TAXES. The amount of Taxes assessed on the Real and Personal Estates in the City of Boston, for the past six years, has REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE. The following Table shows the value of the Real and Personal Estate, with the number of persons assessed, from the year 1794, and every subsequent fifth year, to 1851. Modes and Times of Appointment of the Various City Officers. By virtue of an Ordinance, which passed the City Council of Boston, March 5th, 1856, all City Officers required by the City Ordinances to be elected or appointed by the concurrent vote of the City Council, or to be appointed by the Mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen, excepting those officers, the time of whose election or appointment is otherwise prescribed by the Statutes of the Commonwealth; also, excepting the Treasurer, Auditor and Assessors, shall be elected or appointed, as the case may be, on the first Monday of January, in each year, or within sixty days thereafter. The officers comprised in the above exceptions are elected at the times and in the modes following. Assessors and Assistant Assessors - Con current vote, Sealers of Weights and Measures-May- Inspectors of Ballast and Weighers of March. March and April. - March and April. |