to exceed twenty-five feet by fifty feet; or, being in any other proportion, not to cover more than twelve hundred and fifty superficial feet of land; the walls not to exceed twenty feet in height from the under side of the sills, which sills may be three feet six inches above the level of the street, to the eaves of the roof; the roof, in the highest point thereof, not to rise more than thirty-two feet from the under side of the sills aforesaid, and there shall be at least one scuttle at or near the highest point of said roof.1 2. When two or more such two-story buildings as are provided for in the preceding section shall be erected in connection, or within three feet of each other, or within three feet of any other wooden building, more than sixteen feet in height, there shall be an entire brick or stone wall between them, commencing from the foundation of said wall, and carried to the height of twelve feet above the level of the street, at least twelve inches in thickness, and the residue of said wall shall be at least eight inches in thickness; and in case any openings are made through said walls, the same shall be secured against fire by iron doors applied to such openings; provided that such brick or stone walls may be dispensed with by consent, in writing, of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Boston, on what are commonly called the neck lands, in said city.2 3. If any person or persons shall violate the provisions of the two preceding sections, such person or persons, on conviction thereof, in any court competent to try the same, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall be liable to a like prosecution and penalty for each and every year after such conviction, until said building or buildings, erected contrary to the provisions aforesaid, shall be removed or made to conform thereto; and the said penalties and forfeitures incurred by virtue of this act may be recovered by indictment, to the use of the city of Boston, or by an action of debt in any court competent to try the same, one-half 1 For provisions respecting the erection of buildings to be used for tenements, see Tenement Houses, post. 2 The remainder of this section, as it stood in the original act, and the 5th section of the same act, were repealed by stat, 1850, c. 280, § 2. to the use of the person or persons who shall sue therefor, and the residue to the use of the said city. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of engineers of the said city to cause suits to be commenced without delay against each and all who shall violate the provisions of the three preceding sections, and to prosecute the same to final judgment.1 5. An act, passed March 27, 1847, provided that any building thereafter erected in the city of Boston, contrary to the provisions of the four preceding sections, shall be deemed and taken to be a common nuisance; and the mayor and aldermen of the said city shall have the same power and authority to abate and remove any such building as are given to the board of health, in the tenth and eleventh sections of the twenty-first chapter of the Revised Statutes2; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting any remedies already given in the four preceding sections. 6. The city council of the city of Boston may authorize the erection of wooden buildings in those parts of said city called South Boston and East Boston, and also those parts of the city comprised in wards thirteen, fourteen and fifteen, upon such terms and conditions, and subject to such limitations and restrictions, as they may deem expedient.3 ORDINANCE. It shall be lawful to erect wooden buildings in those parts of the city called South Boston and East Boston, which shall not be more than thirty-two feet high from the ground to the highest part thereof; provided, however, that no wooden building, except for mechanical purposes, shall be erected in a range of more than fifty feet in extent, without the intervention of a brick partition wall, of at least eight inches in thickness, such wall to extend six inches at least above the surface of the roof; and no wooden building shall be altered for a dwelling-house contrary to this provision. 1 The remainder of this section, as it stood in the original act, and the 5th section of the same act, were repealed by stat. 1850, c. 280, § 2. 2 Gen. Stats. chap. 26. 8 The stat. of 1860, c. 280, § 2, repealed stat. 1817, c. 171, §§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15; 1821, c. 26, 31; 1822, c. 16; 1829, c. 34; so much of stat. 1835, c. 133, § 2, as relates to South Boston and East Boston, together with § 5 of the same act. BONFIRES AND KILNS. ORDINANCE. SECT. 2. If any person shall make any bonfire or other fire in any of the streets, squares, commons, lanes, or alleys, or on any wharf within the city, without the license of the board of aldermen, he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. SECT. 3. No person shall erect, make, or fire, or cause to be erected, made, or fired, within any part of the city, any brick-kiln, or lime-kiln, without the license of the board of aldermen, under a penalty of not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars, and a like sum for every week he shall maintain such kiln after notice to remove the same.1 FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH. STEAM FIRE ENGINE No. 1. Located on Dorchester st. corner of Fourth, South Boston. To be taken out on first alarm to the following boxes : No. 121. Corner First and A streets. 123. Corner Broadway and Federal street. 124. Broadway, near C street (Police Station No. 6). 125. Norway Iron Works, Federal street. 126. Corner Second and E streets. 127. Corner Eighth and E streets. 128. Washington Village (Hose House No. 10). 129. Corner Sixth and B streets. 1 An ordinance in relation to firearms, bonfires, and brick-kilns, passed July 22, 1850. 132. 134. Broadway (corner Dorchester street). 135. Corner Eighth and K streets. 136. Corner First and K streets. 137. Fourth st., bet. K and L sts. (Steamer House No. 2). 138. House of Correction (Gate). 141. Boston Wharf. 145. Corner P and Fourth streets. To be taken out during the months of January, March, May, July, September, November, on second alarm to the following boxes: No. 2. Corner Charter street and Phipps place. 3. Corner Hull and Snowhill streets. 4. Causeway street (Boston and Maine Freight Depot). 5. Corner Causeway and Lowell streets. 6. Corner Leverett and Willard streets. 7. Corner Poplar and Spring streets. 12. Corner Cooper and Endicott streets. 13. Corner Hanover and Richmond streets. 14. Corner Commercial street and Eastern avenue. 15. Corner Commercial and Richmond streets. 17. Corner Hanover and Salem streets. 18. Brattle square (Church). 19. Haymarket square (B. and M. Depot). 23. Corner Cambridge and Bowdoin streets. 25. West City Stables. 26. Corner Cambridge and West Cedar streets. 28. Corner Beacon and Spruce streets. No. 31. Corner Beacon and Beaver streets. 32. Corner Pinckney and Anderson streets. 47. Corner Broad street and Rowe's wharf. 51. Purchase street (Steamer House No. 7). 53. Corner Washington and Boylston streets. 54. Corner Beach and Hudson streets. 56. Corner Kneeland and South streets (Old Colony Depot). 57. Hudson street (Hose House No. 2). 58. Harvard street (B. & A. Freight Depot). 59. East street (School-house). 61. Warrenton street, near Tremont. 62. Pleasant (Providence Depot). 63. Berkeley, near Commonwealth avenue. 65. Corner Harrison avenue and Seneca street. 67. Corner Washington and Common streets. 68. Corner Harrison avenue and Wareham street. 71. Corner Warren ave. and Berkeley street. Corner Washington and Northampton streets. |