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BOSTON 
UNICIPAL  REGISTER 
FOR  1972-1973 


SEAL  OF  THE  CITY 

OF 

BOSTON 


THE  CITY  SEAL 

As  it  appeared  prior  to  1827 

The  City  Seal  was  adopted  by  "An  Ordinance  to  Estab- 
lish the  City  Seal,"  passed  January  2,  1823,  which  pro- 
vides "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  estab- 
lished as  the  City  Seal  at  the  present  time  by  Revised 
Ordinances  of  1914,  Chapter  1,  Section  5,  which  pro- 
vides 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. 


4 
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  established  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  publique  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,  Brookline,  Quincy, 
Braintree,  Randolph  and  Holbrook,  besides  certain 
islands  in  the  harbor.)  From  1637  till  May  13,  1640, 
when  "Mount  Woollaston"  was  set  off  as  Braintree, 
Boston  exercised  jurisdiction  over  a  territory  of  at  least 

*  Old  Style. 


40,000  acres.    Within  its  present  limits  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  $4,200. 

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)  Roxbury  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,  ac- 
cepted 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,  ac- 
cepted 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  biennium 
1972-1973,  the  expense  of  said  register  to  be  charged  to 
the  appropriation  for  City  Documents. 

In  City  Council  January  31,  1972.    Passed. 

Approved  by  the  Mayor  February  2,  1972. 

Attest : 

J.  M.  DUNLEA, 

City  Clerk. 


Kevin  H.  White 

Mayor  of  Boston 


Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

President,  Boston  City  Council,  1972 


Patrick  Fa  McDonough 

President,  Boston  City  Council,  1973 


CONTENTS 


Page 

Introduction 9,  10 

The  City  Government,  1972-1973         ......  11 

Officers  of  the  City  Council 12 

Committees  of  the  City  Council 13-14 

Amended  City  Charter  of  1909  (with  Plan  A  charter)       .  15-42 

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

Notes  of  executive  departments,  lists  of  officials,  term, 

etc. 47-103 

Various  City,  County  and  State  officials,  term,  etc.  .       .  106-107 

Various  departments,  commissions,  courts,  etc.,  lists  of 

officials,  term,  etc 105-158 

Members  of  City  Government,  1909—1972-1973       .       .  160-174 

Mayors  of  Boston,  1822—1972-1973 175 

Chairmen  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  1855-1909        .       .  176-177 

Presidents  of  the  Common  Council,  1822-1909   .       .       .  177-178 

Presidents  of  the  City  Council,  1910-1972  ....  179 

Orators  of  Boston,  1771-1972 180-181 

Index 182-188 


9 
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 
1940  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 
fist  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  chari- 
table institutions) ,  and  a  list  of  the  ward  officers. 

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


10 

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. 


Lawrence     S.     DiCara 


Christopher     A.     Iannella 


John    E.    Kerrigan 


CITY    COUNCIL 


Frederick     C.     Langone         Patrick    F.    McDonough         John     Joseph     Moakley  Gerald    F.     O'Leary 


Albert   L.    O'Neil 


Gabriel    F.    Piemonte 


Joseph  M.  Tierney 


GABRIEL    F.    PIEMONTE 
PRESIDENT    I 


FREDERIC  J.  ODONNELL 
ASS'T  CITY  CLERK 


FRANCIS    M.    MASURET 

ASSISTANT   CLERK 

OF    COMMITTEES 


JOSEPH    M.   TIERNEY 


PUBLIC 
GALLERY 


ALBERT    L.   O'NEIL 


D 


GERALD    F 
I    O'LEARY 


JOSEPH  M.  DUNLEA 
CITY  CLERK 


NICHOLAS    DiMELLA 
CLERK   OF    COMMITTEES 


LAWRENCE  S.   DiCARA 


ELVIRA  JOHNSON 

lOFFICIAL  | 
STENOGRAPHER 


CHRISTOPHER    A.   IANNELLA 


PUBLIC 
GALLERY 


JOHN    E.    KERRIGAN 


JOHN  JOSEPH 
MOAKLEYi 
I 


patrick  f. 
Mcdonough 


ENTRANCE 

COUNCIL 

GALLERY 


PUBLIC 
GALLERY 


BOSTON   CITY  COUNCIL  CHAMBER    1972-1973 


11 

GOVERNMENT 

OF   THE 

CITY  OF  BOSTON 

1972-1973 


KEVIN   H.   WHITE,   Mayor 

Residence, 
158  Mt.  Vernon  Street,  Boston 


BOSTON  CITY  COUNCIL,   1972-1973 

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

GABRIEL  F.   PIEMONTE,  President,^  1972 
65  Brook  Farm  Road,  West  Roxbury 

PATRICK   F.   McDONOUGH,   President,fl973 
11  Barrington  Road,  Dorchester 

Lawrence  S.  DiCara 
86  Codman  Hill  Avenue,  Dorchester 

Christopher  A.  Iannella 
14  Jaeger  Terrace,  West  Roxbury 

John  E.  Kerrigan 
213  West  Eighth  Street,  South  Boston 

Frederick  C.  LANGONEf 
220  Hanover  Street,  Boston 

John  Joseph  Moakley* 
1812  Columbia  Road,  South  Boston 

Gerald  F.  O'Leary 
1110  Morton  Street,  Dorchester 

Albert  L.  O'Neil 
4354  Washington  Street,  Roslindale 

Joseph  M.  Tierney 
216  Blue  Ledge  Drive,  West  Roxbury 

Regular    meetings    in    Council    Chamber,    City    Hall, 
fifth  floor,  Mondays,  at  2  p.m. 

*  Resigned  January  1,  1973  f  Elected  January  4,  1973 


12 

OFFICERS   OF  THE   CITY  COUNCIL 

Clerk 
Joseph  M.  Dunlea 

Assistant  Clerk 

Frederic  J.  O'Donnell 

Staff  Director 
Joseph  J.  Brogna 

The  Staff  Director  keeps  the  accounts  of  the  expendi- 
tures 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,  and  has  charge  of  the  City  Hall  Reference 
Library. 

Clerk  of  Committees 

Nicholas  J.  DiMella 

The  Clerk  of  Committees  acts  as  the  clerk  of  all  com- 
mittees of  the  City  Council,  and  keeps  the  records  of 
their  meetings. 

Assistant  Clerk  of  Committees 

Francis  M.  Masuret 

The  Assistant  Clerk  of  Committees'assists  the  Clerk 
of  Committees  in  the  performance  of  his  duties. 

City  Messenger 


Chaplain 

Rt.  Rev.  Christopher  P/Griffin 

Chief  of  Administrative  Services 
Francis  X.  Joyce 

Librarian 


Receptionist 
Frances  Winn 


Official  Reporter  of  Proceedings 

Elvira  Johnson 


13 
STANDING  COMMITTEES  OF  CITY  COUNCIL  — 1972 

EXECUTIVE 

All  the  members:  Councillor  Piemonte,  Chairman 

Councillor  O'Leary,  Vice-Chairman 

On  the  following  committees  the  first-named  member  is  Chairman;  the 
second-named  member  is  Vice-Chairman. 

APPROPRIATIONS  AND  FINANCE 

Seven  members:  Councillors  Moakley,  O'Neil,  Iannella,  Tierney, 
Kerrigan,  DiCara,  McDonough. 

CLAIMS 
Councillors  Tierney,  Kerrigan,  Moakley,  Iannella,  DiCara. 

CONFIRMATIONS 
Councillors  Kerrigan,  O'Leary,  Iannella,  Tierney,  Moakley. 

LEGISLATION  AND  HOME  RULE 
Councillors  O'Leary,  Moakley,  Iannella,  Kerrigan,  McDonough. 

LICENSES 
Councillors  Iannella,  Kerrigan,  O'Leary,  McDonough,  DiCara. 

ORDINANCES  AND  RESOLUTIONS 
Councillors  O'Leary,  Iannella,  McDonough,  Kerrigan,  O'Neil. 

PENAL  MATTERS 
Councillors  Kerrigan,  O'Neil,  O'Leary,  Iannella,  Tierney. 

PURLIC  HEALTH 
Councillors  O'Neil,  Kerrigan,  McDonough,  Tierney,  Iannella. 

PURLIC  HOUSING 
Councillors  McDonough,  O'Leary,  Iannella,  DiCara,  Kerrigan. 

PURLIC  LANDS 
Councillors  Iannella,  DiCara,  Kerrigan,  O'Neil,  O'Leary. 

PURLIC  SERVICES 
Councillors  DiCara,  Tierney,  Kerrigan,  O'Leary,  O'Neil. 

URRAN  DEVELOPMENT 

Seven  members:  Councillors  Tierney,  O'Leary,  Iannella,  Moakley, 
Kerrigan,  O'Neil,  DiCara. 


14 
STANDING  COMMITTEES  OF  CITY  COUNCIL  — 1973 

EXECUTIVE 

All  the  members:  Councillor  Iannella,  Chairman 

Councillor  O'Leary,  Vice-Chair  man 

On  the  following  committees  the  first-named  member  is  Chairman ;  the 
second-named  member  is  Vice-Chairman. 

APPROPRIATIONS  AND  FINANCE 
Seven  members:  Councillors  O'Leary,  O'Neil,  DiCara,  Iannella,  Ker- 
rigan, PlEMONTE,  TlERNEY 

CLAIMS 

Councillors  Langone,  Tierney,  DiCara,  Iannella,  O'Leary 

CONFIRMATIONS 
Councillors  Kerrigan,  Langone,  Iannella,  Piemonte,  O'Neil 

HOUSING 

Councillors  Langone,  Kerrigan,  DiCara,  O'Neil,  Tierney 

LEGISLATION  AND  HOME  RULE 
Councillors  DiCara,  O'Leary,  Kerrigan,  Langone,  Piemonte 

LICENSES 

Councillors  Piemonte,  Iannella,  Kerrigan,  Langone,  O'Leary 

ORDINANCES  AND  RESOLUTIONS 
Councillors  DiCara,  O'Leary,  Langone,  O'Neil,  Tierney 

PENAL  MATTERS 
Councillors  Piemonte,  DiCara,  Kerrigan,  Langone,  O'Neil 

PURLIC  HEALTH 
Councillors  O'Neil,  Piemonte,  DiCara,  Iannella,  Tierney 

PUBLIC  LANDS 
Councillors  Iannella,  Kerrigan,  DiCara,  O'Neil,  Tierney 

PUBLIC  SERVICES 
Councillors  Tierney,  Iannella,  Kerrigan,  O'Leary,  Piemonte 

URBAN  DEVELOPMENT 
Seven   members:   Councillors  Tierney,    O'Neil,    DiCara,    Iannella, 
Kerrigan,  Langone,  Piemonte. 


OFFICERS 

of   the 

CITY   COUNCIL 


Joseph     M.    Dunlea 
City   Clerk 


Joseph     J.     Brogna 
Staff   Director 


15 

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. 

"Preliminary  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 
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  period  of  at  least  four  years  from_the 


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beginning  of  the  terms  of  office  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  fore- 
noon 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,  146,162,  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  sections  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  city,  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 
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  mayor. 

Sect.  11B.  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 


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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  elections  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  resigns  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  office  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. 

Sect.  13A.  f  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. 

t  At  present  forty  thousand  dollars,  under  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  c.  2,  s.  9A. 


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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  re- 
maining 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  counciUor  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. f  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  incurred 
by  or  in  behalf  of  any  city  councillor. 

Sect.  17.  The  city  council  shall  be  the  judge  of  the  election  and  quali- 
fications 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  the 
meetings  thereof;  and  shall  from  time  to  time  establish  rules  for  its  pro- 
ceedings. The  member  eldest  in  years  shall  preside  until  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.  15  as  amended  by  St.  1952,  c.  190. 

t  At  present,   president  thirteen  thousand  dollars,   other  councillors 
twelve  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  under  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  c.  2A,  s.  1. 
Passed  pursuant  to  G.  L.,  c.  39,  s.  6A. 


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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  abolish  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  valid  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  with  the  city  clerk  with 
his  objections  thereto  in  writing,  return  it  to  the  city  council  which  shall 
enter  the  objections  at  large  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 
as  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. 


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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  as  he  may  deem  to  be  for  the  welfare  of  the  city.  The 
city  council  shall  consider  each  ordinance  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  pre- 
vent the  mayor  from  again  presenting  an  ordinance  or  loan  order  which 
has  been  rejected  or  withdrawn.  The  city  council  may  originate  an  ordi- 
nance or  loan  order  and  may  reduce  or  reject  any  item  in  any  loan  and, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  mayor,  may  amend  an  ordinance.  All  sales 
of  land  other  than  school  lands,  all  appropriations  for  the  purchase  of 
land,  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  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  earlier  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  expiration  of  the  required  interval 
after  such  vote;  provided,  that  such  action  thereon  has  not  sooner  been 
taken  or  such  loan  order  has  not  been  withdrawn  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 
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, 

*  Sect.  17E,  as  amended  by  St.  1966,  c.  642,  s.  14. 


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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  elected  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 
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  willing  to  serve,  a  registered  voter  of  the  city  duly  qualified 
to  vote  for  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  school  committeeman. 

*  Sect.  19  as  amended  by  St.  1952.  c.  190. 


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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  qualified 
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 
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  qualified  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 


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municipal  election  to  be  held  on  Tuesday,  ,  19  ,  for  the 
purpose  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  public  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  preliminary  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  public  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  he  counted  as  one 
ivard)",  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- 
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: — 


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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  preliminary 
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. 


This  nomination  petition  sheet  filed  by 


Signature  of  Candidate 


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  candidate  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, 


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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. 

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  ap- 
pears 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 


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the  certification  required  by  this  section  at  or  before  five  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon  on  the  thirty-fourth  day  preceding  the  preliminary  election. 

Sect.  57A.  A  nomination  petition  which  has  been  filed  and  is  in  ap- 
parent conformity  with  law  shall  be  valid  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  preliminary  election.  Objections  filed 
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  preliminary  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  ineligible  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  preliminary 
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  preliminary  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  follow- 
ing 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  preliminary  election,  the  ballots  for  use  at  such 
election  shall  be  printed  with  the  name,  residence  and  ward  of  the  sub- 

*  Sect.  57B  as  amended  by  St.  1953,  c.  257. 


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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- 
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  ward  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  previously  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  ineligibility,  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. 


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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 
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  official 
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  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;  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  office,  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  drawn  by  the  election  com- 
mission, 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  Tues- 
day, ,  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  ma- 
chine 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  nomi- 
nation for  the  office  of  school  committeeman  shall  be  deemed  to  have 
been  nominated  for  said  office.  If  a  preliminary  election  under  Plan  A 
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 


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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  which  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. 


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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  sub- 
mit 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  reject- 
ing it,  and  in  the  event  of  their  failure  so  to  do  the  items  and  the  appro- 
priation 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.  The  city  council  shall  take  definite  action  on  any  supplementary 
appropriation  order  for  the  public  facilities  department  by  adopting, 
reducing  or  rejecting  it  within  sixty  days  after  it  is  filed  with  the  city  clerk; 
and  in  the  event  of  their  failure  so  to  do,  such  supplementary  appropria- 
tion order  as  submitted  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  department  or  office  under  their 
charge,  which  estimates  shall  be  transmitted  to  the  city  council. 

Sect.  3A.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 

*  Sect.  3  as  amended  by  St.  1924,  c.  479,  Sect.  2,  St.  1941,  c.  604,  Sect.  1, 
and  St.  1966,  c.  642,  Sect.  10. 

f  Sect.  3A  as  inserted  by  St.  1941,  c.  604,  Sect.  1,  and  as  amended  by 
St.  1947,  c.  120. 


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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  liabilities  incurred  during 
said  interval  do  not  exceed  in  any  one  month  the  sums  spent  for  similar 
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  lawfully  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.  U,  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  chapter  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.f  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  St.  1941,  c.  604,  Sect.  1,  and  as  amended  by 
St.  1954,  c.  24. 

t  Sect.  4A  inserted  by  St.  1924,  c.  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  abolish  the  salary  of  any 
department  or  agency  head.  Every  department  or  agency  head  created 
by,  or  resulting  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  law  and  rules 
shall,  if  the  office  or  position  is  abolished  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  abolished;  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 
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.  5  as  amended  by  Stat.  1953,  Chap.  473. 


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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  the  county  of  Suffolk 
take  part  in  the  employment  of  labor,  the  making  of  contracts,  the  pur- 
chase of  materials,  supplies  or  real  estate;  nor  in  the  construction,  alter- 
ation, 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  such  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  percent  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 
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.     .     .     . 


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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  committee  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  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.  f  The  mayor  may  remove  any  head  of  a  department  or 
member  of  a  board  (other  than  the  election  commissioners,  who  shall  re- 
main subject  to  the  provisions  of  existing  law)  by  filing  a  written  state- 
ment 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,  the  public  facilities  commission,  or  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  St.  1953,  c.  473. 

t  Sect.  14  as  amended  by  St.  1966,  c.  642,  s.  11. 


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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,  nor  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.  16 A.*  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  St.  1951,  c.  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 
eighty  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  eighty  thousand  dollars  to  meet  the  expenses 
as  aforesaid  each  year  shall  be  appropriated  by  said  city.  The  commis- 
sion shall  have  the  same  right  to  incur  expenses  in  anticipation  of  its  ap- 
propriation 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,  ordi- 
nances, 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  St.  1921,  c.  81,  St.  1924,  c.  369,  St.  1948,  c. 
175,  St.  1961,  c.  40,  and  St.  1965,  c.  894. 


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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  disallow  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  until  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.*  All  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  de- 
posited 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 
February  in  each  year,  prepare  and  furnish  to  the  city  auditor  a  list  of 

*  Sect.  26  as  amended  by  St.  1910,  c.  437,  Sect.  1,  and  St.  1911,  c.  165, 
Sect.  1. 

f  Sect.  27  as  amended  by  Special  St.  1919,  c.  168,  Sect.  1,  St.  1922,  c. 
133,  Sect.  1,  St.  1938,  c.  263,  Sect.  1,  and  St.  1951,  c.  111. 


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the  officials  and  employees  under  said  officer  or  board  and  paid  by  the 
city  or  county  on  the  first  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  public  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 
number  and  compensation  of  employees  in  each  department,  shall  be 
published  in  the  City  Record.  Failure  to  publish  in  such  newspaper  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 

*  Sect.  29  as  amended  by  St.  1934,  c.  185,  Sect.  1,  and  St.  1947,  c.  447, 
Sect.  1. 


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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  City  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  officer, 
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. f  Without  obtaining  the  consent  of  any  other  board  or  officer 
or  further  authority  than  that  contained  in  this  act,  the  public  facilities 
commission,  in  the  name  of  the  city,  may  acquire  by  purchase,  lease,  gift, 
devise  or  otherwise  for  any  municipal  purpose  a  fee  simple  absolute  or  any 
lesser  interest  in  any  land,  public  or  private,  within  the  limits  of  the  city, 
including  air  rights  and  riparian  rights,  and  may  take  by  eminent  domain 
under  chapter  seventy-nine  or  chapter  eighty  A  of  the  General  Laws  any 
such  fee  or  interest  except  in  parks  and  playgrounds  and  except  also, 
unless  there  be  express  consent,  in  lands  belonging  to  or  covered  by  con- 
tract with  the  United  States,  the  commonwealth,  the  Boston  Housing 
Authority  or  the  Boston  Redevelopment  Authority.  Whenever  the  price 
proposed  to  be  paid  for  any  land  to  be  acquired  for  any  municipal  purpose 
is  more  than  twenty-five  percent  higher  than  its  average  assessed  valuation 
during  the  previous  three  years,  such  land  shall  not  be  acquired  by  purchase 
but  shall  be  taken  by  eminent  domain.  No  land  shall  be  taken  until  an 
appropriation  by  loan  or  otherwise  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;  nor  shall  a  price  be  paid  in  excess  of 
the  appropriation,  unless  a  larger  sum  is  awarded  by  a  court  of  competent 
jurisdiction.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  affect  in  any  way  the  powers 
and  duties  of  the  real  property  board  under  chapter  four  hundred  and 
seventy-four  of  the  acts  of  nineteen  hundred  and  forty-six  as  now  or 

*  Sect.  30  as  amended  by  St.  1939,  c.  156,  Sect.  1,  and  St.  1955,  c.  60, 
Sect.  2. 

t  Sect.  31  as  amended  by  St.  1966,  c.  642,  s.  12. 


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hereafter  amended,  or  of  the  public  improvement  commission  as  successor 
in  function  to  the  board  of  street  commissioners  under  chapter  four  hun- 
dred and  thirty-seven  of  the  acts  of  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-three  or 
chapter  four  hundred  and  twenty-six  of  the  acts  of  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety-seven  or  chapter  three  hundred  and  ninety-three  of  the  acts 
of  nineteen  hundred  and  six,  as  severally  now  or  hereafter  amended,  or 
acts  in  addition  thereto. 

Sect.  31  A.  Without  obtaining  the  consent  of  any  board  or  officer 
other  than  the  mayor,  and  without  interdepartmental  payment,  the  public 
facilities  commission,  without  further  authority,  may  transfer  any  land 
now  or  hereafter  belonging  to  the  city,  except  parks  and  playgrounds,  but 
including  school  lands  and  land  acquired  by  foreclosure  of  tax  title,  from 
the  municipal  purpose,  if  any,  to  which  it  is  devoted  at  the  time  of  such 
transfer  to  any  other  specific  municipal  purpose,  and  may  also  transfer 
the  care,  custody,  management  and  control  of  any  such  land,  except  parks 
and  playgrounds,  but  including  school  land  and  land  acquired  by  fore- 
closure of  tax  title,  from  such  board  or  officer,  including  itself,  as  at  the 
time  of  such  transfer  may  have  the  same  to  such  other  board  or  officer, 
including  itself,  as  it  may  determine. 

Sect.  31B.  Without  obtaining  the  consent  of  any  board  or  officer 
other  than  the  mayor,  the  public  facilities  commission,  without  further 
authority,  may,  for  such  rent  or  price  and  upon  such  terms  as  said  com- 
mission may  deem  appropriate,  lease  or  sublease  or  sell,  grant,  and  convey 
any  surplus  land,  as  hereinafter  defined,  to  the  federal  government  or  any 
agency  thereof,  the  commonwealth  or  any  political  subdivision  or  authority 
thereof  or,  if  notice  of  intent  to  lease  or  sell  such  land  or  buildings  together 
with  a  statement  of  when  and  where  written  details  of  such  proposed 
lease  or  sale  may  be  examined  shall  first  have  been  publicly  advertised  in 
the  City  Record  once  a  week  for  two  successive  weeks,  to  any  person,  firm, 
corporation  or  trust.  "Surplus  land",  as  used  in  this  section,  shall  be 
deemed  to  mean  land,  buildings  and  real  estate  now  or  hereafter  belonging 
to  the  city  and  in  the  care,  custody,  management  and  control  of  said  com- 
mission (except  parks  and  playgrounds)  which  at  the  time  of  such  lease 
or  sale  are  or  have  been  used  for  school  purposes,  or  which  have  been 
acquired  by  foreclosure  of  tax  titles  or  acquired  under  section  eighty  of 
chapter  sixty  of  the  General  Laws,  or  which,  irrespective  of  the  manner 
or  time  of  acquisition,  are  not  held  by  the  city  for  a  specific  purpose,  or 
which  have  been  transferred  to  the  commission  by  the  city  council. 

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  St.  1914,  c.  730,  Sect.  l,St.  1921,  c.  288,  Sect.  1, 
and  St.  1924,  c.  479,  Sect.  4. 


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OFFICIALS  OF  THE 
EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENTS 


The  following  table  shows  the  manner  in  which  the  admin- 
istrative 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  or  Elected 


By  Whom 


When 


Term 


Begins     Length 


Administrative  Services, 
Director  of 


Appeal,  Board  of  (Five) 
Art  Commission  (Five) 


Assessing,  Commission- 
er of 


Assessing,  Associate 
Commissioner  of 
(Two) 


Auditor . 


Beacon  Hill  Architec- 
tural Commission 
(Five) 


Budgets,  Supervisor  of. . 
Building  Commissioner, 
City  Clerk 


Civil  Defense  Director. . 
Collector-Treasurer 
Corporation  Counsel . . . 


Ord. 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 
and  Ord. 


Statute 
and  Ord. 

Ord. 


Statute 
Ord. 
Statute 
Statute 


Statute 
and  Ord, 

Statute 
and  Ord 

Ord. 


Mayor 


City 
Council 


Mayor 


* 

* 

Annually, 

one 

May  1 

Annually, 

one 

May  1 

* 

* 

* 

* 

t 

t 

Annually, 

one 

May  1 

* 

* 

Quinquen- 

nially 

May  15 

Trien- 

1st  Mon. 

nially 

u 

in  Feb. 

* 

* 

Quadren- 

nially 

May  1 

5  yrs. 
5  yrs. 


t 

5  yrs. 

* 

5  yrs. 

3  yrs. 

t 
* 

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  by  vote  of  electorate,  November  2,  1943. 
t  Determined  by  St.  1953,  c.  491. 


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Officials 


How 
Created 


Appointed  or  Elected 


By  Whom 


When 


Term 


Begins     Length 


Election  Commissioners 
(Four) 


Examiners,    Board    of 
(Three) 


Fire  Commissioner. 


Hospital  Members 
(Nine) 


Housing  Inspection  De- 
partment   


Library  Trustees  (Five) 


Parks  and  Recreation, 
Commissioner  of 


Parks  and  Recreation, 
Associate  Commis- 
sioners of  (Four) 


Penal  Institutions  Com- 
missioner   , 


Personnel,  Supervisor  of 
Police  Commissioner . . . 


Public  Facilities  Com- 
missioners (Three) . . 

Public  Works,  Commis- 
sioner of 


Purchasing  Agent. 


Real  Estate,  Committee 
on  Foreclosed  (Three) 

Real    Property,    Com- 
missioner of 


Real  Property,  Assist- 
ant Commissioner  of. 


Statute 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 


Statute 

Ord. 
Ord. 


Statute 
and  Ord. 


Statute 
and  Ord, 


Ord. 
Ord. 
Statute 

Statute 

Ord. 
Ord. 

Ord. 

Ord. 

Ord. 


Mayor 


Annually, 
one 

Annually, 
one 

Quadren- 
nially 

Annually, 
one 


Annually, 
one 


Annually, 
one 

Quadren- 
nially 


Quinquen- 
nially 


April  1 

May  1 

May  1 

May  1 

* 

May  1 

* 

May  1 

May  1 

t 

May  1 

* 

* 

* 

§ 

* 

* 

4  yrs. 

3  yrs. 

4  yrs. 

3  yrs. 

* 

5  yrs. 

* 

4  yrs. 

4  yrs. 

t 

5  yrs. 


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

t  Position  placed  under  Civil  Service  by  St.  1959,  c.  603. 

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


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How 
Created 

Appointed  or  Elected 

Term 

Officials 

By  Whom 

When 

Begins 

Length 

Real  Property,  Associ- 
ate Commissioners  of 
(Three) 

Ord. 

Statute 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Statute 
and  Ord. 

Mayor 

u 

a 

a 
u 
u 

u 

Annually, 
one 

Triennially, 
one 

See 
footnote 

Annually, 
two 

* 
* 

t 

% 

Annually, 
four 

May  1 

Oct.  1 

See 
footnote 

May  1 

* 

* 

t 

t 

May  1 

3  yrs. 

Retirement          Board 
(Three) 

3  yrs. 

Review,       Board      of 
(Three) 

See 
footnote 

Sinking    Funds    Corn- 
Traffic     and     Parking 

Veterans'  Benefits  and 
Services  Commissioner. 

Veterans'   Graves  and 
Registration,  Super- 
visor of 

3  yrs. 

* 

* 
t 

Weights  and  Measures, 
Sealer  of 

$ 

Zoning  Commission 
(Eleven) 

3  yrs. 

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

t  Position  placed  under  Civil  Service  by  St.  1949,  c.  245. 
j  Position  placed  under  Civil  Service  by  St.  1909,  c.  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. 


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EXECUTIVE    DEPARTMENTS 


The  departments  and  boards  of  the  city  were  reorga- 
nized and  consolidated  by  chapter  8  of  the  Ordinances  of 

1953,  which  took  effect  on  January  1,  1954,  chapter  2 
of  the  Ordinances  of  1954,  which  took  effect  on  May  1, 

1954,  and  chapter  3  of  the  Ordinances  of  1954,  which  took 
effect  on  June  30,  1954. 

For  convenient  reference  the  following  departments 
are  arranged  alphabetically  according  to  the  principal 
word  of  their  title.  The  departments  are  distinguished 
by  titles  in  capital  letters  and  the  boards  and  commis- 
sions are  in  italics. 


ORGANIZATION  OF  BOSTON'S  CITY  GOVERNMENT 


ELECTORATE 


GOVERNOR 


ADMINISTRATIVE 


_L 


BOSTON 
AUTHORITY 


NISTRATIVE 


DEPARTMENTS 


t . 


DEPARTMENTS 


TT 


=   Full  Control 
~   Partial  Control 
=   Board  or  Commit 

attached  for  A  dm 

Purposes. 


_d 


m 


1 


CHART  DESIGNED  AND  LITHOGRAPHED  BY  THE 
CITY  OF   BOSTON     aSSSc    PRINTING   SECTION 


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DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  MAYOR 

Office,  511  City  Hall 

[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,  367,  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.  Ord.  1947,  Chap.  2;  Stat.  1948,  Chap. 
452;  Stat.  1951,  Chap.  376.] 

KEVIN   H.  WHITE,   Mayor 

Barbara  G.  Cameron,  Special  Assistant 
Lawrence  Quealey,  Executive  Assistant 
Frank  Tivnan,  Director  of  Communications 
Claire  Taylor,  Appointment  Secretary 
Margaret  Desmond,  Clerk 
Richard  J.  Sinnott,  Chief  of  Licensing  Division 

THE   CITY   RECORD 

Office,  721  City  Hall 
Joseph  J.  Fahey,  Editor 

ADMINISTRATIVE   SERVICES   DEPARTMENT 

Office,  608  City  Hall 

[Ord.  1953,  Chap.  8,  Sec.  9;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  4;  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  1, 
Sec.  3;  Ord.  1969,  Chap.  4,  Sees.  1  and  2A.] 
Administrative  Services  Board 
Edward  T.  Sullivan,  Director  of  Administrative  Services,  Chairman* 
Richard  E.  Wall,  Deputy  Director  for  Fiscal  Affairs 

,  Supervisor  of  Budgets* 

Duncan  T.  Foley,  Supervisor  of  Personnel^ 

Kevin  P.  Feeley,  Purchasing  Agent* 

John  F.  FitzPatrick,  City  Auditor,  ex  officio 

Edmund  W.  Holmes,  Collector-Treasurer,  ex  officio 

Theodore  V.  Anzalone,  Commissioner  of  Assessing,  ex  officio 

Lawrence  W.  Costello,  Executive  Secretary 

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

f  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. 


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The  Administrative  Services  Department  represents  a  consolidation  of 
the  activities  formerly  conducted  by  the  Budget,  Printing  and  Supply 
Departments,  and  the  acquisition  of  5  new  activities — general  admin- 
istrative; the  repair  and  maintenance  of  office  machines;  surplus  property 
control;  data  processing;  and  the  administration  of  a  life-health  insurance 
program  for  City  and  County  employees. 

The  Department  is  under  the  charge  of  a  board  known  as  the  Admin- 
istrative Services  Board,  consisting  of  the  Director  of  Administrative 
Services  as  chairman,  the  Supervisor  of  Budgets,  the  Supervisor  of  Per- 
sonnel, the  Purchasing  Agent,  the  City  Auditor,  the  Collector-Treasurer, 
and  the  Commissioner  of  Assessing,  ex  officiis.  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  Deputy  Director  of  Administrative  Services  for  Fiscal  Affairs  shall, 
under  the  direction  of  the  Mayor,  and  in  consultation  with  the  Director 
of  Administrative  Services  review  all  aspects  of  the  fiscal  affairs  of  the 
city  and  make  recommendations  for  continual  modernization  and  improve- 
ment in  the  basic  fiscal  policies  and  procedures  of  the  city,  including,  but 
not  limited  to,  the  means  by  which  the  budget  can  be  used  to  effectuate 
policy  decision. 

The  regular  activities  of  the  department,  for  payroll  purposes,  are 
divided  into  six  divisions — administrative,  budget,  data  processing,  per- 
sonnel, printing,  and  purchasing,  the  operations  and  functions  of  all 
divisions  being  under  the  overall  supervision  of  the  Director. 

The  Administrative  Division  which  handles  all  types  of  administrative 
matters  concerning  City  and  County  operations,  is  under  the  supervision 
of  the  Executive  Secretary  to  the  Board. 

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  compensation  plans  established  for  City  and 
County  employees.  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  Office  of  Labor  Relations  was  established  in  1971  as  a  new  unit 
within  the  Personnel  Division.  The  office  represents  the  Mayor  in  col- 
lective bargaining  and  is  responsible  for  the  administration  of  collective 
bargaining  agreements  and  all  other  labor  relations  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 


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required  approvals,  sell  or  otherwise  dispose  of  the  same.     He  is  also 
responsible  for  the  operations  of  the  Office  Machine  Repair  Unit. 

The  department  also  contains  a  board  of  five  commissioners  known  as 
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 

[Stat.  1898,  Chap.  410;  Rev.  Ord.  1898,  Chap.  4;  C.  C,  Title  IV.,  Chap.  11; 

Spec.  Stat.  1919,  Chap.  87;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  4,  Sec.  8.] 

OFFICIALS 

Nelson  W.  Aldrich,  Chairman 
,  Secretary 

COMMISSIONERS  * 

William  B.  Osgood,  nominated  by  the  Trustee  of  the  Public  Library  of 
the  City  of  Boston.    Term  expiring  May  1,  1970. 

Margaret  Fitzhugh  Browne,  nominated  by  the  Copley  Society  of  Bos- 
ton.   Term  expiring  May  1,  1972. 

Stephen  D.  Paine,  nominated  by  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts.    Term  ex- 
piring May  1,  1973. 

Nelson  W.  Aldrich,  nominated  by  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology.   Term  expiring  May  1,  1974. 

Marvin  Goody,  nominated  by  the  Boston  Society  of  Architects.    Term 
expiring  May  1,  1970. 

David  McKibbin,  Clerk,  10 J  Beacon  street,  Boston 

The  Ait  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  Massachu- 
setts 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  without 
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 
contracts  or  orders  for  the  execution  of  any  painting,  monument,  statue, 
bust,  bas-relief,  or  other  sculpture  for  the  City  shall  be  made  by  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. 

*  The  Commissioners  serve  without  compensation. 


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Public  Safety  Commission 

Office,  608  City  Hall 

[Stat.  1959,  Chap.  203;  Stat.  1961,  Chap.  194;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  4, 

Sec.  9.] 

Edward  T.   Sullivan,   Director  of  Administrative  Services,   ex   officio, 

Chairman 
James  V.  Sacchetti,  M.D.,  Commissioner  of  Health  and  Hospitals 
Walter  J.  Cameron,  Director  of  Civil  Defense,  ex  officio 
Richard  R.  Thuma,  Jr.,  Building  Commissioner,  ex  officio 
James  H.  Kelly,  Fire  Commissioner,  ex  officio 
Joseph  F.  Casazza,  Public  Works  Commissioner,  ex  officio 
William  T.  Noonan,  Traffic  and  Parking  Commissioner,  ex  officio 
William  J.  Leary,  Superintendent  of  Schools,  ex  officio 
Robert  J.  di  Grazia,  Police  Commissioner,  ex  officio 

Joseph  C  Kelly,  General  Manager,  Massachusetts  Bay  Transportation 

Authority,  ex  officio 
Lawrence  W.  Costello,  Executive  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;  Acts  1963,  Chap.  160.] 


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BOARD 

Theodore  V.  Anzalone,  Commissioner  of  Assessing* 
John  F.  Morley,  Associate  Commissioner  of  Assessing* 
Jack  Kardon,  Associate  Commissioner  of  Assessing* 

board  op  review 
Bernard  Shadrawy,  ex  officio,  Chairman 
Helen  M.  Sullivan,  ex  officio  § 
John  J.  Sullivan, 
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 
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  appointments 
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 

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

**  See  Acts  of  1963,  Chapter  160. 

§  Such  person  in  the  service  of  the  statistical  research  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.  (See  Ord.  1961, 
Chap.  1,  Sect.  4.) 


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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  of 
assessing,  the  powers  and  duties  conferred  or  imposed  upon  him  by  or 
under  this  section  shall  be  exercised  and  performed  by  the  other  associate 
commissioner  of  assessing. 

The  Board  of  Beview,  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 
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. 

