Stat. 1945, Chap. 658; Stat. 1947,
Chap. 520; Stat. 1950, Chap. 355; Stat. 1951, Chap. 644; Stat. 1952,
Chap. 379; Stat. 1954, Chaps. 423, 424, 684; Stat. 1955, Chap. 309;
Stat. 1958, Chap. 391.]

OFFICIALS

Walter J. Malloy, Chairman

Paul L. Carty, Secretary and Executive Officer

Joseph B. Carroll, Assistant Executive Officer

THE BOARD

Joseph P. Lally, City Auditor (ex officio)

Walter J. Malloy Term ends September 30, 1961

Thomas J. McGrsmley Term ends September 30, 1963

The Boston Retirement System was established on February 1, 1923,
under the provisions of Chapter 521 of the Acts of 1922, which was
accepted by the Mayor and City Council in August, 1922.

An additional retirement system for city and county employees was
provided by Chapter 658 of the Acts of 1945. This act was accepted by
the City Council June 3, 1946, and approved by the Mayor June 5, 1946.
The new system, designated as the State-Boston Retirement System,
went into effect October 1, 1946. Every employee appointed after that
date becomes a member of the new system.

Both systems are administered by a Retirement Board consisting of
Walter J. Malloy, appointed by the Mayor for a term of three years;
Joseph P. Lally, City Auditor, ex officio; and Thomas J. McGrimley, elected
by members of the system. The Board serves without compensation.

TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT 99

TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT

Office, 112 Southampton Street
[Stat. 1929, Chap. 263; Stat. 1954, Chap. 97; Stat. 1956, Chap. 12, Ord.
1956, Chap. 2; Stat. 1957, Chap. 253; Stat. 1960, Chaps. 84, 267,
755.1

Officials
Thomas F. Carty, Traffic Commissioner*
William T. Doyle, Deputy Commissioner

Boston Traffic Commission
Thomas J. Griffin, Traffic Commissioner, Chairman
Leo J. Sullivan, Police Commissioner, ex officio. Associate Traffic Com-
missioner
James W. Haley, Commissioner of Public Works, ex officio. Associate

Traffic Commissioner
Henry A. Scagnoli, Fire Commissioner, ex officio. Associate Traffic Com-
missioner
James J. Sullivan, Jr., Commissioner of Real Property, ex officio. Asso-
ciate Traffic Commissioner

William T. Doyle, Secretary

engineering division
Joseph M. Galeota, Chief Traffic Engineer
William E. Flanagan, Associate Traffic Engineer

The Act establishing the commission became effective April 30, 1929,
after approval by the Governor and acceptance by the Mayor and City
Council. By Stat. 1957, Chap. 253, the Commission was reorganized.
The traffic commissioner is appointed by the Mayor, and until the quali-
fication of his successor, receives compensation established by the Mayor
and City Council, and may be removed by the Mayor. The associate
commissioners receive no compensation.

The commissioner may employ, subject to the approval of the Mayor
and to chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, engineers, experts, assist-
ants and other officers and employees. The commission has exclusive
authority to adopt, amend, alter and repeal rules and regulations relative
to vehicular street traffic, and to the movement, stopping or standing of
vehicles on, and their exclusion from, all or any streets, ways, highways,
roads and parkways, under the control of the city. The commission haa
the power to erect, make and maintain, or cause to be erected, made and
maintained, traffic signs, signals, markings and other devices for the
control of such traffic in the city and for informing and warning the public
as to the rules and regulations adopted by the commission.

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial
municipal election at which a Mayor is elected.

100 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The latest revision of the Traffic Regulations contains 1,176 one-way-
streets, 1,858 no-parking regulations, and 475 stop streets. The com-
mission maintains 443 traffic signals, including two (2) 'interconnected
systems in downtown Boston, 41,093 traffic signs, and one hundred and
eighty-five (185) miles of white lines painted in the roadway, including
crosswalks, center lines, lanes, lines and stop lines are maintained by the
commission. Eleven hundred and forty-two (1,142) loading zones, requir-
ing 35,079 feet of painted curb, are maintained. Fees amounting to
$50,501 are collected for the establishment and maintenance of these
loading zones. The commission also maintains 8,009 parking meters. It
is anticipated that approximately $418,000 will be taken in as revenue
during the year 1960.

TKEASIXRY DEP^^RflVLENf

Office, 10 City Hall, first floor
[Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 40; Stat. 1908, Chap. 210; Ord. 1908, Chap. 4;
C. C, Title IV., Chap. 9; Stat. 1911, Chap. 413; Stat. 1913, Chaps.
367, 672, 788; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 36; Stat. 1920, Chap. 140;
Ord. 1920, Chap. 12; Ord. 1921, Chaps. 1, 2; Stat. 1922, Chap.
521; Ord. 1925, Chap. 2; Ord. 1926, Chap. 1; Ord. 1930, Chap. 7;
Ord. 1935, Chap. 3; Ord. 1945, Chap. 10; Ord. 1954, Chaps. 2, 6.]

James E. Gildea, Collector-Treasurer*

Edmund W. Holmes, First Assistant Collector-Treasurer, Treasury Division
John J. Connors, First Assistant Collector-Treasurer , Collecting Division
William L. Dowling, Second Assistant Collector-Treasurer, Treasury Di-
vision
Peter H. Rogers, Second Assistant Collector-Treasurer, Collecting Division

Treasury Division
Office, 10 City Hall

The Collector-Treasurer has the care and custody of the current funds
of the City, of all moneys, properties, and securities placed in his charge
by any statute or ordinance, or by any gift, devise, bequest, or deposit,
and pays all bills and demands against the City.

The Collector-Treasurer is also County Collector-Treasurer, Treasurer
of the Sinking Funds Department, Treasurer of Boston Retirement Board,
Custodian of the Boston Public School Teachers' Retirement Fund, and
Treasurer of the George Robert White Fund. He publishes reports yearly,
also monthly statements.

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial
municipal election at which a Mayor is elected.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT 101

Collecting Division
Office, 201 City Hall Annex, second floor

[Stat. 1875, Chap. 176; Stat. 1885, Chap. 266; Stat. 1888, Chap. 390;

Stat. 1890, Chap. 418; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 14; Ord. 1908, Chap.

1; C. C, Title IV., Chap. 10; Stat. 1909, Chap. 486; Stat. 1913,

Chap. 672; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 13; Ord. 1914, 2d Series, Chap. 2;

Spec. Stat. 1916, Chap. 291; Ord. 1921, Chap. 1; Stat. 1922, Chap.

390; Ord. 1925, Chap. 1; Ord. 1954, Chap. 36.]
The Collector-Treasurer collects and receives all taxes and other assess-
ments, betterments, rates, dues, and moneys payable on any account to
the City of Boston or the County of Suffolk. Annual reports have been
published since 1876, also weekly and daily statements. The Collector-
Treasurer is also Collector-Treasurer of the County of Suffolk.

Board of Commissioners of Sinking Funds
Office, 10 City Hall

[R. L., Chap. 27, § 14; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 35; C. C, Title IV.,
Chap. 9, § 5; Stat. 1909, Chap. 486, § 26; Stat. 1910, Chap. 437;
Stat. 1911, Chap. 165; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 31; Stat. 1914, Chap.
324; Spec. Stat. 1915, Chap. 184; Ord. 1916, Chap. 7; Ord. 1925,
Chaps. 2, 30; Ord. 1954, Chap. 2.)

OFFICIALS

Chairman
Joseph F, Birmingham, Vice-Chairman
Joseph P. Lally, Secretary
James E. Gildea, Treasurer

commissioners*

Daniel Weisberg, Robert D. Patterson Terms ending May 1, 1961
Joseph F. Birmingham, George Hansen Terms ending May 1, 1962
Robert S. Weeks, Jr., Gerard E. Hayes Terms ending May 1, 1963

The Board of Commissioners of Sinking Funds for the payment or
redemption of the City debt consists of six members, two of whom are
appointed annually by the Mayor for a term of three years from May 1,
The Board has published annual reports since 1871. The amended City
Charter, Section 26, prohibits the further establishing of sinking funds,
but an exception was afterwards made by the Legislature regarding loans
for Rapid Transit purposes. It also prohibits the depositing of City or
County money in any bank of which any member of the Board of Sinking
Funds Commissioners is an officer, director or agent.

Chapter 2 of the Ordinances of 1954 placed the Board of Commissionera
of Sinking Funds in the Treasury Department but not subject to the
supervision or control of the Collector-Treasurer.

♦ The Commissioners serv ■ without compensation

102 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

VETERANS-SERVICES DEPARTMENT

Office, 18 CornhiU

IStat. 1897, Chap. 441; Gen. Laws, Chap. 115, as amended; Ord. 1954,

Chap. 2, § 66.]

Edmund F. Hohmann, Veterans' Benefits and Services Commissioner.*
Thomas J. Sheehan, Executive Secretary

The Veterans' Services Department was established as a department of
the City of Boston by the Ordinances of 1954, Chapter 2, Section 66, and
is under the charge of a Commissioner who is appointed by the Mayor.
This department performs the functions formerly performed by the
Department of Veterans' Services, which it replaces. The Commissioner
exercises all powers and duties for the distribution of state and city benefits
to veterans and their eligible dependents in the City of Boston, such as
were formerly vested in the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. Under his
direction assistance is rendered to veterans and their dependents of the
Civil War, Indian War, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection,
China Relief Expedition, Mexican War, World War I, World War II, and
for service with Armed Forces from June 25, 1950, through January 31,
1955, inclusive.

This department provides information, advice and assistance to veterans
of all wars, to enable them to procure the benefits ,to which they are en-
titled relative to employment, vocational and educational opportunities,
hospitaUzation, medical care, pensions, and other veterans' benefits.
»
Fbank T. Pedonti, Supervisor of Veterans' Graves and Registration
Office, 18 CornhiU

By the Ordinances of 1954, Chapter 2, Section 66, there was placed in
this department an officer, known as the Supervisor of Veterans' Graves
and Registration, who is appointed by the Mayor and who has the powers
and performs the duties from time to time conferred or imposed by general
laws applicable to Boston on persons appointed under Section 9 of Chapter
115 of the General Laws. This officer is not subject to the supervision or
control of the Veterans' Benefits and Services Commissioner, but, unless
otherwise ordered by the Mayor, such officer shall not communicate with
the Mayor, or make any annual or other report, except through such
commissioner.

* For a term expiring on the first Monday of the January foUjwing the next biennial
municipal election at which a Mayor is elected.

WELFAKB DEPARTMENT 103

WELFARE tiEPARTMENT

OVERSEERS OP THE PUBLIC WELFARE

Administration Building, 43 Hawkins Street
[Stat. 1864, Chap. 128; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 27; C. C, Title IV., Chap.
27; Stat. 1909, Chap. 538; Stat. 1913, Chap. 763; Rev. Ord. 1914,
Chap. 23; Stat. 1921, Chap. 146; Rev. Ord. 1925, Chap. 26; Stat.
1930, Chap. 402; Stat. 1936, Chaps. 413, 436; Stat. 1951, Chap. 741;
Ord. 1954, Chap. 2, § 68; Stat. 1960, Chap. 781.]

OFFICIALS

James S. Maloop, Chairman
Thomas F. Brady, V ice-Chairman
WiLUAM F. Lally, Secretary
James F. Bowers, Treasurer

OVERSEERS*

Terms ending May 1, 1960
James I. Yopfa Nicholas Scaramella

Terms ending May 1, 1962
Katherine D. Hardwick Katherine E. Driscoll

Thomas F. Brady William V. Ward

Terms ending May 1, 1963
James Leo Mulrey Joseph S. Dow

Terms ending May 1, 1964
Ida M. Kahn Melnea A. Cass

James F. Bowers R. C. Lavrakas, M.D.

The Overseers of the Poor in the Town of Boston, a corporation estab-
lished in 1772 by act of the Legislature, were succeeded in 1864 by the
corporation called "Overseers of the Poor in the City of Boston," con-
sisting of twelve residents of Boston, four of whom are appointed annually
to serve for the term of three years from the first day of May. The
Board issued annual reports. In 1921 the name of the Board was changed
to Overseers of the Public Welfare. In 1954 the official name of the de-
partment was changed to the Welfare Department.

The Overseers of the Public Welfare are also incorporated as a Board
of Trustees of John Boylston's and other charitable funds. The total
amount of the 18 permanent charity funds in the custody of the Over-
seers on December 31, 1960, was $1,058,456.72, the annual income from
which ($37,489.18 in 1960) is distributed in accordance with the terms of
the donations.

In charge of the Overseers is the Temporary Home on Chardon street
for temporarily destitute women and children, opened in 1857.

* The Overseers serve without compensation

Various City and County

Departments and

Miscellaneous Municipal

Activities

(105)

106

MUNICIPAL REGISTER.

VARIOUS CITY, COUNTY AND STATE
OFFICIALS.

The following table shows the manner in which public officials, other than
the regular City department heads, are appointed or elected, as prescribed by
statute, ordinance, or regulation, the time of appointment or election, and the
term of office.

How
Created

Appointed oh
Elected

Teem

Officials

By Whom

When

Begins

Length

Auditorium Commission

Ord.

Mayor. . .

Annually

May 1

5yrs.

(five).

one.

Boston Employees Credit
Union, City of.

statute

Boston Finance Commission

«

Governor A

Annually

5 yrs.

(five).

one.

Boston Housing Authority
(five).

«

**

Jan. 8

5yrs.

Boston Metropolitan Dis-
trict Commission (five).

«

Governor

and

Mayor

Biennially

Oct. 24

2 yrs.

Boston Redevelopment Au-
thority (five).

u

**

Sept. 17

5 yrs.

Franklin Foundation

u

Supreme
Court

B

(twelve Managers).

Government Center Com-

u

Mayor. . .

t

t

t

mission (seven).

Licensing Board (three)

u

Governor A

Biennially
one.

6 yrs.

Old South Association in
Boston (two Managers).

"

City Coun-
cil.

Annually

When
elected.

lyr.

Police Commissioner

u

Governor

7 yrs.

A With the advice and consent of the Executive Council.

B As vacancies occur.

** Four members appointed by the Mayor and City Council and one appointed by

the Massachusetts State Housing Board.

t Until the completion of the construction of a new city hall. (See Stat. 1958, Chap.
624.)

VARIOUS OFFICIALS.

107

Officialb

How

Created

Appointed or
Elected

Term

By Whom

When

Begins

Length

School Buildings, Board of
Commissioners of (three).

School Committee (five)

Suffolk County Courthouse

Statute

u
u

Bequest

***

Elected

****

Annually
one.

City elec-
tion

Dec. 1

IstMon.
in Jan'y-

3 yrs.
2 yrs.

Commission (three).

White Fund, George Robert
(five Trustees).

County of Suffolk

*** Appointing power shared by the Mayor, School Committee and Board Members.
(See Stat. 1929, Chap. 351.)

**** Appointing power shared by the Governor, Mayor and Chief Justices of Supreme,
Superior and Boston Municipal Courts. (See Stat. 1935, Chap. 474.)

108

MUNICIPAL REGISTEIl

'THE school; committee of: the

CITY OF BOSTON

Administration Building, 15 Beacon Street
Annex, 45 Myrtle Street
[Stat. 1875, Chap. 241; Stat. 1898, Chap. 400; Stat. 1900, Chap. 235;
S'tat. 1901, Chap. 448; Stat. 1903, Chap. 170; Stat. 1905, Chap. 249;
C. C, Chaps. 33 and 48; Stat. 1906, Chaps. 205, 231, 259, 318, 505;
Stat. 1907, Chaps. 295, 357, 450; Stat. 1908, Chap. 589; Stat. 1909,
Chaps. 120, 388, 446, 537, 540; Stat. 1910, Chap. 617; Stat. 1911,
Chaps. 540, 708; Stat. 1912, Chaps. 195, 569, 711; Stat. 1913, Chaps.
337, 363, 389, 615, 779; Stat. 1914, Chaps. 128, 331, 489, 730, 738;
Gen. Stat. 1915, Chaps. 78, 81, 90 and Spec. Stat., Chaps. 189, 300,
304, 372; Spec. Stat. 1917, Chaps. 86, 88, 213, 267, 289 and Gen.
Stat., Chap. 102; Gen. Stat. 1917, Chaps. 84, 169 and Spec. Stat.
Chap. 146; Spec. Stat. 1918, Chap. 132; Spec. Stat. 1919, Chaps. 132,
199, 206, 249; Stat. 1920, Chaps. 140, 524, 641; Stat. 1921, Chaps.
169, 351; Stat. 1922, Chaps. 273, 286; Stat. 1923, Chaps. 284, 308,
381, 460, 488; Stat. 1924, Chaps. 380, 479; Stat. 1925, Chaps. 309,
327; Stat. 1926, Chaps. 153, 314; Stat. 1928, Chap. 382; Stat. 1929,
Chap. 256; Stat. 1930, Chaps. 283, 313; Stat. 1931, Chaps. 100, 155,
229, 247, 250; Stat. 1933, Chap. 121; Stat. 1934, Chaps. 145, 228;
Stat. 1935, Chaps. 19, 284; Stat. 1936, Chap. 224; Stat. 1937, Chap.
366; Stat. 1939, Chap. 142; Stat. 1946, Chap. 388, 497; Stat. 1947,
Chap. 226; Stat. 1948, Chaps. 167, 301, 452, 602; Stat. 1949, Chaps.
117, 681; Stat. 1951, Chaps. 376, 468, 781; Stat. 1952, Chaps. 190,
624; Stat. 1955, Chaps. 236, 298, 396, 594.]

SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Term ends January, 1962
William L. Kendrick, Jr.
Joseph Lee
John P. Regan
Madeleine L. Reilly
John J. Tierney, Jr.

officials
Madeleine L. Reilly, Chairman
John P. Regan, Treasurer
Frederick J. Gillis, Superintendent
Agnes E. Reynolds, Secretary
Leo J. Burke, Business Manager
James S. Reardon, Schoolhouse Custodian
board of superintendents
Frederick J. Gillis, Superintendent
assistant superintendents
D. Leo Daley William H. Ohrenberger

Philip J. Bond Charles O. Ruddy

Frank J. Herlihy Marguerite G. Sullivan

THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON 109

Business School
Boston School of Business Education

LATIN AND DAY HIGH SCHOOLS (18)

Boston Latin, Girls' Latin, Boston Technical High (Boys), Brighton
High, Charlestown High, Dorchester High, East Boston High, English
High (Boys), Girls' High, Hyde Park High, Jamaica Plain High,
Jeremiah E. Burke High (Girls), Roslindale High, South Boston
High, Boston Trade High (Boys), Trade High for Girls.

DAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS, SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH JUNIOR
HIGH CLASSES, AND DAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTS (75)

East Boston. — t Blackin ton-John Cheverus, Chapman, * Donald McKay
Junior High, Emerson, * Joseph H. Barnes Junior High, Samuel Adams,
Theodore Lyman

Charlestown. — * Clarence R. Edwards Junior High, Harvard, Warren

North and West Ends. — t Michelangelo-Eliot-Hancock, J Wendell
Phillips- William Blackstone

City Proper. — J Abraham Lincoln-Quincy, t Prince

South End. — f Dwight, f Rice-FrankUn

South Boston. — Bigelow, Hart-Gaston-Perry, John A. Andrew, Norcross,

* Patrick F. Gavin Junior High

RoxBURY. — t Dearborn, Dillaway, Dudley, Ellis Mendell, Henry L.
Higginson, Hugh O'Brien, f Hyde-Everett, * James P. TimiUty Junior
High, Julia Ward Howe, * Lewis Junior High, t Martin, t Sherwin,
William Lloyd Garrison

Brighton. — Bennett, James A. Garfield, * Thomas A. Edison Junior
High, Thomas Gardner, Washington AUston, * William Howard Taft
Junior High

Jamaica Plain. — Agassiz, t Francis Parkman, Jefferson, Lowell, * Mary
E. Curley Junior High

Roslindale. — Charles Sumner, Longfellow, * Washington Irving Junior
High

West Roxbury. — Beethoven, Patrick F. Lyndon, * Robert Gould Shaw
Junior High

Dorchester. — Christopher Gibson, Edmund P. Tileston, Edward
Everett, Emily A. Fifield-Gilbert Stuart, * Grover Cleveland Junior
High, John Marshall, John Winthrop, Mary Hemenway, Mather,
Minot, * Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High, * Patrick T. Campbell
Junior High, ** Paul A. Dever, Phillips Brooks, Robert Treat Paine,
Roger Wolcott, * Solomon Lewenberg Junior High, William E. Endicott,
t William E. Russell, * Woodrow Wilson Junior High

Hyde Park. — Elihu Greenwood, Henry Grew, James J. Chittick,

* William Barton Rogers Junior High

* Grades VII-IX only. t Grades K-IX.

t Grades K-VIII. All others include Grades I- VI.

** Grades K-IV.

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SPECIAL SCHOOLS

M. GEETKtJDE GoDviN ScHOOL. — For truants and other school offenders

School for the Deaf. — Horace Mann School

Day School for Immigrants. — For instruction in English language

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

Administration Building, 15 Beacon street. Headquarters of all officials.
Annex, 45 Mjo-tle street.

At Administration Building Annex, 45 Myrtle street, educational and
employment certificates are issued daily (except Saturdays) from 8.30
A.M. to 3.30 P.M. Physical examination of applicants for employment
certificates daily from 8.30 to 9.30 a.m.

Minors' licenses (i.e., minors under 16 years of age to act as newsboys,
etc.) are obtained by application to the Principal of the school which the
minor attends.

BUREAU OP CHILD ACCOUNTING

Administration Building Annex, 45 Myrtle street

The Bureau of Child Accounting comprises the following-named depart-
ments: Educational Investigation and Measurement, Vocational Guidance,
and Attendance (including Certificating Office) ; and the following divisions :
Division of Statistics and Publicity; Division of Pupil Adjustment
Counseling.

SUPERVISORS OF ATTENDANCE

[Stat. 1931, Chap. 394, Sect. 146.]
These officers are appointed by the School Committee, and under their
direction enforce the laws relating to absentees from school. There are
36 supervisors of attendance besides the head supervisor and they may be
seen at 9 a.m. and 1.30 p.m., on the days that the schools are in session
at the school designated by the head supervisor.

SCHOOL PHYSICIANS AND SCHOOL NURSES

Regular medical inspection of the schools was maintained from 1894 to
1915, under the supervision of the Health Department. Beginning
September 1, 1915, the School Committee took charge of this service.
For all schools and districts there is 1 Director of School Hygiene in charge
of 1 school physician assigned to the certificating office, 1 ophthalmologist,
1 otologist, 52 school physicians, 1 supervisor of nutrition, 8 school medi-
cal aids, and 1 sanitary engineer.

Chapter 357, Acts of 1907, provided for the appointment by the School
Committee of 1 supervising female nurse and as many district female
nurses as are deemed necessary. For the 75 junior high and elementary
school districts there is 1 supervising nurse in charge of 4 assistant supervis-
ing nurses, 1 nurse assigned to the certificating office, 1 nurse assigned to
the ophthalmologist, and 64 school nurses (including 9 high schools), and
1 nurse assigned to the otologist.

THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON 111

PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

In 1907, the School Committee was authorized to provide for the
extension of physical education and recreation of pupils, including proper
apparatus and facilities in the buildings, yards and playgrounds under
their control.

The School Committee appropriates, out of the tax levy, for this branch
of education such amount as it deems necessary. The Committee has
also the right to appropriate the unexpended balance of the previous year;
the estimated income for the current year, and the unexpended balance
in the separate fund under Chap. 71-47. The appropriation for 1960 is
$689,687.

The Department of Physical Education comprises 1 director; 1 associate
director; 1 assistant director; 4 elementary supervisors; 5 instructors of
military science; 1 armorer; 36 women and 37 men instructors of physical
education; 61 teacher coaches of athletics, high schools; 18 teacher coaches
of athletics, junior high schools; 29 assistant teacher coaches, 35 play
teachers.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS PARTLY MAINTAINED BY STATE

By Chapter 471, Acts of 1911, and Chapter 106, Acts of 1912, the State
especially encourages the establishing of Independent Industrial Schools,
allowing financial aid for their maintenance proportionate to the amount
raised by local taxation and expended for all public schools. Under this
arrangement the School Committee is reimbursed by the State to the
extent of one half the net maintenance cost of such industrial schools
established in Boston thus far with the approval of the Massachusetts
Department of Education. By Chapter 805, Acts of 1913, Continuation
Schools, for employed children between fourteen and sixteen years of age,
were included under the same plan of State aid. The schools thus main-
tained are the Boston Trade High School (for Boys), day and evening
classes. Trade High School for Girls, Compulsory Continuation School,
and practical arts courses in the evening elementary schools.

For the agricultural course in the Jamaica Plain High School, the
School Committee is reimbursed to the extent of two thirds of the cost of
instruction.

There are co-operative industrial courses in eight high schools, as fol-
lows: Boston Technical High (printing), Brighton (automobile mechanics),
Charlestown (electricity), Dorchester (woodwork and upholstery). East
Boston (machine shop), Hyde Park (machine shop), Jamaica Plain (agri-
culture), and South Boston (sheet metal and auto body).

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

Industrial arts courses in shopwork are given in the following high
schools: East Boston High School, Hyde Park High School, Roslindale
High School, and South Boston High School.

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There are 151 shops, mcluding 8 classrooms used for drafting, in ele-
mentary and junior high schools, in which the following named subjects
are taught: drafting, electricity, interior decoration, machine shop, print-
ing, sheet metal, woodwork, and diversified shop subjects.

Cardboard construction and handcrafts in the fourth and fifth grades,
although taught by classroom teachers, are supervised by the department.

Gardening is conducted by the department as summer activity on a
seven-acre plot of City of Boston property in Wobum.

HOME ECONOMICS

In the Home Economics Department there are 145 teachers, an assist-
ant director and a director.

There are 10 high schools offering courses in Home Economics: Brigh-
ton, Charlestown, Dorchester High, East Boston, Girls' High, Hyde Park
High, Jamaica Plain, Jeremiah E. Burke, Roslindale, and South Boston.

In the high schools of Boston there are 8 appointed teachers of clothing;
1 teacher assigned from Trade High, 1 teacher assigned from Junior High,
1 teacher assigned from Elementary, 2 provisional teachers of clothing, 2
temporary teachers of clothing, 5 appointed teachers of foods, 1 teacher
assigned from Junior High, and 1 provisional teacher of foods. There are
15 standard clothing laboratories, 8 foods laboratories, and 4 home eco-
nomics suites.

In the junior high there are 33 teachers of foods, including one teacher
assigned to Special Class Occupational Center, and one teacher assigned
from Trade High School. There are 81 elementary and junior high school
teachers of clothing, including 1 teacher assigned from Trade High, 1
teacher assigned to Horace Mann, 1 teacher assigned to Elementary Edu-
cation, and 1 teacher assigned from Science. There are also 2 provisional
and 4 temporary teachers having home economics programs. There are
3 home economics teachers at the M. Gertrude Godvin school.

There are 46 rooms equipped for instruction in foods, 16 of these have
adjoining suites. There are 117 classrooms equipped for the teaching of
clothing.

EVENING HIGH, ELEMENTARY AND TEADE SCHOOLS

There are seven evening high schools: Brighton, Central (English High
Schoolhouse) Dorchester (Jeremiah E. Burke Schoolhouse), East Boston
(Joseph H. Barnes Schoolhouse), Roslindale, Roxbury (Boston Clerical
Schoolhouse), and South Boston. These schools, the sessions of which
are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 7 to 10 o'clock, are
conducted in the several high schoolhouses of the districts named. All
but the Central High are commercial schools.

There are eight evening elementary schools in session on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings from 7 to 10 o'clock.

North End and Codman Square Evening Elementary Schools meet on
Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 10 o'clock.

THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON 113

There is one evening trade school, Boston Evening Trade School, with
two branches located in the Brighton High and South Boston High School-
houses. These schools are conducted on Tuesday and Thursday evenings,
from 7 to 10 o'clock.

DAY SCHOOL FOR IMMIGRANTS

In the Abraham Lincoln School there are classes for immigrants where
instruction in the English language is provided, classes being conducted
daily (except Saturday) for three hours in the forenoon and two in the
afternoon.

COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

All children fourteen to sixteen years of age employed under an em-
ployment permit or released from regular school attendance under a
Home Permit are required by law to attend a course of instruction in
education four hours per week. These children are assigned to the William
Blackstone Junior High School, 33 Blossom Street, West End, for the
equivalent of a continuation school education.

USE OP SCHOOLHOUSES FOR EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND CIVIC
PURPOSES

In 1912 the School Committee was authorized by statute to allow the
use of buildings under their control by associations and individuals (other
than school pupils) for educational, recreative, social, civic, philanthropic,
and similar purposes at times when the schools were not in session.
Under this arrangement there are now thirteen School Centers, each
having a manager and largely attended on two evenings a week. More
than 125 school buildings are also used by non-school center groups.

Besides the renting of school halls for club meetings, entertainments,
etc., basements and other accommodations in schoolhouses are used by
the Election Department as polling places, lighting and custodian service
being paid by the Election Department.

PENSION AND RETIREMENT FUND FOR TEACHERS

The School Committee, by a majority vote of all its members, may
retire with a pension any member of the teaching or supervising staff
of the public day schools who has reached the age of sixty years, also
such other members as are incapacitated for further efficient service.

These pensions are paid to teachers who were retired before the estab-
lishment of the Boston Retirement System, or who have not become
members of the Boston Retirement System or State-Boston Retirement
System.

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MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The School Committee is authorized to provide for these pensions by
appropriating annually such amount as it deems necessary, which, to-
gether with the unexpended balance of the previous year, the amount of
reimbm-sement from the Commonwealth, and the appropriation of accrued
interest in the Permanent School Pension Fund, will pay pensions for
the year.

On December 31, 1960, the Permanent School Pension Fund amounted
to $354,202.93 and 193 retired teachers were receiving pensions therefrom.

The Boston Teachers' Retirement Fund association, started in 1900.
is at present paying $120 per year to 1,308 annuitants, the total amount
of its fund on August 31, 1960, being $2,440,637.40. At that date 2,177
teachers were contributing $24 per year to the Fund.

BOARD QF COMMISSIONERS OF
^ SCHOOL BUILDINGS

Department op School Buildings

Offices and Warehouse, 26 Norman Street

[Stat. 1929, Chap. 351]

Thomas H. Buckley, Chairman, appointed by School Committee. Term
ends December 1, 1961.

Isadore H. Y. MucHNiCK, appointed by Mayor. Term ends Decem-
ber 1, 1962.

James F. Dinneen. Term ends December 1, 1963.

Charles A. Callanan, Superintendent of Construction

At the City Election held November 5, 1929, on the referendum —
"Shall chapter 351, of the Acts of 1929, entitled 'An Act to establish a
board of commissioners of school buildings and a department of school
buildings in the city of Boston' be accepted?" there were 110,453 votes
in favor, 57,276 against, and 50,632 blanks.

By the provisions of the Act, the board "shall consist of three citizens
of Boston who otherwise are neither officials nor employees of said city,
one of whom shall be appointed by the mayor . . . without approval
by ttie civil service commissioners, one by the school committee, and one
shall be chosen by the two so appointed, or shall be appointed by the
governor if the appointees of the mayor and school committee fail to
choose a commissioner as aforesaid within thirty days after a second
of such appointees has been appointed. "

According to section 2 of the Act, the Department of School Buildings
is established, to be under the charge of a superintendent of construction
who shall be elected by the board of commissioners, to serve at the pleasure
of the board.

Upon the election of a superintendent of construction, the board of
schoolhouse commissioners of the schoolhouse department and said
department shall be abolished.

POLICE DEPARTMENT 115

POLICE DEPARTMENT

Headquarters, 154 Berkeley Street
[Stat. 1878, Chap. 244; Stat. 1885, Chap. 323; Stat. 1906, Chap. 291;
Stat. 1938, Chap. 377.]

Leo J. Sullivan, Police Commissioner

Charles F. Hoar, Secretary

Kenneth M. Mayer, Confidential Secretary

John V. Bonner, Legal Advisor.

Francis J. Hennessy, Superintendent of Police

The City is divided into seventeen Police Divisions, in each of which is
a station house, the quarters of a captain and a force of men.

The Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a central detective agency of the
Department, located in Headquarters building, and consisting of several
subdivisions, is operated on a large scale and in an efficient manner.
Members of this Bureau investigate felonies committed within the juris-
diction of the City of Boston. In addition to its divisions for investiga-
tion of reports of automobiles stolen, lost and stolen property, and homi-
cides, squads are assigned to cover the following phases of police work
and investigation: Banking, express thieves, general investigation,
hotels, narcotics, vice, obscene Uterature, pawnbrokers, including junk-shop
keepers and dealers in second-hand articles, pickpockets, domestic rela-
tions, retail stores. A night motor patrol squad performs duty throughout
the city, to prevent, so far as possible, the commission of crime and, if acts
of violence or other serious crimes have been committed, to arrest and
prosecute the offenders. Criminal identification, fingerprints and photo-
graphs, missing j>ersons, warrants and summonses are handled by this
Bureau. The Bureau also handles cases of fugitives from justice and con-
ducts hundreds of investigations during the course of a year for various
police departments throughout the United States and foreign countries.
Further, it cooperates in every way possible with outside poUce depart-
ments in the investigation of crime and prosecution of criminals. Super-
vision of the daily line-up of all prisoners arrested for serious offenses is
conducted by this Bureau.

The criminal identification division of this Department has continued
to prove of great value and stands in favorable comparison with identi-
fication units of the most advanced departments.

Advancements and changes are constantly being made to maintain
efficiency of various divisions of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
To bring about this efficiency of service, equipment of the Bureau is con-
tinually being augmented by addition of modern identification apparatus.

Files of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation contain records of assign-
ments made in the Bureau and all records of arrests made throughout the
Department.

On file, also, are reports of all felonies committed within the city and all
reports of investigation of these felonies.

116 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

The Central Complaint and Records Bureau records all complaints,
crimes, arrests and incidents on IBM equipment. It supervises the de-
velopment and maintenance of the system of operations of the Depart-
ment, including two police broadcasting stations, "KCA860, " located at
Police Headquarters and on the roof of the new Courthouse Building,
Pemberton Square, the latter station being operated by remote control
from Police Headquarters.

These broadcasting stations insure speedy response to a call for poUce
assistance and render possible speedy dissemination of information and
quick concentration of necessary police power at a point where needed.

The Boston Police Department is completely equipped with modern
two-way radio. There are 128 police cars, 6 police boats, and 30 combina-
tion patrol wagons and ambulances, equipped with two-way radio tele-
phone. Police automobiles with two-way radio are moving through aU
parts of the city day and night. Any part of the city may be reached
by a police radio car in a very few moments after receipt of a radio message
from either of the broadcasting stations.

The radio has been a very important factor in the prompt apprehension
of law violators as well as increasing the number of arrests. In many
instances, the offenders have been taken into custody while in the act of
committing crime.

The Traffic Division is located in the Police Building, 229 Milk street.
Its commanding officer is responsible for proper regulation of traffic condi-
tions and for safety of the public using the highways from 8 a.m. to
12 o'clock midnight, within the intown section of the city.

The Superintendent of Buildings is charged with the care of all pohce
buildings. Orders for building maintenance, repair work, plumbing,
steamfitting, etc., are issued by this office.

The Property Clerk's Office is charged with the care of lost, stolen and
abandoned property, money or other property alleged to have been illegally
obtained, and all articles and property taken from persons arrested for
any cause. In its custody are also placed all seized liquor and gaming
implements which come into possession of the Department.

Orders for supplies, uniforms and equipment are issued by this office.

The Commissioner appoints a Harbor Master and assistants from the
police force. The following patrol boats are used in this service: the
"William H. Pierce" and the "William H. McShane, " both 38-foot crafts;
a Chris-Craft 16-foot speedboat, the "Warren C. Perkins"; the "Argus,"
a 28-foot craft; "Patrol Boat 63," a 63-foot sea-rescue craft, and "Patrol
Boat 45," a 45-foot sea-rescue boat.

The Police Department is responsible for the annual listing of all resi-
dents within the city 20 years of age or over.

On January 1, 1961, the poUce force numbered 2,763.

BOSTON FINANCE COMMISSION

117

BbSTdN :*'IN ANGE COMMISSION

Office, 24 School Street

[Stat. 1909, Chap. 486, § § 17-21; Stat. 1921, Chap. 81; Stat. 1923, Chap.
489; Stat. 1924, Chap. 369; Stat. 1948, Chap. 175; Stat. 1961,
Chap. 40.]

OFFICIALS

Anthony J. Young, Chairman
Thomas J. Murpht, Executive Secretary

Commissioners
Anthony J. Young
Dr. Roger J. Abizaid
Joseph P. McNamara
Joseph Graglia
Maxwell B. Grossman

Term ends in 1961
Term ends in 1962
Term ends in 1963
Term ends in 1964.
Term ends in 1965

The Finance Commission is constituted under the Amended Charter of
1909. It consists of five commissioners appointed by the Governor and
confirmed by the Executive Council, the term of each being five years.
The Chairman of the Commission is named by the Governor. The mem-
bers of the Commission, other than the chairman, serve without pay.

It is the duty of the Commission to investigate, at its discretion, all
matters relating to appropriations, loans, expenditures, accounts and
methods of administration affecting the City of Boston or the County
of Suffolk, or any of their departments, and to report upon its investi-
gations from time to time to the Mayor, the City Council, the Governor
or the General Court.

The Commission is required to make an annual report, in January, to
the General Court. It is also the duty of the Commission to report to
the Mayor, the City Auditor or the City Treasurer as to the validity or
proper amount of any doubtful pay roll, bill or claim referred to it by them.

lilCENSING BOARD

Office, 24 Province Street, eighth floor
[Stat. 1906, Chap. 291; Stat. 1909, Chap. 423; Stat. 1918, Chap. 259;
Stat. 1921, Chap. 59; Stat. 1922, Chaps. 392 and 485; Stat. 1926,
Chap. 299; Stat. 1933, Chaps. 97, 284 and 376 (Chap. 376 is now
the new Chap. 138 of the General Laws); General Laws, Chap. 140,
§ § 2 and 202.]
[Note: Roller skating rinks, merry-go-rounds, etc., were transferred
to the Mayor's Office by Chap. 169 of the Acts of 1936. The Hcensing
of the sale of denatured alcohol for mechanical, manufacturing, and
chemical purposes, under Section 76 of Chap. 138 of the General
Laws, was eliminated by Section 43 of Chap. 440 of the Acts of 1935.]

