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Municipal Register Boston 1916 Hard Cover
Municipal Register Boston 1916 Hard Cover
The Municipal Register Boston
1916
Hard Cover
346 Pages
Copyright 1916
A register of the city government, rules of the city coundil, amended city charter of 1909, a survey of the city departments with lists of executive and other public officers also various statistics relating to the city.
Contents
Introduction 5
Origin and Growth of Boston 6, 7
The City Seal 8
The City Government, 1918 9
Officials of the City Council 10, 11
Rules of the City Council 12-17
Committees of the City Council 18
Amended City Charter of 1909 19-33
Executive officers in charge of departments 34, 35
A survey of the regular City departments, with the officials and their salaries, 36-103
Various City and State officers 104, 105
Various departments, commis-
sions, courts, etc 106-153
City and County paid officials and
employees, number of, by
departments, 1910-1916,154
City Ordinances, 1913-1916 155-167
Regulation of the height of buildings 168, 169
Recent Public Documents relating to Boston 170
New boundaries of wards and precincts, 1916 171-227
New wards compared with the old 228
Members of the City Government, 1909-1915, by years 229-232
Mayors of the City from 1822 to 1914 232, 233
Chairmen of the Board of Aldermen from 1855 to 1909, 234, 235
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Presidents of the Common Council from 1822 to 1909235-237
Presidents of the City Council
from 1910 to 1916 237
Orators of Boston, annually appointed, 1771 to 1915, 237, 239
Justices of the Police, Justices'
and Municipal Courts,
1822 to 1914 239
Boston members of 1916 State
Legislature 240
Members of Sixty-fourth congress from Massachusetts, with Boston's
Congressional districts 241
Foreign Consuls in Boston 242
Statistics of population and
area243-255
Principal Islands in Boston
Harbor, with area, etc.,256
Statistics of valuation, taxes
appropriations, expendi-
tures, debt, etc 257-273
Boston Port Statistics, 1900-1914,274
Statistics of City Election, Dec.
14;1915 275-288
Statistics of State Election, 1915, 289-300 Comparative statistics of elec-
tions, 1911-1914 301-323
Votes on referenda relating to
Boston 324-326
Additions and Corrections 327-335
City Officials deceased in 1916 335
Index 337-346
Blank Pages have been removed in the back
The City has annually since 1821 issued a volume containing, until 1829, a register of the City Council and a list of the officers. In 1829 the City Charter, in 1830 the Acts relating to Boston and the ordinances, and in 1832 an index, were added. The volume for 1822 contains fifteen pages, and for 1840 eighty-five pages, and three pages of index. The volumes up to and including 1840 bear the title of The Rules and Orders of the Common Council and since that year the title of THE MUNICIPAL REGISTER. THE MUNICIPAL REGISTER for 1841 contains the Rules and Orders of the Common Council, joint rules, ordinances of the City, statutes of the Commonwealth relating to the City, a list of the public schools, the City Government of 1841, the committees and departments (consisting at that time of the treasury, law, police, health, public land and buildings, lamps and bridges, fire, and public charitable institutions), and a list of the ward officers; from 1842 to 1864 it also contains a list of the members of preceding City Governments, a necrological record of those members, the latest ordinances and the special statutes relating to the City; in 1851 a list of the annual orators was added, and in 1853 a map of the City and the Rules of the Board of Aldermen were inserted; in 1876 statistics of registration and voting were included, and, since 1879, in tabulated form; in 1883 portraits of the Mayor and presiding officers of the two branches of the City Council were included, and in 1888 a list of the members of the past City Governments of Roxbury and Charlestown was added and continued to 1890. From 1889 to 1896, inclusive, THE MUNICIPAL REGISTER contained a compilation of the Charter and Acts subsequently passed, in the place of which an index of the same appeared in 1897. The
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