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  excises,  and  in  the  case  of  an  application 
for  the  abatement  of  a  poll  tax,  the  associate  commissioner  of  assessing 
for  poll  taxes. 


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AUDITING  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  M4  City  Hall 

[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.  1934,  Chap.  5;  Ord.  1949, 
Chap.  9.] 

John  F.  FitzPatrick,  City  Auditor 

The  office  of  Auditor  was  established  by  ordinance  on  August  2,  1824. 
Under  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  published 
by  finance  committees  from  1811  to  1824,  inclusive.  Since  June  1,  1867, 
the  Auditor  has  published  monthly  exhibits  of  all  City,  School,  and 
County  expenditures. 

The  City  Auditor  is  also  Auditor  of  the  County  of  Suffolk,  Secretary  of 
the  Roard  of  Commissioners  of  Sinking  Funds,  a  member  of  the  Roard  of 
Trustees  of  the  George  Robert  White  Fund,  a  member  of  the  Roston 
Retirement  Roard  and  a  member  of  the  Administrative  Services  Roard. 
(Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chaps.  3,  6.) 

BUILDING  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  807  City  Hall 

[Stat.  1945,  Ch.  626;  Ord.  1945,  Ch.  6;  Rev.  Ord.  1947,  Ch.  41;  Ord.  1949, 
Ch.  8;  Ord.  1950,  Ch.  6;  Stat.  1952,  Ch.  212;  Ord.  1953,  Ch.  7;  Ord. 
1954,  Ch.  7;  Stat.  1955,  Ch.  4;  Ord.  1955,  Ch.  1,  Ch.  2;  Ord.  1957, 
Ch.  11;  Stat.  1958,  Ch.  234;  Stat.  1959,  Ch.  227;  Ord.  1962,  Ch.  10; 
Ord.  1963,  Ch.  6,  Ch.  8;  Ord.  1964,  Ch.  6;  Ord.  1965,  Ch.  7;  Ord.  1967, 
Ch.  10.] 

Richard  R.  Thuma,  Jr.,  Building  Commissioner.  Term  expiring 
May  15,  1971. 

Leo  F.  Martin,  Deputy  Building  Commissioner 

Richard  L.  Granara,  Jr.,  Assistant  Commissioner,  Administration 

James  T.  Reid,  Assistant  Commissioner,  Inspections 

Nicholas  D.  Corsano,  Supervisor  of  Construction  and  Safety  Inspections 

John  L.  O'Leary,  Supervisor  of  Mechanical  Inspections 

Alec  F.  Ronda,  Supervisor  of  Electrical  Inspections 


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The  duty  of  the  Building  Commissioner,  under  the  provisions  of  Chap- 
ter 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  rail- 
way purposes,  voting  booths,  tanks  of  certain  specified  capacities,  tunnels 
constructed  and  maintained  by  the  public  authority,  tents  covering  an 
area  of  less  than  one  hundred  square  feet,  fences  less  than  six  feet  in 
height,  signs  or  billboards  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,  en- 
large, alter,  substantially  repair,  move,  demolish  or  change  the  occupancy 
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 
dynamos. 

Pursuant  to  Chapter  665,  Acts  of  1956,  a  new  zoning  code  has  been  pre- 
pared and  approved  and  became  effective  Dec.  31,  1964.  Many  important 
revisions  of  previous  regulations  are  made  in  the  new  code,  but  it  con- 
tinues, in  effect,  under  new  use  districts  and  administrative  regulations, 
the  general  purposes  of  the  superseded  zoning  act.  With  minor  excep- 
tions, no  building  shall  be  erected  or  altered,  nor  shall  any  building  or 
premises  be  used,  for  any  purpose  other  than  the  use  permitted  in  the 
district  in  which  such  building  or  premises  is  located. 

In  addition,  Chapter  143  of  the  General  Laws,  insofar  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  —  restau- 
rants, taverns,  dance  halls,  meeting  halls  and  all  places  of  similar  occu- 
pancy in  which  fifty  or  more  persons  may  be  accommodated.  Lodging 
houses  and  apartment  houses  in  which  there  are  eight  or  more  rooms 
above  the  second  floor,  or  in  which  ten  or  more  persons  are  accommo- 
dated above  the  second  floor  come  also  within  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 
All  such  buildings  must  be  certified  by  the  Building  Commissioner  as  to 
compliance  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,  and  the  Committee  on  Licenses  were  placed  in  the  Building 
Department  and  the  Board  of  Zoning  Adjustment  and  the  Zoning  Com- 


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mission  were  placed  in  the  said  Department  by  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  Com- 
missioner, 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. 

Licenses  for  gas  fitters  are  now  issued  by  the  Gas  Regulatory  Board 
(Ch.  623,  Acts  1962). 

Ch.  254,  Acts  1965,  became  effective  May  5,  1965.  Under  its  provisions 
the  Electrical  Code  of  the  City  of  Boston  was  repealed  and  the  Massachu- 
setts Electrical  Code  (G.  L.,  Ch.  143,  S.  3L)  was  substituted  therefor. 

Board  of  Appeal 
Office,  803  City  Hall 
(Building  Code:   Statute  1938,  Chapter  479,  Section  117,  as  amended, 
and  the  Boston  Zoning  Code:  Statute  1956,  Chapter  665,  Section  8,  as 
amended.) 

OFFICIALS 

John  W.  Priestley,  Jr.,  Chairman 
Charles  F.  Spillane,  Secretary 
Anne  Hagerty,  Executive  Secretary 

THE  board 


Members 


Nominated  by 


Term  ending 


John  W.  Priestley,  Jr . 
Charles  F.  Spillane. . . 
George  W.  Judkins .  . 

Alfred  Gross 


Frank  R.  McDonough 


Boston  Society  of  Architects 

Boston  Society  of  Civil  Engineers 

Building  and  Construction  Trades  Council  of 
the  Metropolitan  District 

Greater  Boston  Real  Estate  Board ] 

,  Massachusetts    Association    of    Real    Estate 
[     Boards 

Master  Builders  Association 

Building  Trades  Employers'  Association 

Associated    General    Contractors    of    Massa- 
chusetts, Inc 

Mayor's  selection 


May  1, 1973 

May  1, 1974 
May  1, 1970 

May  1, 1976 
May  1, 1972 


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The  Board  consists  of  five  members  appointed  by  the  Mayor  in  the  fol- 
lowing manner:  One  member  from  two  candidates,  one  to  be  nominated 
by  the  Greater  Boston  Real  Estate  Board  and  one  by  the  Massachusetts 
Association  of  Real  Estate  Boards;  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,  one  by  the  Building 
Trades  Employers'  Association,  and  one  by  the  Associated  General  Con- 
tractors of  Massachusetts,  Inc.;  one  member  from  two  candidates  nomi- 
nated by  the  Building  and  Construction  Trades  Council  of  the  Metro- 
politan District;  and  one  member  selected  by  the  Mayor.  The  term  of 
office  is  five  years.  Each  member  is  paid  $35  per  diem  for  actual  service, 
but  not  more  than  $4,200  in  any  one  year  for  the  aggregate  services  ren- 
dered 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  may  appeal  therefrom 
within  90  days,  and  any  applicant  whose  application  has  been  refused  in  re 
Zoning  Code  may  appeal  therefrom  within  45  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. 


Board  of  Examiners 

Office,  804  City  Hall 
[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 

John  Guarino,  Chairman 

Edwina  S.  Carty,  Executive  Secretary 


THE   BOARD 

Michael  P.  Veneto  Term  expiring  May  1,  1970 

Thomas  M.  Simmons  Term  expiring  May  1,  1971 

John  Guarino  Term  expiring  May  1,  1972 

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  qualifications  of 


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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  serv- 
ice by  said  members  is  established  at  twenty-five  dollars  a  day,  the  yearly 
salary  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  hundred  dollars. 

(£7)  Builder's  or  Mechanic's  License.  The  fee  for  a  license  granted  by 
the  board  of  examiners  under  section  120  of  the  Boston  Building  Code  and 
classified  by  said  board  under  paragraph  (c)  of  said  section  as  an  ABC 
license  shall  be  $25.00;  provided,  that  the  fee  for  a  renewal  of  such  a  license 
shall  be,  if  paid  on  or  before,  or  within  thirty  days  after,  the  expiry  date  of 
the  license  renewed,  $10.00,  otherwise,  $15.00.  The  fee  for  any  other 
license  granted  by  the  board  of  examiners  under  said  section  120  shall  be 
$15.00;  provided,  that  the  fee  for  a  renewal  of  such  a  license  for  which  the 
fee  is  paid  on  or  before,  or  within  thirty  days  after,  the  expiry  date  of  the 
license  renewed  shall  be  $10.00. 


Committee  on  Licenses 
Office,  807  City  Hall 
[Ord.  1954,  Chap.  2,  §  25;  Stat.  1959,  Chap.  203,  §  2;  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  9, 
§11.] 

COMMITTEE 

Richakd  R.  Thtjma,  Jr.,  Building  Commissioner,  ex  officio 
William  T.  Noonan,  Traffic  and  Parking  Commissioner,  ex  officio 
James  H.  Kelly,  Fire  Commissioner,  ex  officio 
Edward  J.  Whelan,  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  1918,  as  amended,  by 
Chapter  488  of  the  Acts  of  1924,  as  amended,  and  by  Chapter  349  of  the 
Acts  of  1953,  as  amended. 


Beacon  Hill  Architectural  Commission 

Office,  807  City  Hall 

[Stat.  1955,  Chap.  616;  Stat.  1958,  Chaps.  314,  315;  Stat.  1963,  Chap.  622 ;. 

Stat.  1965,  Chap.  429.] 

OFFICIALS 

John  W.  Priestley,  Jr.,  Chairman 
Carmen  DiStefano,  Vice  Chairman 
,  Secretary 


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THE   COMMISSION 


Members 

Nominated  by 

Term  ending 

Jesse  R.  Fillman 

Beacon  Hill  Civic  Association,  Inc 

May  1, 1976 

Greater  Boston  Real  Estate  Board 

May  1, 1972 

John  P.  Bennett 

James  D.  McNeely.  .  . 

May  1, 1973 

Society  for  the  Preservation  of  New  England 

May  1, 1974 

Joseph  L.  Eldredge .  .  . 

May  1, 1970 

Alternate  Members* 

Nominated  by 

Term  ending 

George  M.  Notter,  Jr. . 
Harriet  Ropes  Cabot. . 

May  1, 1973 

Society  for  the  Preservation  of  New  England 

May  1, 1974 

Benjamin  A.  Cook. . .  . 

Alex  Mclntyre 

Frederic  W.  Lord 

May  1, 1970 

Beacon  Hill  Civic  Association,  Inc 

May  1, 1976 

Greater  Boston  Beal  Estate  Board 

May  1, 1972 

*Alternate  members  as  provided  in  Chap.  429,  Acts  of  1965. 


The  Beacon  Hill  Architectural  Commission  was  formed  for  the  purpose 
of  promoting  the  "educational,  cultural,  economic  and  general  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  architecture 
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 


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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. 

Under  Stat.  1963,  Chap.  622,  the  Historic  Beacon  Hill  District  as  defined 
in  the  two  previous  paragraphs  was  further  enlarged  and  extended  in  area 
as  follows: 

Section  IB.  The  Historic  Beacon  Hill  District,  created  by  section  one 
and  enlarged  and  extended  by  section  one  A,  is  hereby  further  enlarged 
and  extended  to  include  an  area  contiguous  thereto  bounded  as  follows: 
— southerly  by  Myrtle  street,  including,  however,  the  estates  numbered 
twenty-six  to  eighty-eight,  inclusive,  and  ninety-eight  to  one  hundred 
and  thirty-six,  inclusive,  on  Myrtle  street;  westerly  by  Myrtle  street; 
southerly  by  Bevere  street;  westerly  by  the  alley  located  to  the  rear  of 
the  estates  numbered  one  hundred  and  thirty  to  one  hundred  and  forty 
Charles  street;  northerly  by  the  northerly  boundary  line  of  the  estate 
numbered  one  hundred  and  forty  Charles  street,  and  by  said  boundary 
line  extended  diagonally  in  an  easterly  direction  across  Charles  street 
to  Putnam  avenue;  northerly  by  Putnam  avenue;  westerly  by  West 
Cedar  street;  northerly  by  Phillips  street;  easterly  by  the  rear  property 
lines  of  the  estates  numbered  seventy-nine  to  sixty-one  West  Cedar  street; 
northerly  and  westerly  by  the  northerly  property  lines  of  the  estates 
located  at  the  northerly  ends  of  Bellingham  place,  Sentry  Hill  place  and 
Goodwin  place,  and  the  northerly  sideline  of  the  estate  numbered  thirty- 
seven  Grove  street,  easterly  by  Grove  street;  northerly  by  Bevere  street; 
easterly  by  Irving  street;  but  including  the  estates  located  on  Bollins 
place. 

Section  1C.  The  Historic  Beacon  Hill  District,  created  by  section  one 
and  enlarged  and  extended  by  sections  one  A  and  one  B,  is  hereby  further 
enlarged  and  extended  to  include  an  area  contiguous  thereto  bounded  as 
follows: — northerly  by  a  line  parallel  to  and  forty  feet  distant  southerly 
from  the  southerly  sideline  of  Cambridge  street;  easterly  by  Bowdoin 
street;  southerly  by  Derne  and  Myrtle  streets;  westerly  by  Irving  street; 
generally  southerly  by  the  northerly,  easterly  and  westerly  boundaries  of 
the  area  defined  in  section  one  B;  southerly  by  Bevere  street;  westerly  and 
northerly  by  Embankment  road;  and  northerly  by  Charles  street  circle; 
and  including  the  estates  located  at  131  and  141  Cambridge  street  and 
2-16  Lynde  street. 

Nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  apply  to  the  construction,  repair, 
alteration,  demolition  or  reconstruction  of  any  building  by  Suffolk  Uni- 
versity on  Hancock,  Derne  or  Temple  streets. 

Section  7A.  Signs — No  permit  to  erect  a  sign,  marquee,  awning  or 
other  exterior  architectural  feature  protruding  from  any  structure  in  the 
Historic  Beacon  Hill  District  shall  be  issued  by  the  public  improvement 
commission  of  the  city  of  Boston,  or  by  any  other  agency  now  or  hereafter 
authorized  to  issue  such  permits,  unless  the  application  for  such  permit 
shall  be  accompanied  by  a  certificate  of  appropriateness  issued  under 
section  seven. 

It  is  the  function  of  the  Commission  to  regulate  and  control  all  con- 
struction, reconstruction  and  alteration  to  buildings  and  structures  within 


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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  commissioner  from  two  candidates,  and  one  alternate  from  two  other 
candidates,  nominated  by  the  Beacon  Hill  Civic  Association,  Inc.,  one 
commissioner  from  two  candidates,  and  one  alternate  from  two  other 
candidates,  nominated  by  the  Greater  Boston  Beal  Estate  Board,  one 
commissioner  from  two  candidates,  and  one  alternate  from  two  other 
candidates,  nominated  by  The  Boston  Society  of  Architects,  one  com- 
missioner from  two  candidates,  and  one  alternate  from  two  other  candi- 
dates, nominated  by  the  Society  for  the  Preservation  of  New  England 
Antiquities,  and  one  commissioner,  and  one  alternate,  selected  at  large  by 
the  mayor.  As  the  term  of  any  commissioner  expires,  his  successor  shall  be 
appointed  in  like  manner  as  such  commissioner  for  a  term  of  five  years. 
Any  vacancy  in  the  office  of  a  commissioner  shall  be  filled  in  like  manner 
for  the  unexpired  term.  As  the  term  of  any  alternate  expires,  his  successor 
shall  be  appointed  in  like  manner  as  such  alternate.  Any  vacancy  in 
the  office  of  an  alternate  shall  be  filled  in  like  manner.  Every  person 
appointed  an  alternate  shall  be  so  appointed  that  his  term  will  expire  at 
the  same  time  as  the  term  of  the  incumbent  commissioner  appointed  in 
the  same  manner  as  such  alternate.  Every  commissioner  and  every 
alternate  shall  continue  in  office  after  the  expiration  of  his  term  until  his 
successor  is  duly  appointed  and  qualified.  Any  commissioner  or  alternate 
may  be  removed  by  the  mayor  as  provided  in  section  fourteen  of  chapter 
four  hundred  and  eighty-six  of  the  acts  of  nineteen  hundred  and  nine. 
Whenever  there  is  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of  a  commissioner,  or  whenever 
a  commissioner  is  absent  or  unable  for  any  cause  to  perform  his  duties, 
the  alternate  appointed  in  the  same  manner  as  such  commissioner  shall 
exercise  the  powers  and  perform  the  duties  of  such  commissioner;  but  an 
alternate  shall  not  otherwise  be  deemed  to  be,  or  act  as,  a  member  of  the 
board. 

[The  above  paragraph  was  inserted  by  Section  1  of  Chapter  429  of  the 
Acts  of  1965,  approved  May  5,  1965,  effective  June  4,  1965.] 


Zoning  Commission 

Section  913  City  Hall,  Boston 

(Stat.  1956,  Chap.  665;  Stat.  1957,  Chap.  408;  Stat.  1958,  Chap.  77; 
Stat.  I960,  Chap.  652;  Bev.  Ords.  1961,  Chap.  9,  §  10;  Stat.  1964, 
Chap.  244;  Stat.  1966,  Chap.  193.] 

Boston  Zoning  Code,  Adopted  March  29,  1963;  Filed  with  Clerk  of  Senate 
April  1,  1963;  Effective  December  31,  1964 


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OFFICIALS 


Richard  B.  Fowler,  Chairman 
Alfred  Gross,  Vice-Chairman 
Elizabeth  Siemiatkaska,  Secretary 
Mace  Wenniger,  Advisor 


Members 


Eric  Powell 

Michael  Flaherty 
Thomas  J.  Mclntyre. 

John  N.  Philips 

Alfred  Gross 

Richard  B.  Fowler.  .  . 
Theodore  W.  Paul .  .  . 
Vincent  DiNunno. . . . 
Richard  F.  Battles.  .  . 
Louis  P.  Leonard 
Stanley  Underhill. .  .  . 


Nominated  by 


Term  ending 


Greater  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce 

Mayor's  Selection 

Greater  Boston  Massachusetts  Labor  Council. 

Associated  Industries 

Massachusetts  Builders  Association  of  Boston. 

Greater  Boston  Real  Estate  Board 

Massachusetts  Motor  Truck  Association,  Inc. . 

Mayor's  Selection 

Boston  Society  of  Civil  Engineers 

Mayor's  Selection 

Boston  Society  of  Landscape  Architects 


May  1, 1972 
May  1, 1973 
May  1, 1970 
May  1, 1970 
May  1, 1971 
May  1, 1970 
May  1, 1971 
May  1, 1971 
May  1, 1972 
May  1, 1971 
May  1, 1972 


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  office  is  for  three 
years  and  the  commissioners  serve  without  compensation. 

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. 


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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  veto  of  the  mayor. 

CITY   CLERK  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  601  City  Hall 

[Stal.  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.] 

Joseph  M.  Dunlea,  City  Clerk 

Frederic  J.  O'Donnell,  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  financing  statements,  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. 

Registry  Division 
Room  213,  City  Hall 

[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;  Stat.  1965,  Chap.  656.] 

William  J.  Kane,  City  Registrar 
Helen  Bowen,  First  Assistant  City  Registrar 
Alice  Cunniff,  Assistant  City  Registrar 
William  McOsker,  Assistant  City  Registrar 


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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  outside  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  abolished,  and  the  duties  of  the  Record  Commissioners,  including 
the  publication  of  documents  relating  to  the  early  history  of  Boston,  were 
transferred  to  the  City  Registrar. 

CIVIL  DEFENSE  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  115  Southampton  Street 
[Stat.  1950,  Chap.  639;  Ord.  1950,  Chap.  8;  Stat.  1952,  Chap.  269;  Stat. 
1953,  Chap.  491.] 

Walter  J.  Cameron,  Director.* 

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

Section  1.  Department  of  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 

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


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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  of 
Riots  and  Other  Violence  Therein.  The  police  department  is  hereby 
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,  241  City  Hall 

[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 

Joseph  D.  Murphy,  Chairman 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase,  Secretary 


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COMMISSIONERS 

Joseph  W.  Fitzgerald  Term  ending  April  1,  1971 

Joseph  D.  Murphy  Term  ending  April  1,  1974 

Perlie  Dyar  Chase  Term  ending  April  1,  1973 

John  A.  Walsh,  Jr.  Term  ending  April  1,  1972 

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  252. 

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  who  is  not  disabled,  shall,  for  the  purpose  of  settling  such  disagree- 
ment, 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.] 

James  H.  Kelly,  Fire  Commissioner.  Term  ending  May  1,  1974. 

William  D.  Slattery,  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Department 

George  H.  Paul,  Chief  of  Department 

Joseph  L.  Dolan,  Deputy  Fire  Chief,  Fire  Marshal 


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John  J.  Sullivan,  Deputy  Fire  Chief  in  Charge  of  Training 

John  J.  Breen,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

Joseph  M.  Clasby,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

James  M.  Finn,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

Francis  X.  Finnegan,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

Robert  J.  Hamilton,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

John  C.  Kilroy,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

Leslie  W.  Magoon,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

John  J.  McCarthy,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

John  J.  O'Mara,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

Leo  D.  Stapleton,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

George  Thompson,  Deputy  Fire  Chief 

John  M.  Murphy,  Superintendent,  Fire  Alarm  Division 

Walter  J.  Kearney,  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,  13  Deputy 
Chiefs,  60  District  Chiefs,  3  Chaplains,  1  Superintendent  of  Fire  Alarm,  1 
Superintendent  of  Maintenance,  1  Medical  Examiner,  1  Engineer  of  Motor 
Vehicles,  86  Captains,  272  Lieutenants,  1,582  Engineers,  Apparatus  Oper- 
ators, Masters,  Aides,  Fire  Fighters,  34  Clerks,  29  Fire  Alarm  Operators, 
and  116  Mechanics,  Painters,  Linemen,  Repairers,  Electricians,  Workmen, 
and  other  employees. 

There  are  43  fire  stations,  a  fire  alarm  branch  with  72  employees,  oper- 
ating 2,360  signal  boxes.   Annual  reports  have  been  published  since  1838. 

Weekly  salaries  of  deputy  chiefs,  $366.06;  district  chiefs,  $318.31;  fire 
captains,  $276.79;  fire  lieutenants,  $240.79;  fire  fighters,  $159.62-$198.10. 

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. 

DEPARTMENT   OF   HEALTH  AND   HOSPITALS 

Main  Office,  818  Harrison  Avenue,  Boston,  Massachusetts  02118 

BOARD 

David  S.  Nelson,  President  Term  ending  May  1,  1972 

Mary  W.  Fidler,  Secretary  Term  ending  May  1,  1972 

Doris  A.    Graham  Term  ending  May  1,  1973 

George  Munoz  Term  ending  May  1,  1971 

Michael  J.  McCusker  Term  ending  May  1,  1974 


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Reginald  Eaves  Term  ending  May  1,  1972 

Herbert  P.  Gleason  Term  ending  May  1,  1973 

Leon  S.  White  Term  ending  May  1,  1974 

Ruth  M.  Batson  Term  ending  May  1,  1970 

COMMISSIONER 

Leon  S.  White  February  19,  1974 

EXECUTIVE  DIRECTOR 
Francis  E.  Guiney 

DEPUTY  COMMISSIONERS 

Jonathan  E.  Fine,  M.D.,  Community  Health  Services 
Lawrence  J.  Kirsch,  Administrative  Services 
Howard  J.  Buckley,  Hospital  and  Health  Facilities 
Wallace  H.  Kountze,  Personnel 

A  Board  of  Health  was  first  established  in  1799  under  a  special  statute 
of  February  13,  1799.  It  was  abolished  by  the  first  City  Charter  and 
from  1822  to  1872  its  functions  were  exercised  through  the  City  Council. 

A  Board  of  Health  was  re-established  by  an  ordinance  of  December  2, 
1872.    It  published  annual  reports  beginning  with  1873. 

By  Chap.  1,  Ord.  1914,  2d  Series,  the  board  was  replaced  by  a  Health 
Commissioner.  Chap.  1,  Ord.  1915,  provided  that  the  quarantine  service 
should  pass  from  the  control  of  the  Health  Department  when  certain 
property  was  leased  to  the  United  States,  in  effect  June  1,  1915. 

Ord.  1927,  Chap.  1  abolished  the  Boston  Sanatorium  Department  and 
placed  the  Tuberculosis  Sanatorium  at  Mattapan  under  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  Boston  City  Hospital  Trustees  and  transferred  all  other  powers  and 
duties  as  well  as  the  Out-Patient  Department  to  the  Health  Commissioner. 

The  Boston  City  Hospital  was  opened  on  June  1,  1864. 

The  Relief  Stations  were  closed  to  patients  on  March  15,  1938,  but  on 
October  15,  1945  the  East  Boston  Relief  Station  was  opened  on  a  24-hour 
basis. 

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

By  Ord.  1954  the  Institutions  Department  was  abolished;  and  the 
powers  and  duties  and  appropriations  of  said  department  in  relation  to  the 
commitment  of  the  insane  to  Long  Island  and  the  institution  thereon 
were  transferred  to  the  Hospital  Department. 

Chapter  656  of  the  Acts  of  1955,  accepted  January  6,  1966,  created 
the  Department  of  Health  and  Hospitals  —  merging  the  former  Health 
Department  and  former  Hospital  Department.  The  Board  of  Health  and 
Hospitals  by  this  same  statute  was  incorporated  as  the  Trustees  of  Health 
and  Hospitals  of  the  City  of  Boston  and  authorized  to  hold  real  and  personal 
estate  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  $10,000,000. 


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LAW  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  615  City  Hall 

[Ord.  1904,  Chap.  23;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  17.1 

Herbert  P.  Gleason,  Corporation  Counsel 
John  A.  Fiske,  First  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Lawrence  J.  Ball,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Stephen  F.  Clifford,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Joseph  F.  Dalton,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Suzanne  DelVecchio,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
David  H.  Drohan,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Sheldon  Drucker,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Max  Feld,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Edith  W.  Fine,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
William  J.  Foley,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Michael  C.  Gilman,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Mack  K.  Greenberg,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
J.  Edward  Keefe,  Jr.,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Peter  L.  Koff,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
John  M.  Lynch,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Thomas  H.  Martin,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
William  McDermott,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Thomas  F.  McKenna,  Jr.,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Peter  Milano,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Kevin  F.  Moloney,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Paul  J.  Moriarty,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Onorato  R.  Orlandi,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Darrell  L.  Outlaw,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Gerard  A.  Powers,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Norman  C.  Ross,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
James  F.  Ryan,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
John  J.  Ryan,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Ashelen  P.  Senopoulos,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
John  J.  Slater,  Jr.,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
William  P.  Slattery,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Samuel  Spencer,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Theodore  R.  Stanley,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Daniel  J.  Sullivan,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Paul  R.  Tierney,  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Earl  Franklin,  Workmen's  Compensation  Agent 

The  office  of  Attorney  and  Solicitor  was  established  in  1827,  which  was 
superseded  by  the  office  of  City  Solicitor  in  1866.  A  further  office  of 
Corporation  Counsel  was  created  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,  thirty-five 
assistant  corporation  counsel,  a  workmen's  compensation  agent,  and  forty- 
five  other  employees,  including  the  staff  of  the  Administrative,  Counselling 
and  Miscellaneous  Litigation,  General  Trial,  Collection  and  Workmen's 
Compensation  Divisions  of  the  Law  Department. 


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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  munici- 
pal departments,  performs  the  legal  work  incidental  to  tax  title  fore- 
closures, prepares  and  approves  all  municipal  contracts  and  bonds,  fur- 
nishes legal  opinions  to  the  Mayor  and  the  City  Council  and  to  the  various 
department  heads  and  city  officials,  including  the  School  Committee,  on 
matters  relating  to  the  discharge  of  their  official  duties,  prepares  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  state  and  federal  boards,  commissions  and  administrative 
agencies. 

LIBRARY  DEPARTMENT 

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.] 

OFFICIALS 

Sidney  R.  Rabb,  President 
Edward  G.  Murray,  Vice-President 
Philip  J.  McNiff,  Director,  and  Librarian 

TRUSTEES* 

Edward  G.  Murray  Term  ending  May  1,  1972 

Erwin  D.  Canham  Term  ending  May  1,  1973 

Sidney  R.  Rabb  Term  ending  May  1,  1974 

Augustin  H.  Parker,  Jr.  Term  ending  May  1,  1970 

Patricia  Hagan  White  Term  ending  May  1,  1976 

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  library  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  was  first  opened  on  March  11,  1895. 
An  Addition  to  the  Central  Library  Building  will  be  opened  in  the  fall 
of  1972. 

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  con- 
tinued without  interruption. 

*  The  Trustees  serve  without  compensation. 


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THE   LIBRARY   SYSTEM 

The  library  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,  three 
Bookmobiles,  and  Hospital  Library  Service  at  Boston  City  Hospital. 
The  component  parts  of  the  library  system  are  the  following : 

General  Administrative  Offices 

General  Library  Services 

Research  Library  Services 

Resources  and  Processing  Services 

Business  Operations 

GENERAL  ADMINISTRATIVE   OFFICES 

The  general  administration  of  the  library  system  as  a  whole  is  centered 
in  the  Director's  Office.  There  is  also  supervised  from  the  Director's 
Office  the  work  of  the  Personnel  Office,  the  Information  and  Publication 
Office,  the  general  publishing  activities  of  the  Library,  and  the  work  of 
the  development  of  the  collections. 

GENERAL   LIBRARY   SERVICES 

A  great  part  of  the  circulation  of  books  to  borrowers  is  centered  in 
twenty-six  Branch  Libraries,  a  Multilingual  Library,  three  Bookmobiles, 
and  Hospital  Library  Service  at  Boston  City  Hospital.  These  form  part  of 
the  unit  which  is  designated  as  General  Library  Services.  In  addition,  there 
are  three  public  service  areas  located  in  the  Central  Library  Building: 
Audio-Visual,  the  General  Library  (Adults'  Section,  Young  Adults'  Section, 
and  Children's  Section),  and  Central  Charging  Records. 

Work  with  Adults,  Work  with  Young  Adults,  and  Work  with  Children 
are  in  direct  relationship  with  the  work  of  the  Branch  Libraries  and  the 
Bookmobiles,  which  are  distributed  throughout  the  city  as  follows : 
City  Proper: 
Bookmobiles,  380  Bunker  Hill  Street,  Charlestown 
Hospital  Library  Service,  Boston  City  Hospital 
Kirstein  Business  Branch,  20  City  Hall  Avenue 
Multilingual  Library,  498  Tremont  Street 
North  End,  25  Parmenter  Street 
South  End,  685  Tremont  Street 
West  End,  151  Cambridge  Street 
Brighton: 

Allston,  161  Harvard  Avenue 
Brighton,  40  Academy  Hill  Road 
Faneuil,  419  Faneuil  Street 
Charlestown: 

Charlestown,  179  Main  Street 

Dorchester: 

Adams  Street,  690  Adams  Street 

Codman  Square,  6  Norfolk  Street 

Fields  Corner,  1520  Dorchester  Avenue 

Lower  Mills,  1110  Washington  Street,  corner  of  Richmond  Street 

Mattapan,  10  Hazleton  Street 

Uphams  Corner,  500  Columbia  Road,  corner  of  Bird  Street 


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East  Boston 

East  Boston,  276  Meridian  Street 
Orient  Heights,  18  Barnes  Avenue 

Hyde  Park 

Hyde  Park,  35  Harvard  Avenue,  corner  of  Winthrop  Street 

Jamaica  Plain 

Connolly,  433  Centre  Street 

Jamaica  Plain,  12  Sedgwick  Street,  corner  of  South  Street 

Roxbtjry 

Egleston  Scjuare,  2044  Columbus  Avenue 

Grove  Hall,  5  Crawford  Street 

Mount  Pleasant,  12  Vine  Street,  corner  of  Dudley  Street 

Parker  Hill,  1497  Tremont  Street 

South  Boston 

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

West  Roxbtjry 

Roslindale,  4238  Washington  Street 
West  Roxbury,  1961  Centre  Street 

RESEARCH   LIBRARY   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  Research  Library  Services.  The  public  service  areas 
are: 

Humanities 

Literature  and  Languages 

Religion,  Philosophy,  and  Psychology 

Social  Sciences 
Economics 
Education 
History 

Maps  and  Geography 
Kirstein  Business  Branch 

Science 
Technology 
Patents 

Government  Documents 

Periodicals  and  Newspapers 

Music 

Fine  Arts 

Prints 

Rare  Books  and  Manuscripts 


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RESOURCES   AND   PROCESSING   SERVICES 

This  division  is  responsible  for  the  acquisition  and  processing  of  all 
library  materials  and  for  their  integration  into  the  collections  of  the 
Library.     The  division  is  made  up  of  two  units: 

Processing 

Resources  and  Acquisitions 


BUSINESS   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  Business  Operations.  The  units  constituting  the 
division  are: 

Accounting 
Binding 
Buildings 
Duplicating 


SPECIAL  ACTIVITIES 

Exhibits  in  the  Main  Lobby,  the  Treasury  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,  General  Library,  and  in  many 
Branch  Libraries  by  trained  storytellers  is  a  part  of  the  Library's  program 
of  work  with  children. 

Four  publications  are  distributed  free  throughout  the  system:  Books 
Current,  Spotlight  on  New  Books  for  Young  Adults,  and  Books  on  Parade, 
each  issued  four  times  a  year,  and  B.P.L.  News,  issued  ten  times  a  year. 


STATISTICAL   DATA 

City  appropriation  for  support  of  the  Library,  1971       .  .       $6,312,447 

For  purchase  of  books  and  library  materials,  1971 .        .  .  $761,545 

Books  lent  to  borrowers,  1971 .         2,499,584 

Employees,  January  1,  1972 : 

Full-time 577 

Part-time  in  terms  of  full-time  equivalents      ...  77 

Number  of  volumes,  January  1,  1972        .        .        .        .  .         3,092,424 

Trust  funds,  approximate  value,  January  1,  1972  .        .  .       $8,102,821 

M       T        W  Th       F      S  Sun. 
CENTRAL  LIBRARY 

Copley  Square,  KEnmore  6-5400  9-9     9-9     9-9  9-9     9-9     9-6  2-6 

Prints,  Ext.  311  9-5     9-5     9-5  9-5     9-5     cl.     cl. 

Rare  Books,  Ext.  318  9-5     9-5     9-5  9-5     9-5     9-5  cl. 

CLOSED  ON  HOLIDAYS 


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BRANCH   LIBRARIES 

M       T        W  Th  F       S    Sun. 

City  Proper 

Bookmobiles,  536-5400,  Ext.  238  (See  Schedule) 

Hospital  Library  Service,  Boston  City  Hos- 
pital, 424-4578  9-5     9-5     9-5  9-5  9-5     cl.     cl. 

Kirstein   Business   Branch,    20    City   Hall 

Ave.,  523-0860  9-5     9-5     9-5  9-5  9-5     cl.     cl. 

Multilingual    Library,    498    Tremont    St., 

426-0963  10-6  12-8  10-6  10-6  10-5  10-5  cl. 

North  End,  25  Parmenter  St.,  227-8135  12-8  10-6  10-6  10-6  9-5     cl.     cl 

South  End,  685  Tremont  St.,  536-8241  10-6  10-6  10-6  12-8  10-5  10-5  cl 

West  End,  151  Cambridge  St.,  523-3957  10-6  12-8  10-6  12-8  9-5     9-5  cl. 

Brighton 
Allston,  161  Harvard  Ave.,  782-3332  1-9     9-6     9-6     1-9  10-6     cl.     cl. 

Brighton,      40      Academy      Hill      Road, 

782-6032  9-9     9-9     9-9     9-9     9-5     9-5  cl. 

Faneuil,  419  Faneuil  St.,  782-6705  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     9-1  cl. 

Charlestown 

Charlestown,  179  Main  St.,  242-1248 

Dorchester 

Adams  Street,  690  Adams  St.,  436-6900 
Codman  Square,  6  Norfolk  St.,  436-8214 
Fields     Corner,     1520     Dorchester     Ave., 

436-2155 
Lower  Mills,  1110  Washington  St.,  corner 

of  Richmond  St.,  298-7841 
Mattapan,  10  Hazleton  St.,  298-9218 
Uphams  Corner,  500  Columbia  Rd.,  corner 

of  Bird  St.,  265-0139  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     9-1  cl. 

East  Boston 

East  Boston,  276  Meridian  St.,  569-0271  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     9-1  cl 

Orient  Heights,  18  Barnes  Ave.,  567-2516  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     cl.     cl* 

Hyde  Park 

Hyde  Park,   35   Harvard  Ave.,   corner  of 

Winthrop  St.,  361-2524  1-9     9-9     9-9     1-9     9-5     9-5  cl. 