118 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

OFFICIALS

John J. Callahan, Chairman
Edwin J. Thomas, Secretary.

THE board

Clarence R. Elam Term ends in 1962

Timothy F. Tobin Term ends in 1964

John J. Callahan Term ends in 1966

The Licensing Board for the City of Boston was estabUshed by Statutes
of 1906, Chapter 291. It consists of three members appointed by the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council. They must be
citizens of Boston who have resided in Boston for at least two years pre-
ceding the date of their appointment. T^he two principal political parties
must be represented on the Board and the term of the members is fixed
at six years after the first appointment, which was for six, four, and two
years. The Board was created to exercise all the powers and perform all
the duties conferred upon the Board of PoUce of the City of Boston rela-
tive to intoxicating liquors (now called alcoholic beverages), innholders,
common victuallers, billiard and pool tables, sippio tables, bowling alleys,
intelligence offices, and picnic groves.

By Statutes of 1909, Chap. 423, the Board was given the right to issue
licenses to "Sunday dealers in ice cream, or confectionery, or soda water
or fruit".

By Statutes of 1918, Chap. 259, the Board was granted the right to
issue licenses to lodging houses.

By Statutes of 1922, Chap. 392, the Board was given the right to license
"retail vendors of soft drinks."

By Statutes of 1926, Chap. 299, the Board was given the right to grant
entertainment licenses in places where such entertainment was carried on
in conjunction with sale for cash of food or drink six days of week but not
on Sundays.

By Chapter 284 of the Acts of 1933, the Board was given authority to
grant victuallers' licenses to clubs, societies, associations or other organiza-
tions which dispense food and beverages on their premises, to their stock-
holders or members and their guests and to no others.

By Chapter 376 of the Acts of 1933, now Chapter 138 of the General
Laws, the Board was given the authority to issue alcoholic beverage
licenses to common victuallers, innholders, taverns, clubs and retail
druggist and package stores, and to suspend or revoke the same after a
hearing.

By Statute of 1949, Chapter 361, the Board was given the right to
license mechanical amusement devices and regulate the operation thereof.

By Statutes of 1953, Chapter 622, in addition to the notice which the
Licensing Board for the City of Boston is required by law to give to the
public concerning applications for new licenses, under Sections 12, 15 or
30A of Chapter 138 of the General Laws, and applications for transfer of

THE FRANKLIN FOUNDATION 119

location of said licenses, it shall also give notice of such applications to the
state representatives of each representative district affected by the appli-
cation, and also to such persons, groups, and organizations as have for-
mally requested in writing that such notice be given them for license
applications in a designated representative district.

THE FRANKLIN FOUNDATION

[Stat. 1905, Chap. 448; Stat. 1908, Chap. 569; Stat. 1927, Chap. 40;
Stat. 1941, Chap. 212; Stat. 1953, Chap. 77; Stat. 1957, Chap. 119;
C. C. Chap. 48, § 5.]

MEMBERS OF THE COBPORATION OF THE FRANKLIN FOUNDATION

John A, Lunn, President
NoEii MoRSS, Vice-President
John S. Pfeil, Vice-President
Rev. Charles E. Park, Secretary
Charles E. Cotting, Treasurer

John F. Collins, Mayor of Boston (ex officio).

Rev. Charles E. Park, Congregational Minister-Emeritus (ex officio).

Rev. Rhts Williams, Congregational Minister (ex officio).

Rev. Howard P. Kellett, Episcopalian Minister (ex officio)

Charles E. Cotting, John Lowell, John A. Lunn, Noel Mobss,

John S. Pfeil, Winthrop F. Potter, Appointed by the Supreme

Judicial Court

Franklin Technical Institute, 41 Berkeley Street
Louis J. Dunham, Jr., Director

The Franklin Foundation is incorporated under Chapter 569 of the
Acts of 1908, a board of citizens being named therein to act for the City
in the control of the Franklin Fund and in maintaining the Franklin
Technical Institute as an independent technical institute for adults.

The Franklin Fund is the proceeds of a bequest of one thousand pounds
to "the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston in Massachusetts" made by
Benjamin FrankUn, in a codicil to his will dated June 23, 1789. The
codicil provided that the fund "if accepted by the Inhabitants of the
Town of Boston" be managed "under the direction of the Select Men,
united with the Ministers of the oldest Episcopalian, Congregational and
Presbyterian Churches in that Town," who were to make loans on certain
conditions to "young married artificers, under the Age of twenty-five
years."

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Dr. Franklin, who died April 17, 1790, calculated that, in one hundred
years, the thousand pounds would grow to one hundred and thirty-one
thousand Pounds "of which," he says, "I would have the Managers then
lay out at their discretion one hundred thousand Pounds in PubUc Works
which may be judged of most general utility to the Inhabitants .
The remaining thirty-one thousand Pounds I would have continued to be
let jout on interest in the manner above directed for another hundred
years ... At the end of this second Term, if no unfortunate acci-
dent has prevented the operation the sum will be Four millions and Sixty-
one thousand Pounds Sterhng, of which I leave one Million sixty-one
Thousand Pounds to the Disposition of the Inhabitants of the Town of
Boston, and Three Milhons to the disposition of the Government of the
state, not presuming to carry my views farther." The Town accepted
the donation at a Town Meeting held June 1, 1790.

A futile suit brought by the Franklin Heirs in 1891 prevented the
division of the fund at the expiration of one hundred years; but on
January 17, 1894, by direction of the three ministers and the Board of
Aldermen of the City, which board claimed to be the successors of the
"Selectmen", $329,300.48 (Ig? of the fund) was paid to the City Treasurer,
for "the purchase of land and the erection thereon of the Frankhn Tech-
nical Institute and for the equipment of the sams." Owing to a series cf
complications the money remained in the custody of the Treasurer.
Mayor Collins, in 1902, caused a petition of the City to be filed in the
Supreme Judicial Court, praying for instructions as to the authority of
the persons then acting as Managers of the fund. The Court rendered
an opinion November 25, 1903 (184 Mass. 373) to the effect that the
three ministers were Managers of the fund under Franklin's will, but
that the Aldermen did not succeed the "Selectmen" as Managers and
had no powers with reference to it. The Court, under its general power
to care for public charitable funds, appointed, on March 16, 1904, nine
Managers to take the place of the "Selectmen" and provided in the
decree of the Court, that the Mayor of Boston should be one, ex officio.
Successors to the other eight are appointed b}^ the Court. In 1908 tl e
Franklin Fund Managers were incorporated as Franklin Foundation by
the special act already referred to which was clarified by amendments
in 1927 and 1953. In 1931 the Court held the incorporation to be con-
stitutional, since it did not change the composition or duties with respect
to the Franklin Fund of the Board of Managers, and answered various
questions which had been raised (276 Mass. 549).

On December 2, 1905, the City Treasurer received from Mr. Andrew
Carnegie $408,396.48, said sum being equal to the amount of the ex-
pendable portion of the Franklin Fund in August, 1904, which Mr.
Carnegie agreed to duplicate. Only the annual income from this fund
has been used.

On November 17, 1927, $100,000 was received by the Foundation from
the estate of the late James J. Storrow, the income to be used for main-
tenance of Frankhn Technical Institute.

GEORGE ROBERT WHITE FUND 121

In 1906 the City appropriated $100,000, raised by a 20-year loan, to
purchase a building site of about 16,000 square feet at the corner of
Appleton and Berkeley Streets. On January 31, 1907, the amount avail-
able to be "laid out" by the Managers was $438,741.98 and in that year
the Franklin Technical Institute Building was erected and equipped at
a cost of $438,528.80. It was opened in September, 1908, as a Technical
Institute to train young men and women for positions of supervision in
industry. In 1941 the name was legally changed to Franklin Technical
Institute. In 1957, the Board of Collegiate Authority of the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts voted to con^rm the action of a vote of the
Members of the Franklin Foundation to confer the Degree of Associate
in Engineering upon qualified graduates of Franklin Technical Institute.
It is maintained partly by tuition fees ($338,058 for the fiscal year 1960),
and income from the previously mentioned funds {i.e., the Andrew Car-
negie donation and the Storrow bequest). Educational programs are
offered which are accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional
Development. The building contains 13 classrooms, 4 drafting rooms,
3 shops and 10 laboratories. There is also an auditorium with a seating
capacity of 927. Eight hundred (800) adult students received instruc-
tion at evening sessions and 524 in day courses during the school year of
1960.

The Franklin Fund (Second Part) will become available in 1991.

GEORGE ROBERT WHITE FUND

Office, 36 City Hall
Teustees, 1956
John F. Collins, Mayor, Chairman
Patrick F. McDonough, President, Boston City Council
Joseph P. Lally, City Auditor, Secretary

Charles A. Coolidge, President, Boston Chamber of Commerce
Walter I. Badger, Jr., President, Bar Association of the City of Boston

James J. McCarthy, Manager

Thomas G. J. Shannon, Assistant Manager

The late George Robert White, who died in Boston, January 27, 1922,
left the residue of his estate to the City of Boston to be held as a per-
manent charitable trust fund, "the net income only to be used for creating
works of public utility and beauty, for the use and enjoyment of the
inhabitants of the City of Boston."

The control and management of the fund is in the hands of a board of
five trustees, consisting of the Mayor as Chairman, the President of the
City Council, the City Auditor, the President of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce and the President of the Bar Association of the City of Boston.

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At a meeting of the Trustees held on Tuesday, April 5, 1938, it was
unanimously voted that the services of a paid Manager be engaged. In
accordance with this vote the custody, care, control and management of
aU real estate constituting a part of the George Robert White Fund is
now in the hands of a Manager; all legal matters are attended to by the
Corporation Counsel; all financial disbursements and investments are
in the hands of the Collector-Treasurer; all collections and receipts are
handled by the Collector-Treasurer; and the examination of all bills and
demands rendered against the Fund, together with the approval of all
expenditures and the auditing of all accounts, rests with the City Auditor.

Health Units have been provided at Baldwin Place and North Margin
Street in the North End, at Paris and Emmons Streets, East Boston, at
Dorchester and West Fourth Streets, South Boston, at Blue Hill Avenue
and Savin Street, Roxbury, at High and Elm Streets, Charlestown, at
Blossom and Parkman Streets, West End, at Whittier and Hampshire
Streets, Roxbury, at Central Avenue, Hyde Park, and at Blue Hill Avenue
and Harvard Street, Dorchester, in the hope of being able, by proper
instruction, to better the living and health conditions of the communities
in the congested districts.

A Prado has been established at Hanover and Unity streets in the
North End, to provide an open air space for the residents of the North
End. In 1935, the Trustees voted to change the name of the Prado to
Paul Revere Mall.

In the spring of 1936 the Trustees voted to establish a wading pool
and locker building in the yard in the rear of the Whittier Street Health
Unit, Roxbury. The wading pool and locker building have since been in
full operation for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the City.

In the summer of 1936 the Trustees voted to have thirteen memorial
bronze tablets fabricated and placed in the walls of the Paul Revere Mail
in the North End. The inscriptions to be placed on these tablets in^
volved considerable research work and as a consequence these tablets
were not completed until the summer of 1940. This was done as an im-
provement to the Mall.

On January 27, 1940, the Trustees voted to purchase an equestrian
statue of Paul Revere — made by Cyrus E. Dallin, sculptor — to be
placed in the Paul Revere Mall in the North End, as an addition and
further improvement in accordance with provision of the will.

On September 22, 1940, the Trustees dedicated the thirteen bronze
tablets and the statue of Paul Revere at the Paul Revere Mail in the
North End.

In the summer of 1941 the Trustees voted to establish a number of
play spaces, fully equipped, in various sections of the City from the
Income of the Fund, for the use and enjoyment of children under 12 years
of age. It was voted to establish the first four play spaces at the following
locations:

Pitts and Hale Streets, in the West End
London and Decatur Streets, in East Boston

BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY 123

' Troy and Rochester Streets, in the South End

King and Roxbury Streets, in Roxbury

This chain of play spaces consists of the most modern architecture:
wading pools, play-yard equipment, concrete seats, concrete sandboxes
etc., and is a great asset to the City.

Starting in the spring of 1946 and ending in the fall of 1949 the Trustees
of the Fund voted to establish the following projects from the Income of
the Fund:

Health Unit at Central avenue and Elm street, Hyde Park.
Health Unit at Blue Hill avenue and Harvard street, Dorchester
Swimming Pool, Diving Pool and Locker Building, Doherty Heights,

Charlestown
Schoolboy Stadium in Franklin Park
War Memorial Center in the Fens
Swimming Pool, Diving Pool and Locker Building, Commercial

street. North End Park
War Memorial, Veterans Section, Mt. Hope Cemetery

BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

Office, 230 Congress Street

[Gen. Laws, Chap. 121, Sees. 26 I to 26 WW, shall be known, and may be

cited, as the Housing Authority Law.]

Appointed by Mayor and City Council
Edward D. Hassan, Chairman Term ends in 1963

Jacob I. Brier Term ends in 1962

Victor C. Bynoe, Vice Chairman Term ends in 1965

Charles H. Savage Term ends in 1966

Appointed by the Chairman of the State Housing Board
Cornelius T. Kiley, Treasurer and Secretary Term ends in 1964

The Boston Housing Authority, established in accordance with the
Housing Authority Law of the Commonwealth, consists of five members,
who may be compensated at the rate of $50 per day for the Chairman,
and $40 per day for a member other than the Chairman. As the terms
of the members expire, successors are appointed by the same appointive
power for terms of five years.

The Authority is charged with investigation to determine the un-
sanitary and sub-standard housing conditions existing within its juris-
diction which cannot readily be remedied by private enterprise, and the
clearance, replanning and reconstruction of such areas. With the approval

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of the State Housing Board and the Mayor, it is empowered to enter
into agreement with any agency of Government for assistance, financial
or otherwise, to remedy such substandard conditions.
Fbdehally-aided Developments

Fifteen Federally-aided developments consisting of 10,156 units in the
City are now operated by the Authority for the housing of low-income
families, preference being given to veterans and servicemen. The de-
velopment in the Bay View section which was constructed by the Au-
thority was subsequently sold to the federal government to house war
workers. It was operated by the Authority, under lease from the Federal
government, and tenancy was later restricted to veterans and servicemen
with families. On December 31, 1956 title was given to the Authority
with the development to be used to house low-income families.

Old Harbor Village, South Boston, the only development built and
owned by the Federal government, was leased to the Authority to house
low-income families on May 1, 1938. On December 31, 1958 title to it was
given to the Authority.

State-Aided Developments

The basic Housing Authority Law was amended in 1948 by Chapter 200.
This legislation provided for State aid to local authorities in building homes
for veterans' families of low income by means of State guarantee of the
principal and interest on local housing authority notes or bonds issued for
this purpose and annual subsidy by the State not to exceed two and one-
half per cent of total development costs, for 40 years. Veterans of World
War II, and other veterans with families of low income, receive preference
in this program in that order.

Under this legislation, 3,681 dwelling units have been built and occupied
in ten developments.

Planning and Developing

Local housing authorities are now empowered to build housing for
elderly persons of low income. The Mayor and the City Council have
approved erection of an additional 400 apartments under the Federally-
aided program for this purpose, comprising six developments ranging
from 44 to 96 units. Under the State-aided program 80 apartments are
in the development stage.

One' of the Federally-aided developments is now under construction.
The remainder, including the State-aided development, are scheduled for
construction some time prior to the summer of 1961.

BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

Office, 73 Tremont Street

[Gen. Laws, Chap. 121, as amended.]
Appointed by Mayor and City Council
Joseph W. Lund, Chairman. Term ends in 1962.

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Very Rev. Francis J. Lally, Vice Chairman Term ends in 1961.

James G. Colbert, Treasurer. Term ends in 1964.

Stepheh E. McCloskey, Assistant Treasurer. Term ends in 1963-

Appointed by Massachusetts State Housing Board

Melvin J. Massucco, Member. Term ends in 1965.

Kane Simonian, Secretary and Executive Director

The Boston Redevelopment Authority, established in accordance with
Gen. Laws, Chap. 121, as amended by Chap. 150, Acts of 1957, has the
sole responsibility for urban renewal projects in the City of Boston.

The Authority was organized in September 1957 and received its cer-
tificate of organization from the Secretary of the Commonwealth on
October 4, 1957.

Under the provisions of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, the Fed-
eral Housing and Home Finance Agency is authorized to enter into con-
tracts with local redevelopment authorities to finance slum clearance and
urban renewal projects. Two thirds of the net project costs of an urban
renewal project may be obtained from the Federal Government, the re-
maining one third must be provided by the local government.

Recent amendments to Chapter 121 of the General Laws provide
authority for local communities to carry out urban renewal without
Federal aid.

Under Chapter 652, Acts of 1960, the City Planning Board was abolished
and all its staff transferred to the Authority, and the functions, duties and
responsibilities for general city planning assumed by the Authority.

The Authority is presently engaged in a series of projects in various
stages of planning and execution. A brief description of each project
is detailed below:

New York Streets Project, UR Mass. 2-1. All land acquisition, reloca-
tion of families, demolition, grading and site improvement work com-
pleted. The cleared land was sold in 1957 to the Cerel-Druker Rede-
velopment Corporation. Four new buildings have been erected on the
site for the Boston Herald-Traveler Corp., Graybar Electric Co., West-
inghouse Electric Co. and Transit Insurance Co. Over 80 per cent of the
land has been developed in the past three years.

West End Project, UR Mass. 2-3. Relocation of the 2,555 families
residing in the project area was completed in October, 1960. All but 5 of
the 876 buildings in the area have been demoUshed. Charles River Park,
Inc., developers of the site, broke ground in March, 1960, for the first
group of residential buildings. Construction should be completed early
in 1962 on this 5|-acre tract of land, located at Charles and Allen streets.
The Retina Foundation, an institution devoted to research and investi-
gative work on the human eye, undertook construction of a new building
in June, 1960, for a building on a 35,000 square-foot tract of land abutting
on Staniford street. The Boston Public Library has plans for a new
branch facility to be located on Cambridge street. Construction is ex-
pected to start in 1961.

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Whitney Redevelopment Area. The Authority acquired all land in this
75-acre site in July, 1960. Relocation of the 284 families was over 50 per
cent complete as of December 31, 1960. Demolition started in October,
1960, and should be complete in 1961. Present plans call for the area to
be redeveloped for residential use. Private limited dividend corporations,
operating under Chapter 121A of the General Laws, as amended, plan to
erect three buildings to contain about 800 apartments for middle income
families. This project is being executed without Federal financial as-
sistance.

Government Center. The Authority received a planning advance of
$185,731 in September, 1960, to complete the surveys and plans for a
56-acre tract of blighted commercial land in the ScoUay, Dock, and Hay-
market square area. The cleared land will be used for a new City Hall,
Federal office building, a complex of buildings for the Commonwealth,
integrated with private commercial structures. This project is con-
sidered to be the most vital in Boston's urban renewal program and its
successful execution deemed essential to restoring and maintaining values
in the central core area.

Washington Park. In July, 1960, the Authority received a Federal plan-
ning advance of $143,461 to undertake studies in the Washington Park
section of Roxbury. This is scheduled to be Boston's first major effort at
rehabilitation and conservation. The area contains about 186 acres,
bounded by Warren, Townsend, Washington and Dudley streets. Final
planning should be completed in 1961 and an application for a loan and
grant contract submitted to the Urban Renewal Administration. The
Authority has received excellent co-operation and the wholehearted support
of many civic and neighborhood groups in Roxbury on this undertaking.

