A Committee on the City Engineer's Department, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the City Registrar's Department, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on East Boston Ferries, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the Fire Department, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Fuel, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the Harbor, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the Health Department, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the City Hospital, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A. Committee on Legislative Matters, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Mount Hope and Cedar Grove Cemeteries, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Ordinances, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the Overseers of the Poor, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Printing, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Public Baths, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council. A Committee on Public Buildings, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Public Institutions, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Public Instruction, to consist of three aldermen and the President and four members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Public Lands, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the Public Library, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Salaries, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Laying out and Widening Streets, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the City Surveyor's Department, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the Department for the Survey and Inspection of Buildings, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on the Treasury Department, to consist of two aldermen and three members of the Common Council.

A Committee on Water, to consist of three aldermen and five members of the Common Council.

ORGANIZATION OF COMMITTEES.

SECT. 2. The member of the Board of Aldermen first-named on every joint committee, of which the Mayor is not a member, shall be its chairman; and in case of his resignation or inability, the other members of the same Board in the order in which they are named, and after them the member of the Common Council first-named, shall call meetings of the committee, and act as chairman.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES.

SECT. 3. The Committee on Salaries shall report to the City Council, in February or March, orders establishing the salaries of the several city officers for the ensuing year; and the report of said committee shall designate particularly the changes, if any, proposed in said salaries.

SECT. 4. The Committee on Legislative Matters shall, unless otherwise ordered, be authorized to appear before committees of the General Court and represent the interests of the city.

SECT. 5. The joint standing committees shall cause records of their proceedings to be kept in books provided for that purpose.

SECT. 6. The representatives of the two branches of the City Council on joint committee shall. not act by separate consultations.

SECT. 7. Any joint standing or special commit

tee may, unless otherwise provided, expend from the appropriation of which, by ordinance or order of the City Council, it has charge, an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars for any one object or purpose.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES.

SECT. 8. In every case of disagreement between the two branches of the City Council, if either branch shall request a conference, and appoint a committee of conference, and the other branch shall also appoint such a committee, both committees shall, at an hour to be agreed upon by their chairman, meet and state to each other, verbally or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons for the action of their respective branches in relation to the matter in controversy, shall confer freely thereon, and shall report to their respective branches.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

SECT. 9. No report of a joint committee shall be received by either branch of the City Council unless agreed to at a meeting of such committee.

SECT. 10. The report of every joint committee upon any subject referred to it shall, unless otherwise ordered by the City Council or by the committee, be presented to the branch in which the order of reference originated. And it shall be the duty of every joint committee to which any subject may be specially referred, to report thereon within four weeks, or to ask for further time.

SECT. 11. All reports and other papers submitted

to the City Council shall be written in a fair hand, and no indorsement of any kind shall be made on the reports, memorials, or other papers referred to a committee. Every report of a committee shall be signed by a member belonging to the body to which it shall be presented, unless otherwise directed by the committee.

SECT. 12. The clerk of the committees shall, at the request of the chairman, make copies of any papers to be reported by a committee.

ORDINANCES, ORDERS, AND RESOLUTIONS.

SECT. 13. If any ordinance, order, or resolution, originating in one branch, is rejected in the other, notice shall be given, by the Clerk, to the branch in which the same originated.

SECT. 14. All By-Laws passed by the City Council shall be termed "Ordinances," and the enacting style shall be: "Be it ordained by the Aldermen and Common Council of the city of Boston in City Council assembled."

No order or vote which is not in the form of an ordinance shall have the effect to amend, suspend, or repeal any ordinance.

SECT. 15. In all votes, when either or both branches of the City Council express anything by way of command, the form of expression shall be "Ordered;" and when either or both branches express opinions, principles, facts, or purposes, the form shall be "Resolved."