Jamaica  Plain 

Connolly,  433  Centre  St.,  522-1960  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     cl.     cl. 

Jamaica  Plain,  12  Sedgwick  St.,  corner  of 

South  St.,  524-2053  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     9-5  cl. 

Roxeury 

Egleston    Square,    2044    Columbus    Ave., 

445-4340  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     cl.     cl. 

Grove  Hall,  5  Crawford  St.,  427-3337  12-8     9-6     9-6  12-8     9-5     9-5  cl. 

Mount  Pleasant,    12   Vine   St.,   corner   of 

Dudley  St.,  445-8823  Mon.  thru  Fri.:  9:30-12;  1-5:30     cl.     cl 

Parker  Hill,  1497  Tremont  St.,  427-3820  1-8     9-6     9-6     1-8     9-5     9-1  cl. 


1-8 

9-6 

9-6 

1-8 

9-5 

9-1  cl. 

1-8 
1-8 

9-8 
9-6 

9-8 
9-6 

1-8 
1-8 

9-5 
9-5 

9-1  cl. 
9-1  cl. 

1-9 

9-6 

9-6 

1-9 

9-5 

9-5  cl. 

1-8 
1-8 

9-6 
9-6 

9-6 
9-6 

1-8 
9-6 

9-5 
9-5 

9-1  cl. 
9-1  cl. 

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M      T      W      Th      F        S     Sun. 

South  Boston 

South      Boston,      646      East     Broadway, 

268-0180  1-9     9-9     9-9     1-9     9-5     9-5  cl. 

Washington  Village,  290  Old  Colony  Ave., 

269-0100  10-6  10-6  10-6  10-6     9-5     cl.     cl. 

West  Boxbuby 

Boslindale,  4238  Washington  St.,  323-2343       9-8     9-8     9-8     9-8     9-5     9-5  cl. 
West  Boxbury,  1961  Centre  St.,  325-3147         9-9     9-9     9-9     9-9     9-5     9-5  cl. 

CLOSED   ON   HOLIDAYS 

Note:  All  Branch  Libraries  are  closed  on  Sundays  and  holidays,  and  on  Saturdays 
from  June  1  through  September  30. 


PARKS  AND  RECREATION  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  802  City  Hall 

[Stat.  1875,  Chap.  185;  Bev.  Ord.  1898,  Chap.  28;  C.  C.  Title  IV.,  Chap. 
24;  Stat.  1911,  Chaps.  435,  540;  Ord.  1912,  Chap.  10;  Ord.  1913, 
Chap.  5;  Ord.  1914,  Chap.  3;  Bev.  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 

Joseph  E.  Curtis,*  Commissioner  of  Parks  and  Recreation,  Chairman. 
Dorothy  Curran,*  Assistant  Commissioner  of  Administration. 
James  Lee  Hunt,*  Assistant  Commissioner  of  Recreation. 
J.  Leo  McCarthy,   Associate  Commissioner  of  Parks  and  Recreation. 

Term  ending  May  1,  1974. 
James  P.  Sullivan,   Associate  Commissioner  of  Parks  and  Recreation. 

Term  ending  May,  1971. 
William  Scott,  Associate  Commissioner  of  Parks  and  Recreation.    Term 

ending  May  1,  1972. 
Simon  Fireman,  Associate  Commissioner  of  Parks  and  Recreation.    Term 

ending  May  1,  1974. 

officials 
Joseph  E.  Curtis,  Commissioner 
John  F.  Buck,  Executive  Secretary 
Frank  Clark,  Chief  Engineer 
Bobert  Cusick,  Director  of  Recreation 

Dorothy  Curran,  Assistant  Commissioner  of  Administration 
James  Lee  Hunt,  Assistant  Commissioner  of  Recreation 

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


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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  be- 
came the  Parks  and  Recreation  Department.  The  four  Associate  Com- 
missioners serve  without  compensation. 

Parks  and  Parkways  with  Location,  Area  and  Year  Acquired. 

main  park  system 

Acres 
zArborway,  Prince  street  to  Franklin  Park,  1892  .        .        .         17 .  38 

jArnold    Arboretum    and    Bussey   Park,    South,    Centre    and 

Walter  streets,  1882,  1895 223.00 

zBack  Bay  Fens,  Beacon  street  to  Brookline  avenue,  1877         .       113.19 
JBoston  Common,  Tremont  to  Park  street,  Beacon,  Charles 

and  Boylston  streets,  1634 48.40 

Commonwealth  avenue,  Arlington  street  to  Kenmore  street, 

1894-1905 32.00 

Franklin  Park  (1833-84)  Blue  Hill  avenue,  American  Legion 

Highway,   Forest  Hills   street,   Walnut   avenue,    Columbus 

avenue  and  Seaver  street 429 .  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         .         28.22 
West  Roxbury  Parkway,  from  Centre  street,  near  Arboretum, 

to   the  Metropolitan  District  Commission  Parkway,   1894. 

Roadway  area  taken  by  M.D.C. 59.18 


Total  Acres,  Main  Park  System 1,154.62 

MARINE   PARK   SYSTEM 

Columbus  Park 57.00 

L  Street  Beach 30.00 


Total  Acres,  Marine  Park  System 87 .  00 

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

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

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


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MISCELLANEOUS    PARKS 

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

streets,  Roslindale,  1919 0 .  78 

Chestnut  Hill  Park,  Beacon  street  and  Commonwealth  avenue, 

Brighton,  1898-1902 33 .  50 

Chiswick  road,  Commonwealth  avenue,  Sidlaw  road,  Brighton, 

1949 0.60 

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

End,  1893 0.60 

*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 212.16 

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

streets  (4.30),  1891 4.30 

Dorchester   Park,    Dorchester   avenue   and   Richmond   street, 

1891-1925 27.27 

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

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) 10.54 

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 

William  A.  Meaney  Park,  Pleasant  and  Pond  streets,  Dorchester, 

1921 0.22 

Washington  street  and  Monsignor  Reynolds  Way,  South  End, 

1945 0.32 


Total  Area,  Miscellaneous  Parks 316.06 

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 

Amatucci,  Priv.  Joseph  Playground,  East  Glenwood  and  Hyde 

Park  avenues,  Hyde  Park,  1958 0.47 

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 

*  Named  for  U.  S.  servicemen  killed  in  World  War  No.  1. 
x  Named  for  U.  S.  servicemen  killed  in  World  War  No.  2. 
J  Children's  playground. 


79 

Acres 
Beecher  Street  Play  Area,  Jamaica  Plain,  1942  (undeveloped)  0.18 

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

1896 10.83 

Boston  Common,  Charles  Street  side 3 .  50 

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

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

JBrookside  Avenue  Playground  at  Cornwall  street,  Jamaica 

Plain,  1925 1.32 

JBuckley,  Bev.  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 

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

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

1921 0.47 

Carson  slreet,  Dorchester,  1945 0.47 

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

street,  1899 4.95 

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

street,  Brighton,  1898 9.44 

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

|Charter   Street  Playground,    Charter  street   and   Greenough 

Lane,  North  End,  1940 0.25 

Clifford,  Edward  P.  Playground,  Norfolk  avenue  and  Proctor 

street,  Boxbury,  1909 7.60 

Columbia  Point  Playground,  at  Columbia  Point  Housing  Proj- 
ect, 1970 33.29 

t Columbus  Park,  South  Boston 57 .  00 

*Connolly,  John  J.  Playground,  Marcella  and  Highland  streets, 

Boxbury,  1903 5 .  10 

Crawford    Street   Playground,    Crawford   street    and   Walnut 

avenue,  Boxbury,  1965-1966 2 .  64 

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

street,  Dorchester,  1899 2 .  24 

Cumston  Street  Play  Area,  South  End,  1952         .        .        .        .  0 .  02 

*{Cutillo,  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  ave- 
nues, 1897 1.47 

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

Medford  streets,  Charlestown  Heights,  1891      .        .        .        .  4.30 

fDorchester  Park,  Dorchester  avenue  and  Bichmond  street, 

1891 5.40 

*  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. 


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Acres 

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

Dover  Street  Extension — Bath — Land,  1952         .        .        .        .  0 .  06 
Downer   Avenue   Playground,    Downer   avenue    and   Hancock 

street,  Dorchester,  1972 0.78 

Draper,  Mary  Playground,  Washington  and  Stimson  streets, 

West  Roxbury,  1932 5.76 

East  Boston  Memorial  Stadium,  Porter  street,  East  Boston, 

1954 17.67 

Edwards  Playground,  Mead,  Main,  and  Eden  streets,  Charles- 
town    1.26 

Erie-Ellington  Street  Playground,  Erie  and  Ellington  streets, 

Roxbury 0.12 

Eustis  Street  Play  Area,  Eustis  street,  Roxbury     .        .        .        .  0 .  23 
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  .  45 .  59 

fFranklin  Park,  1883-1884  (Playstead) 22.00 

Gallagher,  Alice  E.  Memorial  Park,  Brighton,  1937-1943-1948    .  16.51 
*Garvey,  William  H.  Playground,  Neponset  avenue,  opposite 

Chickatawbut  street,  Dorchester,  1896 5 .  33 

Gibson,    Christopher,    Playground,    Dorchester    and    Geneva 

avenues,  1897 4.34 

Harmon,    Mary    Playground,    Howard    avenue    and    Folsom 

street,  Dorchester,  1940-1945 1.69 

Hanson  Street  Play  Area,  Hanson  street,  South  End,  1957        .  0 .  07 
Harrison  avenue,  624-634,  South  End  Play  Area  (1950)     .        .  0.12 
Harvard,  John  Mall,  Main  street,  near  City  Square,  Charles- 
town,  1943        0.85 

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

road,  Roslindale,  1902 9.63 

Hemenway,  Mary  Playground,  Adams  street,  Dorchester,  1919  4.41 

Hill  and  Cook  Streets  Play  Area,  Charlestown,  1942   .        .        .  0.10 
Hobart  Street  Play  Area,  Hobart  and  Ranelegh  roads,  Brighton, 

1970 0.60 

Holyoke  Street  Play  Area,  South  End,  1951          .        .        .        .  0.04 
Howes,  Gertrude  Playground,  Winthrop,  Fairland  and  More- 
land  streets,  Roxbury,  1930 1.88 

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

Jefferson   Playground,    Heath,    Crawford    and   Floyd   streets, 

Roxbury,  1924 4.38 

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

t  Children's  playground. 

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


81 

Acres 

Joyce,  William  F.  Playground,  Union  Street,  Brighton,  1949     .  1.31 

King  Street  Play  Area,  Roxbury,  1943 0 .  32 

Lambert  Avenue  Playground,  Lambert  avenue,  Millmont  and 

Dorr  streets,  Roxbury 0 .  68 

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

1958 0.09 

FLee,   Major   Christopher  J.  Playground,   First  street  at  M 

street,  South  Boston,  1897 5.20 

fLee,  Joseph  Playground,  The  Fens,  Back  Bay,  1877  .  .  5 .  00 
Little    Scobie    Playground,  Dunreath    and    Copeland    streets, 

Roxbury 0.79 

London  and  Decatur  streets  Play  Area,  East  Boston,  1941           .  0 .  13 

Mason  School  Site,  Roxbury,  1970 0.44 

*cj]McConnell  Park  (including  Comer  Ford  Field),  Springdale 

and  Denny  streets  (land  and  flats),  1899,  1914,  including 

beach 57.40 

McKinney  Playground,  Faneuil  street,  Brighton,  1930  .  .  5 .  94 
FxMcLaughlin,  Joseph  D.  Playground,  Parker  Hill  and  Fisher 

avenues,  Roxbury,  1912 11.54 

*$McLean,  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 

Mt.  Pleasant  Avenue  Play  Area,  Mr.  Pleasant  avenue,  Roxbury  0 .  26 
Mozart  Street  Play  Area,  Centre  and  Mozart  streets,  Roxbury, 

1959 0.81 

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

Plain,  1912 4.17 

Myrtle  Street  Play  Area,  West  End,  1949 0.17 

jNorth  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 

O'Day,  Thomas  F.  Playground,  Pembroke  street,  near  Tremont 

street,  1960 0.87 

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 

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

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

J  Children's  playground. 

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

||  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  com- 
pleted. 

c  The  playground  area  named  Comerford  Field,  July  1960. 

F  Little  League  area  named  Sp4  Martin  F.  Killilea  Field. 


82 

Acres 
JPhiUips  Street  Play  Area,  West  End,  1941  .        .  '     .        .        .  0.13 

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

APlympton  Street  Play  Area,  South  End,  1926     .       .       .       .  0.09 

Polcari,  Capt.  Louis  Playground,  North  Bennet  and  Prince 

streets,  North  End,  1897 0.40 

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

Portsmouth  Street  Playground,  Brighton,  1912     .        .        .        .  4.29 

Quincy  Street  Play  Area,  61-71  Quincy  Street,  Roxbury   .        .  0.54 

Quincy  and  Stanley  Streets,  Dorchester,  1955       .        .        .        .  0 .  38 

Readville   Playground,   Milton   and   Readville   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 

Ringgold  Street  Play  Area,  Ringgold,  Waltham  and  Hanson 

streets,  Boston,  1965 0.38 

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

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

1930 10.20 

f Rogers  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 

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 12.38 

Ryan,  Robert  F.,  Play  Area,  Harbor  View  street  at  Dorchester 

avenue,  Dorchester,  1960 0.64 

St.  James  Street  Park,  Roxbury,  1966 0.40 

Saratoga  Street,  undeveloped,  Saratoga  and  Byron  streets,  East 

Boston,  1969 0.23 

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 

Sumner  and  Lamson  Streets,  East  Boston,  1955  .        .        .        .  0 .  48 

*JSweeney,  Matthew  J.  Playground,  West  Fifth  street,  South 

Boston,  1909 0.47 

A  Acquired  by  gift. 

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

t  Children's  playground. 

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

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


83 

Acres 
Thetford  Avenue  and  Evans  Street,  Dorchester,  1955  (unde- 
veloped)      0.66 

Thornton  Street,  Roxbury— No.  134  (undeveloped),  1941  .       .  0.06 

Townsend  Street  Plaza,  at  Humboldt  avenue,  Roxbury,  1966  0.62 

Vernon  Street,  Roxbury,  between  Cabot  and  Lamont  streets 

(undeveloped),  1941 0.40 

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

Evelyn  street,  Mattapan,  1912 6.21 

Walnut  Park  Play  Area,  Walnut  Park  at  Walnut  avenue,  Rox- 
bury, 1965        0.32 

xxWalsh,  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 

JWest  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 

Woodcliff  Street  Play  Area,  at  Howard  avenue,  Dorchester, 

1965 0.09 

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

1931 158.48 


Total  area  of  the  118  Playgrounds  and  Play  Areas  (Acres)  750 .  36 
Area  of  10  Playgrounds  in  Parks  (Acres)  .  .  .  .  63.96 
Area  of  the  108  Separate  Playgrounds  (Acres)  .       .       .       686.40 

The  first  separate  playground  acquired  by  the  City  was  the  Charles- 
town  Playground,  purchased  in  1891  for  $172,923.  With  that  included, 
121  playgrounds  (111  separate  and  10  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 

Brighton  Municipal  Building 
Cabot  Street,  Roxbury 
Columbia  Road,  Dorchester 
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 
Vine  Street,  Roxbury 
Tobin  Memorial  Building,  Roxbury 

xx  Named  for  U.  S.  serviceman  killed  in  World  War  No.  2.    Congres- 
sional medal  of  honor. 
t  Children's  playground. 
*  Named  for  U.  S.  serviceman  killed  in  World  War  No.  1. 


84 

Beaches  and  Swimming  Pools 
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,  Boxbury 
Columbia  Boad,  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 
Boslindale  Municipal  Building 
South  Boston  Municipal  Building 
Tobin,  Maurice  J.  Memorial  Building 
Vine  Street,  Boxbury 
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.  B.  B 3,800 

City  Hall  Grounds,  School  street     .  , 7,700 

Harriet  Tubman  Square,  Columbus  and  Warren  avenues   .        .  2,200 

Concord  Square,  between  Tremont  street  and  Columbus  avenue .  5,005 

Copley   Square,    between   Huntington   avenue,   Boylston   and 

Dartmouth  streets 28,399 

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 

Angell  Memorial  Plaza 6,747 

Bachael  Bevere  Square,  North  End,  1945 3,509 

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

St.  Stephen  Square,  corner  St.  Stephen  street  and  Symphony 

road 100 

Trinity  Triangle,  Huntington  and  St.  James  avenues,  1385        .  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 


85 


BRIGHTON 

Square  Feet 

Brighton  Square,  Chestnut  Hill  avenue  and  Academy  Hill  road  .  25,035 
*Cunningham,  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 

P.F.C.    Kevin    Barry    Hardiman    Square,    Washington    and 

Faneuil  streets 9,796 

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

Extension — 

Total 49,914 


CHARLESTOWN 

City  Square,  junction  of  Main  and  Park  streets   . 

Essex  Square,  Essex  and  Lyndeboro'  streets 

Hayes  Square,  Bunker  Hill  and  Vine  streets 

Sullivan  Square,  Main,  Cambridge,  Sever  and  Gardner  streets 

Winthrop  Square,  Winthrop,  Common  and  Adams  streets 


Total 


8,739 
930 

4,484 
14,542 
38,450 

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,  Beverend  Francis  X.,  Square,  Adams  and  Bowdoin 

streets  (Formerly  Eaton  Square) 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  Beservation,  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  street  and 

Gallivan  Boulevard 700 

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

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

Neponset  avenue 6,263 

(Town  Meeting  Park)  see  "Miscellaneous  Parks" 

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. 
II  Part  of  Chestnut  Hill  Park. 


86 


east  boston  Square  Feet 

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 

Lt.  Bobert  M.  Foley  Square,  junction  of  Greenwood  street  and 

Central  avenue 220 

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

street 220 

Webster  Square,  junction  of  Webster  street  and  Central  avenue  220 

Williams  Square,  Williams  avenue  and  Prospect  street       .       .  700 

Wolcott  Square,  Hyde  Park  avenue,  Milton  and  Prescott  streets  220 
*Woodworth,  Horace  Campbell,   Square,  Beacon  street  and 

Metropolitan  avenue 220 


Total 1,800 

ROXBURY 

Cedar  Square,  Cedar  street,  between  Juniper  and  Thornton  streets  26,163 
Elm  Hill  Avenue  Tree  Beservation,  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      .        .        .  13,500 

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

Linwood  Park,  Centre  and  Linwood  streets 3,625 

Orchard  Park,  Chadwick,  Orchard  Park  and  Yeoman  streets    .  108,545 

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  Begent  streets       .        .  1,380 

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

streets 966 


Total 846,249 

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


87 


south  boston  Square  Feet 

Independence  Square,  Broadway,  Second,  M  and  N  streets       .      279,218 
Lincoln  Square,  Emerson,  Fourth  and  M  streets  ....  9,510 

Thomas  Park,  Telegraph  Hill  (Dorchester  Heights)     .       .       .      190,000 


Total 478,728 

WEST   ROXBURY 

DufBe,  Arthur,  Square,  Clement  avenue,  West  Roxbury  .  .  2,200 
*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.,  2,222,697  Square  Feet,  or 
51.03  Acres. 

RECAPITULATION 

Acres 
Parks  and  Parkways: 

Main  Park  System 1,154.62 

Marine  Park  System 87.00 

Miscellaneous  Parks 316.06 

Playgrounds  (separate) 686.40 

Public  Grounds,  Squares,  etc 51.03 


Grand  total  (acres) 2,295.11 

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  Ellery  Channing,  Public  Garden .  1903     Herbert  Adams 

Patrick  A.   Collins  Memorial,  Common-  Henry  H.  Kitson 

wealth  Ave 1908    T.  Alice  Kitson 

Declaration  of  Independence  Tablet, 
Boston  Common 1925    John  F.  Paramino 

Dorchester  Heights  (Revolutionary),  Tele- 
graph Hill,  South  Boston 1902    Peabody  and  Stearns 

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

Football  Tablet,  Boston  Common 1925 

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


83 


Curtis  Guild  Memorial  Entrance,  Boston 
Common 1917 

John  Harvard  Tablet,  John  Harvard 
Mall,  Charlestown 

Kosciuszko  Tablet,  Public  Garden 1927 

Lafayette  Tablet,  Boston  Common 1924 

Abraham  Lincoln  and  Emancipation, 
Abraham  Lincoln  Sq 1879 

Donald  MacKay,  Castle  Island 

John  Boyle  O'Beilly,  Back  Bay  Park 1896 

Francis  Parkman  Memorial,  Olmsted 
Park,  Jamaica  Plain 1906 

George  F.  Parkman  Memorial  Band- 
stand, Boston  Common 1912 

Paul  Bevere,  Paul  Bevere  Mall,  Boston. .  1940 

Colonel  Bobert  Gould  Shaw  and  54th 
Mass.  Begiment,  Boston  Common 1897 

Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Monument,  Boston 
Common 1877 

Soldiers'  Monument,  Charlestown,  Win- 
thropSq 1872 

Soldiers'  Monument,  Dorchester,  Meeting 
House  Hill 1867 

Soldiers'  Monument,  Jamaica  Plain,  Cen- 
tre and  South  Sts.,  Jamaica  Plain 1871 

George  Bobert  White  Memorial,  Public 
Garden 1924 

Founding  of  Boston  Memorial  Tablet, 
Boston  Common 1930 


Cram  and  Ferguson 

Mrs.  T.  A.  R.  Kitson 
John  F.  Paramino 

Thomas  Ball 
W.  T.  Aldrich 
Daniel  C.  French 

Daniel  C.  French 

Bobinson  and  Shepard 
Cyrus  E.  Dallin 
Augustus  Saint  Gaudens 
McKim,  Mead  &  White 

Martin  Milmore 

Martin  Milmore 

D.  F.  Dwight 

W.  W.  Lummis 

Daniel  C.  French 

John  F.  Paramino 


Statues  Belonging  to  City,  Located  in  Parks  and  Public  Grounds 


Year 
Name        Location  Erected 

Samuel  Adams,  Adams  Sq 1880 

Bobert  Burns,  Back  Bay  Fens 1919 

Colonel  Thomas  Cass,  Public  Garden 1899 

John  Endicott,  Back  Bay  Fens  (at  For- 
syth Way) 1937 

Leif  Ericsson,  Commonwealth  Ave 1886 

Edward  Everett,  Richardson  Pk 1867 

Admiral  David  G.  Farragut,  Marine  Park, 

South  Boston 1895 

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

Ave 1886 

General  John  Glover,  Commonwealth  Ave.1875 

Edward  Everett  Hale,  Public  Garden 1913 

Alexander  Hamilton,  Commonwealth  Ave.1865 
Wendell  Phillips,  Public  Garden 1915 


Artist 
Anne  Whitney 
Henry  H.  Kitson 
Richard  E.  Brooks 

Jennewien 
Anne  Whitney 
William  W.  Story 

Henry  H.  Kitson 
Bichard  S.  Greenough 

Olin  L.  Warner 
Martin  Milmore 
Bela  L.  Pratt 
William  Rimmer 
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,*  Public  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 

(West  Street  Plaza  Group),  Boston  Com- 
mon   1961     Cassieri  &  DiBiccari 

*  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,  Public  Garden. 

West  Street,  Parkman  Plaza,  at  Boston  Common. 
One  fountain  on  each  of  the  following  locations : — 

Blackstone,  Franklin,  and  Reverend  Francis  X.  Coppens  squares  and 
Rayman  Fountain  and  Union  Park. 

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. 


90 

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 

Bunker  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 

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 

Walter  Street,  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. 


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PENAL  INSTITUTIONS  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  276  City  Hall 

[Stat.  1895,  Chap.  449,  Sec.  14;  Stat.  1896,  Chap.  536,  Sec.  9;  Stat.  1897, 
Chap.  395,  Sec.  5;  Stat.  1928,  Chap.  389;  Ord.  1924,  Chap.  9;  Rev. 
Ord.  1961,  Chap.  20.] 

A.  Reginald  Eaves,  Commissioner 

The  Penal  Institutions  Department  is  under  the  direction  of  the  Penal 
Institutions  Commissioner  who  is  the  executive  and  administrative  head 
of  the  department  and  exercises  the  power  and  performs  the  duties  pro- 
vided by  statute.  The  Suffolk  County  House  of  Correction  at  Deer 
Island  is  under  his  control  and  he  is  also  charged  with  paroling  power  for 
inmates,  serving  sentences  of  less  than  twelve  months  at  the  House  of 
Correction  and  the  Suffolk  County  Jail. 

House  of  Correction 
Richard  V.  Kinsella,  Master 

The  Suffolk  County  House  of  Correction  is  located  at  Deer  Island, 
which  is  part  of  Roston,  adjacent  to  the  Town  of  Winthrop,  and  covers 
about  67.5  acres.  The  institution  dates  from  1895  and  now  includes  land 
and  buildings  valued  at  $2,221,600;  land  appraised  at  $448,900,  and  build- 
ings at  $1,722,700. 

POLICE  DEPARTMENT 

Headquarters,  154  Rerkeley  Street 

[Stat.  1878,  Chap.  244;  Stat.  1885,  Chap.  323;  Stat."l906,  Chap.  291; 
Stat.  1938,  Chap.  377;  Stat.  1962,  Chap.  322;  Stat?  1964,  Chap.  739] 

Robert  J.  di  Grazia,  Police  Commissioner 
William  J.  Taylor,  Superintendent-in-Chief 

Rureau  Chiefs 

Superintendent, 

Superintendent, 

Superintendent,  James  L.  Buchanan 

Superintendent, 

Superintendent,  Jeremiah  P.  Sullivan 

The  Police  Department  is  responsible  for  the  prevention  of  crime,  the 
investigation  of  crime,  the  apprehension  of  criminals,  the  maintenance  of 
order,  the  enforcement  of  laws  and  statutes,  the  enhancement  of  the 
public  safety,  and  the  provision  of  other  police  and  emergency  services. 

For  administrative  and  operational  purposes  the  department  is  divided 
into  five  Bureaus  designated  as  the  Rureau  of  Administration  which  in- 
cludes the  Administrative  Division  and  the  Planning  and  Research  Divi- 


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sion;  the  Bureau  of  Field  Operations  which  includes  Patrol  Divisions  A 
through  D,  the  Criminal  Investigation  Division,  the  Traffic  Division,  and 
the  Communication  Control  Division;  the  Bureau  of  Inspectional  Services 
which  includes  the  Intelligence  Division,  the  Staff  and  Internal  Affairs 
Division,  and  the  Records  and  Data  Processing  Division;  the  Bureau  of 
General  Services  which  includes  the  Central  Services  Division  and  the 
Personnel  and  Training  Division;  and  the  Bureau  of  Community  Affairs 
which  includes  the  Community  Relations  Division  and  the  Community 
Services  Division. 

The  Bureau  of  Administration  is  responsible  for  the  management, 
supervision,  and  coordination  of  the  activities  and  functions  of  the  Police 
Commissioner's  Office  and  of  administrative  and  management  matters 
throughout  the  Department.  The  Administrative  Division  is  comprised 
of  such  activities  as  legal  affairs,  press  relations  and  information,  corre- 
spondence, and  secretarial  services.  The  Planning  and  Research  Divi- 
sion is  responsible  for  all  aspects  of  departmental  planning  including 
operational  planning,  long-range  programs,  federal  grant  programs, 
capital  improvements,  forms  control,  and  administrative  planning. 

The  Bureau  of  Field  Operations  is  responsible  for  the  operation  of  the 
department's  patrol  and  investigative  activities.  The  city's  twelve 
Police  Districts  are  divided  into  the  four  Patrol  Divisions.  Each  District 
has  within  it  a  police  station  which  provides  administrative  and  com- 
mand facilities  for  the  police  operations  in  the  District.  The  patrol  force 
assigned  to  Districts  is  supplemented  by  several  patrol  activities  with 
City-wide  jurisdiction.  The  Tactical  Patrol  Force,  Canine  Section, 
Mounted  Section  and  Emergency  Service  Unit  provide  various  types  of 
specialized  patrol  services  that  can  be  deployed  as  needed  to  high  crime 
incidence  areas,  special  operations,  or  special  circumstances.  District 
eight  is  the  Harbor  Patrol  District,  of  which  the  Commander  is  also  the 
Harbor  Master  for  Boston  Harbor.  The  District  maintains  constant 
patrol  of  the  harbor  during  all  months  of  the  year. 

The  Criminal  Investigation  Division  is  responsible  for  detective  opera- 
tions throughout  the  City  and  is  further  subdivided  into  the  Vice  and 
Narcotics  Section,  General  Investigation  Section,  Organized  Crime 
Section,  and  Criminalistics  Section.  Within  the  Division's  sections  are 
the  various  specialized  and  general  investigative  units  of  the  Department 
as  well  as  the  Department's  Crime  Laboratory  and  Ballistics  Units. 

The  Traffic  Division  is  responsible  for  regulation  of  Traffic  in  the  down- 
town area,  for  responding  to  special  traffic  conditions  throughout  the  City 
and  for  the  compilation  of  information  on  accidents  and  enforcement  for 
use  by  all  units  of  the  Department. 

The  Communications  Control  Division  is  responsible  for  the  operation 
of  the  Department's  communication  systems  which  include  an  advanced 
multi-channel  radio  system  and  large  telephone  and  teletype  systems. 
The  Central  Complaint  Section  of  this  Division  is  responsible  for  receiving 
calls  from  the  public  and  processing  and  dispatching  them  to  police  units 
for  the  rendering  of  police  services.  Annually  over  300,000  calls  for  police 
service  are  processed  by  this  section,  making  use  of  the  most  modern  ad- 
vances in  communications,  data  processing,  and  control  procedures. 


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The  Bureau  of  Inspectional  Services  supervises  several  areas  of  manage- 
ment control  which  provide  checks  and  balances  on  the  operations  of  the 
Department.  The  Staff  Inspection  and  Internal  Affairs  Division  is 
assigned  the  responsibility  for  inspecting  personnel,  facilities,  equipment, 
and  procedures  and  for  investigating  cases  of  alleged  misconduct  by  mem- 
bers of  the  Department.  The  Records  and  Data  Processing  Division 
maintains  the  police  records  system,  performs  identification  functions, 
crime  analysis,  and  operates  the  department's  computer  system.  The 
Intelligence  Division's  assignment  is  to  collect,  evaluate,  and  disseminate 
information  on  the  status  of  criminal  activity  throughout  the  City. 

The  Bureau  of  General  Services'  responsibilities  fall  into  the  area  of 
providing  support  services  for  the  rest  of  the  Department.  The  Central 
Services  Division  includes  such  areas  as  radio  maintenance,  building 
maintenance,  signal  service,  licensing,  auditing  and  finance,  automotive 
maintenance,  and  property  procurement  and  management.  Included 
in  its  licensing  functions  are  the  licensing  and  supervision  of  all  taxicabs 
operating  in  the  City.  The  Personnel  and  Training  Division  operates 
the  Department's  Police  Academy  and  R.ange  and  provides  a  complete 
curriculum  of  recruit,  in-service,  and  advanced  training  for  departmental 
personnel.  This  Division  also  maintains  the  Department's  Personnel 
records  and  prepares  the  Department's  payroll. 

The  Bureau  of  Community  Affairs,  through  its  Community  Relations 
Division  and  Community  Services  Division  is  responsible  for  maintaining 
contacts  with  community  groups  and  agencies  throughout  the  City  and 
for  guiding  and  preparing  community  services  and  community  relations 
programs  and  activities  on  a  City-wide  basis. 

The  city  is  divided  into  eleven  Police  Districts  and  the  Harbor  Police. 
The  personnel  assigned  to  police  districts  are  supplemented  by  personnel 
assigned  to  a  permanent  Tactical  Patrol  Force,  and  a  Canine  Section, 
which  may  be  deployed  into  any  high  crime  incidence  area  of  the  city  to 
aid  in  the  prevention  of  crime  or  the  apprehension  of  criminals,  or  to  an 
area  of  the  city  in  which  any  emergency  arises. 

The  Criminal  Investigation  Division  is  the  central  detective  agency  of 
the  department  and  is  located  in  the  Headquarters  building.  It  consists 
of  several  major  sections.  Within  these  sections  are  found  the  following 
investigating  squads:  stolen  automobiles,  banking,  express  thieves,  homi- 
cide, hotels,  lost  and  stolen  property,  narcotics,  gaming,  obscene  literature, 
pawnbrokers,  junk-shop  keepers  and  dealers  in  second-hand  articles,  pick- 
pockets, organized  crime,  retail  stores  and  robbery.  In  addition,  a  ballistic 
unit  and  crime  laboratory  are  maintained. 

This  Division  also  handles  cases  of  fugitives  from  justice  and  conducts 
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  police  departments  in  the 
investigation  of  crime  and  prosecution  of  criminals. 

Advancement  and  changes  are  constantly  being  made  to  maintain  effi- 
ciency of  the  various  sections  of  the  Criminal  Investigation  Division.  To 
bring  about  this  efficiency  of  service,  equipment  of  the  Division  is  continu- 


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ally  being  augmented  by  addition  of  modern  identification  apparatus  which 
now  includes  a  polygraph  or  lie  detector. 

The  Traffic  Division  is  located  at  40  Sudbury  Street.  Its  commanding 
officer  is  responsible  for  proper  regulation  of  traffic  conditions  and  for  the 
safety  of  the  public  using  the  highways  from  8  a.m.  to  12  p.m.  within  the 
intown  section  of  the  city. 

The  Communications  Control  Division,  located  in  the  Headquarters 
building,  includes  the  Central  Complaint  Section. 

In  the  Central  Complaint  Section  all  complaints  received  by  the  de- 
partment are  recorded  on  prenumbered,  prepunched,  and  time-stamped 
complaint  message  cards  to  insure  central  control  over  such  complaints, 
resulting  in  immediate  response  to  requests  for  police  assistance.  This 
section  also  maintains  the  department  radio  station  "KCA860,"  which 
has  base  transmitters  located  at  Police  Headquarters  and  in  the  New 
Court  House  Building,  Pemberton  Square,  and  a  relay  station  on  Bellevue 
Hill,  West  Roxbury,  and  in  Prudential  Center. 

These  broadcasting  stations  insure  speedy  response  to  a  call  for  police 
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  the  most 
modern  two-way  radio.  There  are  187  police  cars,  twenty-two  service 
trucks,  thirty-one  combination  patrol  wagons  and  ambulances,  fifty-five 
cycles,  thirty-five  scooters,  and  three  police  boats  equipped  with  two-way 
radio  telephone.  Police  automobiles  and  combination  patrol  wagons  and 
ambulances  with  two-way  radio  are  moving  through  all  parts  of  the  city 
day  and  night.  Any  part  of  the  city  may  be  reached  by  a  police  radio  car 
or  patrol  wagon-ambulance  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  in  increasing  the  number  of  arrests.  In  many 
instances  the  offenders  have  been  taken  into  custody  while  in  the  act  of 
committing  crime. 

The  Records  and  Data  Processing  Division  consists  of  the  Central 
Records  Section  and  the  Data  Processing  Section.  In  the  Central  Records 
Section  there  are  maintained  files  of  criminals  records,  individual  compila- 
tions of  criminal  activities  of  known  criminals,  indices  of  persons  wanted 
for  crime  on  warrants  and  summonses,  reports  of  all  felonies  commited 
within  the  city  and  all  report  j  of  investigation  of  these  felonies,  and  indices 
of  persons  holding  licenses  granted  by  the  Police  Commissioner,  and  missing 
persons. 

The  Criminal  Identification  Unit  has  continued  to  prove  of  great  value 
and  stands  in  favorable  comparison  with  similar  units  of  the  most  advanced 
departments. 

This  unit  now  conducts  tests  to  measure  degree  of  intoxication  of  per- 
sons arrested  while  operating  motor  vehicles  under  the  influence  of  alco- 
holic beverages. 

The  Data  Processing  Section  supplies  the  department  with  statistical 
information  necessary  for  efficient  operations  and  deployment  of  personnel 
as  well  as  information  needed  for  the  monthly  and  annual  returns  of  crime 
statistics  required  under  uniform  crime  reporting  procedures. 


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The  Central  Services  Division  consists  of  the  Chief  Clerk's  Office,  Licens- 
ing Section,  Cashier's  Office,  Auditing  Section,  Automotive  Maintenance, 
Radio  Maintenance,  Property  Clerk's  Office,  and  the  Superintendent  of 
Buildings  Office. 

The  Chief  Clerk  is  responsible  for  the  preparation  of  the  Annual  Police 
Budget.  All  orders  for  building  maintenance  and  automobile  and  radio 
maintenance  are  the  responsibility  of  this  division. 