Mattapan. A proposal has been received from a large real estate de-
veloper to undertake a project in a predominately open land area of
Mattapan off Cummins Hjghway. Following further studies to determine
feasibility and marketability, the Authority will submit application for
the project to the Mayor and City Council.

General Neighborhood Renewal Plans. Late in 1960 the Authority
received approval from the Urban Renewal Administration to undertake
General Neighborhood Renewal Plans for ten sections of the city. Under
the provisions of these ten contracts a total of $2,037,250 of planning
funds will be made available as follows:

Charlestown . $207,325

South End 293,700

East Boston 204,500

Downtown-North . ... . . 182,300

Downtown 250,950

Back Bay 165,800

Parker Hill-Fenway . . . . . 194,850

AUDITORIUM COMMISSION

12<

Jamaica Plain .
Roxbury-North Dorchester
South Boston .

220,225
129,800
187,800

$2,037,250

Capital Grant funds of $29,192,453 has been earmarked by the Federal
Government for specific projects to be delineated following planning
studies. Provisions for General Neighborhood Renewal Plans were en-
acted by the Congress in September, 1959, in an amendment to the U. S.
Housing Act of 1949. A project embracing at least 10 per cent of the
Plan area must be undertaken promptly upon completion of the Plan and
the preparation of the Urban Renewal Plan for the project.

Prudential Center. Chapter 121A of the General Laws as amended by
Chapter 652, Acts of 1960, has made it possible for the Prudential In-
surance Co. to undertake steps which should result in the resumption of
work on this project. Upon receipt of an application by the developer,
the Authority may declare the site to be a "blighted open area" and
approve a plan for the redevelopment of the site. Consummation of the
proposed plan will be a major step in sparking the building trades industry
and the general economic welfare of the City.

AUDITORIUM COMMISSION

44 School Street
[Stat. 1954, Chap. 164; Ord. 1957, Chap. 2.]

OFFICIALS

William D. Ireland, Chairman
Joseph R. Hynes, Executive Secretary

THE BOARD

Members

Nominated by

Term ending

Robert C. Nordblom

Boston Real Estate Board

May 1, 1961

Donald B. Stanbro

Frank R. Kelley

William H. Ohrenberger. .
William D. Ireland

City of Boston Hotel Association

Mayor's Selection

Mayor's Selection

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

May 1, 1962
May 1, 1963
May 1, 1964
May 1, 1965

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The Board is known as the Auditorium Commission and consists of
five officers known as Auditorium Commissioners, who shall be residents
of the City of Boston and appointed by the Mayor as follows: One com-
missioner from three candidates nominated by the City of Boston Hotel
Association, one commissioner from three candidates nominated by the
Boston Real Estate Board, one commissioner from three candidates
nominated by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and two com-
missioners selected at large by the Mayor. As the term of any com-
missioner expires, his successor shall be appointed in like manner as
such commissioner for a term of five years. Vacancies in the board shall
be filled in the same manner for the unexpired term. The commissioners
serve without compensation but are to be reimbursed for their traveling
and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

The commission shall construct, or cause to be constructed, the munici-
pal auditorium authorized by chapter 164 of the acts of 1954, with an
exhibition hall, assembly hall and accessory rooms suitable for exhibitions,
conventions and other shows and gatherings in the city; shall contract
for the care and management thereof after its completion; and for such
purposes may, subject to the approval of the mayor, make such contracts
and employ such experts, assistants and employees as they may think
necessary or expedient.

GOVERNMENT CENTER COMMISSION

Room 50, City Hall
[Stat. 1958, Chap. 624, Stat. 1959, Chaps. 403, 577]

OFFICIALS

Robert M. Morgan, Chairman
M. Murray Weiss, Vice Chairman
Lawrence W. Costello, Secretary, Pro Tem.

THE BOARD

Members

Nominated by

Term ending

Robert M. Morgan ....

Mayor's selection

*

M. Murray Weiss

John E. Deady

Frank W. Crimp

Associated General Contractors of Massachu-
setts, Inc.

Building Trades Council of Boston and
Vicinity.

The Boston Society of Architects

*
*

Henry A. Scagnoli

John P. McMorrow ....

Director of Administrative Services, ex officio..
Appointed by Mayor. See Stat. 1960, Chap.
652, Sec. 12

James W. Haley

Commissioner of Public Works, ex officio

*

* Until the completion of the construction of a new city hall

CITY OF BOSTON EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION 129

Until the completion of the construction of a new city hall, there shall
be in the city a board, known as the Government Center Commission
consisting of the Director of Administrative Services of the City, and the
Commissioner of Public Works of the City, ex officiis, one member ap-
pointed by the Mayor to serve at his pleasure, pursuant to Stat. 1960,
Chap. 652, Sect. 12, and four other members appointed by the Mayor
of the City, as follows: one from three candidates nominated by the
Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts, Inc., one from three
candidates nominated by the Building Trades Council of Boston and
Vicinity, one from three candidates nominated by the Boston Society of
Architects, and one selected at large by the Mayor. Any vacancy in the
oflSce of any appointive member shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointment.

The member appointed by the Mayor upon selection at large shall be
Chairman of the Government Center Commission. Said Commission
shall elect one of its members as vice chairman, and shall also elect a
secretary, who need not be a member of the Commission. The members
of the Government Center Commission shall serve without compensation
but shall be reimbursed for their traveling and other necessary expenses
incurred in the performance of their duties.

The Government Center Commission shall have the power and duty to
acquire in the name and behalf of the City by purchase or gift from the
Boston Redevelopment Authority or otherwise or to request the Public
Improvement Commission of the City to so acquire by eminent domain
under G. L. Chapter 79 or Chapter 80A from said authority or otherwise,
a suitable site for a new city hall for the City, and, in acquiring the whole
or any part of such site from said authority, to assume in the name of the
City any and all obligations imposed by or under the aforesaid section
26 LL. Subject to the provisions of sections 44A to 44L, inclusive, of
Chapter 149 of the General Laws and the provisions of section 6 of Chapter
418 of the Acts of 1890, as respectively amended, the Government Center
Commission shall also have the power and duty to contract in the name and
behalf of said City for the preparation of such site and the planning and
construction thereon and the original equipping and furnishing of such new
city hall.

CITY OF BOSTON EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION

Room 37, City Hall.
[Gen. Laws, Chap. 171.]

Martin A, Fulton, President.
John F. Gilmore, Vice-President.
Harold T. Kenney, Treasurer.
Arthur J. O'Keepe, Acting Treasurer.
Paul L. Carty, Clerk.

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Henrt a. Baery
James F. Carter
Elmer I. Casey
Leo E. Diamond
John J. Donovan
Michael A. Donovan
William L. Dowling
Joseph W. Fellows

Harold T. Kenney
James S. Kiernan.
Leo F-. Manning
William P. McNeil
William F. Morrissey
Charles J. Scanlon
Joseph P. Sances
James P. Shea

This organization was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts
on October 25, 1915.

The incorporators were twenty-one in number and included, besides
the Mayor, the Corporation Counsel, the City Auditor, City Treasurer,
Park Commissioner, the Principal Assessor and fifteen other city employees
occupying responsible positions.

Since its incorporation the Credit Union has been functioning for the
benefit of the city employee by the promotion of thrift among its mem-
bers and the loaning of money to members in need of financial assistance.
These loans are made at a low rate of interest, saving the borrower from
the exorbitant rates charged by loan agencies. During 1959 loans made
to members amounted to $2,158,999.50 and a total of $30,415,698.00 has
been loaned since organization. Approximately 90 per cent of the bor-
rowers have their weekly loan payment deducted from their salary by
means of the payroll deduction plan.

The Credit Union at the present time has assets of $1,270,076.91 and
reserves of $183,940.77, with 11,078 members, 5,138 of which are borrowers.

Most departments of 1;he City or County government are represented
on the board of directors which consists of 21 members. Seven of these
directors are elected each year for a three-year term.

BOSTON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

73 Tremont Street
[Stat. 1929, Chap. 383.]
Trustees Appointed by the Governor
Henry G. Gomperts, Chairman, Boston, 1967
Harry P. Grages, Wareham, 1963
Vernon B. Hitchins, Dedham, 1961
William H. Reardon, Jr., Treasurer, Cambridge, 1965

Trustee Appointed by Mayor of Boston
Charles A. Birmingham, Clerk, Boston, 1961

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

131

OLD SOUTH ASSOCIATION IN BOSTON

[Stat. 1877, Chap. 222, §§ 1, 2.]

The Mayor, ex officio, Councillors John P. Connolly and John E.
Kerrigan, Managers on the part of the City of Boston.

The association is managed by a Board of Managers, consisting of
twenty, of whom the Mayor of the City of Boston is one, ex officio, two
are elected annually by the City Council for the municipal year, and the
others are chosen as provided by statute.

The business of the Association is the operation of the Old South Meet-
ing House on Washington street as a historical monument.

SUFFOLK-ebUNTY COURT HOUSE COMMISSION

Office, Room 318, New Court House
[Stat. 1939, Chap. 383.]
Akno I. Drew (Appointed by the Governor), Chairman
Arthur J. Santry (Appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial

Court)
Frederick R. Sullivan, Sheriff of Suffolk County

The Commission chooses its own Chairman and its own Secretary.
Its members receive no compensation for their services.

The Commission was established by Special Act of the Legislature,
for the care, custody and control of the Suffolk County Court House,
and is required to appoint a Custodian and such other officers as it may
deem necessary for the proper operation of the building, and to determine
their term or terms of service.

The Commission succeeded to the authority given to the Sheriff of
Suffolk County over the Suffolk County Court House, in Chapter 525
of the Acts of 1922, and took over the management and control of the
Court House upon its completion during 1939, by the Special Commis-
sion created under Chapter 474 of the Acts of 1935 for providing additional
accommodations and facilities for the Suffolk County Court House.

A thirty per cent contribution by the Commonwealth to the annual
costs and charges of maintenance and operation of the Court House began
in the calendar year 1939 when the additional Court House enlargements
and improvements, made under authority of Chapter 474 of the Acts of
1935, were "substantially completed" and in "actual use," and the re-
maining seventy per cent is paid by the City of Boston. While the
Commonwealth now pays thirty per cent of the operating costs of the
Court House, it has taken no part in its operations, other than the exercise
of its authority in the make-up of the Commission in charge.

132 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

CQUNTY OF SUFFOLK

All debts and expenses of the County of Suffolk are borne by the City of
Boston, unless otherwise specified.

County Commissioners for the County of Suffolk — The Mayor and City
Council of Boston

County Auditor — Joseph P. Lally
County Treasurer — James E. Gildea

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Room 627, New Court House
[Gen. Laws, Chap. 12, § 12, etc.; Stat. 1910, Chaps. 373, 439; Stat.
1912, Chap. 576; Stat. 1913, Chap. 602; Gen. Stat. 1919, Chap. 269;
Stat. 1920, Chap. 451; Stat. 1922, Chap. 277; Stat. 1923, Chaps. 398,
485.]

District Attorney — Garrett H. Byrne

Assistant — Ralph S. Bernard
Assistant — Francis J. Brennan
Assistant — Garrett H. Byrne, Jr.
Assistant — Alfred L. Bunai
Assistant — Lawrence L. Cameron
Assistant — Wilham A. Doherty
Assistant — James E. Foley
Assistant — John T. Gaffney
Assistant — Hyman F. Goldman
Assistant — Joseph A. Laurano
Assistant — John F. McAuliffe
Assistant — Manuel V. McKenney
Assistant — Joseph A. Melley
Assistant — Gerald Miraldi
Assistant — Angelo Morello
' Assistant — Gerald F. Muldoon

Assistant — John F. Mulhern
Assistant — John A. Pino
Assistant — Walter E. Steele
Assistant— ^dwsiTd M. Sullivan
Assistant — Joseph A. Sullivan
Assistant — Thomas L. Sullivan
Assistant — George J. Leary, Jr.
Assistant — Joseph R. Nolan
Assistant — Ellen E. Good
Secretary — George E. McGunigle

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LAND COURT

Room 408, Old Court House

Judge — John E. Fenton. Appointed by the Governor.

Associate Judge — Joseph R. Cotton. Appointed by the Governor.

Associate Judge — Edward McPartlin. Appointed by the Governor.

Recorder — Margaret M. Daly. Appointed by the Governor.

Deputy Recorder — Thomas B. Cummings. Appointed by the Judge with
the approval of the Governor and Council.

Chief Title Examiner — John B. Mattson. Appointed by the Judge.

Assistant Clerks — Maynard R. Gregory, Robert H. Gardner. Ap-
pointed by the Recorder with the approval of the Judge.

Deputy Assistant Clerks— Feter L. McMahon, Mary E. Muhilly.
Appointed by the Recorder with the approval of the Judge.

REGISTER OF DEEDS

5th Floor, Old Court House
[Gen. Laws, Chap. 36; Stat. 1895, Chap. 493; Stat. 1904, Chap. 452;
Stat. 1910, Chap. 373; Stat. 1913, Chap. 737; Gen. Stat. 1919,
Chap. 296; Stat. 1920, Chap. 495.]

Register of Deeds — Joseph D. Coughlin. Elected by the people in 1958.
Term ends first Wednesday in January, 1965.

The Register is ex officio Assistant Recorder of the Land Court.
First Assistant Register — John J. McCarthy, Gen. Laws, Chap. 36, Sec. 4.
Second Assistant Register — Edward T. Cady, Gen. Laws, Chap. 36, Sec. 5.
Third Assistant Register — Lawrence J. Fallon, Gen. Laws, Chap. 36, Sec. 5.
Fourth Assistant Register — John W. Barry, Gen. Laws, Chap. 36, Sec. 5.

sheriff and DEPUTY SHERIFFS

Room 102, New Court House
[Gen. Laws, Chap. 37; Stat. 1910, Chap. 373; Gen. Stat. 1919, Chap. 269;

Stat. 1922, Chap. 525.]
Sheriff — Frederick R. Sullivan. Term ends first Wednesday in January,

1963.
Deputy Sheriff and Special Sheriff — John J. Casey

Deputy Sheriffs for Service of Writs — Anthony L. Basile, John J. Casey,
Margaret C. Long, Eugene C. McDonald, Thomas E. Brassil, Theo-
dore H. O'Brien, Peter F. Tague, Jr., Harry I. Timilty. Paid by fees.

COURTS AND COURT OFFICIALS

Offices in New Court House, Pemberton Square, except as otherwise
specified.

SUPREME judicial COURT

Chief Justice — Raymond S. Wilkins

Associate Justices — John V. Spalding, Harold P. Williams, Arthur E.
Whittemore, R. Ammi Cutter, Paul G. Kirk, Jacob J. Spiegel.

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Clerk for the Commonwealth — Frederick L. Quinlan. Appointed by the

Court.
Clerk for the County of Suffolk — Chester A. Dolan, Jr. Ele'cted.
First Assistant Clerk — Richard A. McLaughhri. Appointed by the Court.
Second Assistant Clerk — Daniel D. Donnelly

Reporter of Decisions — Grant M. Palmer, Jr. Appointed by the Court.
Executive Secretary — John A. Daly. Appointed by the Court.

SUPERIOR COURT

Chief Justice — Paul C. Reardon

Associate Justices — Frank J. Donahue, Lewis Goldberg, John E. Swift,
Jesse W. Morton, FeUx Forte, John V. SuUivan, Eugene A. Hudson,
Edward J. Voke, Frank J. Murray, Daniel D. O'Brien, Horace T.
Cahill, Frank E. Smith, Charles Fairhurst, John H. Meagher, Wilfred
J. Paquet, Edward A. Pecce, Edmund R. Dewing, Reuben L. Lurie,
Donald M. Macaulay, George E. Thompson, Francis J. Quirico,
Charles S. Bolster, John M. Noonan, Frank W. Tomasello, Edward O.
Gourdin, August C. Taveira, John W. Coddaire, Jr., Stanley W.
Wisnioski, James L. Vallely, Edward J. DeSaulnier, Jr., Robert
SuUivan, Jennie Loitman Barron, Francis John Good, Daniel J.
O'ConneU, Jr., David A. Rose, Thomas J. Spring, Vincent R. Brogna.

Executive Clerk to the Chief Justice — Edward J. Kelley

For Civil Business

Clerk — Thomas Dorgan. Elected by the people in 1958. Term ends
first Wednesday in January, 1965.

Assistant Clerks — Thomas F. Stanton, First Assistant, Leo A. Reed,
Assistant Equity, Francis P. Murphy, Harry F. Kiley, Francis P.
Concannon, Thomas F. Brophey, Mary G'. Murphy, Joseph F.
Toomey, Robert J. Dorgan, John E. Noonan, Francis B. Tyrrell,
Jeremiah F. Sullivan, Albert F. Henneberry, John P. Connelly, Paul
J. Marble, Gerard M. Hennegan, Mary A. Kelley, Joseph A. Grover.

For Criminal Business
Clerk — Edward V. Keating. Appointed by the Justices of the Superior

Court, September 7, 1960.
Firs^ Assistant Clerk — James B. Gibbons
Assistant Clerks — John H. Casey, Albert H. Hines, John P. Swift, Martin

J. Lee, Arthur Tacelli, Joseph E. Mellen, Henry J. Pritchard, Harry

Ginsberg, Francis X. Orfanello, Francis M. Masuret, Jr., John P.

White, Jr., Richard G. Finnegan.

(probate court and court of insolvency)
2nd Floor, Old Court House
1st Floor, Registry of Probate
[Gen. Laws, Chaps. 215-217; Stat. 1904, Chap. 455; Stat. 1910, Chap.
373; Stat. 1912, Chap. 585; Stat. 1913, Chap. 791; Gen. Stat. 1919,
Chap. 269; Stat. 1921, Chaps. 486, 487; Stat. 1922, Chap. 532.]

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK 135

Judges — John V. Mahoney, Robert Gardiner Wilson, Jr., Edmund V.

Keville
Register — Louis F. Musco
Assistant Register — John A. Griffin
Second Assistant Register — Henry J. Allen
Third Assistant Register — Joseph J. Cummings
Fourth Assistant Register — Jeremiah E. Sullivan
Fifth Assistant Register — Susan V. Page
Deputy Assistant Registers — Arthur A. Kelly and Mortimer F. Kelly

The judges of Probate are appointed by the Governor. They and the
eight other officials of this Court are paid by the State.

MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OP BOSTON

[Gen. Laws, Chap. 218; Stat. 1907, Chap. 179; Stat. 1908, Chap. 191;
Stat. 1909, Chaps. 386, 434; Stat. 1911, Chaps. 231, 469, § 5; Stat.
1912, Chaps. 648, 649, 660, 672; Stat. 1913, Chaps. 289, 430, 612,
716, 748; Stat. 1914, Chaps. 35, 409; Gen. Stat. 1915, Chap. 166;
Gen. Stat. 1916, Chaps. 69, 71, 109, 195, 261, 263; Gen. Stat. 1917,
Chaps. 262, 330; Gen. Stat. 1918, Chap. 250; Stat. 1920, Chaps. 553
614; Stat. 1921, Chap. 284; Stat. 1922, Chaps. 309, 399, 532.]

