6 shall prescribe, if the two corporations do not mutually agree 7 upon the terms. Also under the further express proviso and condition, that 2 the said Broadway Railroad Company shall accept this order 3 of location, and agree to its several provisions and conditions 4 within ten days of the date of its passage, and file the same 5 with the City Clerk; otherwise it shall be null and void. The roadway or cartway mentioned in this order is to 2 include the whole of the space between the edgestones sup3 porting the sidewalks on either side. In Board of Aldermen, July 8, 1861. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Attest: S. F. MCCLEARY, City Clerk. CITY OF BOSTON. In Board of Aldermen, July 8, 1861. THE Joint Special Committee on so much of the Mayor's Address, as relates to the Overseers of the Poor, submit the following REPORT. Mr. George Hill has for many years been the City Crier, his first appointment having been made in 1849. His salary was originally two hundred dollars, and he received besides, in the discharge of his official duties, certain fees established by law or custom. He is now allowed five hundred dollars annually, but this is paid through the Overseers, and in compensation mainly for services to the public, other than those rendered in his official capacity. His office is a relic of former days, of a social state very different from any now existing in Boston. When newspapers issued from the press only once or twice a week, instead of daily and almost hourly, as at present, it was of more importance, occasions constantly occurring when his services were needed to communicate intelligence to the public. One of his duties, which he was more often called upon to perform before the establishment of our daily police, now constantly on patrol throughout the city, is the charge of children straying from home or losing their way in the streets. All who remember Boston thirty years ago, must have a lively recollection of the Crier's bell, its searching tones and measured clang, rounding off periods never heard without attention. homely appeals, made with a simple eloquence more impressive His |