The  processing  of  thousands  of  hackney  carriage  licenses  as  well  as  other 
licenses  issued  by  the  Police  Commissioner  as  well  as  the  auditing  of  all 
cash  receipts  for  licenses  and  other  services  is  under  the  supervision  of 
this  division. 

The  Property  Clerk's  Office  of  the  Central  Services  Division  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  Superintendent  of  Buildings  Office  is  responsible  for  building  main- 
tenance, repair  work,  plumbing,  steamfitting,  etc.,  and  is  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  Central  Services  Division. 

The  Automotive  Maintenance  Section  is  also  a  responsibility  of  this 
division. 

Radio  Maintenance  which  maintains  the  department  radio  station, 
"KCA860"  which  has  base  transmitters  located  at  Police  Headquarters 
and  in  the  New  Court  House  Building,  Pemberton  Square,  and  a  relay 
station  on  Bellevue  Hill,  West  Roxbury,  and  in  the  Prudential  Center,  is 
part  of  the  Central  Services  Division. 

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,  a  38-foot  craft;  the  Vigilant,  a  38-foot  craft;  and  the 
new  John  F.  Kennedy,  a  38-foot  Bertram  Cruiser. 

The  Police  Department  is  responsible  for  the  annual  listing  of  all  resi- 
dents within  the  city  twenty  years  of  age  or  over. 

On  January  1,  1971,  the  police  force  numbered  2,805. 


PUBLIC  FACILITIES  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  812  City  Hall 
[Stat.  1966,  Chap.  642] 

OFFICIALS 

Edward  T.  Sullivan,  Chairman 
Barbara  G.  Cameron,  Vice  Chairman 

,  Secretary 

Robert  J.  Vey,  Director 

Chapter  642  of  the  Acts  of  1966  establishes  in  the  City  of  Boston  a 
Public  Facilities  Department,  abolishes  the  Department  of  School  Build- 


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ings  and  transfers  its  function  in  part  to  the  Public  Facilities  Department 
and  in  part  to  the  School  Committee  of  said  City  for  the  more  efficient  and 
economical  construction  and  alterations  of  municipal  buildings.  The 
Public  Facilities  Department  shall  be  under  the  charge  of  a  board  known 
as  the  Public  Facilities  Commission  consisting  of  three  members  known  as 
Public  Facilities  Commissioners  appointed  by  the  mayor  for  a  term  ex- 
piring on  the  first  Monday  of  the  January  following  the  next  biennial 
municipal  election  at  which  a  mayor  is  elected. 


PUBLIC   WORKS   DEPARTMENT 

714  City  Hall 
Joseph  F.  Casazza,  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  Ordinances  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  lighting,  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. 

Central  Office 
Room  714,  City  Hall 

A.  Administrative  Branch 

This  branch  is  in  charge  of  administrative  functions  that  include  per- 
sonnel, payroll  management,  supplies,  inventories,  accounting  and  con- 
tracts. 

B.  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. 

C.  Permit  Branch 

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

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


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Highway  Division 

Room  708,  City  Hall 

Charles  M.  Martell,  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  construction,  operation,  and  maintenance  of  the  highway 
bridges  under  the  control  of  the  Department,  and  the  abolition  of  grade 
crossings. 

Sanitary  Division 
Room  708,  City  Hall 
John  F.  Flaherty,  Deputy  Commissioner  and  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 
Room  716,  City  Hall 
James  A.  O'Rourke,  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 
Metropolitan  treatment  plant  is  under  construction.     The  Division  con- 
structs and  maintains  the  main  sewers,  common  sewers,  and  surface  drains 
of  the  City. 

Engineering  Division 
Room  709,  City  Hall 
Frederick  L.  Garvin,  Division  Engineer 

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

Water  Division 
Room  715,  City  Hall 
John  P.  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  one  hun- 
dred twenty  dollars  ($120.00)  per  million  gallons  of  water  to  its  members. 
Boston's  recjuirements  were  145,549,000  gallons  per  day  in  1971,  or  227 
gallons  per  capita.    Under  present  rates  the  consumer  pays  the  City  one 
cent  for  25  gallons  of  pure  water. 

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


Public  Improvement  Commission 
Room  709,  City  Hall 

THE   BOARD 

Joseph  F.  Casazza,  Commissioner  of  Public  Works,  ex  officio,  Chairman 
John  F.  Mulhern,  Commissioner  of  Real  Property,  ex  officio,  Vice  Chair- 
man 
William  T.  Noonan,  Commissioner  of  Traffic  and  Parking,  ex  officio 
Joyce  E.  Burrell,  Executive  Secretary 

The  Public  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  permit 
the  opening  of  private  ways  for  public  travel;  to  levy  assessments  for 
street,  sidewalk,  and  sewer  betterments  and  to  issue  permits  for  the  loca- 
tion of  wire-carrying  poles,  conduits,  pipes,  tracks,  signs,  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,  signs,  etc. 


REAL  PROPERTY  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  City  Hall,  Room  811 
[Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  22.] 

[St.  1943,  c.  434,  as  amended  by  St.  1945,  c.  433;  St.  1949,  c.  317;  St.  1950, 
c.  318;  St.  1S51,  c.  159;  St.  1952,  c.  196;  St.  1961,  c.  314.  See  also 
St.  1962,  c.  762,  s.  4;  St.  1946,  c.  474,  as  amended  by  St.  1948,  c.  612 
St.  1950,  c.  316;  St.  1951,  c.  625;  St.  1951,  c.  734;  St.  1955,  c.  450 
St.  1958,  c.  273;  St.  I960,  c.  413;  St.  1962,  c.  338;  St.  1963,  c.  263 
St.  1964,  c.  567;  St.  1965,  c.  203;  St.  1965,  c.  218;  St.  1965,  c.  342 
See  also  G.  L.  c.  40,  s.  22B,  22C,  22E.] 

REAL   PROPERTY   BOARD 

John  F.  Mulhern,  Commissioner  of  Real  Property,  Chairman* 
Anthony  E.  Forgione,  Assistant  Commissioner  of  Real  Property* 
Robert  Kline,  Associate  Commissioner.    Term  expires  May  1,  1971. 
Thomas  F.  Kelly,  Jr.    Term  expires  May  1,  1972. 

Joseph  B.  Burke,  Executive  Secretary 

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


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

By  the  Ord.  1954,  c.  2,  s.  43,  the  Public  Buildings  Department  was 
abolished  and  the  powers,  duties  and  appropriations  of  the  Superintendent 
of  Public  Buildings  with  respect  to  the  appointment,  suspension,  discharge, 
compensation,  and  indemnification  of  subordinates  were  transferred  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 
John  F.  Mulhern,  Chairman 
Anthony  E.  Forgione 
Thomas  F.  Kelly,  Jr. 

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  St.  1943,  c.  434,  s.  4. 

RETIREMENT  BOARD,   BOSTON 

Office,  224,  City  Hall 

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,  434,  684;  Stat.  1955,  Chap.  309;  Stat.  1958, 
Chap.  391;  Chap.  481,  1971. 

Officials 
Thomas  J.  McGrimley,  Chairman 
Edward  W.  Donovan 
John  F.  FitzPatrick 

Paul  L.  Carty,  Secretary  and  Executive  Officer 
Harold  B.  Sacks,  Assistant  Executive  Officer 

the  board 
Edward  W.  Donovan  Term  ends  September  30,  1973 

John  F.  FitzPatrick,  City  Auditor  (ex  officio) 
Thomas  J.  McGrimley  Term  ends  September  30,  1975 

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


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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 
Edward  W.  Donovan,  chosen  by  the  two  other  members;  John  F.  Fitz- 
Patrick,  City  Auditor,  ex  officio;  and  Thomas  J.  McGrimley,  elected  by 
members  of  the  system.    The  Board  serves  without  compensation. 


TRAFFIC   AND   PARKING  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  721  City  Hall 

[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;  Stat.  1962,  Chap.  338;  Stat.  1965,  Chap.  365.] 

Officials 
William  T.  Noonan,  Commissioner  of  Traffic  and  Parking* 

Traffic  and  Parking  Commission 
William  T.  Noonan,  Commissioner  of  Traffic  and  Parking,  Chairman 

Robert  J.   di  Grazia,  Police  Commissioner,   ex  officio,    Associate   Com- 
missioner of  Traffic  and  Parking 

Joseph  F.  Casazza,  Commissioner  of  Public  Works,  ex  officio,  Associate 
Commissioner  of  Traffic  and  Parking 

James  H.  Kelly,  Fire  Commissioner,  ex  officio,  Associate  Commissioner 
of  Traffic  and  Parking 

John  F.  Mulhern,  Commissioner  of  Real  Property,  ex  officio,  Associate 
Commissioner  of  Traffic  and  Parking 

Barbara  L.  Scolponeti,  Executive  Secretary 

engineering  division 
Joseph  M.  Galeota,  Traffic  Engineering  Director 
Robert  F.  Drtjmmond,  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,  and  Stat.  1962,  Chap.  338,  the  Com- 
mission was  reorganized.  The  Commissioner  of  Traffic  and  Parking  is 
appointed  by  the  Mayor,  and  until  the  qualification  of  his  successor, 
receives  compensation  established  by  the  Mayor  and  City  Council,  and 
may  be  removed  by  the  Mayor.  The  associate  commissioners  of  traffic 
and  parking  receive  no  compensation. 

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


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The  commissioner  of  traffic  and  parking  may  employ,  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Mayor  and  to  chapter  thirty-one  of  the  General  Laws, 
engineers,  experts,  assistants  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  move- 
ment, 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  has  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. 

The  latest  revision  of  the  Traffic  Regulations  contains  1,578  one-way 
streets,  2,734  no-parking  regulations,  and  1,092  stop  streets.  The  com- 
mission maintains  544  traffic  signals,  including  8  interconnected  systems 
in  downtown  Boston,  and  275  miles  of  white  lines  painted  in  the  roadway, 
including  crosswalks;  center  lines,  lane  lines  and  stop  lines  are  maintained 
by  the  commission;  904  loading  zones,  requiring  30,300  feet  of  painted 
curb,  are  maintained.  Fees  amounting  to  $38,036  are  collected  for  the 
establishment  and  maintenance  of  these  loading  zones.  There  were  436 
loading  zone  signs  installed  this  year  for  which  we  collected  $10,875; 
making  a  total  of  271  loading  zone  signs  maintained.  The  commission 
also  maintains  8,200  parking  meters.  It  is  anticipated  that  approximately 
$960,000  will  be  taken  in  as  revenue  during  the  year  1972.  Issued  250 
licenses  for  off-street  parking  lots  and  collected  $49,855  in  fees  for  these 
licenses. 


TREASURY  DEPARTMENT 

Office,  Mezzanine,  City  Hall 
[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;  Rev. 
Ord.  1961,  Chap.  25.] 

Edmund  W.  Holmes,  Collector-Treasurer 

James  J.  Hyde,  First  Assistant  Collector-Treasurer,  Treasury  Division 
Thomas  F.  Leonard,  First  Assistant  Collector-Treasurer,  Collecting  Division 
James  J.  Cunningham,  Second  Assistant  Collector-Treasurer,   Treasury 

Division 
Daniel    A.    Grant,    Second    Assistant    Collector-Treasurer,    Collecting 

Division 


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Treasury  Division 
Office,  Mezzanine,  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-Custodian  of  Boston  Retire- 
ment 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. 

Collecting  Division 
Office,  Mezzanine,  City  Hall 
[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;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap. 
25.] 
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,  Mezzanine,  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;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  25.] 

OFFICIALS 

Gerard  E.  Hayes,  Chairman 

,  Vice-Chair  man 

John  F.  FitzPatrick,  Secretary 
Edmund  W.  Holmes,  Treasurer 

COMMISSIONERS 

Dr.  Joseph  I.  McGrath  Term  ending  May  1,  1974 

Alfred  W.  Archibald  Term  ending  May  1,  1974 

Gerald  E.  Hayes  Term  ending  May  1,  1969 

Daniel  Weisberg,  Stephen  0.  Slyne  Terms  ending  May  1,  1970 

Patrick  E.  Roche  Term  ending  May  1,  1975 

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 


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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  Commissioners 
of  Sinking  Funds  in  the  Treasury  Department  but  not  subject  to  the 
supervision  or  control  of  the  Collector-Treasurer. 

VETERANS'   SERVICES   DEPARTMENT 

Office,  721  City  Hall 

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

Chap.  2,   §  66;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  26.] 

John  S.  Stephans,  Veterans'  Benefits  and  Services  Commissioner 

George  L.  Glennon,  Administrative  Assistant 

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  the  termination 
of  the  Vietnam  campaign.*** 

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, 
hospitalization,  medical  care,  pensions,  and  other  veterans'  benefits. 

David  E.  Gatelv,  Supervisor  of  Veterans'  Graves  and  Registration 
Office,  721  City  Hall 

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  subject  to  the  provi- 
sions of  Chapter  31  of  the  General  Laws  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. 

***  February  1,  1955,  and  the  termination  of  the  Vietnam  campaign, 
both  dates  inclusive. 


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VARIOUS    CITY    AND     COUNTY 


DEPARTMENTS    AND 


MISCELLANEOUS    MUNICIPAL 


ACTIVITIES 


106 
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. 


Officials 


How 

Created 


Appointed  or  Elected 


By  Whom 


When 


Term 


Begins 


Length 


Auditorium  Commission 
(five) 

Boston  Employees 
Credit  Union,  City 
of 

Boston  Finance  Com- 
mission (five) 

Boston  Housing  Au- 
thority (five) 

Boston  Metropolitan 
District  Commission 
(five) 

Boston  Redevelopment 
Authority  (five) 

Charitable  Donations 
for  Inhabitants  of 
Boston,  Trustees  of. . 

Franklin  Foundation 
(twelve  Managers) . . . 

Freedom  Trail  Com- 
mission   

Government  Center 
Commission  (seven) . . 

Licensing  Board  (three) 

Old  South  Association 
in  Boston  (two  Man- 
agers)   


Ord. 


Statute 


Mayor 


Annually 
one 


Governor  A 


Governor 

and 

Mayor 


Mayor 

Supreme 
Court 


Mayor 
Mayor 
Governor  A 


City  Coun- 
cil 


Annually 
one 


Biennially 


Annually 
Four 


Biennially 
one 


Annually 


May  1 


Jan.  8 

Oct.  24 
Sept.  17 

May  1 


When 
elected 


5  yrs. 


5  yrs. 
5  yrs. 

2  yrs. 
5  yrs. 

3  yrs. 


t 
6  yrs. 

1  yr. 


a  With  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Executive  Council. 

b  As  vacancies  occur. 

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

**  Four  members  appointed  by  the  Mayor  and  City  Council  and  one  ap- 
pointed by  the  Massachusetts  State  Housing  Board. 

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


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How 

Created 

Appointed  or  Elected 

Term 

Officials 

By  Whom 

When 

Begins 

Length 

School  Buildings,  Board 
of  Commissioners  of 
(three) 

Statute 

Bequest 
Statute 

*** 
Elected 

Annually 
one 

City  elec- 
tion 

Dec.  1 

1st  Mon. 
in  Jan'y 

3  yrs. 

School  Committee  (five) 

Suffolk  County  Court- 
house     Commission 

2  yrs. 

White    Fund,    George 
Bobert  (five  Trustees) 

Youth  Activities  Com- 
mission  

t 

Annually 
one 

May  1 

5  yrs. 

***  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.) 

X  Appointing  power  shared  by  the  Mayor,  Superintendent  of  Schools  and 
Chairman  of  the  Youth  Service  Board  of  the  Commonwealth.  (See  Stat.  1965, 
Chap.  391.) 


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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; 
Stat.  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,  Chaps.  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;  Stat.  1963,  Chap.  786; 
Stat.  1965,  Chap.  208.] 

SCHOOL  COMMITTEE 

Term  ends  January,  1974 
Paul  J.  Ellison 
James  W.  Hennigan,  Jr. 
John  J.  Kerrigan 
John  J.  McDonough 
Paul  B.  Tierney 


officials 
James  W.  Hennigan,  Jr.,  Chairman 
Paul  B.  Tierney,  Treasurer 
William  J.  Leary,  Superintendent 
Edward  J.  Winter,  Secretary 
Leo  J.  Burke,  Business  Manager 
John  J.  Doherty,  Schoolhouse  Custodian 

HOARD  OF  SUPERINTENDENTS 

William  J.  Leary,  Superintendent 

ASSOCIATE  SUPERINTENDENTS 

Thomas  F.  Meagher  Marion  J.  Fahey 

Herrert  C.  Hamrelton  Paul  A.  Kennedy 

Alice  F.  Casey  Thomas  B.  McAuliffe 


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ASSISTANT  SUPERINTENDENTS 

Bernard  J.  Shulman  Peter  J.  Ingeneri 

Rollins  Griffith  Mary  E.  Martin 

William  J.  Harrison  David  E.  Rosengard 

BOSTON  BUSINESS  SCHOOL 

Boston  Vocational  Technical  Institute 

LATIN  AND  DAY  HIGH  SCHOOLS  (16) 

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

DAY    JUNIOR    HIGH    SCHOOL    DISTRICTS,    SCHOOL    DISTRICTS    WITH    JUNIOR 
HIGH   CLASSES,   AND   DAY   ELEMENTARY   SCHOOL  DISTRICTS    (74) 

East  Boston. — fJohn  Chevrus,  Chapman,  fDonald  McKay-Samuel 
Adams,  *Joseph  H.  Barnes  Junior  High,  Theodore  Lyman,  Sheridan- 
Kennedy 

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

City  Proper. — Abraham  Lincoln-Quincy,  Michelangelo,  Prince 

South  End. — Joseph  J.  Hurley,  f Rice— Franklin 

South  Boston. — Bigelow,  Thomas  N.  Hart,  John  A.  Andrew,  Norcross, 
*Patrick  F.  Gavin  Junior  High 

Roxbury. — jDearborn,  Dillaway,  Dudley,  Ellis  Mendell,  Henry  L. 
Higginson,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  fJames  P.  Timilty  Junior  High, 
Julia  Ward  Howe,  Lewis  School,  Maurice  J.  Tobin,  William  Lloyd 
Garrison,  William  Monroe  Trotter 

Brighton. — Alexander  Hamilton,  James  A.  Garfield,  *Thomas  A.  Edison 
Junior  High,  Thomas  Gardner,  Andrew  Jackson,  *William  Howard 
Taft  Junior  High 

Jamaica  Plain. — Agassiz,  |  Francis  Parkman,  James  W.  Hennigan,  Jeffer- 
son, John  Fitzgrald  Kennedy,  *Mary  E.  Curley  Junior  High 

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

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

Dorchester. — Christopher  Gibson,  Edward  Everett,  Emily  A.  Fifield, 
Raphael  Hernandez,  Frank  V.  Thompson  Middle  School,  *Grover 
Cleveland  Junior  High,  John  Marshall,  John  Winthrop,  Mary  Hemen- 
way,  Joseph  Lee,  Mather,  John  W.  McCormack  Middle  School,  Minot, 
*01iver  Wendell  Holmes  Junior  High,  Patrick  T.  Campbell  Middle 
School,  **Paul  A.  Dever,  Phillips  Brooks,  Robert  Treat  Paine,  William 
E.  Endicott,  fWilliam  E.  Russell,  *Woodrow  Wilson  Junior  High 

*  Grades  VII-I X  only.  J  Grades  K-I X. 

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

**  Grades  K-IV. 


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Hyde  Pabk. — Elihu  Greenwood,  Henry  Grew,  *Wiiliam  Barton  Rogers 

Junior  High. 
Mattapan. — Edmund  P.  Tileston,  James  J.  Chittick,  Roger  Wolcott, 

William  Bradford,  Solomon  Lewenberg  Junior  High 

SPECIAL   SCHOOLS 

School  for  the  Deaf. — Horace  Mann  School 

English  Language  Center. — For  instruction  in  English  language 

ADMINISTRATIVE   OFFICES 

Administration  Building,  15  Beacon  street.  Headquarters  of  all 
officials.     Annex,  45  Myrtle  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. 

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 
43  Supervisors  of  Attendance  besides  2  Head  Supervisors  and  they  may  be 
seen  at  9  a.m.  and  1  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  Health  Services 
in  charge  of  1  ophthalmologist,  1  otologist,  56  school  physicians  and  1 
school  medical  aid. 

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  elementary,  middle,  junior  high 
and  high  schools  there  is  1  chief  supervising  nurse  in  charge  of  4  supervis- 
ing nurses,  1  nurse  assigned  to  the  otologist,  and  79  school  nurses. 

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  Department  of  Physical  Education  comprises  one  director;  one 
associate  director;  one  assistant  director;  five  elementary  supervisors, 
seventy-one  women  and  eighty  men  instructors  of  physical  education; 
ninety-eight  teacher  coaches  of  athletics,  high  schools;  fifty  teacher 
coaches  of  athletics,  junior  high  schools ;  fifty-two  assistant  teacher  coaches, 
sixty  play  teachers. 

*Grades  VII-IX  only. 


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VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION   AND   INDUSTRIAL   ARTS 

The  Department  of  Vocational  Education  and  Industrial  Arts  conducts 
occupations  oriented  instructions  in  the  following  areas : 

Boston  Trade  High  School 
Trade  High  School  for  Girls 
Boston  Technical  High  School 
Boston  Vocational  Technical  Institute 

Cooperative-Industrial  Programs  in  each  of  eight  high  schools 
Industrial  Arts  programs  in  Grades  6  through  12 
Manpower  Development  Training  Classes 
Apprenticeship-Journeyman  Classes 

The  department  comprises  one  director;  five  assistant  directors;  two 
head  masters;  one  shop  superintendent;  one  assistant  head  master;  twenty- 
one  assistant  principals,  industrial  arts;  eight  coordinator-directors;  eleven 
heads  of  department;  four  supervisors. 

COOPERATIVE  INDUSTRIAL  PROGRAMS 

The  Cooperative-Industrial  Courses  have  thirty-five  shops;  Boston 
Trade  High  School,  twenty-five  shops;  Trade  High  School  for  Girls,  twelve 
shops;  Boston  Vocational  Technical  Institute,  five  shops;  Boston  Tech- 
nical High  School,  twenty  shops;  for  a  total  of  ninety-seven  shops. 

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  mechan- 
ics), Charlestown  (electricity),  Dorchester  (woodwork  and  upholstery), 
East  Boston  (machine  shop),  Hyde  Park  (machine  shop),  Jamaica  Plain 
(agriculture),  and  South  Boston  (sheet  metal  and  auto  body). 

INDUSTRIAL   ART   PROGRAMS 

There  are  155  shops,  including  twelve  classrooms  used  for  drafting  in  the 
elementary  and  junior  high  schools,  in  which  the  following  subjects  are 
taught  —  drafting,  electricity,  electronics,  ceramics,  interior  decoration, 
machine  shop,  graphic  arts,  general  metal,  sheet  metal,  woodworking, 
and  diversified  industrial  arts  subject  areas. 

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

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

APPRENTICESHIP   AND   JOURNEYMAN    CLASSES 

1,873  regularly  indentured  apprentices  in  sixteen  different  trades  were  en- 
rolled in  related  work  classes  conducted  in  our  vocational  school  facilities 
on  late  afternoons,  evenings,  and  Saturday  mornings.  We  also  provided 
an  upgrading  service  for  307  journeymen  in  seven  trades  and  eleven  skills. 


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A  course  was  held  to  prepare  disadvantaged  or  minority  groups  to  take  en- 
trance examinations  for  the  apprenticeship  program.  127  people  took 
part  in  this  program.  A  special  training  project  was  conducted  for  the 
Boston  Police  Department.  Twenty-nine  Police  Cadets  were  given  an 
intensive  course  in  typing  at  the  Boston  Business  School.  In  Evening 
Health  Occupations  Classes,  two  courses  were  held  in  Medical  Records 
Terminology  for  office  personnel  at  the  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital. 

MANPOWER   DEVELOPMENT   TRAINING   ACT   CLASSES 

7,890  persons  have  completed  their  training  since  1962  in  this  coopera- 
tive venture  conducted  by  the  Boston  Public  Schools  with  the  assistance 
of  the  Vocational  Division  of  the  Massachusetts  Department  of  Educa- 
tion, the  State  Employment  Service,  the  Federal  Department  of  Health, 
Education  and  Welfare  and  the  Federal  Department  of  Labor.  This 
massive  effort  to  break  the  vicious  cycle  of  unemployment,  poverty  and 
welfare  has  been  financed  100%  by  the  Federal  Government.  Training 
in  new  skills  has  enabled  men  and  women  to  get  new  jobs  and  a  fresh  start 
in  life. 

ROSTON   VOCATIONAL  TECHNICAL   INSTITUTE 

The  post-high  school  Vocational  Technical  Institute  was  established 
April  15, 1964  to  provide  an  opportunity  for  high  school  graduates  residing 
in  Boston  and  other  cities  and  towns  in  Massachusetts,  unable  to  attend  a 
four-year  college,  to  secure  advanced  technical  training  without  paying 
tuition,  provided  that  similar  training  is  not  offered  in  the  local  area.  At 
the  present  time  this  training  is  limited  to  three  fields:  electronic  tech- 
nology; design  technology  and  mechanical  technology. 

HOME  ECONOMICS  DEPARTMENT 

The  Home  Economics  Department  consists  of  150  teachers,  a  director 
and  an  assistant  director.  Two  of  the  teachers  are  on  temporary  transfer 
from  Boston  Trade  School. 

There  are  ten  high  schools  offering  courses  in  home  economics  — 
Brighton,  Charlestown,  Dorchester,  East  Boston,  Girls',  Hyde  Park, 
Jamaica  Plain,  Jeremiah  E.  Burke,  Boslindale,  South  Boston,  and  its 
L  Street  Annex. 

In  the  high  schools  of  Boston  there  are  eighteen  permanently  appointed 
teachers  and  three  provisional  teachers  of  home  economics. 

In  the  junior  high  and  elementary  schools  of  Boston  there  are  109 
permanently  appointed  teachers,  four  of  whom  are  assigned  to  the  following 
schools:  Job  Preparation  Center  and  Horace  Mann  School.  There  are 
eight  provisional  teachers,  one  of  whom  is  assigned  to  the  Centaum  School, 
and  twelve  full  and  part-time  temporary  teachers  in  the  department. 

The  home  economics  facilities  in  the  Boston  schools  are  as  follows: 
143  clothing  laboratories; 
Fifty  one  food  laboratories; 
No  home  economics  suites. 


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EVENING  HIGH,  ELEMENTARY  AND  TRADE  SCHOOLS 

There  are  seven  evening  high  schools:  Boston  Central  Adult  (Dor- 
chester High  Schoolhouse),  Brighton,  East  Boston  (Joseph  H.  Barnes 
Schoolhouse),  Charlestown,  Roslindale,  Roxbury  (Jeremiah  E.  Burke 
High  School  Building),  and  South  Boston.  There  schools,  the  sessions  of 
which  are  held  on  Tuesday  and  Thursday  evenings,  from  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 
are  conducted  in  the  several  high  schoolhouses  of  the  districts  named.  All 
but  the  Boston  Central  Adult  High  and  Boston  Evening  Trade  School 
are  commercial  schools. 

There  are  eight  evening  elementary  schools  in  session  on  Tuesday  and 
Thursday  evenings  from  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

North  End  Evening  Elementary  School  meets  on  Monday  and  Wednes- 
day evenings  from  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

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

Adult  Basis  Education  Centers,  under  Title  III  E.S.E.A.  of  1966,  are 
functioning  at  the  following  Centers : 

Brighton  —  William  Howard  Taft  School  Building,  20  Warren  Street, 
Monday  and  Wednesday,  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

Chinatown  —  Maryknoll  Convent,  78  Tyler  Street,  Monday  through 
Friday,  9  a.m.  to  12  noon  and  1 :30  p.m.  to  3  p.m. 

Dorchester-Columbia  Point  —  John  W.  McCormack  School  Building, 
325  Mt.  Vernon  Street,  Monday  and  Wednesday,  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

Dorchester  —  Boston  Adult  Learning  Center,  584  Columbia  Road, 
Room  200.  Monday  through  Friday,  9  a.m.  to  12  noon  and  1  p.m.  to  4  p.m. 

Dorchester  —  Monsignor  Ryan  School  Building.  11  May  hew  Street. 
Monday  and  Thursday,  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

East  Boston  —  Adult  Learning  Center,  38  William  Kelly  Square,  second 
floor.   Monday  through  Friday,  8:30  a.m.  to  4:30  p.m. 

Jamaica  Plain  —  John  F.  Kennedy  School  Building,  7  Bolster  Street. 
Tuesday  and  Thursday  evenings,  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

North  End  Community  Center  —  25  Parmenter  Street,  Tuesday  and 
Wednesday  evenings,  6:30  p.m.  to  9:30  p.m. 

Roxbury-North  Dorchester  —  Jeremiah  E.  Burke  School  Building 
60  Washington  Street.  Monday  and  Wednesday  evenings,  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

South  End-Boston  Proper  —  Abraham  Lincoln  School  Building,  152 
Arlington  Street.    Monday  and  Wednesday  evenings,  7  p.m.  to  10  P.M. 

South  End  —  South  End  Neighborhood  Action  Program  (SNAP),  109 
West  Brookline  Street.  Monday  through  Friday,  9  a.m.  to  12  noon  and 
1  p.m.  to  4  p.m.,  Monday  through  Thursday,  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m. 

South  End  —  Women's  Service  Club,  Inc.,  464  Massachusetts  Avenue. 
Tuesday  and  Thursday  evening,  5  p.m.  to  8  p.m. 

West  End  —  Charles  Street  facility.  Women's  Division,  Tuesday  and 
Thursday  evenings,  5:45  p.m.  to  8:45  p.m.;  Men's  Division,  Monday 
through  Friday,  9  a.m.  to  3  p.m. 


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ENGLISH   LANGUAGE    CENTER 

In  the  Rice  School  there  are  classes  for  adult  immigrants  and  all  non- 
English  speaking  residents  where  instruction  in  the  English  language  is 
provided,  classes  being  conducted  daily  (except  Saturday)  for  five  hours  a 
day  from  9:00  a.m.  to  2:00  p.m. 


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  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  School,  152  Arlington  Street,  Boston,  for  the  equivalent  of  a 
continuation  school  education. 


USE   OF   SCHOOLHOUSES   FOR   EDUCATIONAL,   SOCIAL,   AND   CTVIC 
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  fourteen  School  Centers,  each  having 
a  manager  and  largely  attended  on  two  evenings  a  week,  Monday  and 
Wednesday  from  7  p.m.  to  10  p.m.  More  than  125  school  buildings  are 
also  used  by  non-school  center  groups. 


USE   OF   SCHOOLS   AS   POLLING  PLACES 

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 

Teachers  and  members  of  the  supervising  staff  who  have  reached  the 
age  of  sixty  and  who  had  not  become  members  of  the  Boston  Retirement 
System  or  the  State-Boston  Retirement  System,  may  be  retired  on  pension 
by  a  majority  vote  of  the  School  Committee.  On  December  31,  1971, 
seventy  such  retired  teachers  were  receiving  pensions. 

The  Boston  Teacher's  Retirement  Fund  Association,  started  in  1900,  is 
at  present  paying  $120  per  year  to  1,937  annuitants.  The  total  amount 
of  the  fund  on  August  31,  1971,  was  $2,472,258. 

On  that  date  3,928  teachers  were  contributing  $24  per  year  to  the  fund. 


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AIR   POLLUTION    CONTROL   COMMISSION 

Room  84,  Quincy  Market  Building,  Boston  02109 
[Rev.  Ord.  of  1961,  Chap.  15,  Sec.  2,  as  inserted  by  Sec.  5,  Chap.  14,  of 
Ordinances  of  1968,  and  amended  by  Sec.  1,  Chap.  3,  Ordinances  of 
1970] 

Commissioners 
Alan  J.  Cushner,  Chairman 
Alden  S.  Gifford,  Jr. 
Leon  S.  White,  Commissioner  of  Health  and  Hospitals 

David  Standley,  Executive  Director 

The  Air  Pollution  Control  Commission  was  established  December  12, 
1968.  The  Commission  consists  of  three  members  who  serve  without  com- 
pensation, the  executive  director,  and  staff.  It  is  empowered  to  regulate 
and  control  atmospheric  pollution  as  provided  in  Section  31C,  Chapter  111, 
of  the  General  Laws.  On  April  2,  1970,  the  Commission  was  given  juris- 
diction to  investigate,  control,  and  abate  noise  within  the  city,  to  establish 
standards,  and  to  issue  permits  and  establish  fees  therefor.  The  Com- 
mission also  has  power  to  require  the  production  of  records  and  documents 
relevant  to  its  work  and  to  compel  the  attendance  and  testimony  of 
witnesses  before  it. 


BOSTON   CONSUMERS'   COUNCIL 

[Ordinances  of  1968,  Chapter  15] 

The  Boston  Consumers'  Council  is  a  board  consisting  of  seven  members 
serving  coterminously  with  the  Mayor.  The  Consumers'  Council  con- 
ducts studies,  investigations,  and  research  in  matters  affecting  consumer 
interests;  keeps  consumers  informed  on  matters  affecting  their  interests; 
and  pursues  a  course  of  action  to  insure  to  the  fullest  possible  extent  that 
all  laws  enacted  for  the  benefit  of  consumers  are  duly  enforced. 

Ruth  F.  Straus  (appointed  after  consultation  with  the  Massachusetts 
Consumers'  Council) 

Herbert  P.  Gleason,  Corporation  Counsel  (Richard  G.  Huber  serves  as 

the  Corporation  Counsel's  Designee) 
Michael  Tarallo 

John  McCarthy,  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures 
Leon  S.  White,   Commissioner,   Department  of  Health  and  Hospitals 

(Leonard  Pasciucco  serves  as  his  Designee) 

Maureen  Schaffner 

Harold  F.  Fennell 

Richard  A.  Borten,  Executive  Secretary 


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CONSERVATION  COMMISSION 

[Established  by  Ordinances  of  1970,  Chapter  10] 

Joseph  E.  Curtis,  ex  officio 

Susan  Straight  Term  ends  in  1971 

John  E.  Lamie  Term  ends  in  1974 

Augusta  Bailey  Term  ends  in  1972 

Eugenie  Beal  Term  ends  in  1973 

John  Lewis  Term  ends  in  1973 

Dr.  Lorin  E.  Nevling,  Jr.  Term  ends  in  1975 

The  Boston  Conservation  Commission,  established  in  June,  1970,  is 
composed  of  six  Commissioners  appointed  by  the  Mayor  for  three-year 
terms.  The  Mayor  appoints  the  chairman  and  vice-chairman.  The  Com- 
missioner of  Parks  and  Recreation  will  serve  as  an  ex-officio  member.  All 
of  the  Commissioners  are  residents  of  Boston.  Two  Commissioners  are 
appointed  from  a  list  of  ten  candidates  nominated  by  the  following  organi- 
zations —  Massachusetts  Audubon  Society,  Massachusetts  Forest  and 
Park  Association,  Massachusetts  Roadside  Council,  Trustees  of  Reserva- 
tions, Eastern  Massachusetts  of  the  Sierra  Club. 

The  Conservation  Commission  is  established  under  Chapter  40,  Section 
8c,  of  the  General  Laws  for  the  promotion  and  development  of  natural 
resources  and  for  the  protection  of  the  watershed  resources  of  Boston.  The 
Commission  shall  conduct  research,  seek  to  coordinate  the  activities  of 
unofficial  conservation  bodies,  hold  public  hearings,  may  prepare,  print, 
and  distribute  books,  maps,  plans,  and  pamphlets.  Among  such  plans 
may  be  a  conservation  and  passive  outdoor  recreation  plan.  The  Com- 
mission shall  publish  an  annual  report.  The  Commission  may  receive  gifts, 
bequests,  or  devices  or  interests  in  real  property  of  the  kinds  mentioned 
below  in  the  name  of  the  city,  subject  to  the  approval  cf  the  City  Council. 
It  may  purchase  interests  in  such  land  with  sums  available  to  it,  or  it  may 
lease,  exercise  conservation  restrictions,  easements,  or  other  contractual 
rights  including  conveyances,  and  it  shall  manage  and  control  the  same. 

The  Conservation  Commission  can  apply  for  funds  under  the  Self 
Help  Act  (G.  L.  Ch.  132  A,  Section  11)  for  acquiring  land  and  in  planning 
or  designing  suitable  public  outdoor  facilities.  The  City  will  be  reimbursed 
up  to  fifty  percent  of  the  cost  of  such  a  project. 

Under  the  provisions  of  the  Hatch  Act  (G.  L.  Ch.  131,  Section  40)  the 
Conservation  Commission  will  hold  a  public  hearing  when  an  individual  or 
party  wishes  to  fill  or  dredge  wetlands  bordering  on  inland  waters. 