Chief Justice — EUjah Adlow

Associate Justices — Daniel J. Gillen, Joseph Riley, Jacob Lewiton, George

W. Roberts, EUas F. Shamon, Francis X. Morrissey, Theodore A.

Glynn, Jr., Harold W. Canavan.
Special Justices — Leo P. Doherty, Abraham B. Casson, Vincent Mottola,

Thomas Wood Hoag, Abraham H. Kahalas.
All judges are appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by
the Executive Council.

For Civil Business
Room 374, Old Court House
Clerk — John E. Hurley. Appointed by the Governor.
First Assistant Clerk — Joseph L. Pierce

Assistant Clerks — WilHam F. Blakeman, Charles F. Gardella, George A.
Rochford, John S. Feeney, Ralph Pullo, Jr., Frank J. FitzwiUiam,
George T>. Sulhvan, Timothy J. Hurley, Philip M. McDavitt. Ap-
pointed by the Clerk of the Court with the approval of the Justices.

For Criminal Business
Room 411, New Court House
Clerk — Daniel J. Lynch. Appointed by the Governor.
First Assistant Clerk — Paul W. Carey

Assistant Clerks — George W. Herman, James F. Hardy, Theodore J.
Stavredes, James F. Monahan, Robert E. McDonough, John M.
Cojme, James E. Clark, Edward M. Donelan. Appointed by the
Clerk of the Court with the approval of the Justices.

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MUNICIPAL COURT, BRIGHTON DISTRICT

Chestnut Hill Avenue
Justice — Charles J. Artesani
Special Justice — John J. Sullivan
Clerk — Mary C. Daly. Appointed by the Governor.
Assistant Clerk — Margaret A. Daly

MUNICIPAL COURT, CHARLESTON N DISTRICT

New Municipal Building, City Square
Justice — John F. Gilmore
Special Justice— J a.mes J. Mellen
Clerk — Jeremiah F. Brennan
First Assistant Clerk — -Josephine Brennan
Second Assistant Clerk — James J. Mullen

MUNICIPAL COURT, DORCHESTER DISTRICT

Washington Street and Melville Avenue
Justice — William G. Lynch
Special Justice — Sadie L. Shulman
Clerk— John P. HoUand
Assistant Clerk — Thomas F. Reilly
Second Assistant Clerk — Mary I. O'Brien
Third Assistant Clerk — Marguerite H. Hennessy

EAST BOSTON DISTRICT COURT

Meridian and Paris Streets
Justice — Augustus Loschi
Special Justice — Thomas E. Key

Clerk— John C. Ligotti. Appointed by the Governor.
First Assistant Clerk — -
Second Assistant Clerk — Charlotte R. Schleicher

' MUNICIPAL COURT, ROXBURY DISTRICT

88 Roxbury Street, Boston 19, Mass.
Justices — Charles I. Taylor, Elwood S. McKenney
Special Justices — Samuel Eisenstadt, Philip A. Tracy
Clerk — John F. Aspell. Appointed by the Governor.
First Assistant Clerk — John I. Sullivan
Second Assistant Clerk — Kenneth E. Light
Third Assistant Clerk — John A. D'Arcy
Fourth Assistant Clerk — Julius Goldstein
Fifth Assistant Clerk— Theodore J. Zaborski

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK 137

MUNICIPAL COURT, SOUTH BOSTON DISTRICT

Municipal Building, East Broadway

Justice — Thomas E. Linehan

Special Justice — Joseph F. Feeney

Clerk — John E. Flaherty. Appointed by the Governor.

Assistant Clerk — Raymond J. Dodds

Second Assistant Clerk — Ralph F. Clougherty

MUNICIPAL COURT, WEST ROXBURY DISTRICT, INCLUDING HYDE PARK,

JAMAICA PLAIN AND ROSLiNDALE, 445 Arborway, Forest Hills, 30

Justice — Daniel W. Casey

Special Justices — Frank S. Deland and Andrew J. Macdonnell

Clerk — Vincent A. Mannering. Appointed by the Governor.

First Assistant Clerk — Thomas E. Anastasi

Second Assistant Clerk — Agnes M. Boyle

BOSTON JUVENILE COURT

Room 168, Old Court House

[Chap. 334, Acts of 1903; Chap. 489, Acts of 1906; Gen. Stat 1919, Chap.
255; Stat. 1922, Chap. 399.]

Justice — John J. Connelly

Special Justices — George W. Cashman, G. Bruce Robinson

Clerk — John H. Louden

Assistant Clerk — William H. Ohrenberger, Jr.

Chapter 489 of the Acts of 1906, establishing a court to be known a^
the Boston Juvenile Court for the "Care, Custody and Discipline of
Juvenile Offenders," provides for the transfer to said court of the juris-
dictions, authority and powers hitherto vested in the Municipal Court of
Boston, under Chapter 334 of the Acts of 1903. The Act took effect
September 1, 1906.

The jurisdiction of the Court has been increased from time to time so
that, at the present time, the Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the
Boston Municipal Court over adults who commit the offences of Con-
tributing to the Delinquency of Children under the age of 17 and against
parents for neglect of minor children, and against parents for failing to
have children attend school.

The Justice, Special Justices and Clerk of this Court are appointed by
the Governor.

138 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Probation Officers

[Stat. 1880, Chap. 129, § 1; P. S. 212, § 74; Stat. 1882, Chap. 125; Stat.
1891, Chap. 256, §§ 1, 6; Stat. 1892, Chaps. 242, 276, §§ 1, 3; Stat.
1897, Chap. 266, §§ 1, 3; Stat. 1898, Chap. 511, §§ 1, 2; R. L. Chap.
217, §§ 81, 92; Stat. 1905, Chap. 295; Stat. 1906, Chaps. 329, 489,
.§6; Stat. 1907, Chaps. 223, 261; Stat. 1908, Chaps. 190, 637; Stat.
1909, Chap. 216; Stat. 1910, Chaps. 332, 479; Stat. 1911, Chaps. 116,
470; Stat. 1912, Chaps. 648, § 2, 664; Stat. 1913, Chap. 612, § 1;
Stat. 1915, Chaps. 89, § 1, 254, § 1; Stat. 1936, Chap. 360; Stat. 1937,
Chap. 186; Stat. 1947, Chaps. 566, § 1, 639, 655; Stat. 1948, Chap.
640, Acts of 1949, Chap. 783, has amended the above. Chaps. 513,
531, Acts of 1950; Chap. 774, Acts of 1951. Chap. 731, Acts of 1956.]

These officers are appointed by the judges of the respective criminal
courts to ascertain all facts relating to the offenders brought before the
courts. In the performance of their official duties they have all the
powers of police officers.

Acts of 1956, Chapter 731

These officers are appointed by the judges of the respective criminal
courts to ascertain aU facts relating to the offenders brought before the
courts. The chief justice of the municipal court of the city of Boston,
subject to the approval of the associate justices thereof, and the justice
of each other district court and of the Boston juvenile court, with the
written approval of the administrative committee of the district courts,
who may appoint such male and female probation officers as they may
respectively from time to time deem necessary for their respective courts.
No person shall be appointed until his or her qualifications have been
examined by the Commissioner of Probation and approved by him as
meeting the standards e^tabUshed by the Committee on Probation, as
provided in Section 99A. In the performance of their official duties they
have all the powers of police officers.

MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

Chief Probation Officer — Joseph W. Crockwell

First Assistant Chief Probation Officer — Oswald J. McCourt

Second Assistant Chief Probation Officer — Florence G. Rice

Medical Director — H. Bernard Fisher, M.D.

Assistant Medical Director — •

Deputy Probation Officer — John J. Collins

Deputy Probation Officer — Marion L. Carhn

Probation Officers

A. Arthur Capone, Samuel J. Collis, James E. Flavin, Frederick W.
Hall, Albert L. Hoskins, Robert T. Hughes, John B. Magaldi, Hyman

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK 139

Mann, Martin Marck, Florence J. McCarthy, John F. McCarthy, Angelo
Musto, Jr., George R. Skelly, Bruce A. Stevens, Maurice A. SuUivan,
Catherine G. Carey, Margaret E. Conley, Rosahnd Joffe, Veronica L.
McCormack, Jean E. Harney, Phyllis C. Walker.

BOSTON JUVENILE COURT

Chief Probation Officer — Joseph P. Shea

Assistant Chief Probation Officer — Joseph P. Connolly

Probation Officers — Nicholas F. Gatto, Louis G. Maglio, Philippa J.
Myers, Katherine M. Connolly, Margaret V. Sullivan, Walter B.
Murphy, Edward R. SkeiRngton; probation oificer and nurse, Eliza-
beth F. Powers.

MUNICIPAL DISTRICT COURTS

Brighton — Chief Probation Officer, Thomas C. O'Brien, Jr., Marian
O'Donnell. Charlestown — Chief Probation Officer, Joseph H. Burns,
William D. Sweeney, William L. Meade. Chelsea — Chief Probation
Officer, David D. Greenspan, Lillian A. Evans, Donald J. Proctor, Thomas
McKenna. Dorchester — Chief Probation Officer, Matthew T. Connolly,
Bernard Harmon, Hubert C. Travers, John H. Maloney, Mary L. Mc-
Loughlin, Robert Wilson. East Boston — Chief Probation Officer, Mario
F. DiTroia, Vincent Santosuosso, William J. Pepicelli. Roxbury — Chief
Probation Officer, Elizabeth D. Kingston. Assistant Chief Probation
Officers, Arthur A. Devin, Albert E. Goslin. Probation Officers, Donald
B. Akerstrom, John M. Teehan, Randolph Glover, Thomas F. Monahan,
Vivian J. Daniels, Malcolm L. Weymouth, Thomas M. Gemelli, David C.
Comerford, Thomas J. Sullivan, Paul Sheehy, Robert A. Pasakarnis,
Harry W. Lofton, James H. Norton, James F. Holland, Joseph J. Mc-
Donough, Jeannette M. Ronan. South Boston — Chief Probation Officer,
Joseph J. Galligan, Probation Officers, William R. Gillespie, John F.
Cahill, Regina M. Gibbons. West Roxbury — Chief Probation Officer,
Edward P. Hayes, Probation Officers, Frank J. Garrity, Lawrence H.
Scanlon.

SUPERIOR COURT.

Chief Probation Officer — Edward A. Griffin
Assistant Chief Probation Officers — Ralph L. Countie, Charles H. Sullivan.
Probation Officers (male) — Michael J. Coyne, John F. Feeney, Edward J.

Leary, John J. O'Connor, James A. Sartori, Francis L. Too'mey,

Daniel PauJ Toomey.
Probation Officers (female) — Mrs, Phyllis M. DriscoU, Miss Kathryn G.

Mead, Miss Mary C. Smith.

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MEDICAL EXAMINERS FOR SUFFOLK GOUOTY;

[Gen. Laws, Chap. 38; Stat. 1908, Chap. 424; Stat. 1909, Chap. 273; Stat.
1911, Chaps. 252, 274; Stat. 1912, Chaps. 466, 631; Gen. Stat. 1916,
Chap. 114; Gen. Stat. 1919, Chap. 216; Stat. 1920, Chap. 188.]

The County is divided into two medical districts, Northern and Southern,
by a Une beginning at the junction of the Brookline Une with Huntington
avenue; thence through Huntington avenue and Fencourt; thence through
middle of Fens, through Boylston, Berkeley and Providence streets. Park
square, Boylston and Essex streets, Atlantic avenue and Summer street
to Fort Point Channel; thence through said channel, Dover street, Dor-
chester avenue, Dorchester street. East Fourth and G streets to the harbor.

Medical Examiners^ — Northern District, Michael A. Luongo, M.D., 784
Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. Term ends in 1964. Southern
District, Richard Ford, M.D., 784 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston.
Term ends in 1964.

Associate Medical Examiners — George W. Curtis, M.D., 25 Shattuck
street, Boston. Term ends in 1966. Leonard Atkins, M.D., 25 Shat-
tuck street, Boston. Term ends in 1964.

Each is appointed by the Governor for a term of seven years.

Northern District Mortuary is located at 784 Massachusetts avenue.

Southern District Mortuary is located at 784 Massachusetts avenue.

members of
City Government

1909 - 1961

MAYORS AND CERTAIN OTHER OFFICIALS

SINCE 1822

ORATORS APPOINTED BY THE CITY SINCE 1771

(141)

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James M. Curley
Daniel A. Whelton
Daniel J. Donnelly '
George P. Anderson
Walter Ballantyne
Frederick J. Brand
W. Dudley Cotton, jr.

Ward 1
Edward C. R. Bagley
Frank A. Goodwin
Joseph A. Hoey

Ward 2
Joseph H. Pendergasfc
Dennis A. O'Neil
Michael J. Brophy

Ward 3
Jamea J. Brennan
Joseph A. Dart
William J. Murray

Ward 4
Francis M. Ducey
Patrick B. Carr
James I. Green

Ward 5
John J. Buckley
William E. Carney
Edward A. Troy

Ward 6
Stephen Gardella
Francis D. O'Donnell
Alfred Scigliano

Ward 7
John L. Donovan
John T. Kennedy
Dominick F. Spellman

Ward 8
James J. Ryan
James A. Bragan
Adolphus M. Burroughs

Ward 9
Isaac Gordon
Robert J. Howell
Thomas B. McKeagney

I 909

Matob
GEORGE A. HIBBARDi

Aldebmek
Fhedkrick J. Brand, Chairman

James P. Timilty
J. Frank O'Hare
John J. Attridge
Charles L. Carr
Thomas J. Giblin
Matthew Hale

John T. Priest, City Clerk

CoUNCIIiMBN

GEoaaE C. McCabb, President

Ward 10
J. Henderson Allston
Channing H. Cox
WilUam S. Kinney

Ward 11
Courtenay Crocker
Theodore Hoague
Charles H. Moore

Ward 12
Seth Fenelon Arnold
Alfred G. Davis
Francis J. H. Jones

Ward IS
Leo F. McCuUough*
Stephen A. Welch
Coleman E. Kelly

" Ward 14

Cornelius J. Fitzgerald
Thomas J. Casey
Joseph L. Collins
Ward 15
John O'Hara
William T. Conway
Joseph A. O'Bryan

Ward 16
John D. McGivern
Hugh M. Garrity
William D. McCarthy

Ward 17
Thomas M. Joyce
Francis J. Brennan
John D. Connors

Joseph O'Kane, Clerk.

Ward 18
Daniel F. Cronin
Michael F. O'Brien
George Kenney

Ward 19
Peter A. Hoban
William J. Kohler
John J. Donovan

Ward 20
Charles T. Harding
Harry R. Gumming
William Smith, jr

Ward 21
WiUiam N. Hackett
John Ballantyne
Walter R. Meins

Ward 22
William H. Morgan
George Penshorn
Bernhard G. Krug

Ward 23
George W. Carruth
George W. Smith
Ward D. Prescott

Ward 24
Frank B. Crane
James A. Hart
Clifford C. Best

Ward 25
Edward C. Webster
George C. McCabe
Charles H. Warren

> Elected for two years > Died June 23, 1909

• Resigned June 3, 1909

CITY GOVERNMENT

143

Term Ends in 1913
John J. Attridge
Matthew Hale
Walter L. Collins

Term Ends in 1914
Daniel J. McDonald
Timothy J. Buckley
Earnest E. Smith

Term Ends in 1915
Walter BaUantyne
Thomas J. Kenny
John A. Coulthurst

1910

Mayor
JOHN F. FITZGERALD

City Council
Walter Ballantyne, President
Term Ends in 1912
James M. Curley
Walter Ballantyne
Thomas J. Kenny

1911

Mayor
JOHN F, FITZGERALD

City Council
Walter L. Collins, President
Term Ends in 1913
John J. Attridge,
Matthew Hale
Walter L. Collins

19 12

Mayor
JOHN F. FITZGERALD

City Council
John J. Attridge, President
Term Ends in 1914
Daniel J. McDonald
Timothy J. Buckley
Earnest E. Smith

19 13

Term Ends in 1911
Frederick J. Brand
Daniel J. McDonald
Timothy J. Buckley

Term Ends in 1912
James M. Curley
Walter Ballantyne
Thomas J. Kenny

Term Ends in 1913
John J. Attridge
Matthew Hale
Walter L. Collins

Term Ends in 1916
John J. Attridge
Walter L. Collins
James A. Watson

Mayor
JOHN F. FITZGERALD

City Council
Thomas J. Kenny, President
Term Ends in 1915
Walter Ballantyne
Thomas J. Kenny
John A. Coulthurst

Term Ends in 1914
Daniel J. McDonald
Timothy J. Buckley
Earnest E. Smith

Term Ends in 1917
Daniel J. McDonald
George W. Coleman
William H. Woods

1914

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
Daniel J. McDonald, President

Term Ends in 1916
John J. Attridge
Walter L. Collins
James A. Watson

Term Ends in 1915
Walter Ballantyne
Thomas J. Kenny
John A. Coulthurst

Note. — The Board of Aldermen and Common Council were abolished by the amended
City Chapter of 1909 and the City Council was established, consisting of nine members.

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Term Ends in 1918
Walter Ballantyne
John A. Coulthurst
Henry E. Hagan

1915

JAMES M. CURLEY, Matob
City Council
George W. Coleman, President
Term Ends in 1917
George W. Coleman
Daniel J. McDonald
William H. Woods*

Term Ends in 1916
John J. Attridge
Walter L. Collins
James A. Watson

* Councillor Woods died May 3, 1915, and the City Council elected James J. Storrow
May 24, to serve in his place for the remainder of the municipal year.

Term Ends in 1919
John J. Attridge
Walter L. Colbns
James J. Storrow

1916

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayob

City Council
Henry E. Haqan, President
Term Ends in 1918
Walter Ballantyne
John A. Coulthurst*
Henry E. Hagan

Term Ends in 1917
Daniel J. McDonald
George W. Coleman
Thomas J. Kenny

* Councillor Coulthurst died June 30, 1916, and the City Council elected Geoffrey B,
Lehy, October 17, to serve in his place for the remainder of the municipal year.

