6 LIST OF TABLES. PAGE No. 15. Sinking-fund receipts prior to April 30, 1871 (Exclusive of water-debt sinking-funds.) 228 17. Total funded debt, gross and net, at close of each fiscal 232-233 18. Total funded debt, gross and net, at close of each calendar 234 19. Debt statement, December 31, 1894 235 20. Borrowing capacity December 31, 1894, under St. 1885, ch. 178 236 21. Borrowing capacity January 1, 1895, under St. 1885, ch. 178, and St. 1891, ch. 93 237-238 22. Loans authorized outside of debt limit, 1885 to 1895 Loans authorized but not issued, December 31, 1894 240 Loans issued between January 1, 1891, and December 31, 1894 Loans issued since January 1, 1891, for purposes to which the city had 43 46 IV. Municipal Investments. APPENDIX: No. 25. The "public lands," expenditures and receipts, 1822 to 1894, 26. The Quincy market, payments, receipts, and net results, 1825 to 1894 35. Mystic and Cochituate water-works, payments from revenue for maintenance and extension of mains, 1885 to 1894 "36. Cochituate water-works, expenditures, 1844 to 1894, divided according to appropriations 37. Cochituate water-works, expenditures, 1846 to 1894, divided according to sources from which the money was obtained. 256 257 258 259-264 265 No. 38. Cochituate water-works, receipts, 1846 to 1894 266 Decrease in the Cochituate water debt between January 1, 1891, and 49 VALEDICTORY ADDRESS. To the Honorable the City Council: GENTLEMEN: It has been customary for the mayors of this city, particularly for those who have held office during a succession of years, to close their connection with the City Government by a farewell message. These addresses have generally included a review of the administration of the outgoing Mayor, as well as recommendations for the improvement of the City Government suggested by his experience in office. It has seemed to me that I ought not to leave the service of the city which has honored me with four successive elections without placing upon record a summary of the opinions which experience has caused me to form concerning the merits and defects of municipal government as administered to-day in Boston. This task necessarily involves a more or less detailed analy sis of the management, past and present, of the various branches of the City Government; but I shall endeavor to execute it with as much brevity as the case permits. If frequent references are found to what has been done and to what has not been done during the years in which I have been personally connected with the City Government, I trust it will be understood that they were necessary and could not be avoided without losing sight of the true purpose of a valedictory address. No general description of the City Government has been published since Quincy's Municipal History of the town and city from colonial days to 1830; and it is difficult to secure facts, figures, or dates relating to the work of the munici pality as a whole, or to any particular part of it. It seemed, therefore, that this paper could be made not only appropriate to the occasion, but useful to the public, if prepared in the form of a short compendium of information concerning the several branches of municipal service; and it has accordingly been written with this object in view. 1 |