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DEVELOPMENT  AND  INDUSTRIAL  COMMISSION 

[Ordinances  of  1969,  Chapter  2] 

The  Commission  consists  of  fifteen  Commissioners  appointed  by  the 
Mayor,  subject  to  the  confirmation  of  City  Council. 

The  Development  and  Industrial  Commission  conducts  research  into 
industrial  conditions,  investigates  and  assists  in  the  establishment  of 
educational,  commercial,  and  industrial  projects,  including  projects  in- 
volving private  enterprise,  for  the  purpose  of  expanding  or  strengthening 
the  local  economy,  and  seeks  to  coordinate  the  activation  of  unofficial 
bodies  organized  for  said  purposes,  and  may  advertise,  prepare,  print,  and 
distribute  books,  maps,  charts,  and  pamphlets  to  further  the  purposes  for 
which  it  is  established. 

George  Seybolt,  Chairman  Term  ends  in  1974 

Thomas  E.  Leggat,  Vice-Chairman  Term  ends  in  1974 

Kenneth  Guscott  Term  ends  in  1973 

Donald  Sneed,  Jr.  Term  ends  in  1973 

R.  John  Griefen  Term  ends  in  1972 

Matthew  McGrath  Term  ends  in  1972 

C.  Vincent  Vappi  Term  ends  in  1972 

Thomas  J.  Flatley  Term  ends  in  1971 

Francis  B.  Gummere  Term  ends  in  1971 

Richard  H.  Hallett  Term  ends  in  1970 

Irving  W.  Janock  Term  ends  in  1971 

Gerald  W.  Bush,  Director  To  serve  at  pleasure  of  the  Mayor 


COORDINATING     COUNCIL    ON    DRUG    ABUSE 

[ordinances  of  1969,  chapter  17] 

The  Coordinating  Council  on  Drug  Abuse  is  a  21-member  Board  ap- 
pointed by  the  Mayor  for  terms  coterminous  with  the  Mayor.  Its  duties 
are  "to  coordinate  to  the  fullest  possible  extent  the  work  of  all  public 
and  private  agencies  dealing  with  drug  abuse,  to  effect  an  ongoing  dialogue 
and  exchange  of  views  between  such  agencies;  to  conduct,  either  inde- 
pendently or  in  conjunction  with  the  school  committee  of  the  city,  such 
drug  education  programs  as  said  council  deems  advisable;  to  conduct 
studies,  investigations,  and  research  into  the  source  and  use  of  harmful 
drugs  and  narcotic  drugs ;  to  pursue  a  course  of  action  that  all  laws  govern- 
ing the  sale,  possession,  and  use  of  both  harmful  and  narcotic  drugs  are 
duly  enforced;  and  by  the  use  of  such  media  of  communication  as  said 
council  shall  from  time  to  time  deem  appropriate,  keep  the  inhabitants 
of  the  city  informed  respecting  the  use  of  both  harmful  and  narcotic 
drugs." 


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Gordon  A.  Martin,  Chairman 

John  Bartholomew  Clarence  (Jeep)  Jones 

Sherrille  Beverly  William  Kearney 

Cesar  A.  Coloma  Dr.  Stanley  Klein 

Joseph  Daly  Dr.  David  C.  Lewis 

Dr.  Mary  Jane  England  Capt.  Daniel  MacDonaldJ 

Victor  Feliciano  Nathaniel  Wade 

Dr.  Jonathon  Fine*  Thomas  McAuldtfe 

John  A.  FiSKEf  Commissioner  Joseph  McBrine 

Marion  Freedman  Roeert  Remick 

Sister  Margaret  Gorman  Ciriaco  Tordiglione 


COMMISSION  ON  MENTAL  RETARDATION 

[Ordinances  of  1970,  Chapter  1] 

The  Commission  on  Mental  Retardation  shall  coordinate  the  work 
of  public  and  private  agencies  dealing  with  the  problems  of  children 
who  are  mentally  retarded,  and  assist  retarded  children  in  any  manner. 

Sophie  M.  Gallagher  § 

Pauline  M.  Sprague§ 

Vincent  P.  Connors  § 

domenick  s.  pasciucco§ 

Lorraine  Sullivan  § 

roeert  briggs§ 

Daphna  Krouk§ 

Daniel  E.  Needham,  designee  of  Parks  and  Recreation  Commissioner. 

BOSTON    INDUSTRIAL    DEVELOPMENT 
FINANCING  AUTHORITY 

[General  Laws  Chapter  40D,  Section  3] 
The    Industrial    Development    Financing    Authority    is    designed    to 
attract  new  industry  to  Boston  or  substantially  expand  industry  existing 
in  the  city  through  industrial  development  projects  financed  through 
the  Boston  Industrial  Development  Financing  Authority. 


Robert  M.  Weinberg  Term  ends 

David  W.  Davis  Term  ends 

William  H.  O'Leary  Term  ends 

Matthew  L.  McGrath  Term  ends 


in  1977 
in  1976 
in  1975 
in  1974 


Lawrence  A.  Bianchi  Term  ends  in  1973 

*Designee  of  Commissioner  of  Health  and  Hospitals 
fDesignee  of  Corporation  Counsel 
JDesignee  of  Police  Commissioner 

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


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BOSTON  FINANCE  COMMISSION 

Office,  Room  820,  3  Center  Plaza 
[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 

Ralph  I.  Fine,  Chairman 
Thomas  J.  Murphy,  Executive  Secretary 

COMMISSIONERS 

Henry  B.  Wynn  Term  ends  in  1976 

Ralph  I.  Fine  Term  ends  in  1977 

Joseph  P.  McNamara  Term  ends  in  1973 

Frederick  R.  H.  Witherby  Term  ends  in  1974 

William  A.  Davis,  Jr.  Term  ends  in  1975 

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  payroll,  bill  or  claim  referred  to  it  by  them. 


LICENSING  BOARD 

Office,  Room  240,  City  Hall 
[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  licensing 
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.] 


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OFFICIALS 

Charles  L.  Byrne,  Chairman 
Edwin  J.  Thomas,  Secretary 

THE    BOARD 

Charles  L.  Byrne  Term  ends  in  1978 

Clarence  B.  Elam  Term  ends  in  1974 

William  F.  Arrigal  Term  ends  in  1976 

The  Licensing  Board  for  the  City  of  Boston  was  established  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.  The  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  Police  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,  Chapter  423,  the  Board  was  given  the  right  to  issue 
licenses  to  "Sunday  dealers  in  ice  cream,  or  confectionery,  or  soda  water 
or  fruit."    (Bepealed,  see  c.  616  Acts  of  1962.) 

By  Statutes  of  1918,  Chapter  259,  the  Board  was  granted  the  right  to 
issue  licenses  to  lodging  houses. 

By  Statutes  of  1922,  Chapter  392,  the  Board  was  given  the  right  to 
license  "retail  vendors  of  soft  drinks." 

By  Statutes  of  1926,  Chapter  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  organ- 
izations which  dispense  food  and  beverages  on  their  premises,  to  their 
stockholders  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  li- 
censes to  common  victuallers,  innholders,  taverns,  clubs  and  retail  drug- 
gist 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  li- 
cense 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 
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  appli- 
cations in  a  designated  representative  district. 


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By  Statutes  of  1966,  Chapter  729,  the  authority  to  grant  employment 
office  licenses,  with  the  exception  of  "not  for  profit  class"  of  employment 
agency,  was  transferred  to  the  Department  of  Labor  and  Industries  of  the 
Commonwealth. 

By  Statutes  of  1969,  Chapter  59,  Sections  41  to  46,  inclusive  of  Chapter 
140  of  the  General  Laws  was  repealed;  and  in  Section  202  of  said  Chapter 
140,  the  words  "keepers  of  intelligence  offices"  to  be  stricken  out. 

By  Statutes  of  1971,  Chapter  486,  the  Licensing  Board  for  the  City 
of  Boston  was  designated  as  the  "Local  Licensing  Authority"  under  the 
provisions  of  said  chapter  (beano  bill). 

TRUSTEES  OF  CHARITABLE  DONATIONS    FOR 
INHABITANTS  OF  BOSTON 


Terms  Ending  May  1,  1972 
James  Demos  Kakridas  Walter  Ollen 

Terms  Ending  May  1,  1973 
Anna  De  Fronzo  Frank  Manning 

Henry  M.  Guenthner  Paul  V.  McCaffrey 

Terms  Ending  May  1,  1974 
Melnea  Cass  James  Ellis 

Katharine  E.  Driscoll  Ida  Mae  Kahn 

Terms  Ending  May  1,  1975 
Bev.  Michael  E.  Haynes  Bev.  William  B.  McClain 

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.  In  1921 
the  name  of  the  corporation  was  changed  to  Overseers  of  the  Public  Wel- 
fare. The  members  of  the  corporation  also  constitute  the  Trustees  of 
John  Boylston's  Charitable  Donations.  The  total  amount  of  the  18 
permanent  charity  funds  in  the  custody  of  the  corporation  on  Decem- 
ber 31,  1970,  was  $1,062,275.74,  the  annual  income  from  which  ($50,035.78 
in  1969)  is  distributed  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  donations. 

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  corporation  of  the  franklin  foundation 
John  A.  Lunn,  President 
Georges  F.  Doriot,  Vice-President 
Noel  Morss,  Vice-President  and  Secretary 
Charles  E.  Cotting,  Treasurer 


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Kevin  H.  White,  Mayor  of  Boston  (ex  officio) 

Rev.  Rhys  Williams,  Congregational  Minister  (ex  officio) 

Rev.  Robert  W.  Golledge,  Episcopalian  Minister  (ex  officio) 

C.  William  Anderson,  Charles  E.  Cotting,  Georges  F.  Doriot,  John 

P.  Kendall,  John  Lowell,  John  A.  Lunn,  Noel  Morss,  Ralph  H. 

Young,  Appointed  by  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court. 

Franklin  Institute  of  Boston,  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  Insti- 
tute of  Boston  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  Franklin,  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." 

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  Public  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  out  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  Sterling,  of  which  I  leave  one  Million  sixty-one 
Thousand  Pounds  to  the  Disposition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of 
Boston,  and  Three  Millions  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  Jan- 
uary 17,  1894,  by  direction  of  the  three  ministers  and  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men of  the  City,  which  board  claimed  to  be  the  successors  of  the  "Select- 
men", $329,300.48  ({% J  of  the  fund)  was  paid  to  the  City  Treasurer, 
for  "the  purchase  of  land  and  the  erection  thereon  of  the  Franklin  In- 
stitute of  Boston  and  for  the  equipment  of  the  same."  Owing  to  a  series  of 
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 


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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  by  the  Court.  In  1908  the 
Franklin  Fund  Managers  were  incorporated  as  The  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.  Car- 
negie agreed  to  duplicate. 

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  Franklin  Institute  of  Boston. 

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  Union  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  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  voted  to  confirm  the  action  of  the  Members  of  the  Franklin 
Foundation  to  confer  the  Degree  of  Associate  in  Engineering  upon  qualified 
graduates  of  the  Institute. 

In  1961,  the  name  of  the  school  was  again  changed  to  Franklin  Institute 
of  Boston.  It  is  maintained  partly  by  tuition  fees  ($707,289  for  the  fiscal 
year  1971),  and  income  from  the  previously  mentioned  funds  (i.e.,  the 
Andrew  Carnegie  donation  and  the  Storrow  bequest).  The  Franklin  Union 
Building  contains  eleven  classrooms,  four  drafting  rooms,  two  shops,  and 
eight  laboratories.  There  is  also  an  auditorium  with  a  seating  capacity 
of  927. 

A  second  building,  acquired  in  1960  at  4  Appleton  Street,  contains  four 
classrooms,  two  laboratories,  one  shop,  and  two  offices.  A  third  building, 
acquired  in  1965  at  439-441  Tremont  Street,  contains  five  classrooms, 
four  laboratories,  one  shop,  and  three  offices.  Five  hundred  adult  students 
received  instruction  at  evening  sessions  and  seven  hundred  in  day  courses 
during  the  school  year  of  1971. 

The  Franklin  Fund  (Second  Part)  will  become  available  in  1991. 


124 
GEORGE   ROBERT  WHITE  FUND 

Office,  City  Hall  Room  620 
Trustees,  1973 

Kevin  H.  White,  Mayor,  Chairman 

Patrick  F.  McDonough,  President,  Boston  City  Council 

John  F.  FitzPatrigk,  City  Auditor 

John  F.  Collins,  President,  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce 

James  P.  Lynch,  Jr.,  President,  Boston  Bar  Association 

James  J.  Walsh,  Manager 
Robert  J.  Ryan,  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. 

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 
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  disburse- 
ments 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. 


125 

In  the  summer  of  1936  the  Trustees  voted  to  have  thirteen  memorial 
bronze  tablets  fabricated  and  placed  in  the  walls  of  the  Paul  Revere  Mall 
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  Mall  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 
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.  261    to  26  WW,  shall  be  known,  and  may 

be  cited,  as  the  Housing  Authority  Law.] 

MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOSTON  HOUSING  AUTHORITY 

Appointed  by  the  Mayor  and  City  Council 

Julius  Bernstein,  Chairman  Term  ends  in  1973 

Doris  Bunte,  Secretary  Term  ends  in  1975 

Jacob  I.  Brier,  Member  Term  ends  in  1972 

Dominick  S.  Pasciuccio,  Member  Term  ends  in  1976 


126 

Appointed  by  the  Commissioner,  Department  of  Commerce 

and  Development 

John  P.  Connolly,  Vice-Chairman  and  Treasurer      Term  ends  in  1973 

The  Boston  Housing  Authority  was  established  by  the  Mayor  and  the 
City  Council,  in  October  of  1935,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
the  Housing  Authority  Law  of  the  Commonwealth. 

Five  members  of  the  Authority,  each  appointed  for  a  term  of  five  years, 
guide  and  act  on  local  agency  policy. 

Four  of  these  members  are  appointed  by  the  Mayor  with  the  approval 
of  the  City  Council.  The  Commissioner,  Department  of  Commerce  and 
Development,  appoints  one  member.  As  the  terms  of  the  members 
expire,  successors  are  appointed  by  the  same  appointive  powers  for  terms 
of  five  years. 

The  objective  of  the  public  housing  program  administered  by  the 
Boston  Housing  Authority  is  to  provide  low-rent  housing  for  low-income 
families  and  for  elderly  people  of  limited  income. 

To  insure  this  purpose,  the  Authority  has  established  specific  policies 
governing  eligibility  both  for  admission  to  and  continued  occupancy  of 
all  its  public  housing  developments. 

Housing  developments  are  built  and  operated  either  with  federal  or 
state  financial  assistance.  The  federal  program  dates  back  to  the  initial 
occupancy  of  the  Mary  Ellen  McCormack  Houses  in  May  of  1938.  State 
legislation,  in  1948,  initiated  the  state-aided  program. 

The  Boston  Housing  Authority  has,  under  management,  15  federally 
aided  and  10  state-aided  developments  for  low-income  families. 

Also  under  management,  in  its  program  of  specialized  housing  for  the 
elderly,  are  nine  federally  aided  and  two  state-aided  developments. 

The  location  and  number  of  dwelling  units  of  both  these  housing  pro- 
grams are  noted  in  the  following  tables. 


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Development  Program 


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Groveland 

2- 

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Riverside 

2- 

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Charlestown 

2- 

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Rockland 

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Model  Cities 

No.  Apts. 

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538 

493 

1,750 

Total 

Scheduled  Construction  Winter  and  Early  Spring 

2-53  St.  Botolph 

2-57  Dorchester 

2-58  West  Newton 

2-60  Model  Cities 

Total 

Under  Planning  and  Consideration 

SUMMARY 

Total  Under  Construction 

Total  Schedule  Construction  Winter  and  Early  Spring 

Total  Under  Planning  and  Consideration 

Development  Program  Total  2,781 

E     Designed  for  Elderly 
F     Designed  for  Family 

BOSTON  REDEVELOPMENT  AUTHORITY 

Office,  City  Hall,  Room  900 

[Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  121B,  as  amended] 

Appointed  by  Mayor  with  Approval  of  City  Council 

Robert  L.  Farrell,  Chairman  Term  ends  in  1974 

Patrick  J.  Bocanfuso,  Vice  Chairman  Term  ends  in  1973 

James  G.  Colbert,  Treasurer  Term  ends  in  1972 

Joseph  J.  Walsh  Term  ends  in  1971 

Appointed  by  Massachusetts  Department  of  Community  Affairs 

Paul  J.  Burns,  Assistant  Treasurer  Term  ends  in  1975 

Robert  T.  Kenney,  Director 

Kane  Simonian,  Secretary  and  Executive  Director 


131 

The  Boston  Redevelopment  Authority,  established  in  accordance  with 
General  Laws,  Chapter  121B,  has  the  sole  responsibility  for  urban  renewal 
activities  in  the  City  of  Boston. 

The  Authority  was  organized  in  September,  1957,  and  received  its 
certificate  of  organization  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth  on 
October  4,  1957. 

Under  the  provisions  of  the  Housing  Act  of  1949,  as  amended,  the 
Federal  Housing  and  Urban  Development  Department  is  authorized  to 
enter  into  contracts  with  local  redevelopment  authorities  to  finance  slum 
clearance,  urban  renewal  projects  and  open  space,  urban  beautification 
and  other  programs  designed  to  prevent  the  spread  of  urban  blight  through 
rehabilitation  and  conservation  measures  and  to  improve  the  quality  of 
the  urban  environment.  The  most  common  form  of  urban  renewal  financ- 
ing is  one  in  which  the  local  government  provides  one-third  of  the  net 
cost  of  undertaking  a  project  and  the  federal  government  provides  the 
other  two-thirds. 

Chapter  121B  of  the  General  Laws  provides  authority  for  local  com- 
munities to  carry  out  urban  renewal  without  federal  aid. 

Under  Chapter  652,  Acts  of  1960  (Mass.  Gen.  Laws,  Chapter  121A), 
the  City  Planning  Board  was  abolished  and  all  its  staff  transferred  to  the 
Authority.  The  functions,  duties,  and  responsibilities  for  general  city 
planning  and  development  was  merged  into  one  agency,  the  Boston 
Redevelopment  Authority. 

A  brief  description  of  major  renewal  projects  approved  by  the  Authority 
as  of  December  31,  1971,  and  a  summary  of  planning  activities  follow. 

Campus  High  School,  UR  Mass.  R-129.  The  129-acre  Campus  High 
School  Project,  located  in  the  Model  Cities  area  of  Roxbury,  received 
federal  approval  for  early  land  acquisition  in  September,  1969.  Planning 
studies  have  been  completed  for  the  area  and  the  urban  renewal  plan 
submitted  to  the  United  States  Department  of  Housing  and  Urban  De- 
velopment. The  project  is  the  site  for  a  5,000-student,  city-wide  Second- 
ary Education  Complex,  now  under  construction  on  thirty-five  acres  of  the 
project  area,  that  will  include  a  Center  for  Education  in  Performing  and 
Visual  Arts,  a  Center  for  Physical  Education  and  Recreation,  a  public 
concourse,  parking,  and  a  community  center.  An  elementary  school  is 
also  planned.  The  Lower  Roxbury  Community  Corporation  plans  to 
build  more  than  300  units  of  housing  for  low-  and  moderate-income  families, 
and  another  250  units  are  proposed.  The  Massachusetts  Department  of 
Public  Works  has  cleared  an  adjacent  area  of  twenty-two  acres  to  provide 
for  the  construction  of  the  Inner  Belt  and  Southwest  Expressway.  Activi- 
ties have  been  suspended  since  1970,  however,  under  the  Governor's  state 
highway  moratorium  and  restudy. 

Central  Business  District  Projects.  The  original  Central  Business  Dis- 
trict Project,  encompassing  245  acres,  received  early  land  acquisition 
approval  from  the  federal  government  in  August,  1966,  but  did  not  receive 
final  approval  and  funding.  Three  smaller  projects,  however,  including 
land  that  had  been  acquired  through  early  land  acquisition,  have  been 
designated  renewal  areas : 


132 

1.  In  School-Franklin  (UR  Mass.  R-82A),  a  nine-acre  project,  con- 
struction was  completed  in  1970  of  the  new  Woolworth's  department 
store  with  adjoining  900-car  parking  garage,  the  Boston  Company  Build- 
ing, and  the  Sack  Pi-Alley  Theater-Coffman  parking  garage  complex. 
The  Boston  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank  and  the  renovation  of  Old  City  Hall 
for  office  and  commercial  use  were  completed  in  1972.  In  addition,  School 
Street  will  be  aligned  with  Milk  Street,  creating  a  triangular  piece  of  land 
that  will  be  converted  to  a  small  park.  Franklin  Street  has  been  relocated, 
a  new  entrance  to  the  Washington  Street  MBTA  built,  and  Filene's  has 
undertaken  a  major  addition  at  Franklin  and  Washington  Streets,  ad- 
jacent to  the  project  area.  A  new  Shoppers  Park  will  be  developed  be- 
tween Filene's  and  the  relocated  end  of  Franklin  Street  when  the  depart- 
ment store's  new  building  is  completed  in  1973. 

2.  Boylston-Essex  (UR  Mass.  R-82B),  primarily  a  street  realignment 
project  (six-tenths  of  an  acre),  includes  a  new  Essex  MBTA  station, 
alignment  of  Boylston  Street  to  meet  Essex,  and  a  proposed  small  com- 
mercial building  for  the  newly  created  land  at  that  corner. 

3.  South  Station  (UR  Mass.  R-82C)  will  be  the  site  for  a  Trans- 
portation Center  and  major  office  tower,  plus  traffic  improvements  and 
a  moving  sidewalk  that  will  extend  up  Summer  Street  to  the  retail  core. 
The  82-acre  project  received  federal  approval  in  June,  1971. 

4.  Park  Plaza.  Lack  of  federal  funds  for  downtown  renewal  and  an 
awareness  that  private  development  was  imminent  led  to  the  creation 
in  1971  of  the  nonfederally  funded  Park  Plaza  Project  in  the  Park  Square 
area  of  the  central  business  district.  The  35-acre  project  will  include 
residential,  hotel,  commercial,  entertainment,  office,  and  parking  uses. 
The  Boston  City  Council  approved  Park  Plaza  in  December,  1971,  and 
the  BRA  is  presently  awaiting  state  approval  of  the  project.  Planning 
for  the  future  of  the  entire  downtown  regional  core,  including  Back  Bay, 
is  also  being  conducted  by  the  BRA  staff. 

Charlestown,  UR  Mass.  R-55.  The  520-acre  Charlestown  project  was 
approved  by  the  federal  government  in  1965.  Its  main  emphasis  has  been 
rehabilitation  of  existing  structures  and  improvement  of  public  facilities 
to  strengthen  the  residential  character  of  this  historic  section  of  Boston. 
Some  1,180  housing  units  have  been  rehabilitated,  with  350  more  under 
way  or  planned.  Charles-New-Town,  262  units  of  low-  and  moderate- 
income  housing  located  between  Medford  Street  and  the  Little  Mystic 
Channel,  was  completed  in  1971,  and  Mishawum  Park,  337  units,  is 
planned  between  Main  Street  and  New  Rutherford  Avenue.  Ninety-six 
units  of  housing  for  the  elderly  are  being  built  through  the  federal  Turnkey 
Program,  and  the  Thompson  Triangle  is  being  rehabilitated  through  a 
federal  rehabilitation  loan.  Thirty-six  single-  and  two-family  homes  are 
completed  or  under  way,  with  another  nine  planned.  The  Charlestown 
branch  library  and  Sullivan  Square  fire  station  have  been  completed,  and 
the  Kent  Elementary  School  and  Bunker  Hill  Community  College  (in 
the  vicinity  of  the  former  State  Prison)  are  both  under  construction.  A 
shopping  center  is  planned  at  Thompson  Square,  pending  completion  of 
New  Rutherford  Avenue.  Over  $5  million  has  been  spent  to  date  on  new 
streets,  storm  and  sanitary  sewers,  and  street  lighting.    Construction  of 


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the  new  MBTA  line  beneath  Interstate  93  is  more  than  50  percent  com- 
plete and  is  expected  to  be  in  operation  in  1973,  making  possible  the 
demolition  of  the  existing  elevated  structure. 

Downtown  Waterfront-Faneuil  Hall,  UR  Mass.  R-77.  Approved  in 
August,  1964,  the  104-acre  Waterfront  Project  is  intended  to  provide 
housing  and  recreational  activities,  to  preserve  historic  structures,  and  to 
open  the  city  to  the  sea  once  again.  The  New  England  Aquarium  on 
Central  Wharf,  opened  in  1968,  enjoys  wide  popularity  and  has  been 
cited  for  its  innovative  design.  Two  of  three  Harbor  Towers  planned, 
each  with  312  luxury  apartments,  were  opened  for  occupancy  in  1971, 
and  the  adjacent  garage  for  1,500  cars  is  in  construction.  Rehabilitation 
and  conversion  of  a  number  of  structures  is  under  way  or  planned,  in- 
cluding the  Custom  House  Block  on  Long  Wharf,  Commercial  Wharf 
South,  Lewis  Wharf,  and  former  commercial  structures  on  Fulton  and 
Commercial  Streets,  for  an  estimated  total  of  some  300  apartments. 
Another  750  units  are  proposed.  A  450-room  motel  is  planned  for  Long 
Wharf,  and  office  buildings  are  slated  for  Clinton  Street  and  the  corner 
of  State  Street  and  Atlantic  Avenue.  Relocation  of  Atlantic  Avenue  is 
under  way.  A  major  development  in  the  Waterfront  is  the  Faneuil 
Markets  Restoration  Project,  which  will  create  a  vital  and  exciting  area 
of  retail,  entertainment,  restaurant,  and  office  activity  along  North  and 
South  Market  Streets.  The  neighboring  Blackstone  Block  and  Merchants 
Row  buildings  are  also  undergoing  rehabilitation  as  office  and  commercial 
space.  Most  of  the  wholesale  fruit  and  produce  firms  have  moved  to  the 
new  terminal  in  Chelsea,  the  wholesale  meat  and  poultry  dealers  to  the 
South  Bay  and  Newmarket  centers,  and  the  fish  and  lobster  dealers  to 
Northern  Avenue  in  South  Boston.  Approximately  $4  million  of  new 
storm  and  sanitary  sewers  have  been  installed,  with  additional  improve- 
ments planned  as  development  progresses. 

Fenway,  UR  Mass.  R-115.  The  507-acre  Fenway  Project,  approved  in 
March,  1967,  contains  residential,  institutional,  and  recreational  uses  and 
has  a  high  concentration  of  both  elderly  and  student  residents.  The 
Christian  Science  Church  has  completed  50  percent  of  the  construction  on 
its  31-acre  Church  Center  on  Huntington  Avenue,  which  includes  an 
administration  tower,  Sunday  School,  underground  parking  garage,  and 
reflecting  pool  and  plaza.  Several  parcels  of  church-owned  land  on  the 
periphery  are  intended  for  low-,  moderate-,  and  middle-income  housing, 
including  the  508-unit  Church  Park  development  on  Massachusetts 
Avenue,  scheduled  for  occupancy  in  late  1972.  Additional  housing  is 
planned  along  Huntington  Avenue,  nsar  the  recently  completed  Colonnade 
Hotel.  Housing  for  the  elderly  is  of  major  concern  in  the  Fenway,  and  the 
Episcopal  City  Mission  recently  began  "Morville  House,"  which  will 
contain  147  apartments  for  elderly  persons.  Residential  rehabilitation  has 
also  been  stressed,  and  nearly  1,200  apartments  have  been  rehabilitated. 
A  major  residential,  office,  and  commercial  complex  for  the  corner  of 
Massachusetts  Avenue  and  Boylston  Street  is  also  being  studied.  Con- 
siderable project  improvements,  including  streets,  lighting,  sewer,  and 
water  line  improvements  are  ongoing  within  the  project  and  will  ultimately 
cost  some  $3.5  million  to  complete.  Two  tot  lots  in  the  Fens  Parkland  were 


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completed  several  years  ago  as  well.  Institutional  development  by  uni- 
versities, hospitals,  and  cultural  institutions  in  the  Fenway  has  helped  the 
city  financially;  the  Fenway  financing  plan  provides  for  a  pooling  credit 
of  $6.9  million  from  institutional  expenditures  under  Section  112  of  the 
National  Housing  Act,  which  allows  the  application  of  these  credits  to  the 
city's  share  of  the  financing  of  other  renewal  projects. 

Government  Center,  UR  Mass.  R-35.  The  plan  for  the  sixty-acre  Gov- 
ernment Center,  approved  in  July,  1964,  has  received  wide  acclaim  for  its 
high  level  of  design.  Now  more  than  90  percent  complete,  it  represents 
nearly  $300  million  in  public  and  private  investment.  The  award-winning 
New  City  Hall,  the  focal  point  of  the  project,  was  completed  in  1968,  and 
the  seven-acre  City  Hall  Plaza  surrounding  it  is  nearly  complete,  with 
construction  of  the  Washington  Mall  section  of  the  plaza  scheduled  to 
begin  this  spring.  The  Government  Center  MBTA  station  was  completed 
several  years  ago,  and  new  stations  have  also  been  built  at  Bowdoin  and 
Haymarket.  Pemberton  Square,  next  to  the  Suffolk  County  Court  House, 
has  also  been  redesigned  as  a  pedestrian  area.  Numerous  government  and 
private  office  facilities  have  been  constructed,  including  the  John  F. 
Kennedy  Federal  Office  Building,  the  Center  Plaza  Office  Building,  and 
the  New  England  Merchants  National  Bank.  The  Government  Center 
parking  garage  and  bus  terminal,  between  Sudbury  and  New  Chardon 
Streets,  was  recently  completed  and  accommodates  1,865  cars.  Adjacent 
on  Sudbury  Street  is  the  new  District  One  Police  Station,  and  on  the  site 
of  the  Mayhew  School  the  Capitol  Bank  is  building  a  five-story  structure 
to  house  office  and  commercial  space.  Near  Bowdoin  Square,  a  new  post 
office-office  building,  headquarters  for  RKO-General,  the  Jewish  Family 
and  Children's  Service  Center,  and  the  Bulfinch  Place  Office  Building  are 
complete,  as  are  two  of  the  three  sections  of  the  State  Service  Center  — 
the  Division  of  Employment  Security  and  the  Mental  Health  Center. 
The  third  section,  the  Health,  Education,  and  Welfare  tower,  is  awaiting 
state  approval  of  construction  funds.  In  the  neighborhood  of  City  Hall, 
the  Sears  Block  and  Crescent  have  been  rehabilitated,  the  City  Bank  and 
Trust  Company  has  built  a  new  building,  and  One  Washington  Mall  is 
also  complete.  Construction  remaining  in  Government  Center  includes  an 
office  tower  at  State  and  Congress  Streets  and  development  of  Parcel  7 
along  New  Congress  Street. 

Neiu  York  Streets  Project,  UR  Mass.  2—1.  Boston's  first  urban  renewal 
project  under  Title  I  of  the  Housing  Act  of  1949  was  officially  completed 
and  closed  out  in  1964  upon  receipt  of  the  final  portion  of  the  federal 
grant.  This  23-acre  tract  of  land  had  been  one  of  Boston's  most  decayed 
residential  areas  for  many  years  prior  to  1955  when  the  land  was  acquired, 
the  residents  relocated,  and  the  buildings  demolished.  With  the  con- 
struction of  a  new  street  system  ten  new  commercial  buildings  have  been 
erected  at  a  cost  of  $10,300,000. 

North  Harvard  Street,  UR  Mass.  R-bk.  The  6.6-acre  North  Harvard 
Street  Project  in  Allston,  approved  by  the  federal  government  in  1966,  was 
completed  and  occupied  in  1971.  It  is  the  location  of  the  212-unit  Charles- 
view  Apartments  development  for  low-  and  moderate-income  families, 
which  includes  parking,  a  day  care  center,  health  clinic,  and  commercial 


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space.  It  is  the  end  result  of  the  efforts  of  the  Committee  for  North 
Harvard,  Inc.,  a  group  of  concerned  residents  in  the  Allston-Brightcn 
neighborhood  who  joined  together  to  form  a  limited  dividend  corporation, 
under  Chapter  121 A  of  the  General  Laws,  to  develop  the  area  cleared  by 
the  Authority  in  1969. 

St.  Botolph  Street,  UR  Mass.  R-lb8.  This  1.1-acre  single-purpose  project 
was  approved  by  the  federal  government  in  May,  1971,  as  the  location  for 
147  units  of  housing  for  the  elderly  to  be  built  by  the  Boston  Housing 
Authority  under  the  federal  Turnkey  Program.  Adjacent  to  the  Fenway 
Project,  the  housing  is  expected  to  be  available  for  occupancy  in  1973  and 
will  help  alleviate  the  great  need  for  elderly  housing  in  this  area. 

South  Com,  UR  Mass.  R-92.  The  96-acre  South  Cove  Project  contains 
a  variety  of  uses:  residential,  institutional,  commercial,  and  entertainment. 
Its  renewal  plan  was  approved  by  the  federal  government  in  April,  1966. 
Tai  Tung  Village  and  Mass.  Pike  Towers,  totaling  414  units  of  housing  for 
low-  and  moderate-income  families,  are  under  construction,  and  seventy- 
three  units  of  housing  for  the  elderly  are  planned  on  Tremont  Street. 
Another  600  housing  units  are  proposed.  Residential  rehabilitation  has 
affected  150  housing  units,  and  a  small  retail  and  apartment  complex  has 
been  constructed  in  the  Bay  Village  section.  In  addition,  extensive  street 
relocation,  sewer  and  water  improvements,  street  lighting,  and  tree  planting 
have  been  accomplished  and  are  still  under  way,  with  more  than  $1  million 
spent  to  date.  Extension  of  the  MBTA  tunnel  for  the  Forest  Hills-Everett 
line  to  a  point  south  of  the  Turnpike  Extension  is  expected  to  be  completed 
in  1972.  South  Cove  has  a  new  fire  station,  dedicated  in  1971,  and  a 
temporary  YMCA  recreation  facility  has  helped  alleviate  the  area's  lack 
of  such  space.  The  57  Carver  Street  hotel-garage-retail-theater  complex 
was  completed  in  1971,  and  several  other  retail  and  parking  facilities  are 
being  discussed.  Tufts-New  England  Medical  Center  has  under  construc- 
tion its  Health  Services  Building,  Dental  Health  Services  Building,  and  a 
parking  garage,  and  Don  Bosco  Technical  High  School  has  begun  its  first 
stage  of  expansion.  The  new  Quincy  School  is  being  planned  by  various 
community  groups  with  the  BRA  and  the  city's  Public  Facilities  Depart- 
ment. South  Cove  institutional  expenditures  have  provided  the  city  with 
$4  million  in  Section  112  credits. 

South  End,  UR  Mass.  R-56.  The  606-acre  South  End  Project,  ap- 
proved by  the  federal  government  in  November,  1965,  is  the  largest 
residential  renewal  project  in  the  nation.  Both  rehabilitation  and  new 
construction  have  taken  place,  as  well  as  an  upgrading  of  public  facilities. 
More  than  1,800  new  housing  units  for  low-  and  moderate-income  families 
and  the  elderly  are  complete  or  under  construction,  and  another  1,000  are 
planned.  In  addition,  1,560  apartments  have  been  rehabilitated,  and  570 
are  under  way  or  planned,  including  several  tenant-developed  projects. 
The  South  End  Branch  Library  is  complete,  and  playgrounds  and  parks 
completed  include  Carter  Playground,  James  Hayes  Park,  and  Eight 
Streets  Playground.  Two  others,  the  Rotch  and  Derby  Playgrounds,  are 
planned.  To  date,  more  than  $3  million  has  been  spent  to  provide  new 
streets,  sidewalks,  lighting,  storm  and  sanitary  sewers,  playgrounds,  and 
parks  for  the  project.   Another  $6  million  will  be  spent  to  complete  these 


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improvements  within  the  next  three  years.  The  South  End  Center  for  the 
Arts  is  operating  in  the  Cyclorama  building  and  other  neighboring  struc- 
tures vacated  by  the  wholesale  flower  market,  which  has  moved  to  new 
facilities  on  Harrison  Avenue,  also  in  the  project  area.  City  Hospital  and 
Boston  University  Medical  Center  are  rehabilitating  and  expanding  their 
facilities,  and  United  South  End  Settlements  has  plans  to  build  a  neighbor- 
hood center,  Harriet  Tubman  House.  Several  elementary  schools  are 
planned,  plus  an  intermediate  school  library. 