Term Ends in 1920
Francis J. W. Ford
Daniel J. McDonald
James A. Watson

1917

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
Jambs J. Storrow, President
Term Ends in 1919
John J, Attridge
Walter L. Collins
James J. Storrow

Term Ends in 1918
Walter Ballantyne
Henry E. Hagan
Alfred E. Wellington

Term Ends in 1921
Henry E. Hagan
Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty

1918

ANDREW J. PETERS, Mayor

City Council
Walter L. Collins, President
Term Ends in 1920
Francis J. W. Ford
Daniel J. McDonald
James A. Watson

Term Ends in 1919
John J. Attridge
Walter L. Collins
James J. Storrow

Term Ends in 1922
Walter L. Collins
John A. Donoghue
Edward F. McLaughlin

19 19

ANDREW J. PETERS, Mayor

City Council
Francis J. W. Ford, President

Term Ends in 1921
Henry E. Hagan
Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty

Term Ends in 1920
Francis J. W. Ford
Daniel J. McDonald
James A. Watson

CITY GOVERNMENT

145

Term Ends in 1923
David J. Brickley
Francis J. W. Ford
James A. Watson

1920

ANDREW J. PETERS, Mayor

City Council
Jameb T. Mobiarty, President
Term Ends in 1922
Walter L. Collins
John A. Donoghue
Edward F. McLaughlin

1921

Term Ends in 1921
Henry E. Hagan
Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty

Term Ends in 1924
Henry E. Hagan
Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty

Term Ends in 1925
John A. Donoghue
George F. Gilbody
William J. Walsh

Term Ends in 1926
David J. Brickley
William C. S. Healey
James A. Watson

ANDREW J. PETERS, Mayor

City CouNciii
James A. Watson, President
Term Ends in 1923
David J. Brickley
Francis J. W. Ford
James A. Watson

1 92 2

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
David J. Buckley, President
Term Ends in 1924
Henry E. Hagan
Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty

1923

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
Daniel W. Lane, President

Term Ends in 1925
John A. Donoghue
George F. Gilbody
Wilham J. Walsh

1924

Term Ends in 1922
Walter L. Collins
John A. Donoghue
Edward F, McLaughlin

Term^Endsin 1923
David J. Brickley
Francis J. W. Ford
James A. Watson

Term Ends in 1924
Henry E. Hagan
Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty

Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty
James T. Purcell

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
John A. Donoghue, President
David J. Brickley
William C. S. Healey
James A. Watson

1 925

John A. Donoghue
George F. Gilbody
William J. Walsh

Daniel W. Lane
James T. Moriarty
James T. Purcell

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
James T. Moriarty, President
David J. Brickley
William C. S. Healey
James A. Watson

John A. Donoghue
George F. Gilbody
William J. Walab

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MUNICIPAL REGISTER

1926

MALCOLM E. NICHOLa, Mayob

Timothy F. Donovan
Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
Seth F. Arnold
Michael J. Mahoney
Henry Parkman, jr.
William G. Lynch

City Council
ChabIiES G. Keene, President

John F. Dowd
Michael J. Ward
Walter J. Freeley
Edward L. Englert
Herman L. Bush
Joseph McGrath
Israel Ruby

Thomas W. McMahon
George F. Gilbody
Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr-
Walter E. Wragg
Horace Guild
Frederic E. Dowling
John J. HeSernan

1937

MALCOLM E. NICHOLS, Matob

Timothy F. Donovan
Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
Seth F. Arnold
Michael J. Mahoney
Henry Parkman, jr.
William G. Lynch

City Council
John J. Hefpehnan, President

John F. Dowd
Michael J. Ward
Walter J. Freeley
Edward L. Englert
Herman L. Bush
Joseph McGrath
Israel Ruby

Thomas W. McMahon
George F. Gilbody
Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.
Walter E. Wragg
Horace Guild
Charles G. Keene
Frederic E. Dowling

1 928

MALCOLM E. NICHOLS, Mayob

Timothy F. Donovan
John I. Fitzgerald
Seth F. Arnold
Henry Parkman, jr.
Michael J. Mahoney
William G. Lynch
John F. Dowd

City Council
Thomas H. Grben, President

Michael J. Ward
Roger E. Deveney
William A. Motley, jr.
Herman L. Bush
Frank E. Sullivan
Israel Ruby
Thomas W. McMahon

Albert L. Fish

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.

Peter J. Murphy

Peter A. Murray

Charles G. Keene

Frederic E. Dowling

Edward M. Gallagher

I 929

MALCOLM E. NICHOLS, Mayob

Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
Seth F. Arnold
Henry Parkman, jr.
Michael J. Mahoney
William G. Lynch
John F, Dowd

City Council
Timothy F. Donovan, President

Michael J. Ward
Roger E. Deveney
William A. Motley, jr.
Herman L. Bu&h
Frank E. Sullivan
Israel Ruby
Thoraaa W. McMahon

Albert L. Fish

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.

Peter J. Murphy

Peter A. Murray

Charles G. Keene

Frederic E. Dowling

Edward M. Gallagher

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147

1930

Timothy F. Donovan
Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
Seth F. Arnold
Laurence Curtis, 2d
Michael J. Mahoney
John F. Dowd

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Councii.
William G. Lynch, President

Richard D. Gleason
Leo F. Power
Edward L. Englert
Herman L. Bush
Joseph McGrath
Israel Ruby
Francis E. Kelly

Albert L. Fish

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr

Clement A. Norton

Peter A. Murray

Joseph P. Cos

James Hein

Edward M. Gallagher

1931

Timothy F. Donovan
Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
Seth F. Arnold
Laurence Curtis, 2d
Michael J. Mahoney
William G. Lynch

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
Joseph McGrath, President

John F. Dowd
Richard D. Gleason
Leo F. Power
Edward L. Englert
Herman L. Bush
Israel Ruby
Francis E. Kelly

Albert L. Fiah

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.

Clement A. Norton

Peter A. Murray

Joseph P. Cox

James Hein

Edward M. Gallagher

1932

William H. Barker
Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
George W. Roberts
Laurence Curtis, 2d
George P. Donovan
William G. Lynch

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Council
Edward M. Gallagher, President

John F. Dowd
Richard D. Gleason
Leo F. Power
Edward L. Englert
David M. Brackman
Joseph McGrath
Israel Ruby

Albert L. Fish
Francis E. Kelly
Thomas Burke
Clement A. Norton
Peter A. Murray
Joseph P. Cox
James Hein

1933

William H. Barker
Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
George W. Roberts
Laurence Curtis, 2d
George P. Donovan
William G. Lynch

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor

City Coitncil
Joseph McGrath, President

John F. Dowd
Richard D. Gleason
Leo F. Power
Edward L. Englert
David M. Brackman
Israel Ruby
Francis E. Kelly

Albert L. Fish
Thomas Burke
Clement A. Norton
Peter A. Murray
Joseph P. Cox
James Hein
Edward M. Gallagher

148

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1934

FREDERICK W. MANSFIELD, Matoe

Henry Selvitella
Thomas H. Green
John I. Fitzgerald
George W. Roberts
Henry L. Shattuck
George P. Donovan
John E. Kerrigan

City Council
John F. Dowd, President

Richard D. Gleason
John J. Doherty
Edward L. Englert
David M. Brackman
Joseph McGrath
Maurice M. Goldman
Martin H. Tobin

Albert L.'Fish

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.

Clement A. Norton

Peter A. Murray j

James F. Finley

James E. Agnew

Edward M. Gallagher

1935

FREDERICK W. MANSFIELD, Matob

Henry Selvitella
Thomas H. Green
George W. Roberts
Henry L. Shattuck
George P. Donovan
John E. Kerrigan.
John F. Dowd

City Council
John I. Fitzgerald, President

Richard D. Gleason
John J. Doherty
Edward L. Englert
David M. Brackman
Joseph McGrath
Maurice M. Goldman
Martin H. Tobin

Albert L. Fish

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.

Clement A. Norton

Peter A. Murray

James F. Finley

James E. Agnew

Edward M. Gallagher

1936

FREDERICK W. MANSFIELD, Mayor

Henry SelviteUa
James J. MeUen
George W. Roberts
Henry L. Shattuck
George A. Murray
John E. Kerrigan
John F. Dowd

City Council
John I. Fitzgerald, President

Richard D. Gleason
John J. Doherty
'James J. Kilroy
David M. Brackman
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Sidney Rotenberg
Martin H. Tobin

John J. McGrath

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.

Clement A. Norton

Peter A. Murray

James F. Finley

James E. Agnew

Edward M. Gallagher

1 937

FREDERICK W. MANSFIELD, Mayor

Henry SelviteUa
James J. Mellen
George W. Roberts
Henry L. Shattuck
George A. Murray
John E. Kerrigan
John F. Dowd

City Council
John I. Fitzgerald, President

Mildred M. Harris
John J. Doherty
James J. Kilroy
David M. Brackman
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Sidney Rosenberg
Martin H. Tobin

John J. McGrath

Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.

Clement A. Norton

Peter A. Murray

James F. Finley

James E. Agnew

Edward M. Gallagher

CITY GOVERNMENT

149

1938

Francia W. Irwin
William J. Galvin
John I. Fitzgerald
Perlie Dyar Chase
Henry L. Shattuck
George A. Murray
John F. Dowd

MAURICE J. TOBIN, Mayob

City Council
John E, Kerrigan, President

Mildred M. Harris
William A. Carey
Edward L. Englert
Charles I. Taylor
Edward A. Hutchinson, jr.
Sidney Rosenberg
John B. KeUy

Philip Austin Fish
Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.
Clement A. Norton
Peter A. Murray
Theodore F. Lyons
James E. Agnew
Maurice H. Sullivan

1939

Francis W. Irwin
William J. Galvin
John I. Fitzgerald
Perlie Dyar Chase
Henry L. Shattuck
John E. Kerrigan
George F. McMahon

MAURICE J. TOBIN, Mayor

City Councii.
Gborqe a. Murray, President

Mildred M. Harris
William A. Carey
Edward L. Englert
Charles I. Taylor
Edward A. Hutchinson, jr.
Sidney Rosenberg
John B. Kelly

PhiUp Austin Fish
Robert Gardiner Wilson, jr.
Clement A. Norton
James M. Langan
Theodore F. Lyons
James E. Agnew
Maurice Hj Sullivan

1940

James S. Coffey
Joseph Russo
Perlie Dyar Chase
Henry L. Shattuck
Joseph M. Scannell
Thomas E. Linehan
William F. Hurley

MAURICE J. TOBIN, Mayor

City Councii.
William J. Galvin, President

Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
Edward L. Englert
Charles I. Taylor
Edward A. Hutchinson,
Joseph J. Gottlieb
John B. Kelly

Philip Austin Fish
Johii C. Wickes
James J. Goode, jr.
James M. Langan
Theodore F. Lyocs
Michael J. Ward
Maurice H. Sullivan

1941

James S. Coffey
Joseph Rusao
Perlie Dyar Chase
Henry L. Shattuck
Joseph M. Scannell
Thomas E. Linehan
William F. Hurley

MAURICE J. TOBIN, Mayor

City Council
William J. Galvin, President

Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
Edward L. Englert
Charles I. Taylor
Edward A. Hutchinson,
Joseph J. Gottlieb
John B. Kelly

Philip Austin Fiah
John C. Wickea
James J. Goode, jr.
James M. Langan
Theodore F. Lyons
Michael J. Ward
Maurice H. Sullivan

150

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1942

Jamee S. Coffey
Michael L. Kinsella
Joseph RuBSO
Perlie Dyar Chase
A. Frank Foster
Joseph M. Scannell
WJUiam F. Hurley

MAURICE J. TOBIN, Matob

City Coukcil
Thomas E. Linbhan> President

Daniel F. Sullivan
WUliam A. Carey
Matthew F. Hanley
Charles I. Taylor
Thomas J. Hannon, jr.
Joseph J. Gottlieb
John B. Kelly

Philip Austin Fish
John C. Wickes
James J. Goode, jr.
James M. Langan
Theodore F. Lyons
Wmiam F. Dwyer
Maurice H. Sullivan

1943

James S. Coffey
Michael L. Kinsella
Joseph RuBSo
Perlie Dyar Chase
A. Frank Foster
Joseph M. Scannell
Thomas £. Linehan

MAURICE J. TOBIN, Matob

City Councii.
Thomas J. Hannon, President

William F. Hurley
Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
Matthew F. Hanley
Charles I. Taylor
Isadore H. Y. Muchnick
John B. Kelly

PhUip Austin Fish
John C. Wickes
James J. Goode, jr.
James M. Langan
Theodore F. Lyons
William F. Dwyer
Maurice H. Sullivan

1944

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo Kinsella
Joseph RusBO
Perlie Dyar Chase
James C. Bayley, jr.
Joseph M. Scannell
William F. Hurley

MAURICE J. TOBIN, Matob

CiTT Council
John E, Kerrigan, President

Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
^Matthew F. Hanley
Charles I. Taylor
Thomas J. Hannon
Isadore H. Y. Muchnick
John B. Kelly

Philip Austin Fish
William Joseph Keenan
Michael Paul Feeney
Thomas L. McCormack
Thomas G. J. Shannon
William F. Dwyer
Maurice H. Sullivan

1 945

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo Kinsella
Joseph Russo
Perlie Dyar Chase
James C. Bayley, jr.
Joseph M. Scannell
William F. Hurley

JOHN E. KERRIGAN, Mayor

City Council
John E. Kerrigan, President

Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
Matthew F. Hanley
Charles I. Taylor
Thomas J. Hannon
Isadore H. Y. Muchnick
John B. Kelly

Philip Austin Fish
William Joseph Keenan
Michael Paul Feeney
Thomas L. McCormack
Thomas G. J. Shannon
William F. Dwyer
Maurice H. Sullivan

CITY GOVERNMENT

151

1 946

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo KinBella
Joseph Russo
Perlie Dyar Chase
James C. Bayley, Jr.
Joseph M. Soannell
Thomas E. Linehan

JAMES M. CURLEY, Matoe

CiTT CoUNCIIj

John B. Kelly, President

William F. Hurley
Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
William A. Moriarty
Milton Cook
Thomas J. Hannon
Isadore H. Y. Muchnick

Philip Austin Fish
William Joseph Keenan
Michael H. Cantwell
Thomas L. McCormack
Walter D. Bryan
Edmund V. Lane
Edward C. Madden

1947

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo Kinsella
Joseph Russo
Perlie Dyar Chase
James C. Bayley, Jr.
Joseph M. Scannell
Thomas E. Linehan

JAMES M. CURLEY, Matob

CiTT Council
John B. Kblly, Pretident

William F. Hurley
Daniel F. SuUivan
William A. Carey
William A. Moriarty
Milton Cook
Thomas J. Hannon
leadore H. Y. Muchnick

Philip Austin Fish
William Joseph Keenan
Michael H. CantewU
Thomas L. McCormack
Walter D. Bryan
Edmund V. Lane
Edward C. Madden

1948

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo Kinsella
George T. Lanigan
Perlie Dyar Chase
John E. Yerxa
John B. Wenzler
Thomas E. Linehan

JAMES M. CURLEY, Matos

CiTT CoUNCIIi

Thomas J. Hannon, President

William F. Hurley
Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
Philip A. Tracy
Milton Cook
Julius Ansel
Robert J. Ramsey

John J. Beades
William Joseph Keenan
Michael H. Cantwell
Thomas L. McCormack
Walter D. Bryan
Edmund V. Lane
Vincent J. Shanley

I 949

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo Kinsella
George T. Lanigan
Perlie Dyar Chase
John E. Yerxa
John B. Wenzler
Thomas E. Linehan

JAMES M. CURLEY, Matob

City Council
William F. Hubley, President

Daniel F. Sullivan
William A. Carey
Philip A. Tracy
Milton Cook
Thomas J. Hannon
Julius Ansel
Robert J. Ramsey

John J. Beades
William Joseph Keenan
Michael H. Cantwell
Thomas L. McCormack
Walter D. Bryan
Edmund V. Lane
Vincent J. Shanley

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1950

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo Kinsella
George T. Lanigan
Perlie Dyar Chase
John E. Yerxa
John B. Wenzler
* Thomas E. Linehan
t John J. McColgan

JOHN B. HYNES, Matob

City Councii.
William F. Hdbley, President

Daniel F. Sullivan
Francis P. Tracey
Philip A. Tracy
Alilton Cook
Thomas J. Hannon
Julius Ansel
Robert J. Ramsey

John J. Beades
Anthony J. Farin
Michael H. Cantwell
Thomas L. McCormack
Walter D. Bryan
Edmund V. Lane
Vincent J. Shanley

* Resigned June 15, 1950.

t From September 20, 1950

I 95 1

James S. Coffey
Michael Leo Kinsella
George T. Lanigan
Perlie Dyar Chase
John E. Yerxa
John B. Wenzler
John J. McColgan
• Daniel F. Sullivan

JOHN B. HYNES, Mayor

City Council
William F. Hurley, President

t Laurence H. Banks
Francis P. Tracey
Philip A. Tracy
Milton Cook
Thomas J. Hannon
Julius Ansel
Robert J. Ramsey

John J. Beades
Anthony J. Farin
Michael H. Cantwell
Thomas L. McCormack
Walter D. Bryan
Edmund V. Lane
Vincent J. Shanley

* To August 6, 1951.

t From August 6, 1951

Note. — This was the final year of the City Council of ^wenty-two members elected
from wards. A City Council of nine members elected at large under the provisions of
Chapter 452 of the Acts of 1948, commonly known as Plan A, took office on the first
Monday of January, 1952.

\952

Francis X. Ahearn
William J. Foley, Jr.
Frederick C. Hailer, Jr.

JOHN B. HYNES, Mayor

City Council
Gabriel F. Piemonte, President

William F. Hurley
Francis X. Joyce
John E. Kerrigan

Gabriel F. Piemonte
Michael J. Ward
Joseph C. White

1953

Francis X. Ahearn
t Michael H. Cantwell
WilUam J. Foley, Jr.
Frederick C. Hailer, Jr.

JOHN B. HYNES, Mayor

City Council
Francis X. Ahearn, President

William F. Hurley
Francis X. Joyce
John E. Kerrigan

Gabriel F. Piemonte
* Michael J. Ward
Joseph C. White

* To December 28. 1953.

t From December 28, 1953.

CITY GOVERNMENT

153

Francis X. Ahearn
William J. Foley, jr.
Frederick C. Hailer, jr.

1954

JOHN B. HYNES, Mayor

City Council
Joseph C. White, President

William F. Hurley

John E. Kerrigan

Edward J. McCormack, jr.

Edward F. McLaughlin, jr.
Gabriel F. Piemonte
Joseph C. White

Francis X. Ahearn
William J. Foley, jr.
Frederick C. Hailer, jr.

1 955

JOHN B. HYNES. Mayor

City Counciii

William F. Hubley, President

William F. Hurley

John E. Kerrigan

Edward J. McCormack, jr.

Edward F. McLaughlin, jr.
Gabriel F. Piemonte
Joseph C. White

Francis X. Ahearn
John F. Collins
William J. Foley, jr.

1956

JOHN B. HYNES, Mayor

City Council

Edward J. McCormack, Jr., President

John E. Kerrigan

Edward J. McCormack, jr.

Patrick F. McDonough

Edward F. McLaughlin, jr
Gabriel F. Piemonte
Joseph C. White

Francis X. Ahearn
* John F. Collins
William J. Foley, jr.
t Frederick C. Hailer, jr.

1957

JOHN B. HYNES, Mayor

City Council

William J. Foley, Jr., President

John E. Kerrigan

Edward J. McCormack, jr.

Patrick F. McDonough

Edward F. McLaughlin, jr
Gabriel F. Piemonte
Joseph C. White

* To February 18, 1957

t From February 18, 1957

1958

JOHN B. HYNES, Mayor

City Council

Patrick F. McDonough, President

tJames S. Coffey,
William J. Foley, jr.,
•Frederick C. Hailer, jr.,
tt Peter F, Hines,

Christopher A. lannella,
John E. Kerrigan,
**Edward J. McCormack, jr,
Patrick F. McDonough,

Edward F. McLaughlin, jr
Gabriel F. Piemonte,
Joseph C. White,

* To April 21. 1958

** To September 12, 19S8

t From April 22, 1958

tt From September 15, 1958

154

MUNICIPAL REGISTER

1959

JOHN B, HYNES, Matob

City Council
Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., President

James S. Coffey
William J. Foley, jr.
Peter F. Hines

Christopher A. lanneUa
John E. Kerrigan
Patrick F. McDonough

Edward F. McLaughlin, jr.
Gabriel F. Piemonte
Joseph C. White

1 960

JOHN F. COLLINS, Matob

City Council
Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., President

James S. Coffey
John Patrick Connolly
William J. Foley, Jr.