Washington  Park,  UR  Mass.  R-24.  Renewal  activities  in  the  502-acre 
Washington  Park  Project  are  nearing  completion,  with  several  housing  and 
commercial  developments  and  major  street  work  remaining  to  be  done. 
The  renewal  plan,  approved  in  April,  1963,  places  major  emphasis  on 
housing,  both  rehabilitation  and  new  construction.  More  than  4,480 
dwelling  units  have  been  rehabilitated,  and  construction  of  some  1,550 
new  units  is  complete  or  under  way.  Another  200  housing  units  are  pro- 
posed. Numerous  community  facilities  have  been  built,  including  a  new 
YMCA  and  addition,  the  Roxbury  Chapter  of  the  Boys'  Clubs  of  Boston,  a 
neighborhood  shopping  center,  Washington  Park  Community  Park  (with 
MDC  skating  rink  and  swimming  pool,  outdoor  playing  fields  and  recrea- 
tional areas,  and  an  indoor  recreation  and  community  center),  five  parks 
and  playgrounds,  the  Trotter  Elementary  School,  Grove  Hall  branch 
library,  Roxbury  Civic  Center  Court  House  and  Police  Station,  and  several 
churches.  Still  planned  are  the  Civic  Center  Library,  three  elementary 
schools,  the  Roxbury  Ecumenical  Center,  a  Comprehensive  Community 
Health  Center,  and  a  small  industrial  development.  More  than  $12  million 
will  be  spent  to  complete  the  program  of  providing  new  streets,  sidewalks, 
sewer  and  storm  drains,  street  lighting,  parks,  playgrounds,  and  water 
lines.  This  work  is  more  than  75  percent  complete  and  should  be  finished 
within  the  next  two  years. 

West  End,  UR  Mass.  2-3.  The  47-acre  West  End  Project  received 
federal  approval  in  January,  1958.  Charles  River  Park,  Inc.,  the  principal 
developers  of  the  project,  received  approval  in  1971  of  their  final  plans  for 
the  last  phase  of  new  construction  in  the  project  area.  This  will  consist  of 
two  35-story  apartment  towers  with  710  dwelling  units,  an  eleven-story 
building  to  provide  150  apartments  for  the  elderly,  a  10-story  office  build- 
ing, and  an  underground  garage  for  1,200  cars.  Construction  is  scheduled 
to  start  in  1972  and  to  be  completed  in  1974.  Six  luxury  apartment  towers 
containing  1,426  units  have  been  built  in  the  West  End,  plus  a  shopping 
center  with  parking  garage  on  Charles  Street,  a  300-room  motel,  parking 
garages  for  1,500  cars,  a  ten-story  office  building,  the  West  End  branch 
library,  a  nursery  school,  the  Shriners  Hospital  Burns  Institute,  the 
Retina  Foundation  Research  Center,  the  Regina  Cleri  home  for  retired 
Catholic  priests,  and  Temple  Beth  Amedrish  Agudal  Beth  Jacob. 

Whitney  Street.  In  1966  the  Authority  approved  the  application  of 
Back  Bay  Manor  Apartments,  Inc.,  to  develop  the  third  and  last  two-acre 
parcel  in  the  city-financed  Whitney  Street  Project  area.  Construction  was 
completed  in  1969  on  a  twenty-story  building  containing  288  apartments 
and  a  three-level,  267-car  parking  facility. 

Limited  Dividend  Projects  —  M.G.L.,  Chapter  121  A.  With  the  enact- 
ment of  Chapter  652  of  the  Acts  of  1960  the  Authority  was  given  the  power 
to  approve  applications  for  the  formation  of  limited  dividend  corporations 


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and  the  development  of  projects  pursuant  to  General  Laws,  Chapter  121A, 
legislation  written  initially  to  insure  stable  taxes  for  the  Prudential  Center 
development.  Since  that  time  twenty-eight  such  corporations  have  been 
approved  by  the  Authority  and  the  Mayor  following  a  public  hearing  for 
each  application.  These  corporations  have  in  the  past  eleven  years  under- 
taken more  than  $350  million  of  new  construction,  both  within  and  outside 
federally  funded  renewal  projects,  including,  in  addition  to  the  Prudential, 
4,590  housing  units,  One  Beacon  Street,  the  Christian  Science  Center,  and 
the  South  Bay  Food  Market  for  meat  and  poultry  dealers. 

The  BRA  as  the  city's  planning  agency  is  responsible  for  city-wide 
comprehensive  planning,  urban  renewal  and  special  planning  studies,  trans- 
portation planning,  historic  preservation,  and  zoning.  Planning  activities 
in  most  urban  renewal  projects  have  been  completed,  but  planning  staff 
provide  necessary  assistance  to  other  staff  and  community  groups  as 
required.  The  District  Planning  Program,  initiated  in  1968,  is  designed  to 
improve  planning  services  to  all  of  the  city's  neighborhoods  by  developing, 
with  extensive  community  participation,  a  comprehensive  planning  pro- 
gram for  each  of  the  planning  districts.  All  sections  of  the  city  have 
received  assistance  from  the  District  Planning  Program,  with  major  efforts 
to  date  in  East  Boston,  Dorchester,  and  Allston-Brighton.  District  Plan- 
ning staff  have  also  worked  with  community  groups  and  other  Authority 
staff  in  making  applications  for  Neighborhood  Development  Program 
funds  from  the  federal  government.  City-wide  studies  of  housing,  open 
space  and  recreation,  industrial  development,  institutional  expansion,  and 
transportation  policy  have  also  been  undertaken  by  Planning  staff.  The 
Transportation  Planning  Section  carries  out  planning  studies  pertaining 
to  traffic,  parking,  public  transportation,  and  intercity  transportation 
issues.  Staff  activities  include  participation  in  the  Boston  Transportation 
Planning  Review,  formulation  of  state  and  federally  funded  TOPICS 
programs,  and  work  with  the  MBTA  to  improve  the  quality  of  public 
transportation  in  the  city.  Under  a  HUD  grant  the  Historic  Preservation 
staff  is  developing  a  comprehensive  program  for  the  preservation  of  historic 
buildings  and  landmarks  in  the  city.  The  primary  function  of  the  Zoning 
staff  is  to  review  and  make  recommendations  on  petitions  for  conditional 
use  permits,  variances,  and  exceptions  that  come  before  the  Board  of 
Appeal,  and  amendments  to  the  Zoning  Code  and  Zoning  Maps  that  come 
before  the  Zoning  Commission. 

A  major  adjunct  to  the  Authority's  planning  capabilities  is  the  Research 
Department,  established  several  years  ago  to  evaluate  the  economic 
impact  of  urban  renewal  on  the  city  and  formulate  programs  of  action  for 
the  future.  The  early  focus  centered  on  information  useful  for  planning, 
including  studies  of  population  and  income,  the  city's  expanding  economy, 
and  property  values  before  and  after  renewal  in  several  renewal  projects, 
plus  analyses  of  data  from  the  1970  Federal  Census  of  Population  and 
Housing.  Information  management  systems  have  been  established  for 
the  development  and  rehabilitation  activities  of  the  BBA.  Strategies  are 
now  being  formulated  for  fiscal  planning,  housing  and  community,  develop- 
ment, economic  and  manpower  development,  and  population  and  income 
goals  for  the  city. 


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BACK  BAY  ABCHITECTUBAL  COMMISSION 
[Chap.  625  — Acts  of  1966] 

MEMBER 

Lawrence  T.  Perera  Dec.  31,  1973 

Arthur  P.  Wilcox  Dec.  31,  1974 

Pietro  Belluschi  Dec.  31,  1974 

Clifford  DeBaun  Dec.  31,  1971 

Mary  Crozier  Dec.  31,  1972 

ALTERNATE 

Donald  F.  Winter  Dec.  31,  1973 

Jean-Paul  Carlhian  Dec.  31,  1974 

Walter  K.  Winchester  Dec.  31,  1974 

Bobert  C.  Vose,  Jr.  Dec.  31,  1971 

John  S.  Ames,  Jr.  Dec.  31,  1972 

EXECUTIVE   SECRETARY 

Mace  Wenniger  —  Boston  Bedevelopment  Authority 
The  Back  Bay  Besidential  District  was  established  by  a  special  act  of 
the  Legislature  for  these  purposes: 

(a)  to  promote  the  economic,  cultural,  educational  and  general  wel- 
fare of  the  public  through  the  encouragement  of  high  design  standards  for 
the  residential  portion  of  the  Back  Bay  area  in  the  City  of  Boston; 

(b)  to  safeguard  the  heritage  of  the  City  of  Boston  by  preventing  the 
despoliation  of  a  district  in  that  city  which  reflects  important  elements  of 
its  cultural,  social,  economic  and  political  history; 

(c)  to  stabilize  and  strengthen  residential  property  values  in  such 
areas; 

(d)  to  foster  civic  beauty,  and 

(e)  to  strengthen  the  economy  of  the  Commonwealth  and  the  City  of 
Boston. 

The  District  includes  generally  both  sides  of  Beacon  Street,  Marlborough 
Street  and  Commonwealth  Avenue,  from  the  Public  Garden  at  Arlington 
Street  beyond  Massachusetts  Avenue  to  Charlesgate  East.  The  boundaries 
are  defined  in  the  Act  as  follows: 

westerly  by  the  easterly  side  line  of  Charlesgate  east;  northerly  by 
the  southerly  side  line  of  Back  street;  easterly  by  the  westerly  side 
line  of  Embankment  road;  northerly  by  the  southerly  side  line  of 
Beacon  street;  easterly  by  the  westerly  side  line  of  Arlington  street; 
southerly  by  the  northerly  side  lines  of  the  public  alleys  between 
Newbury  street  and  Commonwealth  avenue,  from  Arlington  street 
to  the  westerly  side  line  of  Massachusetts  avenue,  said  lines  being 
extended  across  intervening  streets  and  Massachusetts  avenue; 
westerly  by  the  westerly  side  hue  of  Massachusetts  avenue;  and 
southerly  by  the  northerly  side  line  of  Newbury  street. 
In  general,  no  building  permit  can  be  issued  by  the  Building  Commis- 
sioner in  the  District  for  construction,  reconstruction,  alteration  or  demo- 
lition unless: 

(1)  the  Secretary  certifies  on  the  building  permit  application  that 
no  exterior  architectural  feature  is  involved,  or 

(2)  the  application  for  a  building  permit  is  accompanied  by  a  cer- 
tificate of  design  approval  issued  by  the  Secretary. 


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No  permit  can  be  issued  by  the  Public  Improvement  Commission  to  erect 
a  sign,  marquee,  awning,  or  other  architectural  feature  protruding  from 
any  structure  unless  the  application  for  such  permit  is  accompanied  by  a 
certificate  of  design  approval  issued  by  the  Secretary.  This  Act  shall  not 
affect  a  building  permit  issued  prior  to  December  6,  1966. 

This  Act  shall  not  prevent  construction  or  alteration  of  an  architectural 
feature  which  is  certified  as  necessary  by  the  Building  Commissioner  to 
remedy  an  unsafe  or  dangerous  condition. 

The  commission  shall  pass  only  upon  the  exterior  architectural  features 
of  a  structure  and  shall  not  consider  interior  arrangements  nor  the  use 
to  be  made  of  the  structure. 

It  is  the  intent  of  this  act  that  the  commission  be  strict  in  its  judgment 
of  plans  involving  substantial  new  construction  or  for  structures  deemed 
to  be  valuable  according  to  studies  performed  on  behalf  of  the  city,  the 
board  or  the  commission  for  said  area  to  determine  which  structures  are  of 
architectural  value.  It  is  also  the  intent  of  this  act  that  the  commission 
shall  be  lenient  in  its  judgment  of  plans  for  structures  of  little  architectural 
value  except  where  such  plans  would  seriously  impair  the  architectural 
value  of  surrounding  structures  or  the  surrounding  area. 

Owing  to  conditions  especially  affecting  the  structure  involved,  but  not 
affecting  the  District  generally,  the  commission  may  issue  a  certificate 
of  design  approval  to  avoid  substantial  hardship  to  an  applicant,  where 
this  can  be  done  without  substantial  detriment  or  derogation  to  the  pur- 
poses of  the  Act. 

Exterior  color  may  be  changed,  without  applying  for  a  certificate  of 
design  approval,  to  any  color  or  combination  of  colors  which  the  Commis- 
sion has  determined  may  be  used. 

"Exterior  architectural  feature"  is  the  architectural  style  and  general 
arrangement  of  such  portion  of  the  exterior  of  a  structure  as  is  designed 
to  be  open  to  view  from  a  public  street  or  way,  but  not  such  portions  a& 
are  designed  to  be  open  to  view  only  from  a  public  alley,  including  but  not 
limited  to,  kind,  color,  and  texture  of  the  building  material  of  such  portion, 
type  and  design  of  all  windows,  doors,  lights,  signs,  and  other  fixtures 
appurtenant  to  such  portion,  the  location  and  adequacy  of  vehicular 
access,  if  any,  and  the  location  and  treatment  of  any  parking  space  for 
motor  vehicles  open  to  view  from  such  public  street  or  way. 

The  applicant  must  submit  plans  to  aid  the  commission  in  considering : 

(a)  the  architectural  value  and  significance  of  the  structure  and  its 
relationship  to  the  surrounding  area. 

(b)  the  relationship  of  the  exterior  architectural  features  of  such 
proposed  structure  to  the  rest  of  the  structure  and  to  the  surrounding 
area. 

(c)  the  general  compatibility  of  exterior  design,  arrangement,  tex- 
ture, and  materials  to  be  used. 

(d)  any  landscape  features  proposed  by  the  applicant. 

(e)  any  aesthetic  or  other  factor  which  it  deems  to  be  pertinent. 
The  Commission  has  five  members  and  five  alternates.  One  member  and 

alternate  is  selected  by  the  Mayor;  other  members  and  alternates  are 
nominated  by  the  four  organizations  mentioned  previously,  and  appointed 
by  the  Mayor.   Members  serve  without  compensation. 


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AUDITORIUM   COMMISSION 

900  Boylston  Street 
[Stat.  1954,  Chap.  164;  Ord.  1957,  Chap.  2. 

OFFICIALS 

Robert  C.  Nordblom,  Chairman 
Joseph  R.  Hynes,  Executive  Secretary 

THE  BOARD 


Members 

Nominated  by 

Term  ending 

Robert  C.  Nordblom 

Bertram  A.  Druker 

Greater  Boston  Hotel  and  Motor  Inn  Assoc. 
Mavor's  Selection 

May  1,  1971 
May  1,  1977 
May  1,  1973 
May  1,  1974 
May  1,  1975 

William  H.  O'Leary 

Richard  W.  Barger 

Mayor's  Selection 

Greater  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce .... 

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  Greater  Boston  Hotel 
and  Motor  Inn  Association,  one  commissioner  from  three  candidates 
nominated  by  the  Boston  Beal  Estate  Board,  one  commissioner  from 
three  candidates  nominated  by  the  Greater  Boston  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, and  two  commissioners  selected  at  large  by  the  Mayor.  As  the 
term  of  any  commissioner  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  constructed  the  municipal  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;  contracts  for  the  care  and  management  thereof; 
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. 


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FREEDOM   TRAIL  COMMISSION 

[Stat.  1965,  Chap.  625.] 

OFFICIALS 

Richard  A.  Berenson,  Chairman 
Joseph  F.  Casazza,  Vice  Chairman 
Robert  P.  Mehegan,  Secretary 


Members 

Nominated  by 

Term  ending 

Richard  A.  Berenson 

Freedom  Trail  Foundation,  Inc 

Jan.  3,  1972 

Joseph  F.  Casazza 

Mayor's  Selection 

Jan.  3,  1972 

Andrew  C.  Hyde 

Mayor's  Selection 

Jan.  3,  1972 

Joseph  E.  Curtis 

Mayor's  Selection 

Freedom  Trail  Foundation,  Inc 

Jan.  5,  1976 
Jan.  3,  1972 

A  board  in  the  Public  Works  Department  consisting  of  five  commis- 
sioners appointed  by  the  Mayor,  two  of  whom  shall  be  appointed  from  a 
list  of  seven  candidates  nominated  from  the  Freedom  Trail  Foundation, 
Inc.  The  Freedom  Trail  Commission  shall  from  time  to  time  designate  a 
route  in  said  city  not  over  three  miles  in  length,  along  which  the  public 
may  walk  and  pass  not  less  than  twelve  historic  places. 

GOVERNMENT  CENTER  COMMISSION 

City  Hall,  Room  609 

[Stat.  1958,  Chap.  624;  Stat.  1959,  Chaps.  403,  577;  Stat.  1964,  Chap.  516; 

Stat.  1967,  Chap.  677.] 

OFFICIALS 

Robert  M.  Morgan,  Chairman 
Frank  W.  Crimp,  Vice  Chairman 
Lawrence  W.  Costello,  Acting  Secretary 

THE  BOARD 


Members 


Nominated  by 


Term  ending 


Robert  M.  Morgan . 


Fred  M.  Ramsey.  . . 
Frank  W.  Crimp .  .  . 
Edward  T.  Sullivan. 
John  P.  McMorrow . 

Joseph  F.  Casazza . . 


Mayor's  selection 

Associated  General  Contractors  of  Mas- 
sachusetts, Inc , 

Building  Trades  Council  of  Boston  and 

Vicinity 

The  Boston  Society  of  Architects 

Director  of  Administrative  Services,  ex 
officio 

Appointed  by  Mayor.  See  Stat.  1960, 
Chap.  652,  Sec.  12 

Commissioner  of  Public  Works,  ex  officio .  .  . 


at  pleasure 
of  Mayor 


Until  the  completion  of  the  construction  of  a  new  city  hall. 


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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 
office  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  Bedevelopment  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  G.  L.  Chapter  121, 
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  Chap- 
ter 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  fur- 
nishing of  such  new  city  hall. 


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CITY  OF  BOSTON  EMPLOYEES  CREDIT  UNION 

Room  34,  City  Hall 
[Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  171.] 

Officers 

James  M.  Dever,  President 

Eugene  J.  Ferris,  First  Vice-President 

Gene  DiBenedetto,  Second  Vice-President 

Roy  E.  Covell,  Treasurer 

Peter  J.  DeRosa,  Assistant  Treasurer 

Edwin  C.  Estey,  Clerk 

Directors 

Mary  E.  Byrne  James  W.  Hunt,  Jr. 

Marguerite  Connaughton  James  J.  Hyde 

Charles  D.  Costello  James  F.  Johnson 

William  J.  Coughlin  Harold  T.  Kenney 

Thomas  F.  Flaherty  Paul  K.  Leary 

Thomas  B.  Francis,  Jr.  Thomas  E.  Newcomb 

Thomas  W.  Gately  Francis  Wilson 
John  P.  Hardiman 

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.  Approximately  95  percent 
of  the  borrowers  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  $14,000,268.01  and 
reserves  of  $388,889.96  with  12,805  members,  8,433  of  which  are  borrowers. 

Most  departments  of  the  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. 


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BOSTON  METROPOLITAN  DISTRICT 

73  Tremont  Street 
[Stat.  1929,  Chap.  383.] 

Trustees  Appointed  by  the  Governor 
William  C.  Hogan,  Jr.,  Chairman,  Cambridge,  1971 
John  A.  Perkins,  Boston,  1975 
Robert  B.  Almy,  Jr.,  Dedham,  1977 
William  H.  Reardon,  Jr.,  Treasurer,  Cohasset,  1973 

Trustee  Appointed  by  Mayor  of  Boston 
Charles  A.  Birmingham,  Clerk,  Newton,  1971 


OLD   SOUTH  ASSOCIATION  IN  BOSTON 

[Stat.  1877,  Chap.  222,  §§  1,  2.] 

The  Mayor,  ex  officio,  Councillors  Laurence  S.  DiCara  and  Joseph  M. 
Tierney,  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. 


HOUSING  INSPECTION  DEPARTMENT 

703  City  Hall 
[G.  L.  Chap.  83,  Sec.  12;  G.  L.  Chap.  Ill,  Sees.  5,  122,  123,  124,  125; 
Stat.  1885,  Chap.  382,  Sees.  13,  14,  19,  20,  21,  22;  Stat.  1897,  Chap. 
185,  Chap.  219;  Stat.  1907,  Chap.  550,  Sec.  128;  Sec.  116  of  Boston 
Building  Code;  Stat.  1909,  Chap.  486,  Sec.  5;  Stat.  1953,  Chap.  473, 
Sec.  1;  Rev.  Ord.  1961,  Chap.  3,  Sec.  5,  Chap.  2,  Sec.  2,  Rev.  Ord. 
1961.] 

Francis  W.  Gens,  Commissioner 

William  E.  Walsh,  Assistant  Commissioner 

Frank  P.  Henry,  Director 

This  Department  enforces  the  portion  of  the  State  Sanitary  Code 
which  relates  to  Human  Habitation  of  any  dwelling  unit. 

It  is  organized  with  a  Commissioner  and  an  Assistant  Commissioner 
whose  primary  mission  is  to  supervise  the  Enforcement  Division,  and  a 
Director  of  Inspection  who  supervises  the  Environmental  Sanitation 
and  Housing  Inspectors. 


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The  Commissioner  of  Housing  Inspection  shall  have  the  powers  and 
perform  the  duties  from  time  to  time  conferred  or  imposed  on  a  board 
of  health  by  Section  12  of  Chapter  83,  and  Section  127  of  Chapter  111, 
of  the  General  Laws,  by  Sections  122,  123,  124  and  125  of  said  Chapter 
111  insofar  as  said  Sections  122,  123,  124  and  125  apply  to  places  of  human 
habitation,  and  by  Section  5  of  said  Chapter  111  insofar,  but  only  insofar, 
as  said  Section  5  relates  (a)  to  enforcing  so  much  of  the  state  sanitary 
code  as  concerns  standards  of  fitness  for  places  of  human  habitation, 
housing  and  sanitation  standards  for  farm  labor  camps,  unsewered  areas, 
and  (b)  to  adopting  such  public  health  regulations,  not  inconsistent  with 
the  state  sanitary  code  or  other  provisions  of  law,  as  in  the  opinion  of 
the  commissioner  of  housing  inspection  may  be  necessary  to  make  and 
keep  all  places  of  human  habitation  fit  for  such  habitation.  The  com- 
missioner of  housing  inspection  shall  also  have  the  powers  and  perform 
the  duties  conferred  or  imposed  upon  the  board  of  health  of  the  city,  or 
the  health  commissioner  of  the  city,  by  Sections  13,  14,  19,  20,  21  and  22 
of  Chapter  383  of  the  Acts  of  1885,  as  amended,  by  Chapter  185  of  the 
Acts  of  1897,  by  Chapter  219  of  the  Acts  of  1897,  as  amended,  by  Section 
128  of  Chapter  550  of  the  Acts  of  1907,  as  amended,  and  by  Section  116 
or  any  other  provision  of  the  Boston  Building  Code.  It  shall  further  be 
the  duty  of  the  commissioner  of  housing  inspection:  (1)  to  receive  all 
complaints  of  violations,  in  or  about  places  of  human  habitation,  of  any 
and  all  statutes,  ordinances,  rules  and  regulations  enacted  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  health  or  safety  in  or  about  places  of  human  habitation;  (2)  to  refer 
in  writing  to  the  building  commissioner  or  the  fire  commissioner,  as  the 
case  may  be,  for  investigation  and  prosecution  all  complaints  of  violations 
of  the  Boston  Building  Code  and  the  Boston  Fire  Prevention  Code  and  to 
maintain  written  contact  with  said  commissioners  with  respect  thereto; 
and  (3)  to  inspect  places  of  human  habitation  and  enforce  therein  the 
provisions  of  law  specified  in  the  preceding  sentences  of  this  section  and 
all  other  statutes,  ordinances,  rules  and  regulations  enacted  for  the  preser- 
vation of  health  in  or  about  such  places.  It  shall  remain  the  duty  and 
responsibility  of  the  building  and  fire  commissioners,  respectively,  to 
enforce  compliance  with  the  Boston  Building  Code  and  the  Boston  Fire 
Prevention  Code.  To  aid  them  in  discharging  such  duty  but  without  any 
lessening  of  their  respective  responsibilities,  the  enforcement  division  of 
the  housing  inspection  department  may  offer  them,  and  they  may  accept 
assistance  designed  to  unify  action  upon  complaints  received  by  the 
commissioner  of  housing  inspection. 


Weights  and  Measures  Division 

204  City  Hall 

[Ord.  1954,  Chap.  2,  §  31;  Chap.  656,  Acts  of  1965.] 

John  F.  McCarthy,  Sealer 

Edward  F.  Lownie,  Chief  Deputy  Sealer 

Grace  E.  Gaston,  Principal  Clerk 


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The  duties  of  the  division  are  set  forth  in  the  General  Laws,  Chapters 
94,  98,  and  101,  with  amendments  and  additions  thereto. 

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  complying 
and  shall  test,  adjust,  seal  or  condemn  in  accordance  with  the  results  of 
tests  made,  the  weighing  and  measuring  devices  of  said  persons.  In  addi- 
tion 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  exam- 
ination of  coal  for  quality  and  the  inspection  of  certain  containers  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. 


COMMISSION  ON  AFFAIRS  OF  THE  ELDERLY 

[Established  by  Ordinances  of  1970,  Chapter  4] 
Edward  C.  Dwyer,  Commissioner 

ASSOCIATE   COMMISSIONERS 

Term  Ending 

Mary  S.  Colbert  May  1,  1974 

James  C.  Spillane  May  1,  1973 

Professor  Louis  Lowy  May  1,  1972 

Kenneth  Arvedon  May  1,  1972 

Frank  Manning  May  1,  1971 

Edward  T.  Riley  May  1,  1971 

Matthew  E.  Sullivan  May  1,  1973 

Fannie  L.  Allen  May  1, 1972 

William  Akers  May  1,  1971 

Christopher  Kelly  May  1,  1974 

The  Commission  on  Affairs  of  the  Elderly  shall  be  cognizant  of  federal 
and  state  legislation  concerning  financial  assistance,  information  exchange, 
and  planning  for  better  community  programming  for  the  elderly,  and 
shall  co-ordinate  or  carry  out  programs  designed  to  meet  the  problems  of 
the  aging  in  co-ordination  with  programs  of  the  Commission  on  Aging 
established  under  Section  73  of  Chapter  6  of  the  General  Laws.  The 
Commission  on  Affairs  of  the  Elderly  shall  send  to  said  Commission  on 
Aging  a  copy  of  the  annual  report  transmitted  by  it  to  the  Mayor  under 
Section  25  of  Chapter  3  of  these  ordinances. 


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MODEL  CITY  AGENCY 

[Ordinances  of  1969,  Chapter  16,  establishes  for  a  limited  time  a  Model 
City  Agency  and  a  Model  Neighborhood  Board  and  Defines  Their 
Powers  and  Duties.] 

Paul  Parks,  Model  City  Administrator    Term  ends  in  1972 

Samuel  Thompson,  Deputy  Model  City  Administrator  Term  ends  in  1972 


RENT   BOARD 

[Established  by  Ordinances  of  1972,  Chapter  19] 

H.  Douglas  Boyd*  Thomas  A.  Sullivan* 

Leo  V.  McCusker*  Muriel  C.  Kasdon* 

H.  Scott  Mellor* 

The  Rent  Board  performs  the  following  functions: 

Receives,  investigates,  hears,  and  decides  rent  increase  complaints, 
petitions  for  reduction  in  rent,  and  requests  for  certificate  of  eviction  for 
the  apartments  subject  to  rent  control. 

Initiates  action  to  reduce  rents  where  rental  levels  or  housing  con- 
ditions so  violate  community  standards  as  to  warrant  public  action. 

Commences  civil  actions  to  recover  rent  paid  in  excess  of  the  maximum 
lawful  rent. 

Prosecutes  violations  of  the  ordinance. 


YOUTH  ACTIVITIES  COMMISSION 

209  City  Hall 

[Chapter  391  of  the  Acts  of  1965.] 

OFFICIALS 

Thomas  Heffernan,  Chairman 
Paul  McCaffrey,  Executive  Director 

COMMISSIONERS 
John  Connelly  Term  ending  May  1,  1972 

Donald  F.  Taylor,  Jr.  Term  ending  May  1,  1973 

William  Wimrerly  Term  ending  May  1,  1974 

John  A.  Walsh,  Jr.  Term  ending  May  1,  1975 

Thomas  Heffernan  Appointee  of  School  Superintendent 

William  W.  Francis       Appointee  of  Chairman  of  Youth  Service  Board 
John  Joyce  Term  ending  May  1,  1976 

*For  a  term  expiring  on  the  first  Monday  of  the  January  following 
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The  Youth  Activities  Commission  consists  of  seven  members,  five  of 
whom  are  appointed  by  the  Mayor,  and  one  each  by  the  Superintendent 
of  Schools  and  the  Chairman  of  the  Division  of  Youth  Service. 

The  Commission  is  responsible  for  the  prevention  and  control  of  juve- 
nile delinquency  in  the  City.  The  principal  approach  is  through  the  area 
youth  work  program  where  approximately  twenty-five  (25)  Area  Youth 
Workers  are  assigned  to  high  delinquency  rate  areas  of  the  City. 

The  Area  Youth  Worker  is  working  at  the  street  level  and  is  supported 
within  the  Commission  by  Counselling,  Employment,  Community  Or- 
ganization, and  Recreation  and  Special  Projects  planning  staffs  in  a  co- 
ordinated and  comprehensive  effort  at  dealing  with  delinquency  preven- 
tion and  control.  Group  work  and  individual  contact  is  stressed  in  at- 
tempting to  guide  and  direct  youths  with  delinquent  tendencies. 

SUFFOLK  COUNTY  COURT  HOUSE 
COMMISSION 

Office,  Room  318,  New  Court  House 

[Stat.  1939,  Chap.  383.] 

John  E.  Powers,  Chairman,  Appointed  by  the  Chief  Justice  of  the 

Supreme  Judicial  Court 
Angelo  R.  Musto,  Appointed  by  the  Governor 
Thomas  S.  Eisenstadt,  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  percent  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 70  percent  is  paid  by  the  City  of  Roston.  While  the  Common- 
wealth now  pays  30  percent  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  makeup  of  the  Commission  in  charge,  and  other  than  expanding 
its  tenancy  of  state-supported  departments  on  a  24-hour-a-day  basis,  like 
the  State  Roard  of  Probation,  Land  Court,  State  Supreme  Judicial  Court, 
and  Recorder  of  Decisions. 


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COUNTY   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 — John  F.  FitzPatrick 
County  Treasurer — Edmund  W.  Holmes 

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 
Executive  Assistant — Joseph  A.  Laurano 


Assistant — Paul  V.  Buckley  Assistant- 
Assistant — Lawrence  L.  Cameron  Assistant- 
Assistant — Alan  Chapman  Assistant- 
Assistant — Edward  T.  Crossen  Assistant- 
Assistant — Kathleen  R.  Dacey  Assistant- 
Assistant — Stephen  R.  Delinsky  Assistant- 
Assistant — William  A.  Doherty  Assistant- 
Assistant — William  J.  Doyle  Assistant- 
Assistant — David  G.  Eisenstadt  Assistant- 
Assistant — Jerome  E.  Falbo  Assistant- 
Assistant — Newman  Flanagan  Assistant- 
Assistant — James  E.  Foley  Assistant- 
Assistant — John  T.  Gaffney  Assistant- 
Assistant — Hyman  F.  Goldman  Assistant- 
Assistant — Robert  N.  Gross  Assistant- 
Assistant — Richard  A.  Hannaway  Assistant- 
Assistant — Imelda  LaMountain 


-William  F.  Linnehan 
-John  C.  Mahoney 
-John  A.  Maiona 
-John  F.  McAuld?fe 
-James  D.  McDaniel 
-Joseph  A.  McDonough 
-Brian  Merrick 
-Angelo  Morello 
-Gerald  F.  Muldoon 
-Thomas  J.  Mundy,  Jr. 
-David  J.  Murphy 
-Louis  M.  Nordlinger 
-Paul  J.  O'Rourke 
-Richard  E.  Rafferty 
-Thomas  F.  Reardon 
-Robert  Snider 


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SHERIFF  AND  DEPUTY  SHERD7FS 

Room  102,  New  Court  House 

[Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  37;  Stat.  1910,  Chap.  373;  Gen.  Stat.  1919,  Chap.  269; 
Stat.  1922,  Chap.  525.] 

Sheriff — Thomas  S.  Eisenstadt.  Term  ends  first  Wednesday  in  January, 
1976 

Deputy  Sheriff  and  Special  Sheriff— Robert  M.  Tobin. 

Deputy  Sheriffs  for  Service  of  Writs — Morton  L.  Bardfield,  Richard 
Berlo,  Gerald  A.  Deluca,  Edward  V.  Handwerk,  John  Hilson, 
Carter  D.  Kimbrel,  Jr.,  Hvman  Lookner,  Joseph  Mandell,  Paul 
C.  McAuliffe,  John  E.  O'Brien,  Scott  Rose,  James  Taylor, 
Harry  G.  Uhlman.    Salaried. 

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  1970. 
Term  ends  first  Wednesday  in  January,  1977. 

The  Register  is  ex  officio  Assistant  Recorder  of  the  Land  Court. 
First  Assistant  Register — Lawrence  J.  Fallon,  Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  36, 

Sec.  4. 
Second  Assistant  Register — Edward  T.  Cady,  Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  36,  Sec.  5. 
Third  Assistant  Register — John  W.  Barry,  Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  36,  Sec.  5. 
Fourth  Assistant  Register — Vacant ,  Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  36,  Sec.  5. 

LAND   COURT 

Room  408,  Old  Court  House 

Judge  —  William  I.  Randall 

Associate  Judge  —  Edward  McPartlin 

Associate  Judge  —  Joseph  B.  Silverio 

Recorder  —  Margaret  M.  Daly.  Appointed  by  the  Governor  with  the 
approval  of  the  Council. 

Deputy  Recorder  —  Jeanne  M.  Maloney.  Appointed  by  the  Judge  with 
the  approval  of  the  Governor  and  Council. 

Chief  Title  Examiner  —  Orrin  P.  Rosenberg.    Appointed  by  the  Judge. 

Title  Examiner  —  J.  Frederick  Harkins.    Appointed  by  the  Judge. 

Title  Examiner  —  Margaret  D.  Cronin.    Appointed  by  the  Judge. 

Title  Examiner  —  Ann-Marie  Breuer.    Appointed  by  the  Judge. 

Assistant  Clerks  —  Charles  W.  Trombly,  Jr.,  John  Whelton.  Ap- 
pointed by  the  Recorder  with  the  approval  of  the  Judge. 

Deputy  Assistant  Clerks  —  Ennio  A.  Scalzilli,  Frank  J.  Richmond.  Ap- 
pointed by  the  Recorder  with  the  approval  of  the  Judge. 


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COURTS  AND  COURT  OFFICIALS 

Offices  in  New  Court  House,  Pemberton  Square 

SUPREME  JUDICIAL  COURT 

Chief  Justice  —  G.  Joseph  Tauro 

Associate  Justices  —  Jacob  J.  Spiegel,  Paul  C.  Reardon,  Francis  J. 

Quirico,  Robert  Braucher,  Edward  F.  Hennessey. 
Clerk  for  the  Commonwealth  —  Frederick  J.  Quinlan.     Appointed  by 

the  Court. 
First  Assistant  Clerk  —  William  M.  Cloran.    Appointed  by  the  Court. 
Clerk  for  the  County  of  Suffolk  —  John  E.  Powers.    Elected. 
First  Assistant  Clerk  —  Joseph  F.  Toomey.    Appointed  by  the  Court. 
Second  Assistant  Clerk  —  Daniel  D.  Donnelly.   Appointed  by  the  Clerk. 
Reporter  of  Decisions  —  Grant  M.  Palmer,  Jr.    Appointed  by  the  Court. 
Executive  Secretary  —  Richard  D.  Gerould.    Appointed  by  the  Court. 
Assistant  Executive  Secretary  —  Frederic  F.  Meuse.    Appointed  by  the 

Court. 
Assistant  Executive  Secretary  —  John  F.  Burke.    Appointed  by  the  Court. 