Peter F. Hines
Christopher A. lanneUa
John E. Kerrigan

Patrick F. McDonough
Edward F. McL>aughlin, Jr.
Joseph C. Whit*

196 1

James S. Coffey
John Patrick Connolly
William J. Foley, Jr.

JOHN F. COLLINS. Mayor

City Council.
Patrick F. McDonough, President

Peter F. Hines
Christopher A. lannella
John E. Kerrigan
tt Frederick C. Langone

Patrick F. McDonough
*Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr.
t Thomas A. Sullivan
** Joseph C. White

* To January 6, 1961
** To April 27, 1961

t From January 9, 1961
tt From May 1, 1961

MAYORS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

155

Mayors of the City of Boston

From 1822 to the Present Time

Name

Place and Date of Birth

Died

Years of
Service

* John Phillips

* Josiah Quincy

* Harrison Gray Otis

* Charles Wells

* Theodore Lyman, jr. . . .

* Samuel T. Armstrong. . .

* Samuel A. Eliot

* Jonathan Chapman ....

* Martin Brimmer

* Thomas A. Davis

* Josiah Quincy, jr

* John P. Bigelow

* Benjamin Seaver

* Jerome V. C. Smith

* Alexander H. Rice

* Frederic W. Lincoln, jr. .

* Joseph M. Wightman . . .

* Frederic W. Lincoln, jr. .

* Otis Norcross

* Nathaniel B, Shurtleff . .

* William Gaston

* Henry L. Pierce

*§ Leonard R. Cutter

* Samuel C. Cobb

* Frederick O. Prince . .

* Henry L. Pierce

* Frederick O. Prince . .

* Samuel A. Green

* Albert Palmer

* Augustus P. Martin . .

* Hugh O'Brien

* Thomas N. Hart

* Nathan Matthews, jr.

* Edwin U. Curtis

*X Josiah Quincy

*t Thomas N. Hart

*% Patrick A. Collins. . .

*§ Daniel A. Whelton

*t John F. Fitzgerald ....
*t George A. Hibbard ....

*t John F. Fitzgerald

*11 James M. Curley

*1| Andrew J. Peters

*11 James M. Curley

*1I Malcolm E. Nichols. . .

*1I James M. Curley

*1I Frederick W. Mansfield

*tt Maurice J. Tobin

%X John E. Kerrigan

*1i James M. Curley

II John B. Hynes

t John B. Hynes

tt John B. Hynes

H John F. ColUns

Boston Nov. 26, 1770

Boston Feb. 4, 1772

Boston Oct. 8,1765

Boston Dec. 30, 1786

Boston Feb. 19, 1792

Dorchester April 29, 1784

Boston Mar. 5, 1798

Boston Jan. 23, 1807

Roxbury June 8, 1793

Brookline Dec. 11, 1798

Boston Jan. 17, 1802

Groton Aug. 25, 1797

Roxbury April 12, 1795

Conway, N. H. . .July 20, 1800

Newton Aug. 30, 1818

Boston.. Feb. 27, 1817

Boston Oct. 19, 1812

(See above)

Boston Nov. 2,1811

Boston June 29, 1810

Killingly, Conn... Oct. 3,1820

Stoughton Aug. 23, 1825

(See under Chairmen of Alder
men.)

Taunton May 22, 1826

Boston Jan. 18,1818

(See above)

(See above)

Groton Mar. 16, 1830

Candia, N. H.. . .Jan. 17, 1831

Abbot, Me Nov. 23, 1835

Ireland July 13, 1827

North Reading... Jan. 20,1829

Boston Mar. 28, 1854

Roxbury Mar. 26, 1861

Quincy Oct. 15, 1859

(See above)

Fermoy, Ireland.. Mar. 12, 1844

Boston Jan. 21, 1872

Boston Feb. 11, 1863

Boston Oct. 27, 1864

(See above)

Boston Nov. 20, 1874

Jamaica Plain . . . April 3, 1872

(See above)

Portland, Me May 8, 1876

(See above)

Boston Mar. 26, 1877

Boston May 22, 1901

Boston Oct. 1, 1907

(See above)

Boston Sept. 21, 1897

(See above)

(See above)

Boston July 20, 1919

May
July
Oct.
June
July
Mar.
Jan.
May

July
Feb.
Aug.
July

Oct.
Jan.
Dec.

29, 1823
1, 1864

28, 1848

3, 1866
17, 1849
26, 1850

29, 1862
25, 1848

April 25, 1847
Nov. 22, 1845
Nov. 2, 1882

4, 1872
14, 1856
20, 1879
22, 1895

Sept. 13, 1898
Jan. 25, 1885
(See above) . . .
Sept. 5, 1882
17, 1874
19, 1894
17, 1896

Mar.
Aug.
Oct.
Dec.

Feb. 18, 1891
June 6, 1899
(See above) .
(See above) .
Dec. 5, 1918
May 21, 1887

13, 1902
1, 1895
4, 1927

11, 1927
Mar. 28, 1922
Sept. 8, 1919
(See above)
Sept. 14, 1905
Nov. 27, 1953
Oct. 2, 1950
May 29, 1910
(See above) .
Nov. 12, 1958
June 26, 1938
(See above) . . .
Feb. 7, 1951
(See above) . . .
Nov. 6, 1958
July 19, 1953

(See above) .

822 1

823-28.. 6
829-31.. 3
832-33.. 2
834-35.. 2

836 1

837-39. .3
840-42.. 3
843-44.. 2

845 1

846-48.. 3
849-51.. 3
852-53.. 2
854-55.. 2
856-57. .2
858-60.. 3
861-62.. 2
863-66.. 4

867 1

868-70.. 3
87 1-72.. 2
873, 10 mo.
873, 2 mo.

874-76.. 3

877.
878.

879-81 . .
882.
883.
884.
885-88.. 4
889-90.. 2
89 1-94.. 4

895 1

896-99.. 4
900-01.. 2
902-05, 3J
905-3Jmo.
906-07.. 2
908-09. .2
910-13.. 4
914-17.. 4
918-21.. 4
922-25. ,
926-29.
930-33.
934-37.
938-44.,

945

946-49.
947-5 mo.
950-51.. 2
952-59.. 8
960-63.. 4

* Deceased. t Twice elected for two years.

+ Elected for two years. ^ Elected for four years,

tt Twice elected for four years. § Mayor for balance of unexpired term.

tt Appointed Mayor by Act of Massachusetts Legislature.
II Appointed Temporary Mayor by Act of Massachusetts Legislature.
Note. — Andrew J. Peters was the first Mayor not eligible to succeed himself. See
Special Acts, 1918, Chapter 94, See also Acts 1938, Chapter 300.

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Note. — From January 6, 1845, to February 27, 1845, or from the close of Mayor
Brimmer's term of office till the election of his successor, Thomas A. Davis, the Chairman
of the Board of Aldermen, William Parker, performed the duties of Mayor.

In the interim between the death of Mayor Davis, on November 22, 1845, and the
election on December 11, 1845, of his successor, Josiah Quincy, Jr., Benson Leavitt, Chair-
man of the Board of Aldermen, acted as Mayor.

There were three ballotings for the election of Mayor for 1854, between December 12,
1853, and January 9, 1854. In the meantime the duties of Mayor were performed by
Benjamin L. Allen. Chairman of the Board of Aldermen.

In 1873 Mayor Pierce resigned his office on November 29, on his election to the Congress
of the United States. During the remainder of the m,unicipal year Leonard R. Cutter,
Chairman of the Board of Aldermen, served ex officio as Acting Mayor.

Mayor Collins died on September 14, 1905. Daniel A. Whelton, Chairman of the
Board of Aldermen, acted as Mayor for the remainder of the municipal year, viz.,
September 15, 1905, to January 1, 1906.

Mayor Tobin, having been elected Governor, resigned January 4, 1945. By Chapter 4
of the Acts of 1945, the President of the City Council was given all the powers of the
Mayor and served from January 25, 1945, for the remainder of the year.

Under the provisions of Chapter 580 of the Acta of 1947, City Clerk John B. Hynes
served, under the title of Temporary Mayor, with full powers as Mayor, for the period
from June 26 to November 28, 1947, during the absence of Mayor Curley.

Chairmen of the Board of Aldermen

Name

. Place and Date of Birth

Died

Years of
Service

William Washburn

Pelham Bonney

Joseph Miker Wightman.

Silas Peirce

Otis Clapp

Silas Peirce

Thomas Phillips Rich ....
Thomas Coffin Amory, jr.

Otis N rcross

Gecrgi W. Messinger. . . .
Charl s Wesley Slack. . . .
George W. Messinger. . . .

B nj min James

N ;wton Albeit

Charles Edward Jenkins. .

Samuel Little

Leonard R. Cutter

John Trylor Clark

Solomon Bliss Stebbins . . .

Hugh OBrien

Sologfion Bliss Stebbins. . .

Hugh O'Brien

Charles Varney Whitten . .
Charles Hastings Allen . . .
Patrick John Donovan. . .
Charles Hastings Allen . . .

Homer Rogers

WiUiam Power Wilson.. . .
H.'rbert Schaw Carruth.. .

Jo'in Henry Lee

Alpheis Sanford

John Kenry Lee

Lyme, N. H Oct. 7, 1808

Pembroke Feb. 21, 1802

Boston Oct. 19, 1812

Scituate Feb. 15, 1793

Westhampton. . .Mar. 3, 1806

(See above)

Lynn Mar. 31, 1803

Boston Aug. 16, 1812

Boston Nov. 2,1811

Boston Feb. 5, 1813

Boston Feb. 21, 1825

(See above)

Scituate Aug. 22, 1814

Stoughton Mar. 10, 1815

Sqjtuate July 29, 1817

Hingham Aug. 15, 1827

Jaffrey, N. H July 1, 1825

Sanbornton, N.H.Sept. 19, 1825

Warren Jan. 18,1830

Ireland July 13, 1827

(See above)

(See above)

Vassalboro, Me. .May 10, 1829

Boston June 14, 1828

Charlestown April 9, 1848

(See above)

Sudbury ....Oct. 11, 1840

Baltimore, Md...Nov. 15, 1852

Dorchester Feb. 15, 1855

Boston April 26, 1846

North Attleboro.. July 5,1856
(See above)

Oct. 30, 1890
April 29, 1861
Jan. 25, 1885
Aug. 27, 1879
Sept. 18, 1886
(See above) .
Dec. 11, 1875
Oct. 10, 1899
Sept. 5, 1882
April 27, 1870
.April 11, 1885
(See above) . . .
April 13, 1901
Feb. 3, 1904
1, 1882
21, 1906
13, 1894
29, 1880
8, 1910
1, 1895
(See above) . . .
(See above) . . .
Mar. 18, 1891
Mar. 31, 1907
Sept. 18, 1912
(See above) . . .
Nov. 10, 1907
Date unknown
Dec. 27, 1917
Sept. 12, 1923
Aug. 10, 1944
(See above) . . .

Aug.
Dec.
July
Oct.
June
Aug.

1855

1856-57

1858

1859

1860

1861

1862

1863

1864

1865-66

1867

1868

1869

1870

1871

1872

1873

1874-77

1878

1879-81

1882

1883

1884-85

1886

1887

1888

1889

1890

1891

1892-93

1894-95

1896

Note. — The Mayor was ex officio Chairman of the Board of Aldermen from the incor-
poration of the City until 1855; the Board elected a permanent Chairman from 1855.

PRESIDENTS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL

CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN. — Concluded

157

Name

Place and Date of Birth

Died

Years of
Service

*Perlie Appleton Dyar

♦Joseph Aloysius Conry . .
David Franklin Barry. . . .
Michael Joseph O'Brien . .

James Henry Doyle

Daniel A. Whelton

fCharles Martin Draper. .

tEdward L. Cauley

William Berwin

Louis M. Clark

Frederick J. Brand

Lynn Mar. 26, 1857

Brookline Sept. 12, 1868

Boston Feb. 29, 1852

Ireland Feb. 11, 1855

Boston June 17, 1867

Boston Jan. 21,1872

Dedham Nov. 1, 1869

Charlestown Aug. 8, 1870

New Orleans, La., Dec. 16, 1858

Dorchester Dec. 14, 1858

Plainville, Conn., Feb. 3, 1861

May 15,
June 22,
July 23,
April 5,
Oct. 3,
Nov. 27,
Jan. 25,
April 19,
July 9,
Mar. 15,
Mar. 16,

1930
1943
1911
1903
1952
1953
1943
1928
1935
1914
1912

1897-98

1898

1899

1900

1901-04

1905

1906

1906

1907

1908

1909

Presidents of the Common Council

Name

Place and Date of Birth

Died

Years of
Service

William Prescott

Pepperell

.Aug. 19, 1762

Dec. 8,

1844

1822

Boston

Boston

.Oct. 14, 1764
.Oct. 10, 1777

Sept. 26,
Aug. 21,

1855
1858

1823

Francis Johonnot Oliver. .

1824-25

John Richardson Adan . . .

Boston

.July 8, 1793

July 4,

1849

1826-28

Eliphalet Williams

Taunton

.Mar. 7, 1778

June 12,

1855

1829

Benj. Toppan Pickman. . .

Salem

.Sept. 17, 1790

Mar. 22,

1835

1830-31

John Prescott Bigelow

Groton

.Aug. 25, 1797

July 4,

1872

1832-33

Josiah Quincy, jr

Boston

.Jan. 17, 1802

Nov. 2,

1882

1834-36

Phillip Marett

.Sept. 25, 1792
.Sent. 28. 1805

Mar. 22,

1869

1837-40

Edward Blake

Boston

Sept. 4,

1873

1841-43

Peleg Whitman Chandler.

N. Gloucester, Me., Apr. 12, '16

May 28,

1889

1844-45

George Stillman Hillard. .

Machias, Me. .

.Sept. 22, 1808

Jan. 21,

1879

1846-471

Benjamin Seaver

Roxbury

.April 12, 1795

Feb. 14,

1856

1847^49

Francis Brinley

Boston

.Nov. 10, 1800

June 14,

1889

1850-51

Henry Joseph Gardner. . .

Dorchester. . . .

.June 14, 1818

July 19,

1892

1852-53

Alex. Hamilton Rice

Newton

.Aug. 30, 1818

July 22,

1895

1854

Joseph Storey

Marblehead . . .

.Nov. 11, 1822

June 22,

1905

1855

Andover

Portsmouth, N

.June 22, 1825
H., Oct. 24, '28

Aug. 23,
Aug. 24,

1905

1882

1856-57

Samuel W. Waldron, jr. . .

1858

Josiah Putnam Bradlee. . .

Boston

.June 10, 1817

Feb. 2,

1887

1859-60

Joseph Hildreth Bradley. .

Haverhill

.Mar. 5, 1822

Oct. 5

1882

1861

Joshua Dorsey Ball

Baltimore, Md.

.July 11, 1828

Dec. 18,

1892

1862

George Silsbee Hale

Keene, N. H.. .

. Sept. 24, 1825

July 27,

1897

1863-64

Wm. Bentley Fowle, jr. . .

Boston

.July 27, 1826

Jan. 21,

1902

1865

I To July 1 2 From July 1

* Perlie A. Dyar from January 25, 1898, to April 1, 1898, and October 1, 1898, to end

of year. Joseph A. Conry from April 1, 1898, to October 1, 1898.

t Charles M. Draper from February 28, 1906. to September 10, 1906. Edward L.

Cauley from September 10, 1906, to end of year

158 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

PRESIDENTS OP THE COMMON COUNCIL. — Concluded

Name.

Place and Date of Birth.

Died.

Yeara of
Service.

Joseph Story

Weston Lewis ■> .

Charles Hastings Allen. .

William Giles Harris ....

Melville Ezra Ingalls. . . .

Matthias Rich . .

Marquis Fayette Dickin-
son, jr

Edward Olcott Shepard. .

Halsey Joseph Boardman

John Q. A. Brackett ....

Benjamin Pope

William H. Whitmore. . .

Harvey Newton Shepard

Andrew Jackson Bailey. .

Charles Edward Pratt. . .

James Joseph Flynn ....

Godfrey Morse

John Henry Lee

Edward John Jenkins. . .

David Franklin Barry. . .

Horace Gwynne Allen. . .

David Franklin Barry. . .

Christopher Francis
O'Brien

Joseph Aloysius Conry . .

Timothy Lawrence Con-
nol^

Daniel Joseph Kiley ....

Arthur Walter Dolan

William John Barrett ...

Leo F. McCuUough

George Cheney McCabe.

1 To October 27.

Marblehead Nov. 11, 1822

Hingham April 1, 1834

Boston June 14, 1828

Revere May 15, 1828

Harrison, Me. . .Sept. 6, 1842
Truro June 8,1820

Amherst Jan. 16, 1840

Hampton, N. H., Nov. 25, 1835

Norwich, Vt May 19, 1834

Bradford, N. H. . June 8, 1842

Waterford, Ire. .Jan. 13, 1829

Dorchester Sept. 6, 1836

Boston July 8, 1850

Charlestown July 18, 1840

Vassalboro, Me., Mar. 13, 1845

St. John, N. B 1835

Wachenheim, Germany,

May 17, 1846

Boston April 26, 1846

London, Eng. . .Dec. 20, 1854

Boston Feb. 29, 1852

Jamaica Plain. .July 27, 1855

(S^e above)

Boston Feb. 17, 1869

Brookline Sept. 12, 1868

Boston Oct. 5,1871

Boston July 27, 1874

Boston. .... Sept. 22, 1876

Boston June 24, 1872

Boston. July 1, 1882

Carmel, N. Y.. .July 5, 1873

June 22, 1905
April 6, 1893
Mar. 31, 1907
Oct. 29, 1897
July 11, 1914
Dec. 13, 1914

Sept. 18,
April 27,
Jan. 15,
April 6,
Sept. 24,
June 14,
April 14,
Mar. 21,
Aug. 20,
Mar. 26,

1915
1903
1900
1918
1879
1900
1936
1927
1898
1884

June 20, 1911
Sept. 12, 1923
Oct. 3, 1918
July 23, 1911
Feb. 12, 1919
(See above). ..

April 25, 1899
June 22, 1943

Dec. 5, 1928
Nov. 12, 1935
Sept. 28, 1949
May 29, 1933
May 12, 1951
Dec. 27, 1917

1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871

1872

1873-74

1875

1876

1877-78

1879

1880

1881»

1881^82

1883s

1883*

1884

1885-86

1887-88

1889-90

1891-93

1894-95
1896-97

1898

1899-1901

1902-05

1906-07

1908

1909

» From October 27.

5 To June 11. < From June 11.

PRESIDENTS OF THE CITY COUNCIL

159

Presidents of the City Council

Name

Place and Date of Birth

Died

Year of
Service

Walter Ballantyne

Walter Leo Collins

John Joseph Attridge

Thomas Joseph Kenny ....
Daniel Joseph McDonald.. .

George W. Coleman

Henry E. Hagan

James J. Storrow

Walter Leo Collins

Francis J. W. Ford

James T. Moriarty

James A. Watson

David J. Brickley

Daniel W. Lane

John A. Donoghue

James T. Moriarty

Charles G. Keene

John J. Heflfernan

Thomas H. Green

Timothy F. Donovan

William G. Lynch

Joseph McGrath

Edward M. Gallagher

Joseph McGrath

John F. Dowd

John I. Fitzgerald

John I. Fitzgerald

John I. Fitzgerald

John E. Kerrigan

George A. Murray

William J. Galvin

William J. Galvin

Thomas E. Linehan

Thomas J. Hannon

John E. Kerrigan

John E. Kerrigan

John B. Kelly

John B. Kelly

Thomas J. Hannon

William F. Hurley

William F. Hurley

William F. Hurley

Gabriel F. Piemonte

Francis X. Aheam

Joseph C. White

William F. Hurley

Edward J. McCormack, Jr.