SUPERIOR   COURT 

Chief  Justice  —  Walter  H.  McLaughlin 

Associate  Justices  —  Frank  J.  Donahue,  Lewis  Goldberg,  Felix  Forte  » 
Eugene  A.  Hudson,  Horace  T.  Cahill,  Frank  E.  Smith,  Charles 
Fahihurst,  John  H.  Meagher,  Wilfred  J.  Paquet,  Reuben  L. 
Lurie,  George  E.  Thompson,  Frank  W.  Tomasello,  August  C. 
Tavehia,  John  W.  Coddaire,  Jr.,  James  L.  Vallely,  Robert  Sulli- 
van, Francis  John  Good,  David  A.  Rose,  Thomas  J.  Spring, 
Vincent  R.  Brogna,  Francis  L.  Lappin,  Joseph  Ford,  Harry 
Kalus,  Amedeo  V.  Sgarzi,  Robert  H.  Beaudreau,  Henry  H. 
Chemielinski,  Jr.,  Cornelius  J.  Moynihan,  George  P.  Ponte, 
Joseph  K.  Collins,  Joseph  S.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  Allan  M.  Hale, 
Samuel  T.  Tisdale,  James  C.  Roy,  Andrew  R.  Linscott,  Edward 
H.  Bennett,  Jr.,  Henry  M.  Leen,  Alan  J.  Dimond,  Levin  H. 
Campbell,  Paul  V.  Rutledge,  Paul  K.  Connolly,  Thomas  E. 
Dwyer,  John  F.  Moriarty,  Herbert  F.  Travers,  Jr.,  Paul  A. 
Tamburello 

Administrative  Assistant  to  the  Chief  Justice  —  Edward  J.  Kelley 

Deputy  Administrative  Assistant  to  the  Chief  Justice  —  Francis  X.  Or  - 


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For  Civil  Business 

Clerk  —  Thomas  Dorgan.  Elected  by  the  people  in  1970.  Term  ends 
first  Wednesday  in  January,  1977. 

Assistant  Clerks  —  Robert  J.  Dorgan,  First  Assistant,  Thomas  F. 
Brophy,  Equity,  Francis  P.  Concannon,  Mary  G.  Murphy,  John 
E.  Noonan,  Francis  B.  Tyrrell,  John  P.  Connolly,  Joseph  A. 
Grover,  Thomas  F.  McDonough,  Albert  L.  Crimmins,  Walter  V. 
Brennan,  Rita  M.  Dunlap,  Michael  J.  Sclafani,  Christine  M. 
Mackay,  John  Peter  Connolly,  Mary  T.  Gaquin,  Michael  J. 
Donovan,  Francis  T.  Foley 

For  Criminal  Business 

Clerk  —  Edward  V.  Keating 

First  Assistant  Clerk  —  James  B.  Gibbons 

Second  Assistant  Clerk  —  Mary  C.  Phelan 

Assistant  Clerks  —  Alfred  L.  Bunai,  John  H.  Casey,  Thomas  M.  Ford, 
John  F.  Geraghty,  Dennis  P.  Glynn,  Jr.,  Ernest  J.  Handy, 
A.  Daniel  Keohan,  Jr.,  Paul  K.  Leary,  Patrick  J.  Lee,  Irwin  R. 
Macey,   Francis   M.   Masuret,   Jr.,   Gerald   Miraldi,   Gerald 
O'Callaghan,  Francis  A.  Smith,  John  H.  Voke 

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.  386,  487;  Stat.  1922,  Chap.  532.] 

Judges — Robert  Gardiner  Wilson,  Jr.,  Edmund  V.  Keville 

Register — James  W.  Hennigan,  Jr. 

First  Assistant  Register — Arthur  A.  Kelly 

Second  Assistant  Register — Mary  C.  Fitzpatrick 

Third  Assistant  Register — Thomas  J.  Roche 

Fourth  Assistant  Register — Thomas  N.  Foley 

Fifth  Assistant  Register — Clarence  P.  Ford 

Sixth  Assistant  Registe\ — William  Tick 

Executive  Assistant — James  J.  Twomey 

Administrative  Secretary — Florence  S.  Pepi 

Clerk  to  Register — Florence  M.  Verry 

The  judges  of  Probate  are  appointed  by  the  Governor.  The  assistant 
registers  are  appointed  by  the  judges.  They  and  the  other  officials  of  this 
Court  are  paid  by  the  State,  as  are  the  clerical  assistants  to  the  register. 


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MUNICIPAL  COURT  OF  THE  CITY  OF  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 — Jacob  Lewiton 

Associate  Justices — Daniel  J.   Gillen,  Jacob  Lewiton,   Francis   X. 

Morrissey,  Theodore  A.  Glynn,  Jr.,  Harold  W.  Canavan,  A. 

Frank  Foster,  Joseph  A.  Deguglielmo,  Harry  J.  Elam 
Special  Justices — Thomas  Wood  Hoag,  Charles  F.  Mahoney,  Matthew 

Brown,  Joseph  Gorrasi 
Ail  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 — George  A.  Rochford 

Assistant  Clerks — Ralph  Pullo,  Jr.,  Frank  J.  Fitzwilliam,  George  D. 

Sullivan,  Timothy  J.  Hurley,  Joseph  A.  Woods,  Peter  J.  Rogers, 

James  H.  Nicholson,  Michael  J.  Coleman,  Thomas  F.  Lynch, 

George  D.  Lambrenos,  John  M.  Kelly 

Appointed  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Court  with  the  approval  of  the  Justices. 

For  Criminal  Business 
Pioom  411,  New  Court  House 
Clerk — Daniel  J.  Lynch.  Appointed  by  the  Governor. 
First  Assistant  Clerk — Theodore  J.  Stavredes 

Assistant  Clerks — Robert  E.  Block,  John  F.  Greene,  Joseph  L.  Kenny, 

Domenic  A.  Procopio,  John  P.   McCoole,  Ruth  M.  Denehy, 

Anthony  F.  Sarno,  William  J.  Tierney,  William  H.  Hunter, 

Francis  X.  Cunningham,  Michael  J.  White 

Appointed  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Court  with  the  approval  of  the  Justices. 

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 — Elizabeth  C.  Healey 
Assistant  Clerk — Helen  Toomey 


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MUNICIPAL  COURT,  CHARLESTOWN  DISTRICT 

City  Square 
Justice — Richard  C.  Woods 
Special  Justice — James  J.  Mellen 
Clerk — Jeremiah  F.  Brennan 
First  Assistant  Clerk — Josephine  Brennan 
Second  Assistant  Clerk — James  J.  Mullen 
Third  Assistant  Clerk — John  F.  Mullen 

MUNICIPAL  COURT,   DORCHESTER  DISTRICT 

Washington  Street  and  Melville  Avenue 
Justices — Jerome  P.  Troy  and  Paul  H.  King 
Special  Justices — Sadie  L.  Shulman  and  Margaret  C.  Scott 
Clerk — Manuel  V.  McKenney 
Assistant  Clerk — Benjamin  J.  Wall 
Second  Assistant  Clerk — Marguerite  H.  Hennessy 
Third  Assistant  Clerk — James  T.  Buckley 
Fourth  Assistant  Clerk — Francis  X.  Holland 
Fifth  Assistant  Clerk — Philip  D.  Oliver 

east  boston  district  court 
Meridian  and  Paris  Streets 
Justice — Guy  J.  Rizzotto 
Special  Justice — Joseph  V.  Ferrino 
Clerk — John  C.  Ligotti.    Appointed  by  the  Governor. 
First  Assistant  Clerk — Joseph  Fiandaca 
Assistant  Clerk — Nora  N.  Benincuore 
Assistant  Clerk — A.  Clahie  Kelley 

municipal  court,  roxbury  district 
85  Warren  Street 
Justice — Elwood  S.  McKenney 

Special  Justices — Samuel  Eisenstadt,  Philip  A.  Tracy 
Clerk — Keesler  H.  Montgomery 
First  Assistant  Clerk — John  I.  Sullivan 
Second  Assistant  Clerk — John  A.  D'Arcy 
Third  Assistant  Clerk — Theodore  J.  Zaborski 
Fourth  Assistant  Clerk — Paul  W.  Shannon 
Fifth  Assistant  Clerk— Francis  J.  Concannon 
Sixth  Assistant  Clerk— William  A.  Mahoney 
Seventh  Assistant  Clerk — Joseph  Silva 
Eighth  Assistant  Clerk— William  Kaszanek 
Ninth  Assistant  Clerk— John  F.  Devlin 


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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. 
First  Assistant  Clerk — Baymond  J.  Dodds 
Second  Assistant  Clerk — Balph  F.  Clougherty 
Assistant  Clerk,  Helen  T.  Joyce 

MUNICIPAL    COURT,     WEST     ROXBURY     DISTRICT,     INCLUDING     HYDE     PARK, 

Jamaica  plain  and  roslindale,  445  Arborway,  Forest  Hills,  02130 
Justice — Paul  Murphy 
Special  Justice — Benjamin  Gargill 

Clerk — Vincent  A.  Mannering.    Appointed  by  the  Governor. 
First  Assistant  Clerk — Thomas  E.  Anastasi 
Second  Assistant  Clerk — John  W.  Norton 
Third  Assistant  Clerk — Bichard  F.  Fell 
Fourth  Assistant  Clerk — Baymond  P.  Byan 
Fifth  Assistant  Clerk — Bobert  P.  Colbert 

BOSTON  JUVENILE  COURT 

Boom  168,  Old  Court  House 
[Chap.  334,  Acts  of  1903;  Chap.  489,  Acts  of  1906;  Gen.  Stat.  1919,  Chap. 

255;  Stat.  1922,  Chap.  659,  Acts  of  1965] 
Justice — Francis  G.  Poitrast 

Special  Justices — George  W.  Cashman,  G.  Bruce  Bobinson 
Clerk — John  H.  Louden 

First  Assistant  Clerk — William  H.  Ohrenberger,  Jr. 
Second  Assistant  Clerk — Leonard  C.  Alkins 
Third  Assistant  Clerk — John  P.  Bulger 

Chapter  489  of  the  Acts  of  1906,  establishing  a  court  to  be  known  as 
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  Sep- 
tember 1,  1906. 

The  jurisdiction  of  the  Court  has  been  increased  from  time  to  time. 
The  Court  has  concurrent  jurisdiction  with  the  Boston  Municipal  Court 
and  the  Municipal  Court  of  the  Boxbury  District  over  adults  who  commit 
the  offences  of  Contributing  to  the  Delinquency  of  Children  and  against 
parents  for  neglect  of  minor  children,  and  against  parents  for  failing  to  have 
children  attend  school. 

In  addition,  the  jurisdiction,  authority,  and  powers  formerly  exercised 
by  the  Municipal  Court  of  the  Boxbury  District  pertaining  to  juvenile 
offenders  under  17,  and  cases  of  neglected,  wayward  or  delinquent  children 
are  now  vested  in  the  Boston  Juvenile  Court. 

The  Justice,  Special  Justices,  and  Clerk  of  this  Court  are  appointed  by 
the  Governor. 


156 


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.  I.  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  all  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  re- 
spectively from  time  to  time  deem  necessary  for  their  respective  courts. 
No  person  shall  be  appointed  until  his  or  her  qualifications  have  been  ex- 
amined by  the  Commissioner  of  Probation  and  approved  by  him  as  meet- 
ing the  standards  established  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 — James  E.  Flavin 

First  Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officer — John  F.  McCarthy 

Second  Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officer — 

Court  Physician — H.  Bernard  Fisher,  M.D. 

Assistant  Medical  Director — 

Deputy  Probation  Officer — Robert  T.  Hughes 

Deputy  Probation  Officer — Samuel  J.  Collis 

Probation  Officers — Florence  J.  McCarthy,  George  R.  Skelly,  Julius 
V.  Chaplik,  Catherine  G.  Tierney,  Thomas  E.  Curry,  Jr., 
Margaret  E.  Conley,  Dorothy  M.  Murray,  Francis  J.  Burke, 
Edward  M.  Sacks,  Daniel  F.  Griffin,  Jr.,  Matthew  C.  Regan, 
Phyllis  R.  Folkes,  Ann  L.  Fuller,  Charles  P.  Graham,  Daniel 
M.  Henderson,  Nancy  M.  Hibey,  Thomas  W.  Lally,  Jr.,  Nancy 
C.  Maron,  Charles  G.  McCusker,  Robert  P.  Nichols,  Robert 
E.  Tierney,  Joseph  T.  Tracey. 


157 


BOSTON   JUVENILE   COURTS 

Chief  Probation  Officer — Louis  G.  Maglio 

First  Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officer — Nicholas  F.  Gatto 

Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officers — Katherine  M.  Connolly,  Edward  R. 

Skeffington 
Probation  Officers — William  T.  Ahern,  Daniel  J.   Byrne,   Charles 

Bevilacqua,  John  J.  Connelly,  Jr.,  Paul  P.  Heffernan,  Paul  V. 

Kelley,  John  J.  McGlynn,  Jr.,  Philippa  J.  Myers,  Dorothy  L. 

Parks,  Salvatore  Paterna,  Lawrence  S.  Plenty,  Anthony  R. 

Polcari,  Evelyn  G.  Porter,  Joseph  M.  O'Reilly,  Patricia  A. 

Walsh,    Mary    Gallagher,    Ann    V.    Nicholson,    Daniel    J. 

Passacantilli,  William  J.  Sullivan 

MUNICIPAL  DISTRICT   COURT 

Brighton — Chief  Probation  Officer,  Thomas  C.  O'Brien,  Jr.,  Assistant 
Chief  Probation  Officer,  Marian  O'Donnell,  Probation  Officers,  Kevin 
M.  Glynn,  Timothy  F.  Murphy,  Brian  T.  O'Neill,  Donald  W. 
Stevens.  Charlestown — Chief  Probation  Officer,  William  L.  Meade, 
Probation  Officers,  James  Conway,  Charles  W.  Gearin,  William  D. 
Sweeney.  Chelsea — Chief  Probation  Officer,  David  Greenspan,  Assistant 
Chief  Probation  Officer,  Donald  Proctor,  Probation  Officers,  Howard 
Martin,  James  F.  Monahan,  Edward  P.  Volta,  Donald  A.  Waggen- 
heim.  Dorchester — Chief  Probation  Officer,  Matthew  T.  Connolly, 
Asistant  Chief  Probation  Officers,  Mary  L.  McLoughlan,  Hubert  C. 
Travers,  William  J.  Vaughan,  Probation  Officers,  Brian  A.  Callery 
(temporary),  William  Collins  (leave  of  absence),  Michael  J.  Coyne 
(temporary),  Francis  J.  Coughlin,  Jr.,  Bernard  F.  Fitzgerald, 
Charles  F.  Hoar,  Francis  E.  Kelley,  Jr.,  (leave  of  absence),  Brian  M. 
Leahy  (temporary),  James  R.  McLaughlin,  William  H.  Murphy  (leave 
of  absence),  Marcia  Newman,  Paul  C.  O'Hara,  Edward  J.  Pollis, 
William  J.  Prescod,  Robert  J.  Sullivan,  Richard  C.  Woods,  Jr. 
(temporary),  Richard  C.  Westmoreland.  East  Boston — Chief  Probation 
Officer,  James  A.  Sartori,  Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officer,  Vincent  D. 
Basile,  Probation  Officers,  Helen  K.  McGoey,  William  J.  Pepicelli, 
Vincent  Santosuosso,  Cibiaco  Tordiglione,  Michael  Wilk.  Roxbury 
— Chief  Probation  Officer,  Albert  E.  Goslin,  First  Assistant  Chief  Pro- 
bation Officer,  Harry  F.  Lofton  (temporary),  Assistant  Chief  Probation 
Officers,  Arthur  A.  Devin,  John  M.  Teehan,  Malcolm  L.  Weymouth, 
Probation  Officers,  Donald  A.  Akerstrom,  Richard  L.  Arrington, 
Salvatore  Bellistri,  David  C.  Comerford,  Benjamin  Dames,  Dennis 
R.  D'Arcy  (temporary),  Robert  J.  Filippone,  Edward  J.  Keegan,  Jr., 
Norma  P.  Kilson,  Joseph  J.  McDonough,  Albert  J.  Murphy,  James  H. 
Norton,  Jr.  (temporary),  James  H.  Norton,  Thomas  Orlandi,  Jean- 

NETTE   M.   RONAN,   EDWARD  P.   RoONEY,   THOMAS   W.   StANTON,   LeO   J. 

Sullivan.  South  Boston — Chief  Probation  Officer,  William  R.  Gillespie, 
Probation  Officers,  Robert  0.  Flynn,  Regina  M.  Gibbons,  William  R. 
Hanrahan.  West  Roxbury— Chief  Probation  Officer,  Thomvs  M. 
Gemelli,  Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officer,  James  F.  Holland,  Probation 
Officers,  William  J.  Kelley,  Gerald  T.  Palmer,  James  J.  Rush, 
Timothy  F.  Tobin,  Jr. 


158 


SUPERIOR  COURT 

Chief  Probation  Officer — John  J.  O'Connor 

First  Assistant  Chief  Probation  Officer — Michael  J.  Coyne 

Assistant   Chief  Probation   Officers — Charles   H.   Sullivan  Francis  L. 

Toomey,  Daniel  Paul  Toomey 
Probation  Officers  (male) — Henry  J.  Dobbyn,  Jr.,  Joseph  P.  Don- 
nelly, Jr.,  Kenneth  G.  Lehane,  Richard  A.  Luccio,  Thomas  F. 
McKenna,  Frederick  R.  Naples,  Robert  C.  O'Shea,  Michael  G. 
Pano,  Isidoro  Mojica,  Richard  Cronin,  Milton  Britton,  Joseph 
H.  Cody,  Thomas  McPhee,  Sandy  Stillwell,  Edward  Walsh, 
Charles  Wiley 
Probation  Officers  (female) — Miss  Jean  Harney  and  Miss  Margaret 
Conroy. 


MEDICAL  EXAMINERS  FOR  SUFFOLK  COUNTY 

[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  line  beginning  at  the  junction  of  the  Brookline  line  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  1977.    Southern  Dis- 
trict, 784  Massachusetts  avenue,  Boston.  George  W.  Curtis,  M.D., 
Term  ends  in  1971. 
Associate  Medical  Examiners  —  George  G.  Katsas,  M.D.,  784  Massachu- 
setts avenue,  Boston.    Term  ends  in  1977.    Leonard  Atkins,  M.D. 
Term  ends  in  1971. 
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. 

George  W.  Curtis,  M.D.,  is  now  Medical  Examiner,  Southern  District, 
and  George  G.  Katsas,  M.D.,  is  an  Associate  Medical  Examiner.  Term 
ends  in  1977. 


159 


MEMBERS    OF 
CITY    GOVERNMENT 


Mayors  and  Certain  Other  Officials 
Since  1822 

1909-1973 


Orators  Appointed  by  the  City  Since  1771 


160 


1909 

Mayor 

GEORGE  A.   HIBBARD* 

Aldermen 

Frederick  J.  Brand,  Chairman 


James  M.  Curley 
Daniel  A.  Whelton 
Daniel  J.  Donnellyf 
George  P.  Anderson 
Walter  Ballantyne 
Frederick  J.  Brand 
W.  Dudley  Cotton,  Jr. 


James  P.  Timilty 
J.  Frank  O'Hare 
John  J.  Attridge 
Charles  L.  Carr 
Thomas  J.  Giblin 
Matthew  Hale 


John  T.  Priest,  City  Clerk 

COUNCILMEN 

George  C.  McCabe,  President 


Wardl 
Edward  C.  R.  Bagley 
Frank  A.  Goodwin 
Joseph  A.  Hoey 

Ward  2 
Joseph  H.  Pendergast 
Dennis  A.  O'Neil 
Michael  J.  Brophy 

Ward  3 
James  J.  Brennan 
Joseph  A.  Dart 
William  J.  Murray 

Ward  4 
Francis  M.  Ducey 
Patrick  B.  Can- 
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 


Ward  10 
J.  Henderson  Allston 
Channing  H.  Cox 
Willam  S.  Kinney 

Ward  11 
Courtenay  Crocker 
Theodore  Hoague 
Charles  H.  Moore 

Ward  12 
Seth  Fenelon  Arno 
Alfred  G.  Davis 
Francis  J.  H.  Jones 

Ward  13 
Leo  F.  McCulIoughJ 
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.  Cumming 
William  Smith,  Jr. 

Ward  21 
William  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  t  Died  June  23,  1909 

t  Resigned  June  3,  1909 


161 


1910 


Term  Ends  in  1913 
John  J.  Attridge 
Matthew  Hale 
Walter  L.  Collins 


Mayor 

JOHN   F.   FITZGERALD 

City  Council 

Walter  Ballantyne,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1912  Term  Ends  in  1911 

James  M.  Curley  Frederick  J.  Brand 

Walter  Ballantyne  Daniel  J.  McDonald 

Thomas  J.  Kenny  Timothy  J.  Buckley 


1911 


Terms  Ends  in  1914 
Daniel  J.  McDonald 
Timothy  J.  Buckley 
Ernest  E.  Smith 


Mayor 

JOHN   F.   FITZGERALD 

City  Council 

Walter  L.  Collins,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1913  Term  Ends  in  1912 

John  J.  Attridge  James  M.  Curley 

Matthew  Hale  Walter  Ballantyne 

Walter  L.  Collins  Thomas  J.  Kenny 


1912 


Term  Ends  in  1915 
Walter  Ballantyne 
Thomas  J.  Kenny 
John  A.  Coulthurst 


Mayor 
JOHN   F.   FITZGERALD 
City  Council 
John  J.  Attridge,  President 
Term  Ends  in  1914  Term  Ends  in  1913 

Daniel  J.  McDonald  John  J.  Attridge 

Timothy  J.  Buckley  Matthew  Hale 

Ernest  E.  Smith  Walter  L.  Collins 


1913 


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  Term  Ends  in  1914 

Walter  Ballantyne  Daniel  J.  McDonald 

Thomas  J.  Kenny  Timothy  J.  Buckley 

John  A.  Coulthurst  Ernest  E.  Smith 


1914 


Term  Ends  in  1917 
Daniel  J.  McDonald 
George  W.  Coleman 
William  H.  Woods 


JAMES   M.   CURLEY,  Mayor 

City  Council 
Daniel  J.  McDonald,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1916  Term  Ends  in  1915 

John  J.  Attridge  Walter  Ballantyne 

Walter  L.  Collins  Thomas  J.  Kenny 

James  A.  Watson  John  A.  Coulthurst 


Note. — The  Board  of  Aldermen  and  Common  Council  were  abolished  by  the  amended 
City  Charter  of  1909  and  the  City  Council  was  established,  consisting  of  nine  members. 


Term  Ends  in  1918 
Walter  Ballantyne 
John  A.  Coulthurst 
Henry  E.  Hagan 


162 


1915 

JAMES  M.   CURLEY,  Mayoh 

City  Council 
George  W.  Coleman,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1917  Term  Ends  in  1916 

George  W.  Coleman  John  J.  Attridge 

Daniel  J.  McDonald  Walter  L.  Collins 

William  H.  Woods*  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. 

1916 

JAMES   M.    CURLEY,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Henry  E.  Hagan,  President 


Term  Ends  in  1919 
John  J.  Attridge 
Walter  L.  Collins 
James  J.  Storrow 


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. 


1917 


Term  Ends  in  1920 
Francis  J.  W.  Ford 
Daniel  J.  McDonald 
James  A.  Watson 


JAMES  M.   CURLEY,  Mayor 

City  Council 

James  J.  Storrow,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1919  Term  Ends  in  1918 

John  J.  Attridge  Walter  Ballantyne} 

Walter  L.  Collins  Henry  E.  Hagan   || 

James  J.  Storrow  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 

1919 


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 


ANDREW  J.   PETERS,  Mayor 

City  Council 
Francis  J.  W.  Ford,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1921  Term  Ends  in  1920 

Henry  E.  Hagan  Francis  J.  W.  Ford  i 

Daniel  W.  Lane  Daniel  J.  McDonald 

James  T.  Moriarty  James  A.  Watson 

1920 


Term  Ends  in  1923 
David  J.  Brickley 
Francis  J.  W.  Ford 
James  A.  Watson 


ANDREW  J.   PETERS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

James  T.  Moriarty,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1922  Term  Ends  in  1921 

Walter  L.  Collins  Henry  E.  Hagan 

John  A.  Donoghue  Daniel  W.  Lane 

Edward  F.  McLaughlin  James  T.  Moriarty 


163 


1921 


Term  Ends  in  1924 
Henry  E.  Hagan 
Daniel  W.  Lane 
James  T.  Moriarty 


ANDREW  J.   PETERS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

James  A.  Watson,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1923  Term  Ends  in  1922 

David  J.  Rrickley  Walter  L.  Collins 

Francis  J.  W.  Ford  John  A.  Donoghue 

James  A.  Watson  Edward  F.  McLaughlin 


1922 


Term  Ends  in  1925 
John  A.  Donoghue 
George  F.  Gilbody 
William  J.  Walsh 


JAMES  M.   CURLEY,  Mayor 

City  Council 

David  J.  Buckley,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1924  Term  Ends  in  1923 

Henry  E.  Hagan  David  J.  Brickley 

Daniel  W.  Lane  Francis  J.  W.  Ford 

James  T.  Moriarty  James  A.  Watson 


1923 


Term  Ends  in  1926 
David  J.  Brickley 
William  C.  S.  Healey 
James  A.  Watson 


JAMES   M.   CURLEY,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Daniel  W.  Lane,  President 

Term  Ends  in  1925  Term  Ends  in  1924 

John  A.  Donoghue  Henry   E.  Hagan 

George  F.  Gilbody  Daniel  W.  Lane 

William  J.  Walsh  James  T.  Moriarty 


1924 


Daniel  W.  Lane 
James  T.  Moriarty 
James  T.  Purcell 


JAMES   M.    CURLEY,  Mayor 
City  Council 

John  A.  Donoghue,  President 
David  J.  Brickley  John  A,  Donoghue 

William  C.  S.  Healey  George  F.  Gilbody 

James  A.  Watson  William  J.  Walsh 


1925 


Daniel  W.  Lane 
James  T.  Moriarty 
James  T.  Purcell 


JAMES   M.   CURLEY,  Mayor 
City  Council 

James  T.  Moriarty,  President 
David  J.  Brickley  John  A.  Donoghue 

William  C.  S.  Healey  George  F.  Gilbody 

James  A.  Watson  William  J.  Walsh 


1926 


Timothy  F.  Donovan 
Thomas  H.  Green 
John  I.  Fitzgerald 
Seth  F.  Arnold 
Michael  J.  Mahoney 
Henry  Parkman,  jr. 
Wiillam  G.  Lynch 


MALCOLM   E.   NICHOLS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Charles  G.  Kjeene,  President 

John  F.  Dowd  Thomas  W.  McMahon 

Michael  J.  Ward  George  F.  Gilbody 

Walter  J.  Freeley  Robert  Gardiner  Wilson,  jr. 

Edward  L.  Englert  Walter  E.  Wragg 

Herman  L.  Bush  Horace  Guild 

Joseph  McGrath  Frederic  E.  Dowling 

Israel  Ruby  John  J.  Heffernan 


164 


1927 


Timothy  F.  Donovan 
Thomas  H.  Green 
John  I.  Fitzgerald 
Seth  F.  Arnold 
Michael  J.  Mahoney 
Henry  Parkman,  jr. 
William  G.  Lynch 


MALCOLM   E.   NICHOLS,  Mayor 
City  Council 
John  J.  Heffernan,  President 

John  F.  Dowd  Thomas  W.  McMahon 

Michael  J.  Ward  George  F.  Gilbody 

Walter  J.  Freeley  Robert  Gardiner  Wilson,  jr. 

Edward  L.  Englert  Walter  E.  Wragg 

Herman  L.  Bush  Horace  Guild 

Joseph  McGrath  Charles  G.  Keene 

Israel  Ruby  Frederic  E.  Dowling 


1928 


Timothy  F.  Donovan 
John  I.  Fitzgerald 
Seth  F.  Arnold 
Henry  Parkman,  jr. 
Michael  J.  Mahoney 
William  G.  Lynch 
John  F.  Dowd 


MALCOLM   E.   NICHOLS,   Mayor 

City  Council 

Thomas  H.  Green,  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 


1929 


Thomas  H.  Green 
John  I.  Fitzgerald 
Seth  F.  Arnold 
Henry  Parkman,  jr. 
Michael  J.  Mahoney 
William  G.  Lynch 
John  F.  Dowd 


MALCOLM   E.   NICHOLS,    Mayor 

City  Council 

Timothy  F.  Donovan,  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 


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  Council 
William  G.  Lynch,  President 

Richard  D.  Gleason  Albert  L.  Fish 

Leo  F.  Power  Robert  Gardiner  Wilson,  jr . 

Edward  L.  Englert  Clement  A.  Norton 

Herman  L.  Bush  Peter  A.  Murray 

Joseph  McGrath  Joseph  P.  Cox 

Israel  Ruby  James  Hein 

Francis  E.  Kelly  Edward  M.  Gallagher 


165 


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,   Mayob 
City  Council 
Joseph  McGhath,  President 
John  F.  Dowd 
Richard  D.  Gleason 
Leo  F.  Power 
Edward  L.  Englert 
Herman  L.  Bush 
Israel  Ruby 
Francis  E.  Kelly 


Albert  L.  Fish 

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  Council 

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 


1934 


Henry  Selvitella 
Thomas  H.  Green 
John  I.  Fitzgerald 
George  W.  Roberts 
Henry  L.  Shattuck 
George  P.  Donovan 
John  E.  Kerrigan 


FREDERICK  W.   MANSFIELD, 
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 


Mayor 


Albert  L.  Fish 

Robert  Gardiner  Wilson,  jr. 

Clement  A.  Norton 

Peter  A.  Murray 

James  F.  Finley 

James  E.  Agnew 

Edward  M.  Gallagher 


166 


1935 


Henry  Selvitella 
Thomas  H.  Green 
George  W.  Roberts 
Henry  L.  Shattuck 
George  P.  Donovan 
John  E.  Kerrigan 
John  F.  Dowd 


FREDERICK  W.   MANSFIELD,   Mayor 
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 


Henry  Selvitella 
James  J.  Mellen 
George  W.  Roberts 
Henry  L.  Shattuck 
George  A.  Murray 
John  E.  Kerrigan 
John  F.  Dowd 


FREDERICK  W.   MANSFIELD,   Mayor 
City  Council 


John  I.  Fitzgerald,  President 


Richard  D,  Gleason 
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 


1937 


FREDERICK  W.   MANSFIELD,   Mayor 


Henry  Selvitella 
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 


1938 


Francis  W.  Irwin 
William  J.  Galvin 
John  I.  Fitzgerald 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase 
Henry  L.  Shattuck 
George  A.  Murray 
John  F.  Dowd 


MAURICE  J.  TOBIN,   Mayor 

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.  Kelly 


Philip  Austin  Fish 
Robert  Gardiner  Wilson,  jr. 
Clement  A.^Norton 
Peter  A.  Murray 
Theodore  F.  Lyons 
James  E.  Agnew 
Maurice  H.  Sullivan 


167 


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  Council 
George  A.  Murray,  President 
Mildred  M.  Harris 
William  A.  Carey 
Edward  L.  Englert 
Charles  I.  Taylor 
Edward  A.  Hutchinson,  jr 
Sidney  Rosenberg 
John  B.  Kelly 


Philip  Austin  Fish 
Robert  Gardiner  Wilson,  jr. 
Clement  A.  Norton 
James  M.  Langan 
Theodore  F.  Lyons 
James  E.  Agnew 
Maurice  H.  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  Council 

William  J.  Galvin,  President 


Daniel  F.  Sullivan 
William  A.  Carey 
Edward  L.  Englert 
Charles  I.  Taylor 
Edward  A.  Hutchinson,  jr. 
Joseph  J.  Gottlieb 
John  B.  Kelly 


Philip  Austin  Fish 
John  C.  Wickes 
James  J.  Goode,  jr. 
James  M.  Langan 
Theodore  F.  Lyons 
Michael  J.  Ward 
Maurice  H.  Sullivan 


1941 


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  Council 
William  J.  Galvin,  President 


Daniel  F.  Sullivan 
William  A.  Carey 
Edward  L.  Englert 
Charles  I.  Taylor 
Edward  A.  Hutchinson,  jr. 
Joseph  J.  Gottlieb 
John  B.  Kelly 


Philip  Austin  Fish 
John  C.  Wickes 
James  J.  Goode,  jr. 
James  M.  Langan 
Theodore  F.  Lyons 
Michael  J.  Ward 
Maurice  H.  Sullivan 


1942 


James  S.  Coffey 
Michael  L.  Kinsella 
Joseph  Russo 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase 
A.  Frank  Foster 
Joseph  M.  Scannell 
William  F.  Hurley 


MAURICE  J.  TOBIN,  Mayor 
City  Council 
Thomas  E.  Linehan,  President 
Daniel  F.  Sullivan 
William  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 
William  F.  Dwyer 
Maurice  H.  Sullivan 


168 


1943 


James  S.  Coffey 
Michael  L.  Kinsella 
Joseph  Russo 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase 
A.  Frank  Foster 
Joseph  M.  Scannell 
Thomas  E.  Linehan 


MAURICE  J.   TOBIN,    Mayor 

City  Council 

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 


Philip  Austin  Fish 
John  C.  Wickes 
James  J.  Goode,  jr. 
James  M.  Langan 
Theodore  F.  Lyons 
William  F.  Dwyer 
Maurice  H.  Sullivan 


1944 


MAURICE  J.   TOBIN,   Mayor 


James  S.  Coffey 
Michael  Leo  Kinsella 
Joseph  Russo 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase 
James  C.  Bayley,  jr. 
Joseph  M.  Scannell 
William  F.  Hurley 


City  Council 
John  E.  Kerrigan,  President 
Daniel  F.  Sullivan 
William  A.  Casey 
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 


1945 


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 


1946 


James  S.  Coffey 
Michael  Leo  Kinsella 
Joseph  Russo 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase 
James  C.  Bayley,  jr. 
Joseph  M.  Scannell 
Thomas'E.  Linehan 


JAMES   M.   CURLEY,   Mayor 
City  Council 
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 


169 


1947 


JAMES   M.    CURLEY,    Mayob 


James  S.  Coffey 
Michael  Leo  Kinsella 
Joseph  Russo 
Perlie  Dyar  Chgse 
Jaenes  C.  Baylefl  jr. 
JoseplFM.  Soannell 
Thomas  E.  Linehan 


City  Council, 
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 


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,  Mayor 

City  Council 
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 


1949 


James  S.  Coffey 
Michael  Leo  Kinsella 
George  T.  Lanigan 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase 
John  E.  Yerxa 
John  B.  Wenzler 
Thomas  E.  Linehan 


JAMES  M.  CURLEY,   Mayor 

City  Council, 

William  F.  Hurley,  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 


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,   Mayor 

City  Council 

William  F.  Hurley,  President 


Daniel  F.  Sullivan 
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 


*  Resigned  June  15,  1950. 


t  From  September  20,  1950. 


James  S.  Coffey 
Michael  Leo  Kinsella 
George  T.  Lanigan 
Perlie  Dyar  Chase 
John  E.  Yerxa 
John  B.  Wenzler 
John  J.  MoColgan 
*  Daniel  F.  Sullivan 


170 


1951 

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 
Bobert  J.  Bamsey 


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  twenty-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. 


1952 


Francis  X.  Ahearn 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
Frederick  C.  Hailer,  jr. 


JOHN   B.   HYNES,   Mayor 

City  Council 


Gabriel  F.  Piemonte, 
William  F.  Hurley 
Francis  X.  Joyce 
John  E.  Kerrigan 


President 

Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 
Michael  J.  Ward 
Joseph  C.  White 


1953 


Francis  X.  Ahearn 
t  Michael  H.  Cantwell 
William  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. 


1954 


Francis  X.  Ahearn 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
Frederick  C.  Hailer,  jr. 


JOHN   B.  HYNES,   Mayor 

City  Council 
Joseph  C.  White,  President 

William  F.  Hurley  Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

Edward  J.  McCormack,  jr.     Joseph  C.  White 


1955 


Francis  X.  Ahearn 
William  J,  Foley,  jr. 
Frederick  C.  Hailer,  jr. 


JOHN   B.  HYNES,   Mayor 

City  Council 

William  F.  Hurley,  President 


William  F.  Hurley 
John  E.  Kerrigan 
Edward  J.  McCormack.  jr. 


Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 
Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 
Joseph  C.  White 


171 


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  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 


Edward  J.  McCormack,  jr. 
Patrick  F.  McDonough 


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  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 

Edward  J.  McCormack,  jr.     Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 
Patrick  F.  McDonough  Joseph  C.  White 


1  To  February  18,  1957. 


t  From  February  18,  1957. 


t  James  S.  Coffey 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
*  Frederick  C.  Hailer,  jr. 
ft  Peter  F.  Hines 


1958 

JOHN   B.  HYNES,   Mayor 

City  Council 

Patrick  F.  McDonough,  President 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

**Edward  J.  McCormack,  jr.  Joseph  C.  White 
Patrick  F.  McDonough 


*  To  April  21,  1958. 
■*  To  September  12,  1958. 


t  From  April  22,  1958. 
ft  From  September  15,  1958. 