William J. Foley, Jr

Patrick F. McDonough. . . .
Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr..
Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr..
Patrick F. McDonough

Hawick, Scotland, Mar.

Boston April

Boston Feb.

Boston Nov.

Chelsea Aug.

Boston June

St. John, N. B Feb.

Boston Jan.

(See above)

Boston Dec.

Amesbury Sept.

Boston June

Boston Mar.

Boston Dec.

Boston Aug.

(See above)

Gardiner, Me Aug.

Boston Jan.

Boston May

Boston Aug.

Boston Oct.

Boston Dec.

Charlestown Jan.

(See above)

Boston Nov.

Boston July

(See above)

(See above)

Boston Oct.

Boston Sept.

Boston Jan.

(See above)

Boston June

Boston Dec.

(See above) ,

(See above)

Boston July

(See above)

(See above) ,

Boston Aug.

(See above)

(See above)

Boston Jan.

Cohasset Feb.

Boston Jan.

(See above)

Boston Aug.

Boston Dec.

Galway, Ireland. . .Feb.

Boston Aug.

(See above)

(See above)

1855
1878
1878
1863
1873
1867
1865
1864

Sept. 30, 1932

May 17. 1926
June 28, 1937
July 31, 1950
May 18, 1933
Mar. 13. 1926

1882
1876
1870
1889
1872
1885

April 5, 1950
Dec. 5, 1941
Oct. 31, 1960

1880
1893
1883
1889
1892
1890
1877

Feb. 10, 1946
Aug. 25, 1927
June 13, 1958
April 21, 1933

April 25, 1943

1895
1882

1907
1905
1904

1904
1900

21, 1904

3, 1895

1909
1917
1898

1923
1923
1925
1920

1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961

* Single chamber established in 1910 (see Chap. 486, Acts of 1909. Sects. 48-51.)

160

MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Orators of Boston

APPOINTED BY THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES •

For the Anniversary 0/ the Boston Massticre, March 5, 1770

1771 James Lovell

1772 Dr. Joseph Warren

1773 Dr. Benjamin Church

1774 John Hancock

1775 Dr. Joseph Warren

1776 Rev. Peter Thacher

1777 Benjamin Hichborn

1778 Jonathan WiUiams Austin

1779 WiUiam Tudor

1780 Jonathan Mason, jr.

1781 Thomas Dawes, jr

1782 George Richards Minot

1783 Dr. Thomas Welsh

For the Anniversary of National Independence, July 4, 1776

1783 Dr. John Warren

1784 Benjamin Hichborn

1785 John Gardiner

1786 Jonathan L. Austin

1787 Thomas Dawes, jr.

1788 Harrison Gray Otis

1789 Rev. Samuel Stillman

1790 Edward Gray

1791 Thomas Crafts, jr.

1792 Joseph Blake, jr.

1793 John Quincy Adams

1794 John Phillips

1795 George Blake

1796 John Lathrop

1797 John Callender

1798 Josiah Quincy

1799 John Lowell, jr.

1800 Joseph Hall

1801 Charles Paine

1802 Rev. William Emerson

1803 WUliam Sullivan

1804 Dr. Thomas Danforth

1805 Warren Dutton

1806 Francis Dana Changing

1807 Peter O. Thacher

1808 Andrew Ritchie, jr.

1809 William Tudor, jr.

1810 Alexander Townsend

1811 James Savage

1812 Benjamin Pollard

1813 Edward St. Loe Livermore

1814 Benjamin Whitwell

1815 Lemuel Shaw

1816 George Sullivan

1817 Edward T. Channing

1818 Francis C. Gray

1819 Franklin Dexter

1820 Theodore Lyman, jr.

1821 Charles G. Loring

1822 John C. Gray

1823 Charles Pelham Curtis

1824 Francis Bassett

1825 Charles Sprague

1826 Josiah Quincy, Mayor

1827 William Powell Mason

1828 Bradford Sunaner

1829 James T. Austin

1830 Alexander H. Everett

1831 Rev. John G. Palfrey

1832 Josiah Quincy, jr

1833 Edward G. Prescott

1834 Richard S. Fay

1835 George S. Hillard

1836 Henry W. Kinsman

1837 Jonathan Chapman

1838 Rev. Hubbard Winslow

1839 Ivers James Austin

1840 Thomas Power

1841 George Ticknor Curtis

1842 Horace Mann

1843 Charles Francis Adams

1844 Peleg W. Chandler

1845 Charles Sumner

1846 Fletcher Webster

1847 Thomas G. Carey

1848 Joel Giles

1849 William W. Greenough

1850 Edwin P. Whipple

1851 Charles Theodore Russell

1852 Rev. Thomas Starr King

1853 Timothy Bigelow

1854 Rev. A. L. Stone

1855 Rev. A. A. Miner

1856 Edward Griffin Parker

1857 Rev. William R. Alger

1858 John S. Holmes

1859 George Sumner

1860 Edward Everett

1861 Theophilus Parsons

1862 George Ticknor Curtis

1863 Oliver Wendell Holmes

1864 Thomas Russell

1865 Rev. Jacob M. Manning

1866 Rev. S. K. Lothrop

1867 Rev. George H. Hepworth

1868 Samuel Eliot

1869 Ellis W. Morton

1870 William Everett

ORATORS OF BOSTON

161

ORATORS OP BOSTON. — Concluded

1871 Horace Binney Sargent

1872 Charles Francis Adams, jr

1873 Rev. John F. W. Ware

1874 Richard Frothingham

1875 Rev. James Freeman Clarke

1876 Robert C. Winthrop

1877 William Wirt Warren

1878 Joseph Healey

1879 Henry Cabot Lodge

1880 Robert Dickson Smith

1881 George Washington Warren

1882 John Davis Long

1883 Rev. H. Bernard Carpenter

1884 Harvey N. Shepard

1885 Thomas J. Gargan

1886 George Fred Williams

1887 John E. Fitzgerald

1888 William E. L. Dillaway

1889 John L. Swift

1890 Albert E. Pillsbury

1891 Josiah Quincy

1892 John R. Murphy

1893 Henry W. Putnam

1894 Joseph H. O'Neil

1895 Rev. Adolph Augustus Berle

1896 John F. Fitzgerald

1897 Rev. Edward Everett Hale

1898 Rev. Denis O'Callaghan

1899 Nathan Matthews, jr

1900 Stephen O'Meara

1901 Curtis Guild, jr.

1902 Joseph A. Conry

1903 Edwin D. Mead

1904 John A. Sullivan

1905 LeBaron B. Colt

1906 Timothy W. Coakley

1907 Rev. Edward A. Horton

1908 Arthur D. Hill

1909 Arthur L. Spring

1910 James H. Wolff

1911 Charles William Eliot

1912 Joseph C. Pelletier

1913 Grenville S. MacFarland

1914 Rev. James A. Supple

1915 Louis D. Brandeis

1916 Joe Mitchell Chappie

1917 Daniel J. Gallagher

1918 William H. P. Faunce

1919 Charles Ambrose DeCourcy |

1961 Edward

1920 Jacob L. Wiseman

1921 Lemuel H. Murlin.

1922 Jeremiah E. Burke.

1923 Rev. Charles W. Lyons

1924 Rev. Dudley H. Ferrell

1925 Thomas H. Dowd

1926 Andrew J. Peters

1927 William McGinnis

1928 Edith Nourse Rodgers

1929 Robert Luce

1930 Herbert Parker

1931 David I. Walsh

1932 Robert E. Rogers

1933 Joseph A. Tomasello

1934 His Eminence William Car-

dinal O'Connell, Arch-
bishop of Boston

1935 Albert Bushnell Hart

1936 Paris S. Malouf

1937 Louis J. A. Mercier

1938 David I. Walsh

1939 Stephen F. Chadwick

1940 John P. Sullivan

1941 Daniel L. Marsh

1942 Gerald F. Coughlin

1943 John W. McCormack

1944 Francis Maloney

1945 His Excellency Richard J.

Gushing, D. D., Arch-
bishop of Boston

1946 John F. Kennedy

1947 Judge Robert Gardiner Wil-

son, jr.

1948 Hon. James M. Curley

1949 Most Reverend John J.

Wright, D. D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Boston

1950 Francis C. Gray

1951 Judge Elias F. Shamon

1952 Judge Elijah Adlow

1953 Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson

1954 Herbert A. Philbrick

1955 Clare Booth Luce

1956 Timothy J. Murphy

1957 Judge Felix Forte

1958 Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J.

1959 Admiral Carl F. Espe

1960 Judge Jennie Loitman Bar-

ron
M. Kennedy

INDEX.

A

PAaB

Administrative Services Department 49-52

Aldermen, Chairmen of the Board of, 1855 to 1909 . . 156, 157
Amended City Charter of 1909 (with Plan A Charter) . . . 14-41

Appeal, Board of (Building Dept.) 56, 57

Art Commission (Administrative Services Dept.) .... 50, 51

Assessing Department 52-54

Board of Review 53, 54

Attendance, Supervisors of (School Committee) .... 110

Auditing Department . . 54, 55

Auditorium Commission . 127, 128

B

Beacon Hill Architectural Commission 59, 60

Births, Registrar of (Health Dept.) . 70

Boards and Commissions of the City (alphabetical list) :

Art Commission 50, 51

Auditorium Commission 127, 128

Beacon Hill Architectural Commission 59, 60

Boston Housing Authority 123, 124

Boston Redevelopment Authority 124-127

City Hospital Trustees . . , 71, 72

Finance Commission 117

FrankUn Foundation Members 119

Government Center Commission . . ,. , . 128, 129

Library Trustees 74

Public Health Council . . . ... . . . 69, 70

Public Welfare, Overseers of the 103

School Buildings .".... 114

School Committee . . 108

Sinking Funds, Board of Commissioners of . . . . 101

White Fund Trustees 121

Zoning Adjustment, Board of 61

'Zoning Commission 63

Boston City Record (official weekly of City) . . . 34, 39, 40, 49

Boston Housing Authority 123, 124

Boston Metropolitan District 130

Boston, origin and growth of 4, 5

Boston Redevelopment Authority 124-127

Boston Retirement Board 98

Boston Traffic Commission 99, 100

Bridge Division (transferred to Highway Division, Public Works

Dept.) 95

(162)

INDEX B-C 163

Page
Brighton (Wards 21 and 22):

Municipal Court of 136

Public Schools in 109

Budgets, Supervisor of 49, 50

Building Code 65, 56

Building Department 65-64

Board of Appeal 56, 57

Board of Examiners 68

Board of Examiners of Gasfitters 58

Committee on Licenses 59

Board of Zoning Adjustment (Building Dept.) . . .61, 62

Zoning Commission (Building Dept.) 63, 64

C

Charlestown (Ward 2) :

Municipal Court of 136

Public Schools in 109

City Charter 14-41

City Clerk Department 64

City Council of 1961 . . . , 11, 13, 154

Committees of 13

Officers of 12

President of 11, 154

City Council, Presidents of, 1910-1961 159

City Government, 1961 11

City Governments, 1909 to 1961 142-154

City Hospital . . . 71, 72

City Messenger (City Coimcil) 12

City officials of the executive departments 43-45

City, origin and growth of 4, 5

City Proper (Wards 3 and 5) :

Pubhc Schools in 109

City Record (Boston City Record) 49

City Seal, origin of and present form 2, 3

City Solicitor, office of, abolished 73

Civil Defense Department 65, 66

Clerk of Committees (City Coimcil) 12

Collecting Division (Treasury Dept.) . . . . . . 101

Committee on Foreclosed Real Estate 97, 98

Committee on Licenses (in Building Department) . • . . . 59
Common Council:

Presidents of, 1822-1909 157, 158

Conveyancers, City (Law Dept.) . 73

Corporation Counsel (Law Dept.) 72, 73

County of Suffolk:

Auditor 132

Commissioners 132

164 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

rAUES

Court House Commission 131

District Attorney 132

Treasurer 132

Courts and Officers of:

Land Court . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Register of Deeds 133

-Sheriff 133

Credit Union, City of Boston 129, 130

D

Deaths, Registrar of (Health Dept.) 70

Deeds, Register of (Suffolk County) 133

Departments of the City (alphabetical list) :

Administrative Services 49-52

Assessing 52-54

Auditing 54, 55

Building 55-64

City Clerk 64

City Planning (Abolished, see Stat. 1960, Chap. 652, Sect. 12)

Civil Defense 65, 66

Election 66, 67

Fire . . ... . . . 67, 68

Health 6S-71

Hospital . . . 71, 72

Law 72, 73

Library 73-78

Licensing Board 117-119

Parks and Recreation 79-93

Penal Institutions 93

Police 115, 116

Public Works 94-96

Real Property . ' . . . 97, 98

Retirement Board 98

Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . 99, 100

Treasury 100, 101

Veterans' Services 102

tVelfare 103

District Attorney (Suffolk County) ........ 132

Assistants 132

Dorchester (Wards 13-17):

Municipal Court of . . 136

Pubhc Schools in 109

E

East Boston (Ward 1):

District Court of 136

PubUc Schools in 109

INDEX E-L , 165

Paob
Election Department 66, 67

Engineering Division (Public Works Dept.) 95

Examiners, Board of (Building Dept.) 58

Executive Departments of City 47-103

Executive Officers, with term, etc 43-45

F

Finance Commission, Boston 117

Fire Department, with officials, etc 67, 68

Firemen's Rehef Fund 68

Fourth of July Orators appointed by City Government . 160, 161

Franklin Foundation 119-121

Franklin Technical Institute (Franklin Union) . . . 119

Q

Gasfitters, Board of Examiners of ...... . 58

Government Center Commission 128,129

Government of Boston, 1961 11

Government of Boston, Members of, 1909-1961 . . . 142-154

H

Health Department 68-71

Highway Division (Public Works Dept.) 95

Hospital Department (City Hospital) 71, 72

Long Island Hospital 72

Sanatorium Division 72

House of Correction, Deer Island 93

Housing Authority, Boston . . ... 123, 124

Hyde Park (Ward 18, part) :

Municipal Court of (with Wesc KoxDury) .... 137

Public Schools in 109

I

Insolvency and Probate, Court of 134, 135

J

Jailer and Sheriff (Suffolk County) , 133

Jamaica Plain (Ward 19):

PubUc Schools in . 109

July Fourth, Orators appointed by the City . . . . 160, 161

Justices of Municipal Courts 136, 137

Juvenile Court . 137

L

Land Court (Suffolk County) 133

Law Department 72, 73

Library Department 73-78

Central and Branch Libraries of 74-76

Officials and Trustees of 74

166 MUNICIPAL REGISTER

Page

Trust funds, appropriation, etc. 78

Volumes, number belonging and circulated 78

License and Permit Fees:

Board of Examiners (Building Dept.) 58

Public Works Dept 95, 96

Licenses, Committee on (Building Dept.) 59

Licensing Board, Boston 117-119

Licensing Division, Mayor's Office (Amusement Licenses) . . 49

Long Island Hospital (Hospital Dept.) 72

M

Maintenance Branch (Public Works Dept.) 94

Markets, Faneuil and Quincy Markets (in charge of Assistant

Commissioner of Real Property) ...... 97

Marriage Certificates, Licenses (Registry Division, Health Dept.) 70

Mayor:

City Record (Editorial Office) 49

Office, staff of 49

Public Celebrations, etc 49

Mayors of Boston, 1822 to 1961 155

Medical Examiners (Suffolk County) 140

Mortuaries (Suffolk County) . . 140

Municipal Court:

Boston Proper 135

Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston . . . 136

Justices of (regular and special) 135-137

Probation Officers of 138, 139

Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury . -. . . 136, 137

O

Old South Association . , . . . . - 131

Orators of Boston since 1771 160, 161

Overseers of Public Welfare . 103

Temporary Home and Wayfarers' Lodge in charge of . . 103

P

Parks and Recreation Department ....... 79-93

Commissioners and chief officials of 79

Penal Institutions Department 93

Pensions for retired teachers 113, 114

Personnel, Supervisor of 49, 50

Plan A Charter 14-41

Police Department . . . 115, 116

Commissioner and chief officials of . , , . . . 115

Police Listing Board 116

Printing Section (Purchasing Division) 50

INDEX — P-S 167

Paqb

Probate and Insolvency, Court of 134, 135

Probation Officers (Suffolk County) 138, 139

Public Buildings (in charge of Assistant Commissioner of Real

Property) 97

Public Health Council 69, 70

Public Improvement Commission (Public Works Dept.) . . 96

Public Library (Library Dept.) ........ 73-78

Public Safety Commission (Administrative Services Dept.) . . 51, 52

Public Works Department 94-96

Highway Division (includes former Bridge Division) . 95

Lamps, on streets 95

Sanitary Division of 95

Sewer Division of . . . 95

Engineering Division of 95

Water Division of 96

Purchasing Agent 49, 50

Printing Plant 50

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Real Estate, Committee on Foreclosed . . . . . . 97, 98

Real Property Department . . . 97, 98

Redevelopment Authority, Boston 124-127

Refuse, removal of 95

Register of Deeds (Suffolk County) ....... 133

Registry Division (Health Dept.) 70

City Registrar of births, marriages and deaths ... 70

Retirement Board, Boston 98

Roslindale (Wards 20 and 21):

Public Schools in 109

Roxbury (Wards 8-12) :

Municipal Court of 136

Public Schools in 109

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Sanitary Division (Public Works Dept.) 95

School Buildings, Department of 114

School Committee 108-114

Department of, with officials . . . . . . . 108

Elementary and Intermediate School districts .... 109

High and Latin Schools 109

Industrial and special schools 110-113

Pensions and retirement funds for teachers . . . 113, 114

School Physicians and School Nurses 110

Special departments 108-113

Seal of the City, origin of and present form . . . . , 2, 3

Sewer Division (Public Works Dept.) 95

Sheriff of Suffolk County 133

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Sinking Funds, Board of Commissioners of . . . . . 101
South Boston (Wards 6 and 7) :

Municipal Court of ..." 137

Public Schools in . . 109

South End (Wards 3, 4, 9):

Public Schools in 109

Suffolk County (County of Suflfolk) 131-140

Superior Court, justices and clerks of 134

Supreme Judicial Court, justices and clerks of . . . 133, 134

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Traffic Commission, Boston . . 99, 100

Treasury Department . 100, 101

Collecting Division . 101

Treasury Division . 100

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Various City, County and State Officials ... . 106, 107

Veterans' Graves and Registration,, Supervisor of . . . . 102

Veterans' Services Department . . . 102

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Water Division (Public Works Dept.) . ... . . 96

Water used in 1960 average gallons daily . . ... 96

Weights and Measures Division (Health Dept.) . . . . 70, 71

Welfare Department . . . . 103

West Roxbury (Wards 19 and 20): .

Municipal Court of 137

Public Schools in 109

White Fund, George Robert 121-123

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Zoning Adjustment, Board of (Building Dept.) . . . . 61, 62

Members of . . . . . . . ... . 61

Zoning Commission (Building Dept.) . . ... . 63, 64

Zoning Regulations . . . . 64

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Administrative Services Department

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