1959 
JOHN    B.  HYNES,  Mayor 


James  S.  Coffey 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
Peter  F.  Hines 


City  Council 
Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  Jr. 
Christopher  A.  Iannella 
John  E.  Kerrigan 
Patrick  F.  McDonough 


President 

Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 
Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 
Joseph  C.  White 


1960 
JOHN   F.    COLLINS,  Mayor 


City  Council 
Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  Jr. 
James  S.  Coffey  Peter  F.  Hines 

John  Patrick  Connolly  Christopher  A.  Iannella 

William  J.  Foley,  jr.  John  E.  Kerrigan 


President 

Patrick  F.  McDonough 
Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 
Joseph  C.  White 


172 


1961 


James  S.Coffey 

John  Patrick  Connolly 

William  J.  Foley,  jr. 


JOHN   F.   COLLINS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Patrick  F.  McDonough,  President 

Peter  F.  Hines  Patrick  F.  McDonough 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  *  Edward  F.  McLaughlin,  jr. 

John  E.  Kerrigan  f  Thomas  A.  Sullivan 

■ft  Frederick  C.  Langone  •*  Joseph  C.  White 


'  To  January  5,  1961 
•To  April  27,  1961 


t  From  January  9,  1961 
tt  From  May  1,  1961 


1962 


James  S.  Coffey 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
Peter  F.  Hines 


JOHN   F.   COLLINS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Christopher  A.  Iannella,  President 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Thomas  A.  Sullivan 

Patrick  F.  McDonough  John  J.  Tierney,  jr. 


1963 


James  S.  Coffey 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
Peter  F.  Hines 


JOHN   F.   COLLINS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Peter  F.  Hines,  President 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Thomas  A.  Sullivan 

Patrick  F.  McDonough  John  J.  Tierney,  jr. 


1964 


Katherine  Craven 
George  F.  Foley,  jr. 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 


JOHN   F.   COLLINS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

John  J.  Tierney,  Jr.,  President 

Peter  F.  Hines  John  E.  Kerrigan 

Barry  T.  Hynes  Frederick  C.  Langone 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  John  J.  Tierney,  jr. 


1965 


Katherine  Craven 
George  F.  Foley,  jr. 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 


JOHN   F.    COLLINS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

John  J.  Tierney,  Jr.,  President 

Peter  F.  Hines  John  E.  Kerrigan 

Barry  T.  Hynes  Frederick  C.  Langone 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  John  J.  Tierney,  jr. 


173 


1966 


Katherine  Craven 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
Peter  F.  Hinea 


JOHN   F.   COLLINS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Frederick  C.  Langone,  President 

Barry  T.  Hyne3  Frederick  C.  Langone 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  Patrick  F.  McDonough 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 


1967 


Katherine  Craven 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 
Peter  F.  Hines 


JOHN   F.   COLLINS,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Barry  T.  Hynes,  President 

Barry  T.  Hynes  Frederick  C.  Langone 

Christopher  A.  Iannella  Patrick  F.  McDonough 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 


1968 


Thomas  I.  Atkins 
Garrett  M.  Byrne 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 


KEVIN   H.   WHITE,  Mayor 

City  Council 

William  J.  Foley,  Jr.,  President 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Gerald  F.  O'Leary 

Frederick  C.  Langone  John  L.  Saltonstall,  jr. 

Patrick  McDonough  Joseph  F.  Timilty 


1969 


Thomas  I.  Atkins 
Garrett  M.  Byrne 
William  J.  Foley,  jr. 


KEVIN   H.  WHITE,  Mayor 
City  Council 

Gerald  F.  O'Leary,  President 
John  E.  Kerrigan  Gerald  F.  O'Leary 

Frederick  C.  Langone  John  L.  Saltonstall,  jr. 

Patrick  F.  McDonough  Joseph  F.  Timilty 


1970 


Thomas  I.  Atkins 
Louise  Day  Hicks 
Christopher  A.  Iannella 


KEVIN   H.   WHITE,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Gabriel  F.  Piemonte,  President 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

Frederick  C.  Langone  John  L.  Saltonstall,  jr. 

Gerald  F.  O'Leary  Joseph  F.  Timilty 


174 

1971 


Thomas  I.  Atkins 
•Louise  Day  Hicks 
Christopher  A.  Iannella 


KEVIN  H.  WHITE,  Mayor 

City  Council 

Gabriel  F.  Piemonte,  President 

John  E.  Kerrigan  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

Frederick  C.  Langone  John  L.  Saltonstall,  Jr. 

Gerald  F.  O'Leary  Joseph  F.  Timilty 

t Albert  L.  O'Neil 


•To  January  25,  1971 


fFrom  January  25,  1971 


1972 


Lawrence  S.  DiCara 
Christopher  A.  Iannella 
John  E.  Kerrigan 


KEVIN  H.  WHITE,  Mayor 

City  Council 
Gabriel  F.  Piemonte,  President 

Patrick  F.  McDonough  Albert  L,  O'Neil 

John  Joseph  Moakley  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

Gerald  F.  O'Leary  Joseph  M.  Tierney 


Lawrence  S.  DiCara 
Christopher  A.  Iannella 
John  E.  Kerrigan 


1973 

KEVIN  H.   WHITE,   Mayor 

City  Council 

Patrick  F.  McDonough,  President 

*Frederick  C.  Langone  Albert  L.  O'Neil 

Patrick  F.  McDonough  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

tJohn  Joseph  Moakley  Joseph  M.  Tierney 

Gerald  F.  O'Leary 


*From  January  4,  1973 


fTo  January  1,  1973 


175 


Mayors  of  the  City  of  Boston 

From  1822  to  the  Present  Time 


Years  of 

Name 

Place  and  Date  of  Birth 

Died 

Service 

.Nov.  26, 

1770 

May    29,  1823 

1822 1 

.Feb.     4, 

1772 

July       1,  1864 

1823-28. .6 

.Oct.     8, 

1765 

Oct.     28,  1848 

1829-31.. 3 

*  Charles  Wells 

Dec.  30, 
.Feb.  19, 

1786 

1792 

June      3,  1866 
July     17,  1849 

1832-33. .2 

*  Theodore  Lyman,  jr. . . . 

1834-35..  2 

*  Samuel  T.  Armstrong. . . 

.  April  29, 

1784 

Mar.    26,  1850 

1836 1 

•Samuel  A.  Eliot 

.Mar.    5, 

1798 

Jan.     29,  1862 

1837-39.. 3 

*  Jonathan  Chapman .... 

.Jan.   23, 

1807 

May    25,  1848 

1840-42.. 3 

•  Martin  Brimmer 

1793 

April   25,  1847 

1843-44. .2 

.Dec.  11, 

1798 

Nov.    22,  1845 

1845 1 

.Jan.    17, 

1802 

Nov.      2,  1882 

1846-48.. 3 

.Aug.  25, 

1797 

July       4,  1872 

1849-51.. 3 

Roxbury 

.April  12, 

1795 

Feb.     14,  1856 

1852-53.. 2 

•  Jerome  V.  C.  Smith 

Conway,  N.  H. . 

.July  20, 

1800 

Aug.    20,  1879 

1854-55.. 2 

.Aug.  30, 

1818 

July    22,  1895 

1856-57.. 2 

*  Frederic  W.  Lincoln,  jr .  . 

Boston 

.Feb.  27, 

1817 

Sept.    13,  1898 

1858-60.. 3 

*  Joseph  M.  Wightman. . . 

.Oct.   19, 

1812 

Jan.     25,  1885 

186 1-62.. 2 

*  Frederic  W.  Lincoln,  jr. . 

(See  above) . . . 

1863-66.. 4 

Nov.    2, 
.June  29, 

1811 
1810 

Sept.      5,  1882 
Oct.     17,  1874 

1867 1 

•  Nathaniel  B.  Shurtleff . . 

1868-70.. 3 

Killingly,  Conn. 

.Oct.      3, 

1820 

Jan.     19,  1894 

1871-72. .2 

.Aug.  23, 

1825 

Dec.    17,  1896 

1873,  lOmo. 

*§  Leonard  R.  Cutter .... 

1873,  2  mo. 

•  Samuel  C.  Cobb 

.May  22, 

1826 

Feb.    18,  1891 

1874-76.. 3 

•  Frederick  O.  Prince .... 

.Jan.    18, 

1818 

June      6,  1899 

1877 1 

1878 1 

*  Frederick  O.  Prince .... 

(See  above) . . . 

1879-81.. 3 

.  Mar.  16, 

1830 

Dec.      5,  1918 

1882 1 

Candia,  N.  H... 

.Jan.    17, 
.Nov.  23, 

1831 
1835 

May    21,  1887 
Mar.   13,  1902 

1883 1 

•  Augustus  P.  Martin .... 

1884 1 

•Hugh  O'Brien 

.July   13, 

1827 

Aug.      1,  1895 

1885-88.. 4 

•  Thomas  N.  Hart 

North  Reading. . 

.Jan.   20, 

1829 

Oct.       4,  1927 

1889-90. .2 

*  Nathan  Matthews,  jr. . . 

.Mar.  28, 

1854 

Dec.    11,  1927 

189 1-94.. 4 

•  Edwin  U.  Curtis 

.  Mar.  26, 

1861 

Mar.   28,  1922 

1895 1 

•J  Josiah  Quincy 

.Oct.   15, 

1859 

Sept.     8,  1919 

1896-99. .4 

*t  Thomas  N.  Hart 

1900-01. .2 

•J  Patrick  A.  Collins 

Fermoy,  Ireland 

.  Mar.  12, 

1844 

Sept.   14,  1905 

1902-05,  3| 

•§  Daniel  A.  Whelton 

.Jan.   21, 

1872 

Nov.   27,  1953 

1905-3£mo. 

*t  John  F.  Fitzgerald 

.Feb.  11, 

1863 

Oct.       2,  1950 

1906-07.. 2 

•f  George  A.  Hibbard. . . . 

.Oct.   27, 

1864 

May    29,  1910 

1908-09.. 2 

*%  John  F.  Fitzgerald. . . 

1910-13. .4 

*1  James  M.  Curley 

.Nov.  20, 

1874 

Nov.    12,  1958 

1914-17.. 4 

*1f  Andrew  J.  Peters 

Jamaica  Plain .  . 

.  April    3, 

1872 

June    26,  1938 

1918-21.. 4 

•f  James  M.  Curley 

1922-25.. 4 

*1f  Malcolm  E.  Nichols. . . 

Portland,  Me. .  . 

.  May    8, 

1876 

Feb.      7,  1951 

1926-29.. 4 

*1f  James  M.  Curley 

1930-33. .4 

*1  Frederick  W.  Mansfield 

.  Mar.  26, 

1877 

Nov.      6,  1968 

1934-37.. 4 

*tt  Maurice  J.  Tobin 

.May  22, 

1901 

July     19,  1953 

1938-44. .7 

it  John  E.  Kerrigan 

Boston 

Oct.      1, 

1907 

1945 1 

*1[  James  M.  Curley 

(See  above) . . . 

1946-49.. 4 

Boston 

.Sept.  21, 

1897 

1947-5  mo. 

t  John  B.  Hynes 

1950-51.. 2 

tt  John  B.  Hynes 

1952-59.. 8 

f  John  F.  Collins 

July  20, 

1919 

1960-63.. 4 

ttJohnF.  Collins 

1964-67. .4 

Kevin  H.  White 

(See  above)  .... 

Sept.  25, 

1929 

1968-71. .4 

ffKevin  H.  White 

1972-75..  4 

*  Deceased.  J  Twice  elected  for  two  years. 

t  Elected  for  two  years.  If  Elected  for  four  years. 

tt  Twice  elected  for  four  years.  §  Mayor  for  balance  of  unexpired  term. 

Jt  Appointed  Mayor  by  Act  of  Massachusetts  Legislature. 

|]  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. 


176 


Note. — From  January  6,  1845,  to  February  27,  1845,  or  from  the  close  of  Mayor 
Brimmer's  term  in  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  municipal  year  Leonard  B.  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.,  Sep- 
tember 15,  1905,  to  January  1,  1906. 

Mayor  Tobin,  having  been  elected  Governor,  resigned  January  4,  1945.  By  Chapter  4 
of  the  Acts  of  1945,  John  E.  Kerrigan,  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  Acts  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  Milner  Wightman. 

Silas  Peirce 

Otis  Clapp 

Silas  Peirce 

Thomas  Phillips  Bich .... 
Thomas  Coffin  Amory,  jr. 

Otis  Norcross 

George  W.  Messinger .... 
Charles  Wesley  Slack .... 
George  W.  Messinger .... 

Benjamin  James 

Newton  Albert 

Charles  Edward  Jenkins. . 

Samuel  Little 

Leonard  R.  Cutter 

John  Taylor  Clark 

Solomon  Bliss  Stebbins. .  . 

Hugh  O'Brien 

Solomon  Bliss  Stebbins. .  . 

Hugh  O'Brien 

Charles  Varney  Whitten . . 
Charles  Hastings  Allen .  .  . 
Patrick  John  Donovan .  .  . 
Charles  Hastings  Allen .  .  . 

Homer  Rogers 

William  Power  Wilson. . .  . 
Herbert  Schaw  Carruth . . . 

John  Henry  Lee 

Alpheus  Sanford 

John  Henry  Lee 


Lyme,  N.  H Oct.     7,  1808 

Pembroke Feb.  21,  1802 

Boston Oct.  19,  1812 

Scituate Feb.  15,  1793 

Westhampton Mar.    2,  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 

Scituate 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,  1859 
(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. 


177 


Chairmen  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  —  Concluded 


Years  of 

Name 

Place  and  Date  of  Birth 

Died 

Service 

*  Perlie  Appleton  Dyar. . . 

.Mar.   26,  1857 

May  15,  1930 

1897-98 

*  Joseph  Aloysius  Conry. . 

.Sept.   12, 1868 

June  22,  1943 

1898 

David  Franklin  Barry. . . . 

.Feb.    29,  1852 

July  23,  1911 

1899 

Michael  Joseph  O'Brien .  . 

.Feb.    11,  1855 

April  5, 1903 

1900 

.June    17,  1867 

Oct.     3,  1952 

1901-04 

.Jan.    21,  1872 

Nov.  27,  1953 

1905 

t  Charles  Martin  Draper. . 

Dedham 

.Nov.      1,  1869 

Jan.  25,  1943 

1906 

Charlestown . . . 

.Aug.      8,  1870 

April  19, 1928 

1906 

New  Orleans.La 
Plainville,  Conn 

.Dec.    16,  1858 
Dec.    14,  1858 
,Feb.      3,  1861 

July    9,  1935 
Mar.  15,  1914 
Mar.  16,  1912 

1907 

1908 

1909 

Presidents  of  the  Common  Council 


Years  of 

Name 

Place  and  Date  of  Birth 

Died 

Service 

.Aug.    19,  1762 

Dec.    8,  1844 

1822 

Oct.     14,  1764 
.Oct.     10,  1777 

Sept.  26, 1855 
Aug.  21.  1858 

1823 

Francis  Jononnot  Oliver. . 

1824-25 

John  Richardson  Adan .  .  . 

.July      8,  1793 

July    4,  1849 

1826-28 

.Mar.     7,  1778 

June  12,  1855 

1829 

Benj.  Toppan  Pickman. . . 

.Sept.  17,  1790 

Mar.  22,  1835 

1830-31 

John  Prescott  Bigelow. . . . 

.Aug.    25,  1797 

July    4,  1872 

1832-33 

.Jan.     17,  1802 

Nov.   2,  1882 

1834-36 

Phillip  Marett 

Boston Sept.  25,  1792 

Boston Sept.  28,  1805 

N.  Gloucester,  Me.,  Apr.  12,  '16 

Mar.  22,  1869 
Sept.  4,  1873 
May  28,  1889 

1837-40 

1841-43 

Peleg  Whitman  Chandler. 

1844-45 

George  Stillman  Hillard .  . 

Machias,  Me.. 

.Sept.  22,  1808 

Jan.  21,  1879 

1846-47* 

.April   12,  1795 

Feb.  14,  1856 

1847-49§ 

Nov.   10,  1800 
.June    14,  1818 

June  14,  1889 
July  19,  1892 

1850-51 

Henry  Joseph  Gardner .  . . 

1852-53 

.Aug.    30,  1818 

July  22,  1895 

1854 

Portsmouth,  N 

Nov.   11,  1822 
June    22,  1825 
H.,  Oct.  24,  '28 

June  22,  1905 
Aug.  23,  1905 
Aug.  24,  1882 

1855 

1856-57 

Samuel  W.  Waldron,  jr . . . 

1858 

Josiah  Putnam  Bradlee. . . 

Boston 

.June    10,  1817 

Feb.    2,  1887 

1859-60 

Joseph  Hildreth  Bradley. . 

.  Mar.      5,  1822 

Oct.     5,  1882 

1861 

Joshua  Dorsey  Ball 

Baltimore,  Md 

..July    11,1828 

Dec.  18,  1892 

1862 

Keene,  N.  H... 

.Sept.   24,  1825 

July  27,  1897 

1863-64 

Wm.  Bentley  Fowle,  jr. . . 

July    27,  1826 

Jan.  21,  1902 

1865 

»  Perlie  A.  Dyar  from  January  25,  1898,  to  April  1,  1898,  and  October  1,  1898,  to  end 
of  year.     Joseph  A.  Conry  from  April,  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. 

t  To  July  1  §  From  July  1 


178 


Presidents  of  the  Common  Council  —  Concluded 


Name 


Place  and  Date  of  Birth 


Died 


Years  of 
Service 


Joseph  Story 

Weston  Lewis 

Charles  Hastings  Allen . . 

William  Giles  Harris 

Melville  Ezra  Ingalls 

Matthias  Rich 

Marquis  Fayette  Dickin- 
son, j  r 

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- 
nolly  , 

Daniel  Joseph  Kiley 

Arthur  Walter  Dolan. 
William  John  Barrett 

Leo  F.  McCullough , 

George  Cheney  McCabe. . 


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 

(See  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* 

18811-82 

1883J 

1883| 

1884 

1885-86 

1887-88 

1889-90 

1891-93 

1894-95 
1896-97 

1898 

1899-1901 

1902-05 

1906-07 

1908 

1909 


•  To  October  27. 


t  From  October  27. 


t  To  June  11.         §  From  June  11. 


179 


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.  HefFernan 

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.  Ahearn 

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. . . 
Christopher  A.  Iannella. . 


Peter  F.  Hines 

John  J.  Tierney,  jr 

John  J.  Tierney,  jr 

Frederick  C.  Langone. . , 

Barry  T.  Hynes 

William  J.  Foley,  jr. . . . 

Gerald  F.  O'Leary 

Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 
Gabriel  F.  Piemonte .  .  . 
Gabriel  F.  Piemonte.  .  . 
Patrick  F.  McDonough . 


Hawick,  Scotland .  Mar.  17,  1855 

Boston April   7,  1878 

Boston Feb.     8,  1878 

Boston Nov.  18,  1863 

Chelsea Aug.  14,  1873 

Boston June  16,  1867 

St.  John,  N.  B. . . .  Feb.  26,  1865 

Boston Jan.  21,  1864 

(See  above) 

Boston Dec.  23,  1882 

Amesbury Sept.  22,  1876 

Boston June  24,  1870 

Boston Mar.  14,  1889 

Boston Dec.  11,1872 

Boston Aug.  12,  1885 

(See  above) 

Gardiner,  Me Aug.    6,  1880 

Boston Jan.   27,  1893 

Boston May  11,  1883 

Boston Aug.  21,  1889 

Boston Oct.  20,  1892 

Boston Dec.  20,  1890 

Charlestown Jan.   25,  1877 

(See  above) 

Boston Nov.  28,  1895 

Boston July  18,  1882 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 

Boston Oct.     1,1907 

Boston Sept.    1,  1905 

Boston Jan.  31,  1904 

(See  above) 

Boston June  28,  1904 

Boston Dec.    9,1900 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 

Boston July  21,  1904 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 

Boston Aug.    3,1895 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 

Boston Jan.  28,  1909 

Cohasset Feb.  26,  1917 

Boston Jan.  30,  1898 

(See  above) 


Sept.   30,  1932 


May 
June 
July 
May 
Mar. 


17,  1926 
28,  1937 
31,  1950 

18,  1933 
13,  1926 


April  5,  1950 
Dec.  5,  1941 
Oct.  31,  1960 


Feb.  10,  1946 

Aug.  25,  1927 

June  13,  1958 

April  21,  1933 


April  25,  1943 
Oct.  25,  1961 


Aug.  14,  1961 


Mar.  19,  1965 


Mar.  15,  1965 


29,  1923 

18,  1923 

6,  1925 

18,  1920 


Boston Aug 

Boston Deo, 

Galway,  Ireland. .  .Feb, 

Boston Aug 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 

Province  of  Avel- 

lino,  Italy May  29,  1913 

Boston Nov.  30,  1927 

Boston Feb.  18,  1926 

(See  above) 

Boston Oct.  31,  1921 

Boston Nov.  9,1934 

(See  above) 

Boston Aug.  7 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 

(See  above) 


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 

1962 
1963 
1964 
1965 
1966 
1967 
1968 
1969 
1970 
1971 
1972 
1973 


Single  chamber  established  in  1910  (see  Chap.  486,  Acts  of  1909,  Sects.  48-51). 


180 


Orators  of  Boston 

APPOINTED    BY   THE   PUBLIC   AUTHORITIES 

For  the  Anniversary  of  the  Boston  Massacre,  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  Williams  Austin 

1779  William  Tudor 

1780  Jonathan  Mason,  jr. 

1781  Thomas  Dawes,  jr. 

1782  George  Richards  Minot 

1783  Dr.  Thomas  Welsh 


For  the  Anniversary  of  National  Independence,  July  U,  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  William  Sullivan 

1804  Dr.  Thomas  Danforth 

1805  Warren  Dutton 

1806  Francis  Dana  Channing 

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  Sumner 

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 


181 


Orators  of  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 

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  Faris  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    Richardjf  J. 

Cushing,    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 

1961  Edward  M.  Kennedy 

1962  Erwin  D.  Canliam 

1963  General  James  M.  Gavin 

1964  Louis  Lyons 

1965  Alexander  Brin 

1966  Philip  J.  McNiff 

1967  Daniel  J.  Finn 

1968  Robert  C.  Wood 

1969  Gerald  F.  O'Leary 

1970  Gabriel  F.  Piemonte 

1971  Frederick  Homberger 

1972  John  J-  Moakley 


182 

INDEX 


Page 
A 

Administrative  Services  Department 49-52 

Air  Pollution  Control  Commission 115 

Aldermen,  Chairmen  of  the  Board  of,  1855  to  1909          .        .  176-177 

Amended  City  Charter  of  1909  (with  Plan  A  Charter)    .       .  15-42 

Appeal,  Board  of  (Building  Dept.) 57-58 

Art  Commission  (Administrative  Services  Dept.)     ...  51 

Assessing  Department 52-54 

Board  of  Beview 54 

Attendance,  Supervisors  of  (School  Committee)       ...  110 

Auditing  Department 55 

Auditorium  Commission 140 

B 

Back  Bay  Architectural  Commission 138-139 

Beacon  Hill  Architectural  Commission 59-62 

Births,  Begistrar  of  (City  Clerk  Dept.) 64-65 

Boards  and  Commissions  of  the  City  (alphabetical  list) : 

Administrative  Services  Board 49 

Air  Pollution  Control  Commission 115 

Appeal,  Board  of 57-58 

Art  Commission 51 

Auditorium  Commission T40 

Back  Bay  Architectural  Commission 138-139 

Beacon  Hill  Architectural  Commission       ....  59-62 

Boston  Consumers'  Council 115 

Boston  Housing  Authority 125-126 

Boston  Bedevelopment  Authority 130-137 

Boston  Betirement  Board 99-100 

Conservation  Commission 116 

Coordinating  Council  on  Drug  Abuse          ....  117 

Development  and  Industrial  Commission  ....  117 

Elderly,  Commission  on  Affairs  of  the        ....  146 

Election  Commissioners,  Board  of 66-67 

Examiners,  Board  of 58-59 

Finance  Commission 119 

Franklin  Foundation  Members 121-123 

Freedom  Trail  Commission 141 

Government  Center  Commission 141-142 

Health  and  Hospitals,  Board  of  the  Dept.  of     .  68-69 

Library  Trustees 71 

Licensing  Board 119-121 

Mental  Betardation,  Commission  on           ....  118 

Model  Neighborhood  Board 147 

Parks  and  Becreation  Commission 76-77 


183 

Page 

Police  Listing  Board 67 

Public  Improvement  Commission 98 

Public  Safety  Commission 52 

Public  Welfare,  Overseers  of   the    (see    "Trustees    of 

Charitable  Donations")        ......  121 

Real  Property  Board 98 

Rent  Board 147 

Review,  Board  of 53-54 

School  Committee 108 

Sinking  Funds,  Board  of  Commissioners  of  102-103 

Traffic  and  Parking  Commission 100-101 

White  Fund  Trustees 124 

Youth  Activities  Commission 147 

Zoning  Commission 62-64 

Boston  City  Record  (official  weekly  of  City)      ...       35,  40,  41,  49 

Boston  Consumers'  Council 115 

Boston  Housing  Authority 125-130 

Boston  Industrial  Financing  Authority 118 

Boston  Metropolitan  District 144 

Boston,  origin  and  growth  of 4-5 

Boston  Redevelopment  Authority 130-137 

Boston  Retirement  Board 99-100 

Brighton  (Wards  21  and  22): 

Municipal  Court  of 153 

Public  Schools  in 109 

Budgets,  Supervisor  of 49,  50 

Building  Code 57 

Building  Department 55-64 

Beacon  Hill  Architectural  Commission       .       .       .  59-62 

Board  of  Appeal 57-58 

Board  of  Examiners 58-59 

Committee  on  Licenses  . 59 

Zoning  Commission  (Building  Dept.)         ....  62-64 


C 

Cemetery  Division,  Park  Department 90 

Charitable  Donations,  Trustees  of,  for  Inhabitants  of  Boston  121 
Charlestown  (Ward  2): 

Municipal  Court  of 154 

Public  Schools  in 109 

City  Charter 15-42 

City  Clerk  Department 64-65 

City  Council  of  1972-1973 11 

Committees  of,  1972 13 

Committees  of,  1973 14 

Officers  of 12 

President  of 11,  174,  179 

City  Council,  Presidents  of,  1910-1973 179 

City  Government,  1972-1973 11 


184 


Page 


City  Governments,  1909  to  1973 159-174 

City  Hospital 68-69 

City  Messenger  (City  Council) 12 

City  officials  of  the  executive  departments         ....  43-45 

City,  origin  and  growth  of 4-5 

City  Proper  (Wards  3  and  5): 

Public  Schools  in 109 

City  Record  (Boston  Cily  Record) 35,  40,  41, 49 

City  Seal,  origin  of  and  present  form 2-3 

City  Solicitor,  office  of,  abolished 70 

Civil  Defense  Department     .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .  65-66 

Clerk  of  Committees  (City  Council) 12 

Collecting  Division  (Treasury  Dept.) 102 

Commission  on  Affairs  of  the  Elderly 146 

Commission  on  Mental  Retardation            118 

Committee  on  Foreclosed  Real  Estate 99 

Committee  on  Licenses  (in  Building  Department)    ....  59 
Common  Council: 

Presidents  of,  1822-1909 177-178 

Conservation  Commission 116 

Coordinating  Council  on  Drug  Abuse 117 

Corporation  Counsel  (Law  Dept.) 70-71 

Council  on  Aging  (see  "Commission  on  Affairs  of  the  Elderly")   .  146 
County  of  Suffolk : 

Auditor 149 

Commissioners 149 

Court  House  Commission 148 

District  Attorney 149 

Treasurer 149 

Courts  and  Officers  of: 

Land  Court 150 

Register  of  Deeds 150 

Sheriff 150 

Credit  Union,  City  of  Boston  Employees 143 

D 

Deaths,  Registrar  of  (City  Clerk  Dept.) 64-65 

Deeds,  Register  of  (Suffolk  County) 150 

Departments  of  the  City  (alphabetical  list): 

Administrative  Services 49-52 

Assessing 52-54 

Auditing 55 

Building 55-64 

City  Clerk 64-65 

Civil  Defense 65-66 

Election 66-67 

Eire 67-68 

Health  and  Hospitals 68-69 

Housing  Inspection 144-146 


185 


Page 


Law 70-71 

Library 71-76 

Licensing  Board 119-121 

Parks  and  Recreation 76-90 

Penal  Institutions 91 

Police 91-95 

Public  Facilities 96 

Public  Works 96-98 

Real  Property         .       .       . 98-99 

Retirement  Board 99-100 

Traffic  and  Parking  Department 100-101 

Treasury 101-103 

Veterans'  Services 103 

Welfare  (see  "Trustees  of  Charitable  Donations")    .        .       .         121 

Development  and  Industrial  Commission 117 

District  Attorney  (Suffolk  County) 149 

Assistants 149 

Donations,  Charitable,  Trustees  of,  for  Inhabitants  of  Boston      .         121 

Dorchester  (Wards  13-17): 

Municipal  Court  of 154 

Public  Schools  in     .  109 

E 

East  Boston  (Ward  1): 

District  Court  of 154 

Public  Schools  in 109 

Elderly,  Commission  on  Affairs  of  the 146 

Election  Department 66-67 

Engineering  Division  (Public  Works  Dept.) 97 

Examiners,  Board  of  (Building  Dept.) 58-59 

Executive  Departments  of  City 47-103 

Executive  Officers,  with  term,  etc 43-45 

F 

Finance  Commission,  Boston ,         119 

Fire  Department,  with  officials,  etc .       .     67-68 

Firemen's  Relief  Fund 68 

Fourth  of  July  Orators  appointed  by  City  Government  .        .  180-181 

Franklin  Foundation 121-123 

Franklin  Institute  of  Boston 122-123 

Freedom  Trail  Commission 141 

G 

Government  Center  Commission 141-142 

Government  of  Boston,  1972-1973     .        .        .        .     ■  .        .        .  11 

Government  of  Boston,  Members  of,  1909-1973     ....   159-174 
Government  of  Boston,  Organization  of 47 


186 

Page 
H 

Health  and  Hospitals,  Department  of 68-69 

Highway  Division  (Public  Works  Dept.) 97 

Hospital  Department  (City  Hospital) 68-69 

House  of  Correction,  Deer  Island 91 

Housing  Authority,  Boston 125-130 

Housing  Inspection  Department 144-146 

Hyde  Park  (Ward  18,  part): 

Municipal  Court  of  (with  West  Roxbury)         .       .       .       .  155 

Public  Schools  in 110 

I 

Industrial  Commission,  Development  and 117 

Industrial  Financing  Authority,  Boston 117 

Insolvency  and  Probate,  Court  of 152 

J 

Jailer  and  Sheriff  (Suffolk  County) 150 

Jamaica  Plain  (Ward  19): 

Public  Schools  in 109 

July  Fourth,  Orators  appointed  by  the  City      .       .       .       .       .  180-181 

Justices  of  Municipal  Courts 153-155 

Juvenile  Court 155, 157 

L 

Land  Court  (Suffolk  County) .  150 

Law  Department 70-71 

Library  Department 71-76 

Central  and  Branch  Libraries  of 72-76 

Officials  and  Trustees  of 71 

Trust  funds,  appropriation,  etc 74 

Volumes,  number  belonging  and  circulated        ....  74 
License  and  Permit  Fees: 

Board  of  Examiners  (Building  Dept.) 59 

Public  Works  Dept 96 

Licenses,  Committee  on  (Building  Dept.) 59 

Licensing  Board,  Boston 119-121 

Licensing  Division,  Mayor's  Office  (Amusement  Licenses)     .       .  49 

Long  Island  Hospital  (Hospital  Dept.)       .......  69 

M 

Maintenance  Branch  (Public  Works  Dept.) 96 

Markets,  Faneuil  and  Quincy  Markets  (in  charge  of  Assistant 

Commissioner  of  Real  Property) 98-99 

Marriage  Certificates,  Licenses  (Registry  Division,  City  Clerk 

Dept.) 64-65 

Mattapan: 

Public  Schools  in 110 


187 

Page 

Mayor: 

City  Record  (Editorial  Office) 49 

Office,  staff  of 49 

Mayors  of  Boston,  1822  to  Present  Time 175 

Medical  Examiners  (Suffolk  County) 158 

Mental  Retardation,  Commission  on 118 

Model  City  Agency 147 

Monuments,  Memorials,  Statues 87-89 

Mortuaries  (Suffolk  County) 158 

Municipal  Court: 

Boston  Proper 153,156 

Brighton,  Charlestown,  Dorchester,  East  Boston,  Roxbury    .153-154 

Justices  of  (regular  and  special) 153-155 

South  Boston,  West  Roxbury 155 

O 

Old  South  Association 144 

Orators  of  Boston  since  1771 180-181 

Origin  and  Growth  of  Boston 4,  5 

Overseers  of  Public  Welfare  (see  "Trustees  of  Charitable  Donations")  121 

P 

Parks  and  Recreation  Department 76-90 

Commissioners  and  chief  officials  of 76-77 

Penal  Institutions  Department 91 

Pensions  for  retired  teachers 114 

Personnel,  Supervisor  of 49,  50 

Plan  A  Charter 15-42 

Police  Department 91-95 

Commissioner  and  chief  officials  of 91 

Police  Listing  Board 67 

Printing  Section  (Purchasing  Division) 50 

Probate  and  Insolvency,  Court  of 152 

Probation  Officers  (Suffolk  County) 156-158 

Public  Buildings  (in  charge  of  Assistant  Commissioner  of  Real 

Property) 98-99 

Public  Facilities  Department 95-96 

Public  Improvement  Commission  (Public  Works  Dept.)        .       .  98 

Public  Library  (Library  Dept.) 71-76 

Public  Safety  Commission  (Administrative  Services  Dept.)   .       .  52 

Public  Works  Department 96-98 

Engineering  Division  of 97 

Highway  Division  (includes  former  Bridge  Division)       .       .  97 

Lamps,  on  streets 97 

Sanitary  Division  of 97 

Sewer  Division  of 97 

Water  Division  of 97 

Purchasing  Agent 49-50 

Printing  Plant 50 


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Real  Estate,  Committee  on  Foreclosed 99 

Real  Property  Department 98-99 

Redevelopment  Authority,  Boston 130-137 

Refuse,  removal  of 96,  97 

Register  of  Deeds  (Suffolk  County) 150 

Registry  Division  (City  Clerk) 64-65 

City  Registrar  of  births,  marriages  and  deaths         .       .       .  64-65 

Rent  Board 147 

Retirement  Board,  Boston 99-100 

Roslindale  (Wards  20  and  21): 

Public  Schools  in 109 

Roxbury  (Wards  8-12): 

Municipal  Court  of 154 

Public  Schools  in 109 

S 

Sanitary  Division  (Public  Works  Dept.) 97 

School  Committee 108 

Department  of,  with  officials 108-114 

Elementary  and  Intermediate  School  districts  ....  109-110 

High  and  Latin  Schools 109 

Industrial  and  special  schools Ill 

Pensions  and  retirement  funds  for  teachers        .        .        .        .         114 

School  Physicians  and  School  Nurses 110 

Seal  of  the  City,  origin  of  and  present  form 2,  3 

Sewer  Division  (Public  Works  Dept.) 97 

Sheriff  of  Suffolk  County 150 

Sinking  Funds,  Board  of  Commissioners  of 102-103 

South  Boston  (Wards  6  and  7): 

Municipal  Court  of 155 

Public  Schools  in 109 

South  End  (Wards  3,  4,  9): 

Public  Schools  in 109 

Suffolk  County  (County  of  Suffolk) 149-158 

Superior  Court,  justices  and  clerks  of 151 

Supreme  Judicial  Court,  justices  and  clerks  of 151 

T 

Traffic  and  Parking  Commission,  Boston 100-101 

Traffic  and  Parking  Department 100 

Treasury  Department 101-103 

Collecting  Division 102 

Treasury  Division 102 

Trustees  of  Charitable  Donations  for  Inhabitants  of  Boston  .         121 

V 

Various  City,  County  and  State  Officials 103 

Veterans'  Graves  and  Registration,  Supervisor  of    .        .        .        .  106-107 
Veterans'  Services  Department 103 


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Water  Division  (Public  Works  Dept.) 97 

Water  used  in  1967,  average  gallons  daily 97 

Weights  and  Measures  Division  (Housing  Inspection  Dept.)  .145-146 
Welfare  Department  (see  "Trustees  of  Charitable  Donations")  .  121 
West  Roxbury  (Wards  19  and  20): 

Municipal  Court  of 155 

Public  Schools  in 109 

White  Fund,  George  Robert         .       . 124-125 

Y 

Youth  Activities  Commission 147 

Z 

Zoning  Code 56-57 

Zoning  Commission  (Building  Dept.) 62-64 

Members  of 63 


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